This grave tells a story of how substance abuse can often be a family affair, and is a sad story of age not necessarily conferring strength against such things. James Hardman was born in 1842. According to the census he was born on the Lancashire side of the border, just as his future wife Emma …
Read more “12.14 – Tom, Emma, James and Clara Hardman, and Betsy Lingard”
This story was initially written up for our 2023 Remembrance Sunday tour, so it will start focusing exclusively on Edwin Hewitt, and then loop back at the end to discuss William, Elizabeth, and John’s lives. Edwin Hewitt was born at 17 East Street on the 18th April 1874, the son of William Hewitt, a labourer, …
Read more “24.31 – Elizabeth, Edwin, William and John Hewitt”
There are two families buried in this vault towards the back of the graveyard, in the corner behind the school fence – this post will focus on the Pickups of Patmos, who make up most of the interments. The Pickups of Patmos didn’t start out as from Patmos, or even Todmorden. Robert was born in …
Read more “42.60 – Robert, Mary, Mary Hannah, Alice and Edith Pickup”
One of the first stories we told from under the school extension was that of the Dodd family – that was because on the two out of their three sidestones, which are unaccountably resting on the outside of the school extension, one included a hitherto unrecorded family member. Since then we’ve found unmentioned people, stones …
Read more “S2.9 – Herbert, John Robert, Betsy and Arnold Cunliffe, and Jack Uttley”
The final (for now, at least) Buckle grave at Christ Church, and yes – it’s a Buckle with a career in beer. This grave is mostly filled with the children of Nathan and Ellen Buckle. Nathan’s story is similar to that of the other Buckles and their extended families found here. He was born in …
Read more “41.3 – Thomas, Ellen, Grace, Mary, Nathan and Ellen Buckle”
Much of Hannah Buckle has already been said in the post about her sister, brother and nephew. Hannah was one of the fourteen children of Anthony and Mary Buckle of Barden, and came here along with her brother Anthony and nephew George Watson at some point before 1851. Hannah never married, and died in 1870. …
Even with the few records we have for this family, they have quite a story – if only we knew all of it! George Watson was born in May 1829 in Barden near Hauxwell, North Yorkshire, midway between Leyburn and Richmond. His parents were George and Isabella (Buckle) Watson. And “were” really is the correct …
Read more “57.56 – George Watson, Anthony Buckle and Isabella Coffey”
This stone is less of an indication of who’s buried here and more of a straightforward family memorial – we’ll explain below. Eli Nuttall was born in 1775 on the Lancashire side of Todmorden. His future wife, Betty Stevenson, would be born on the same side of Tod twelve years later in 1787. The pair …
Read more “27.39 – Betty, Eli, John, Hannah, Mary and Margaret Nuttall”
Banns =/= marriage. Someone should have told Richard this. Or maybe they did? Richard Newsome was born in 1811 in Southowram, Halifax to William and Hannah Newsome. William was a stonemason and Richard and one of his other sons, William, followed in those footsteps. Richard moved down the valley to Wadsworth near Heptonstall and in …
Read more “57.61 – Richard Newsome and Charles, Mary Jane, George and Alice Howarth”
There’s nothing we like more than a plot marker – sometimes we mean that, but in this case we almost didn’t. Thankfully the sexton’s book filled us in on two of the inhabitants, although there was a cryptic note attached reading “also four interments of ashes”. Can we puzzle out who those might be? Reuben …