Author Topic: Gray family of Holbeck buried at Armley, Leeds.  (Read 2415 times)

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Re: Gray family of Holbeck buried at Armley, Leeds.
« Reply #9 on: Monday 29 February 16 20:11 GMT (UK) »
Thank you Ian.

I've seen John Rider (died 1868), Ann Rider née Gray (died 1876) and another son called William (died 1860, born a couple of months after his brother died) in the register and in each entry says Holbeck.

I'm curious now about the earlier Frederick, but this wasn't the only Rider family in Holbeck.

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Re: Gray family of Holbeck buried at Armley, Leeds.
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 13 September 16 21:59 BST (UK) »
Small world.

I've found another ancestor from a completely different line buried at the same cemetery.  Martha Garnett née Holmes.  I thought she lived in Bradford after her marriage as she is in Bradford in 1851 and her husband and children are in Bradford in 1861.

This cemetery is certainly on my list of places I would like to visit one day.


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Re: Gray family of Holbeck buried at Armley, Leeds.
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 14 September 16 09:37 BST (UK) »
Found a Martha Garnett buried Armley, died 1953 aged 85.
Together with 2 others Percy aged 20 (son of William) and William aged 76.
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Re: Gray family of Holbeck buried at Armley, Leeds.
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 14 September 16 20:53 BST (UK) »
Thank you Brian.

I don't think they are ours, but they could be.  Martha Garnett's record gives her abode as Bradford so I'm sure it is her, and I've since found her father Charles Holmes.

It says it is the "chapelry" so is that the St Bart's graveyard?

I see that Martha's sister Elizabeth Rigg née Holmes and Elizabeth's father-in-law John Rigg died in October 1854.   There seems to be an increase in numbers of burials around that time and in a few instances members of the same household died in a short timeframe.  I'm wondering whether the cause may have been cholera.