A short story about a grave that ended a family line. Abraham Hollinrake was, according to all the family trees on Ancestry, born in 1808 to Abraham and Mary (Heap) Hollinrake of Heptonstall. However, the Abraham buried here has an age on all other public records that tallies with a birth in 1810; and so …
A story that encompasses the church, the school, and the graveyard itself; what more could we want? This grave story is only a half-told one though, because the latter two inhabitants died lately enough that there will be memories out there of them beyond the public record – and we want to hear them! So …
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A regular couple who were surrounded by losses, some their own and some that through chance fell into their laps… Thomas Hardman was born in 1849 at Pexwood, the youngest son and youngest child of David and Sally (Crabtree). David was a steam engine tenter and Thomas grew up familiar with machinery and mechanics, and …
More continuity here for those with an interest in the Freemason’s and later Weaver’s Arms on Blind Lane – maybe you remember William and Martha Jane Sutcliffe under the school’s story? Well this is how they got there (or at least how Martha Jane got there). We have go back a bit though. Let’s start …
We’ve told the story of quite a few of Eli’s children so far, so it’s worth reading about John and William, and James, to learn more about his life. With that being said, pinning Eli down has turned out to be harder than we thought, and required some going back and editing of those other …
An embarrassingly short story, made up of just the facts. Not every story CAN be told! Joseph Sutcliffe was born in 1788, and his future wife Mary was born in 1792. The first child of theirs that we know of, Samuel, was born around 1818, probably in Rochdale, although no baptism record exists for him. …
Another publican – and another Blomley – a surprise? Not really, because even though there’s a Blomley here, the trade was coming from inside the (public) house. John Suthers was born in 1821, the eldest child of Jeremiah and Mary (Bulcock) Suthers. Jeremiah was a publican, the son of one too; his own father John …
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Two little girls and their sad father – this grave is yet another cautionary tale that would fit nicely into a temperance pamphlet. James Blomley was, like the Howorths and Greenwoods, part of a great Todmorden innkeeping family – but not from birth. His father Edmund would become the landlord of the Golden Lion sometime …
What a story we have here – a slew of coincidences, international travel, and a reminder from the bottom of this stone to “be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye know not, the Son of Man cometh.” Allen Langthorn, or Langthorne as he appears elsewhere, was born in 1860 in Newchurch …
Read more “38A.33 – Allen, Sarah and John Langthorn, and Matilda and Ernest Barker”
A short story for these two sisters (maybe half sisters) because we simply can’t figure it out; the Hamiltons are a mystery. Thomas Hamilton was probably born in Leake, North Yorkshire, not far from Northallerton. We’re saying probably because we think we have him on the 1851 Census but after that can’t be certain anymore. …