“Other than that, Jane seems to just vanish” – and that’s why we’re here. You could stop reading now, frankly, but you can continue if you want. This grave’s story is of a grandmother and grandson, one with a life and one whose life barely got started before it ended. Jane Kendall, or Kendell or …
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Some gravestone epitaphs leap out at you and scream that there’s a story to be told here. There’s certainly one here. George Brammah was born in 1835 in Cudworth, near Barnsley. His father George was a quarryman and no doubt was working in one of the many mines or mine-adjacent industries in that part of …
This story was told as part of our “Dead for the Holidays” 2023 tour. I love this story for one main reason—John Turner was a teacher. It seems he was not just any teacher, either… he was someone who was absolutely dedicated to his profession, and had an impact on many lives. It is all …
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This story was originally told as part of our “Dead for the Holidays” 2023 tour. We stand here before the grave of Fanny Mitchell, whose story is touching one. Starting at the beginning… Fanny Steel was born in Buckinghamshire in 1866. She was the youngest of the 11 children of John and Harriet, who hailed …
This grave holds a man and his two wives, and one of his children. Another child of his doesn’t rest here, but had their life turned upside down by his mother’s illness and his father’s inability to manage…as well as the death of his baby sister. William Redman was born in Coley, Northowram in 1860 …
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This story was told on our Remembrance Sunday 2023 tour. This is a story of not just a soldier, but an entire family that were drastically affected by the events of WW1. But let’s start with the birth of a little boy that would one day die for his country. George William Rohrer was born …
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Charles David Greenhow came to our (researchers Holly and Sarah’s) attention because of his entry on the 1871 Census, when his relationship to the head of the house is given as “friend”. Not content with merely visitor, Charles was a friend. Who was Charles? This grave tells the story of his mother him and his …
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This grave spans 51 years and tells a lot of stories in and around the stories of those buried here. We’ve tried not to get sidetracked. Jane Firth and Elizabeth Taylor were both born Hudsons, to Anthony and Agnes (Smith) Hudson of Kendal in Westmorland. There were nine Hudson children and the family were weavers, …
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This story introduces us to some new faces…and an old villain. John Land was born in Wirksworth, Derbyshire in 1816. His wife Mary MacDonald had been born there too, a year earlier. The Lands and MacDonalds were lead miners as were many in that area at the time, and it will have been an extremely …
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John rests here, an offcumden who made the town his home. John was born in 1824 in Halifax to William and Hannah Helliwell of Warley. The Helliwells were regular attendees of Square Chapel Congregational. He became a wool comber and in June 1845 he married Sarah Ann Cockcroft of Ovenden, who along with her parents …