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| Picture No | 10005976 |
| Date | 1842 |
| Description | Children at the tomb of Grace Darling |
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Children at the tomb of Grace Horsley Darling (1815 - 1842), in St. AidanÆs churchyard, Bamburgh, Northumberland. She was the daughter of the Farne Islands lighthouse keeper, William Darling. She rowed with her father to the sinking steamboat the SS Forfarshire in 1838 -- together they saved 13 people from the wreck. She died young of tuberculosis.
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| Source | C W Nicholls |
| Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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