13.37 – Robert Sherington, Mary Ellen and Leonard Anderton, and Bessie Tolley Lingard

More members of the Anderton family, this time in a separate plot – another of Theodora’s sons, as well as his wife’s nephew. Or is it niece? Or both? Robert Sherington Anderton was the first child and first son of John and Theodora Anderton, and was born in 1861 in Todmorden. Like his father, he …

S7.2 – Samuel Wood and John Greenwood, Susannah, John Willie and Law Southwell

We always get intrigued when we see different surnames in a grave – and, of course, as this stone is under the school, there’s no inscription we can see which might offer a clue as to family relationships. The answer to this particular mystery is “the usual one” – a child born out of wedlock …