The final (for now, at least) Buckle grave at Christ Church, and yes – it’s a Buckle with a career in beer. This grave is mostly filled with the children of Nathan and Ellen Buckle. Nathan’s story is similar to that of the other Buckles and their extended families found here. He was born in …
Read more “41.3 – Thomas, Ellen, Grace, Mary, Nathan and Ellen Buckle”
Much of Hannah Buckle has already been said in the post about her sister, brother and nephew. Hannah was one of the fourteen children of Anthony and Mary Buckle of Barden, and came here along with her brother Anthony and nephew George Watson at some point before 1851. Hannah never married, and died in 1870. …
Even with the few records we have for this family, they have quite a story – if only we knew all of it! George Watson was born in May 1829 in Barden near Hauxwell, North Yorkshire, midway between Leyburn and Richmond. His parents were George and Isabella (Buckle) Watson. And “were” really is the correct …
Read more “57.56 – George Watson, Anthony Buckle and Isabella Coffey”
Banns =/= marriage. Someone should have told Richard this. Or maybe they did? Richard Newsome was born in 1811 in Southowram, Halifax to William and Hannah Newsome. William was a stonemason and Richard and one of his other sons, William, followed in those footsteps. Richard moved down the valley to Wadsworth near Heptonstall and in …
Read more “57.61 – Richard Newsome and Charles, Mary Jane, George and Alice Howarth”
Samuel Grindrod was last seen being mentioned in the story of Clara and Leslie Forbes – the wife and son of Thomas Forbes junior. What’s his connection to the Forbes family? And who were they? Thomas Forbes (senior) was born in Salford, Manchester in 1842. His parents John and Elizabeth (Allen) Forbes had lived in …
Read more “17.13 – Thomas and Mary Forbes, and Samuel and Amy Grindrod”
2.11 has traditionally been marked, at least with a stone, as the resting place of Arthur Marshall, one of our seven CWGC graves at Christ Church. But as you’ll know if you’ve read Arthur’s story, he isn’t actually buried there. Who is? John Mitchell of 113 Knowlwood Road, who was buried there on September 20th …
As researcher Holly put so much care and compassion into her FB post about this grave, it’s been copied over in full here. Located not far from the middle pathway to the school is row 31, along here at plot number 36 is an unmarked grave (one of many unmarked). From the sexton records we …
This is a grave where the relationships between all three people took a short spell to unpick. Not one of these three is biologically related to the other, but all three men meant something to a Suthers. Not that poor Felix got the chance to become a man. In chronological order, we will begin. Patrick …
Read more “12.37 – Felix Sebastian Muldoon, Patrick McDonald and Thomas Sutcliffe”
This handsome cross with its unique squiggly design within the central cross once stood tall within this vault grave, but has had to be laid flat because it was never really secured to the ground. We were glad to be able to transcribe it before it was put down, and were intrigued as to who …
Read more “V8.5 – Joseph, Louisa and Louisa Jane Spencer, and Nellie Stott”
A pair of proud parents and a proud uncle are buried here – at least, the father and uncle would have been proud if they’d still been around to see their son/nephew’s success. A tale of offcumden who embedded themselves in Todmorden life. William and Charles Goucke were brothers who had moved to Todmorden from …