In our dataset for the monument analysis at Ross Bay Cemetery kinship was actually one of the more obvious concepts that I was able to identify throughout examination. For graves (#1,2,5,6 & 7) in our dataset, all of them showed the presence of multiple names on the same stone. While in my monument analysis I mostly described the appearance of multiple names as a result of impoverished conditions, I think that those conditions would have resulted in the creating of family monuments or tombstones in order to save money as well as having some type of a family legacy with all their names included. For example, one of the stones has the names Anastasia Downes and Hannah Downes, which is a strong, if not definite indicator that those two names are linked by kinship in one way or another. Another monument with multiple names also has "in loving memory of Kate wife of Richard Wolfenden died July 28 1878 age 39, Georgie Kate daughter of the above died September 10 1867 aged 7 months. Anna Gertrude died June 7 1870 aged year 1." inscribed on it, which blatantly states kinship relations by identifying the relationship between the names on the stone.
Based on the evidence from simply looking at the monuments I believe that archaeologists of the future would probably deduce the same thing that I was able to, that the appearance of multiple names on one grave had to be a result of some type of family or kinship link. Because none of the monuments had monuments with the same last name, or common family name in the vicinity (other than the on that same monument), there is no evidence in our dataset of family cemeteries or groups of family buried in the same region. Since 4 of the monuments from graves (#1,2,5,6 & 7) had multiple names that specifically stated relations or had identical last names, I believe that archeologists of the future would come to the same conclusion I did, that inclusion of multiple names on one monument stone signifies a tie or reference to kinship.
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