A Queer Task
The only girl grave-digger in \ England is a Yorkshire girl, Miss ' Maggie Freeman, the last of five generations of janitors in Normanton, Yorkshire. Maggie acts as grave-digger, verger, clerk of records, bell-ringer and general factotum at the eight-centuries- i old parish church. She lives alone in a stone cottage adjoining the churchyard, and has attended 500 marriage celebrations and has dug many graves. Every Sunday Miss Freeman helps to ring the three beils in the church tower, and she also rings the bells for weddings. She succeeded her father when he died five years ago, after 25 years spent in the church service. For over a century a Freeman has held this position, her greatgrandfather having been born and bred in the cottage in which she lives now.
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Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 47, 6 November 1929, Page 6
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131A Queer Task Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 47, 6 November 1929, Page 6
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