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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Yorkshire (West Riding) => England => Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests => Topic started by: hurworth on Friday 26 February 16 12:26 GMT (UK)
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I would be most grateful if someone could take a photo of the Gray family plot at Armley cemetery near Leeds for me sometime.
According to this article
https://www.theonlinebookcompany.com/OnlineBooks/SchoolsWaterloo/Celebrations/WaterlooSoldiers/284
Fredrick Gray who was serving with the 2nd Life Guards died at Waterloo. Frederick had married at St Peters in Leeds in February 1815 to Susannah Teale. It says his parents and a brother and sister are buried there. The sister Mary that is mentioned in the article was described on census forms as deaf and dumb.
I presume that Fredrick was buried at Waterloo.
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I've found another image here at Yorkshire Indexers which I can hopefully download.
http://www.yorkshireindexers.info/wiki/index.php?title=GRAY,_Frederick
I think the work indexers do (and the project by Rossett School) are amazing. This one headstone has confirmed some hunches and proven some family links that I suspected but I may never have found them.
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Hi hurworth,
The grave is actually in St Bartholomew's churchyard in Armley and not Armley Cemetery.
A friend of ours did a drone video of St Bartholomew's if you would like to see the church and it's gravestones. There are not many gravestones remaining in the churchyard these days.
The video is on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZLOVJB_wpo
Regards,
Ian
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Thank you for pointing that out pjs.
Hopefully this is one of the remaining momuments, although it may have been vertical originally. Other family members are buried at Beckett St in Leeds and it sounds as if many monuments there have been removed or vandalised.
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Care to put up a few relatives names buried at Beckett Street!
I have a listing here in front of me.
Brian
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The photo of the Gray monument was posted by Lynn (Lynnie) in November 2013 so I would think the monument is still there at St Bart's. I'll have a look for you and give you some idea of it's location in the churchyard.
There are dozens of people with the surname Gray buried in Beckett Street Cemetery, as Brian says 'put up your names' you are interested in, see if we can help.
Ian
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140 Gray named people at Beckett Street!
Brian
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Thank you very much for the offer.
I must be mistaken about Beckett St as I've had a quick look a the tree and the other close relatives of Martha and James Gray are buried at St John the Evangalist, Wortley. It is Ann Rider, née Gray, her spouse and some children (the first being her son Fredrick who died in 1821).
I know I've seen some records for Beckett St, but it must be on another line.
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Beckett Street Cemetery burials are listed on the Yorkshire Indexers site, as are St John the Evangelist, Wortley. They are listed in the Online Records-Subscription Database. This database lists many Parish and Municipal Cemetery burials around the area and the subscription is only £10 per year.
Frederick Rider was buried 27 February 1821 aged 1 year at St John the Evangelist, only other detail on him was Holbeck as his abode, no grave number.
There are 7 other Rider burials listed but only a further 2 with abode of Holbeck - Frederick Rider buried 23 July 1817 aged 2 years and William Rider buried 17 October 1823 aged 1 year.
I spoke to Brian (Calverley Lad) yesterday and he is checking a CD he has and will no doubt post if he finds anything else of interest.
Ian
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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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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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Found a Martha Garnett buried Armley, died 1953 aged 85.
Together with 2 others Percy aged 20 (son of William) and William aged 76.
Brian
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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.