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 …
This family here hails from London and Shropshire – three generations in one place, far from home for Mary, Edwin and Annie, but a stone’s throw from the only home the two children knew. Mary Howells was born in August 1819 to Joseph and Elizabeth Howells of Wellington, Shropshire. Elizabeth died not long after. Joseph …
Read more “S6.9 – Charles, William, Annie and Edwin Corbett, and Mary Howells”
Another instance of two graves which might only be one – and at least one error that leaves us in the dark about what’s actually happening in these two plots. Bridget Faulkner is the oldest person in this story – born sometime around 1833, in Leeds by her accounting, Bridget only appears once on a …
Read more “S6.1 and S6.2 – John and James Thomas, and Bridget Faulkner”
This is another grouping of Pugh family graves at Christ Church – John and Susy are the parents of Llewellyn Pugh under the school, but Llewellyn wasn’t their only child as we can see here. John Pugh was born around 1820 in Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales. He was a nailmaker who moved for some reason to …
Read more “31.25 – John, Susy, Mary, Eliza, Harriett, Sarah Jane and Frank Pugh”
“Thy Will Be Done” is seen on many stones here, but sometimes the line hits a little harder. This would have been a hard line to have engraved if it had been done at the beginning of the inscription. It would have been an even harder one to engrave after the last person we believe …
Read more “31.32 – Sabina, James Holland, Sarah and Henry Flint”
Llewellyn Pugh was one of ten children, and his parents and some siblings and nieces/nephews can be found at 31.25 and 51.59. He and his family, as well as the stepdaughter he never met, are under the school. Llewellyn Pugh was born in 1851 to John and Susy (Marshall) Pugh. John was a nail maker …
Read more “S4.6 – Llewellyn, Emily and John Pugh, and Edith and Sarah Cowgill”
This stone supposedly has four names on it and four people buried beneath it; but we worked out earlier in this research project that Martha Jane Sutcliffe here actually “belongs” one row below, at S3.5 with her husband William Sutcliffe. So we won’t include her in the story for this grave. Scholfield Collins (occasionally spelled …
Read more “S4.5 – Scholfield and Mary Jane Selina Collins, and Winifred Mary Metcalfe”
Jane is one of the oldest residents of the burial ground underneath the school extension, having died aged 89. The first online record we found for her, after her burial record, was the 1939 Register where she appears living in Colne and with her occupation given as “unpaid domestic duties”. At 88 years old?! Jane …