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    I recently took my daily allowed walk to the graveyard of my local church, St Peter’s in Prestbury, Cheshire. I was intrigued by this gravestone, since it shows John Wain, son of Joseph and Sarah Ann, who died in 1852 aged seven months; then John Shatwell who died in 1882 aged 67 and Mary Ann wife of the above, who died in 1890 aged 74. The back of the grave shows more Wains buried in the same spot. What were

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