William is the only person in this plot, as far as we know. His life was short but he packed a lot into it. William Sutcliffe was born in 1840. His father John was a weaver, and so was William, for the first three quarters of his life. In 1871 he married Martha Jane Holt …
The beautiful grave of Mary Hannah (Crabtree) Law, born in 1868 and passing away just before New Year’s in 1915 at the age of 47. From June 2023: “Mary lived at the Shepherds Rest Inn with her husband, John Arthur Law and helped her sister Betsy to run the pub whilst Betsy and her husband …
This massive monument, almost a quadruple plot, was one of if not the very first grave whose overgrowth was checked and peeled back. It turned out to be a very important one, as Hannah here was the reason Christ Church had such a beautiful and well-regarded peal of bells. The bells were bought by her …
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One of the small number of coffin-shaped tombs in the graveyard, nestled near the top end by the fence dividing the public graveyard from the private grounds. Who was Ann? Malcolm Bull’s Calderdale Companion helped us out. She was born in Wadsworth in 1830, the daughter of James and Sally, and grew up working as …
Another Dennett family vault in the vaults section, William was the uncle of Fred Dennett of Hand Bell Ringers fame over in V6.5 and the brother of James Dennett in V9.8. William and his brother John (buried in the private area) made the paper at their deaths because they were buried only one day apart, …
A married couple named Joseph and Mary – no jokes please! This beautiful cross in the vaults was all but swallowed up by the most incredible, but destructive, crown of ivy. As we cut it back further and further, we realised that the cross itself was this close to toppling forwards – not ideal when …
Alice Greenwood, nee Bowden, and her husband Sam’s story is partly told alongside her sister Mary Bowden’s. Alice married late in life to Sam, a widower, and they moved to Oswestry to start new careers as publicans along with their aunt Hannah, their late father’s sister. Haidee was Sam’s first wife. Sam’s date of death …
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Owners of Todmorden Album Vol. 5 or of many older Almanacks will possibly recognise the name of Bowden. Two generations of Bowden had shops on Water Street and Burnley Road advertising their decorating business, and Anthony John is one of the “sons” in Bowden and Sons. The baptism record for Anthony John Bowden from 3rd …
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