Sarah Jones was born Sarah Taplin in 1824 in Preston on Stour, Gloucestershire. She appears to be the only child of John, who was 53 when she was born, and Margaret, who was 48 when she was born. They had been married 9 years at this point, and it puts me in mind of the …
“Previously unmarked” is underselling things; this was one of the most frustrating graves we’ve come across at Christ Church. Some stones were buried, some were dislodged, and only a great deal of investigative work across all available online family history platforms allowed us to reassemble the sidestones and ensure they were where they belonged, and …
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Two simple sidestones: In Loving Memory of Richard Percy Martin who fell asleep Dec. 19th 1914 aged 10 years. Never forgotten by his loving father, mother, and sister. Richard Percy Martin, or Percy Richard Martini as he was registered at birth, was born in Holbeck, Leeds, the son of Richard and Rosa Martin. Richard was …
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Little Doris’s marker stone was turned upside down before we turned up – now she’s visible again. This was going to be an easy story. Little girl dies young and is buried at Christ Church, grieving Grandfather who was a journeyman stonemason, probably carves a small memorial stone for her. Grandfather dies and is probably …
This small, decaying, but striking black cross marks a sad grave indeed, although an unusual one – even though four small children are here, and their parents did not stay in Todmorden, the parents are also buried here. Richard Newsome Howarth was born in Todmorden in 1865, and on the 1871 census shows with his …
Read more “22.21 – Richard, Ruth Ann, Bertha, Charles, Harold and Harry Howarth”
There are lots of Arthur Marshalls in this graveyard, and this is one of them – this Arthur was a fairly unremarkable man, but not everyone in here has a grand story. Some stories are fairly straightforward ones. We were glad to be able to verify this inscription before the stone finishes delaminating and becomes …
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This was listed as “unmarked”, but look – initials carved into the sidestones. JC, MC, KC and AC. We know that Michael Coleman (d. 1908). Kate (Catherine) Coleman (d. 1943), and John Coleman (d.1951) are buried there…but who is AC? Michael and Kate had a daughter named Annie, who married William Mayers and died in …
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This grave was previously unmarked as the cross had gone missing and the plinth unceremoniously tumbled into another plot before decades of ivy grew over it. Rather than tell the story of little Orah, who was 17 months old when she died in February 1888, we will tell the story of why she’s the only …
Read more “33.19 – Orah Marion Stacey (previously unmarked)”