If you haven’t read the story of Catherine Armistead, go read that first – this story follows on from there and finishes hers, although it raises a few other questions along the way. We left Catherine’s story with one unanswered question: how did Catherine, whose Todmorden links were unclear, end up being buried here? She …
The farmer’s daughter who became a nurse and was one of several sisters who came to Todmorden. We can’t see her stone, but we can learn a great deal about her life. Catherine was born in 1839 in Arkholme, in the parish of Melling in Lancashire, just south of Kirkby Lonsdale. Her father John was …
Two more names hidden from the eye (for now at least) – John and Christina, whose stone we last saw in 2016. John Barker was born in 1854 to Thomas and Betty (Haigh) Barker. The first child of his parents, John grew up first at Honey Hole in what used to be called Hanging Ditch, …
Percy’s story is short, but the story of why he’s alone here is longer – so have both! First, his story as summarised by our Chair, Andy: “This is the grave of Percy Gill, he is reposing in Christ Church Graveyard. Percy is my 1st cousin, 3 times removed …… Aye, I don’t understand it …
Jeremiah is one of many people with a very “Todmorden” surname buried here who, on investigation, turned out to be from further afield. Once here though, he and his family stayed. Jeremiah was born about 1830 in Kildwick, near Silsden. He was the second son of his parents, Jeremiah and Susannah (Stow or Stowell) Horsfall, …
Read more “27.34 – Jeremiah, Mary Catherine, Albert Edward and Betty Horsfall”
Following from our other post about this family double plot, here are the “wives and children” – the wives of Theodora’s two sons, and three of Theodora’s grandsons. Remember us saying that Marian and Susannah Horsfall were both close neighbours of the Andertons in Lydgate? They were close in more than just proximity – Marian …
Read more “9.35 – Marian, Susannah, Wilbert, Harry and Leonard Anderton”
The final Anderton family grave here at Christ Church contains the second of John and Theodora’s four sons and members of his family – George Lloyd Anderton, his wife Jinefer, and three of their children. George owes his middle name to his step-grandfather; it was clearly a nod to him, and a sign that Theodora …
Read more “26.41 – George, Jinefer, Stephen, Bertha and John Anderton”
This post about the Anderton/Fielden double plot is split into two, because there are simply so many people in this plot. This post will concern Theodora and her three children who are buried here; the other will concern the wives and children of the sons buried here. Theodora was born Theodora Spencer Sherington, and not …
Read more “9.35 – Theodora, John Stephen and William Anderton, and Elizabeth Fielden”
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 …
Read more “13.37 – Robert Sherington, Mary Ellen and Leonard Anderton, and Bessie Tolley Lingard”
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 …
Read more “S7.2 – Samuel Wood and John Greenwood, Susannah, John Willie and Law Southwell”