The inscription on this lovely Celtic style cross reads: “In Christ is Life. In memory of Joseph Scragg, Stones, Todmorden,died Feby. 17th 1902 aged 46. A valued faithful servant in the Fielden family for 30 years. Also of Emma the beloved wife of the above who died Sepr. 3rd 1917. Aged 64 years. At rest.” …
This grave tells a very interesting story – one of definite grief and confusion, and one of possible suicide or a corporate cover-up. The reader will have to decide. You can find it next to the cedar growing out of the middle of the lower half of the graveyard next to the informal path. Jane …
Annie was born in late 1855 in Mortimer, Berkshire. Her life was rather short and so there’s little to tell, but like so many others here, she is another single child whose parents came to Todmorden and then left again; the story of how she got here is more detailed than anything we could say …
This couple died many years and many, many miles apart! What’s their story? Sutcliffe Thomas was born in September 1825. His parents Richard and Hannah, of Wadsworth, baptised him and his brother John at Longfield Wesleyan Chapel some time later. Sutcliffe apprenticed as a plasterer and in 1841 was found living with his (maternal) aunt …
In Loving Memory of…who? Not all of this grave’s sidestones might still be here. The three who are here are only related to each other by marriage. Mary Wadsworth was born around 1838 – we’ve struggled to find a concrete, definite birth record for her. Not for lack of trying! 1838 is based off of …
Read more “14.14 – Mary Stopford, Annie and Abraham Lincoln Heap”
There are a lot of people on this stone, from 1895 through 1921. This post so far only deals with the last three on the stone, Cissie, Jack, and William Howorth. Cissie and Jack were two of the children of William and Agnes Ann (Hill) Howorth. Two of eleven, in fact! You might have noticed …
“Gone to be with Christ, which is far better” This stone remember three children of Young and Lydia (Jeffs) Sutcliffe – Albert, Bertha, and an unnamed infant daughter. But who were Young and Lydia? Young was born in December 1834 to John and Betty (Greenwood) Sutcliffe up in Heptonstall. He was one of 11 children …
Read more “37A.28 – Albert, Bertha, Young and Lydia Sutcliffe”
In this grave are three generations of one family, although not concurrent ones – John and Sarah Cockcroft (nee Helliwell), their daughter, Jane, and their great granddaughter, Edith. John was the eldest of the 13 children of George and Ann Cockcroft (George was a butcher, referred to by Travis as ‘old George the butcher’) and …
Read more “39.21 – John, Sarah and Edith Cockcroft, and Jane Goodall”
Albert Jackson was born in Burnley on the 24th February 1886, the son of Fergus and Mary Jackson (nee Heys). He was Mary’s birthday present to herself; they shared a birthday 34 years apart. Later records give his year of birth as 1887 but we can be certain that those are in error. Fergus was …
This grave originally had a notation on it saying that the existing stone – a sidestone lying flush with the ground – was for James William, and the missing one was for Mary Ann Jackson; but when we got there and had a prod, we found not Mary Ann, but John. Who were this family? …
Read more “35.12 – John, James William and Mary Ann Jackson”