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Family History Documents and Artefacts => Graveyards and Gravestones => Topic started by: newmodernist on Wednesday 24 June 15 11:36 BST (UK)
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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=136769072&ref=acom
Sarah B Speakman is my 3x Great Grandmother - none of the rest of the names seem to be of any relation..
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There's some information here:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=709531.0
Looking at the dates, they are all very close - so maybe all died as a result of the same cause? An epidemic, maybe?
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There was a typhoid epidemic in 1910 in Eccles?
The cause was ice-cream made in Ancoats?
See: http://www.rootschat.com/links/01fjd/
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That's such a COOL thing to find out. ;)
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I should think that the death certificate, of any of these people, would hold some clues? ;D
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My grandad (died 1937) is in a mass grave with 7 other men in London.
None of them are related,but his family were not able to afford a single plot for him.
Hence the much cheaper mass grave.
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Don't have a death certificate as of now, but when I get it, I'll certainly look out for the possibility of terminal treats!
And yes, I don't think they were well off, so a mass grave could be likely.
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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=136769072&ref=acom
Sarah B Speakman is my 3x Great Grandmother - none of the rest of the names seem to be of any relation..
I would have thought it unusual to have a headstone featuring people who were unrelated. :-\
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http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=136769072&ref=acom
Sarah B Speakman is my 3x Great Grandmother - none of the rest of the names seem to be of any relation..
I would have thought it unusual to have a headstone featuring people who were unrelated. :-\
Sorry I missed that bit about there being a headstone Derr !!!
Good job one of us is awake Nanny Jan ;D
In that case they probably are all related in some way.
Carol
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None of those names have come up in my research yet - the only ties seem to be they all died around the same time, but I'll keep an eye out for them.
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I see that the B in her middle name stands for Brown- the last name on that headstone is a 6 year old Robert Brown.
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The names are:
Sarah B Speakman
Died July 30th 1910 aged 57 years Registered Chorlton
Harry Cooper
Died August 16th 1910 aged 23 years Registered Stockport
Emma Hammersley
Died September <??> 1910 aged 69 years Registered Salford
Euculnia L Lescure
Died Oct <??> 1910 aged 62(?) years Registered Chorlton as Fuguenia
Bertha Blakeley
Died Oct 30th 1910 aged 26 years Registered Prestwich
Robert Brown
Died Jan 3rd(?) 1911 aged 6 years
Bang goes the epidemic theory!! ;D
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I don't know if the same applied here, but in the cemeteries in Leeds they had "guinea graves" where those who couldn't afford a grave of their own could nevertheless have a grave with a brief inscription, albeit shared with strangers.
For one of the Leeds ones, and a fuller description than I have given, see http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourceIdentifier=20121119_174182
A search engine will bring up more examples.
Arthur
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I don't know if you have spotted this thread, but the headstones in the pictures from St Joseph's Cemetery, Moston which Gortonboy posted also show lists of unrelated people buried together over a short time span. The OP describes the grave requested as a "Public Inscription Grave".
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=704069.0