This grave hold five siblings, four of which died very young. The fifth made it to adulthood but his life was needlessly chaotic, and one wonders what his poor parents made of it all. Those parents were James and Susan (Feber) Farrar of Todmorden, who were married at Heptonstall in March 1825. Just in time, …
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Right at the front row of vaults stands this cross commemorating four siblings and a man who married into their family – the branch of the Greenlees family that was concerned with shoeing and veterinary practice at Der Street. This story is one of sisters who were doing it for themselves and a brother whose …
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We usually cover family graves separately from each other, but this is an exception – the Davis family unit here is very important to our group for a number of reasons. Fred and Rachel’s grave reads “Dead, Yet Speaketh” at its base, and what else are we doing here if we aren’t giving the dead …
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This grave tells a story of how substance abuse can often be a family affair, and is a sad story of age not necessarily conferring strength against such things. James Hardman was born in 1842. According to the census he was born on the Lancashire side of the border, just as his future wife Emma …
Read more “12.14 – Tom, Emma, James and Clara Hardman, and Betsy Lingard”