SB.3 – William, Joseph Haigh, Josiah and Jesse Fielden

Four sons – four sons! – and no parents anywhere around. Unusual for these plot markers here, so what gives? What gives is…we don’t know. William Fielden, a cotton weaver and warehouseman (and grandson of Roger Bramley), married Grace Pearson at St. Peter’s in Walsden in 1865. William and Grace were both Walsden born and …

S6.7 – Sarah Alice, Florence Mary, Alice Stansfield and Harry Victor Stephenson

More Stephensons underneath a plot marker beneath the school, this time three young sisters and a brother, whose parents may or may not be resting with them. And there’s still a mystery at the end of it all even though we figured so much of the story out… William Stephenson – no relation to the …

S8.1 – Wilbert, Mary Elizabeth, Wilson, Sarah and Joseph Sutcliffe

Another plot marker under the school – another lost plot marker – but we won’t let a plot marker go unidentified if we can help it, and while this one was initially confusing we got there in the end. Joseph Sutcliffe was Lydgate royalty of sorts; the son of Joseph and Grace (Rigg) Sutcliffe, we’ve …

38.16 – James, Sally, James, Greenwood and Sarah Holt

The Holts and Crowthers were people who loved the high windswept places, and sometimes thrived there…sometimes not. James Holt was born in Todmorden in 1814, two years after his future wife Sally Crowther. Sally was the sister of James Crowther, whose story you might have heard before, and her family were firmly ensconced on the …

38.17 – Thomas, Harriet, Willie, Joseph and Eva Sutcliffe

Lineholme stalwarts here, with a dash of Liverpudlian for good measure. Thomas Sutcliffe was born in 1846, the first child of his parents Joseph and Grace (Rigg) of Lineholme, Lydgate today, on the Burnley side of Todmorden. Joseph was a labourer who soon became a grocer and who spent the rest of his life supplying …

38.19 – James, John, Betty and Sydney Scarr, and Jane and Elizabeth Butterworth

Gale, Summit, what’s this now; what are these Littleborough folks doing at Christ Church? The answer is of course that they weren’t always from Littleborough…so what’s the story behind this table tomb, one of a very few in the graveyard and the only one in the public area? James Scarr was born in Todmorden in …