The existence of this grave must have been known about but it was only when documents and newspaper articles relating to the deaths of family  members where unearthed, did the significance of the grave become clear.

In 2008 there were the following people commemorated on the Gravestone.

WILLIAM JOSEPH DIBDIN. 1850-1928.   
MARIAN his wife. 1851-1928. 
AUGUSTINE AGLIO DIBDIN.  their son 1885-1909. 
STANLEY LIONEL AGLIO DIBDIN. 1910-1917.
His father and mother  LIONEL AGLIO DIBDIN. 1881-1933. 
CECILY GRACE his wife. 1882-1933. 
PETER HAYCRAFT DIBDIN 1913-1943 their son 

and added in 2008/9 

JOAN MARY WELBURN nee DIBDIN, sister of PETER 1920 - 2008

Link to Dibdin Family History

The Grave was presumable initiated for Stanley who died of pneumonia during the WW1 and was the first born of Lionel and Cecily and William and Marian's first Grandchild. From the recorded is seems that he was buried whereas all the others were cremated and their remains where interned in the grave. Although Augustine Dibdin ( Gus) who died previously in 1910 his ashes were not buried until 1925
It is possible that the Gravestone was created some time later after the death of Marian, the matriarch of the family who died in 1928.

The grave was identified by Rosemary Lilley of Carshalton who, in November of that year, sent the following  photograph and a chart giving the family details.

See Chart of details of burials

Joan Welburn nee Dibdin, the daughter of Lionel and Cecily Dibdin, who was living in Cumbria was pleased to accept the idea of being buried and commemorated at both this, her family grave and with her second husband's grave at Lanercost Priory.

Joan's ashes were interned with her husband  who died many years before	Lanercost Priory between Banks and Brampton  in Cumbria.

Thanks to the help and cooperation of those at Carshalton Joan was interned with her family in the family grave.

The Dibdin Memorial Grave after it had been renovated by Truelove's of Carshalton. Eight members of the family.

Joan's first husband Anthony Benoit Guise is buried in Colombo, Ceylon, (Sri Lanka) as he died preparing for active service in the Royal Artillery. 

Thanks to The War Graves Website, this grave was found a few years ago however the photographs of the original grave in 1944 were found in archive material only recently.

	The original grave at the time of Tony's death in 1944.
Photograph from the War Grave website.

Two photographs found in the archive material

It was the off chance finding of the website Find a Grave, a site run voluntarily, in which interested photographers send in photographs of graves, that it can to light that there was a grave in Carshalton specifically for Peter Dibdin . The War Graves record offers no picture so it was assumed that he was  buried in the Dibdin Grave.

Photograph found  on Find a Grave web site
	Photograph taken in 2015. The grave has been smartened up by a local resident Jo Corkette in Carshalton, who has taken it upon herself to be responsible for caring for all the War graves in Carshalton Cemetery. Very many thanks to her for her work.

All the graves shown above except the one at Lanercost can be found on the Website Find a Grave . It is fantastic that people are not only interest in the history that can be derived from graveyards but also sharing so freely their work.

John Hall Thorp and Family

Time looking for and at grave stones has been fruitful and recently it was possible to assemble some history of the Thorp family based on finding some graves in Adel Quaker Graveyard near Leeds. A member of the Ralph, a grandson of John Hall Thorp married into the Rowntree Family in 1913
	John Hall Thorp

Frank Wright

Percy Wright

See a collection of relevant grave photographs