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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20869, 8 November 1929, Page 12

The only girl gravedigger in England js; a Yorkshire girl. Hiss Maggie Freeman, the last of five generations of jamtots in Xonnanton, Yorkshire. Maggie acts as gravedigger, verger, clerk of records, bellringer, nnd general factotum at • the eight-centuries-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 Sundaj Miss Freeman helps bb ring the three bells in the church lower, ;■ and she also rings the. bells for weddings. She succeeded , her father wnen he died live years ago, after 25 years spent in ; the church service. For over a century a Freeman lias hel. this position, her great-grandfather having been born • and bred *in the cottage iu wlfich she lives now.