Grave situations
The diagram shows a church with its surrounding churchyard, in which a keen genealogist found five gravestones erected in memory of five of his ancestors and their wives, each couple being buried in a different century. Clues: |
1 | The plot in which Henry and his wife Lucy are buried is marked by a gravestone indicated in the diagram by a consonant. |
2 | The century in which Rachel died was two later than the one in which Richard departed this life. |
3 | William's 18th-century grave is not one of the two situated to the left of the church tower in the diagram. |
4 | The 19th-century grave is in the position labelled D in the diagram. |
5 | Jane and her husband lie beneath gravestone C; Jane's husband's first name was longer than that of Mary's husband. |
6 | Rebecca, whose husband was not Thomas, is buried in the most recent of the five graves. |
7 | The 17th-century gravestone is not the one lettered A in the diagram. |
Husbands: Henry; John; Richard; Thomas; William | |
Wifes: Jane; Lucy; Mary; Rachel; Rebecca | |
Centuries: 16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th |