This grave is two graves – the real one, and the accidental one. The accidental one is a CWGC marker at the front of the graveyard, and the real one lies further back near the school path. The second one contains two heroes, father and son, and a woman who loved them both dearly. Arthur …
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This unassuming grave, like so many others, had quite a story behind one of the deaths it announced. In chronological order, we shall begin… Arthur Gibson was the first of two of Sam and Elizabeth Ann (Greenwood) Gibson’s children to be buried here. Neither he nor Emily were baptised at Christ Church but their parents …
George Howorth and Mary Lawson were both from Burnley, Briercliffe and Extwistle respectively, and married in 1824. George worked as a carter, and carted his way down the Burnley Valley towards Todmorden in search of work. He needed it – six children within 15 years, and all of them living! Kids are expensive after all. …
This is one of those graves where the father and/or husband of the interred is the first one to die. In Joseph’s case, this was due to an accident at work. Joseph Teasdale was born in Todmorden in 1852, the eldest of two sons born to Elizabeth Teasdale, who is described in the baptism records …
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