Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford #6 Louise Imogen Guiney

Finally in Wolvercote Cemetery, the most difficult grave to find (at least for us.) Difficult not because of the relatively distinctive grave itself, but due to the erosion of the inscription. As far as I know this is the only photo of the grave of Louise Imogen Guiney (1861–1920) that is on the internet, which is perhaps hardly surprising because I couldn't make out a single word at the base of the grave, so my thanks to Dr Rowena Edlin-White for taking a rubbing and discovering this inscription:

'ANNO MCMII
DECEMBRIS XXVIII
IN CORDE JESU
ELIZABETH DOYLE
DELASSATA                  (this is her aunt who lived with her)

LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY
JAN VII MDCCCLXI
NOVII MCMXX

DILIGENSE ET FIDELIS'

Apparently Guiney and her friend Alice Brown did a walking tour of England, which was detailed in Brown's By Oak and Thorn (1896), and Guiney eventually returned to England. She also found and had restored the grave of Henry Vaughan in St Bride's churchyard, Llansantiffraed, Powys.

A former home of Guiney's in Beacon Hill, Boston, MA.