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You ask about Sarah Ann WATERHOUSE who was baptised 'twice'.  The first time at All Saints, Elton, in 1855, and then in 1882 at St Stephen's, Elton.  All Saints, Elton was established ca 1840 to serve the Elton Township on the west side of Bury and St Stephen's was established in about 1870 as a daughter school chapel about half a mile further west to ensure that a Board School was not established in the area.

The graveyard at All Saints, Elton, was the principal graveyard in Elton.

Possible reasons for the second 'baptism' are (1) her wanting to be confirmed and not being sure of her baptism or (2) her being seriously ill and in danger of death and her family not being sure she was baptised.  The latter has been suggested by Brentor Boy and is the more likely in view of  her death in December 1882.

The extracts of the baptism Registers that I have show -

All Saints, Elton, Bury.  Sarah Ann Waterhouse dau of John and Alice Waterhouse, of Cockey Lane, Labourer born 10-Mar 1855 bapt 22-Mar 1855

St Stephen's, Elton, Bury.  Sarah Ann Waterhouse dau of John and Alice Waterhouse and now wife of Aaron Pilling, of Peers St, Elton, Block Printer/Jnr   born 10-Mar 1855 bapt 06-Nov 1882

I have not seen the original entries.

As has been said, Sarah Ann married Aaron PILLING in All Saints in 1875 and there were three children of this marriage all baptised at All Saints -

Name      Father   Mother      Born      Baptised
James   Pilling   Aaron   Sarah Ann   18-Jun   1876   14-Jul   1876
Jesse   Pilling   Aaron   Sarah Ann   16-Jun   1878   24-Aug   1878
Elizabeth Alice   Pilling   Aaron   Sarah Ann  18-Dec 1880   19-Mar   1881

The middle child, Jesse, was buried in All Saints graveyard 3 Dec 1878 aged 5 months.

Sarah Ann was also buried in the same grave on 20 Dec 1882, aged 27years.  There does not appear to be a memorial stone on this grave, nor any other burials in this grave.

ASE   2174      1328      Sarah Ann   Pilling      Elton   B   20-Dec   1882   27   1855

It is possible that Sarah Ann MIGHT have died as the result of problems in pregnancy - though that is a guess.  Obtaining her death certificate will show the official cause of death


There is an entry in Lancashirebmd (http://lancashirebmd.org.uk/cgi/deathind.cgi ) that could be your Aaron

Lancashire Death indexes for the years: 1923
Surname, Forename(s); Age; Sub-District, Registers At; Reference
PILLING   Aaron              70      Elton   Bury                    ELT/40/14

This person is not buried in All Saints graveyard.

Hope this helps

Jim Lancaster (Bury, Lancs.)

Coroner’s Inquest papers are closed under Data Protection legislation for 75 years.  They may be transferred to the local Record Office (Archives Plus in Manchester).

On the other hand, Coroners are encouraged to cull their records and only save the ‘interesting’ cases, though it is not clear what ‘interesting’ means.

The period of interest to you is outside the closure period but may fall foul of culling.

Often the best source of information about Coroner’s inquests is the local press.  Nowadays the reports are quite short but in earlier times they were much more detailed, and even gory.  The local press at that time would have been “The Manchester Guardian”, the Manchester Evening News, and the Manchester Evening Chronicle.

Hope this helps

Jim Lancaster (Bury, Lancs.)
 

Hi,

The Register has an entry -

James  Johnson  1866  Warrington R.D.  Lancashire 

and the place of residence of this person is described as the County Mental Hospital.  This Hospital was the one at Winwick.  From the entry it is clear that the hospital were only provided with an approximate date of birth and this suggests he may not have known where he was born.

It may be worth checking the records of these two institutions to see if there are any further details.  There may be details of next of kin and addresses that might help.

Jim Lancaster (Bury, Lancs.)

In the late 1600s and the 1700s there was a Catholic LANCASTER family resident in Ormskirk, probably linked to the Lancaster family that held Rainhill Hall.  There is quite a bit of information about this family in Andrew Lancaster’s site about LANCASTER families (http://users.skynet.be/lancaster/The%20Lancasters%20of%20Rainhill.html )

The book “Returns of Papists, 1767, Diocese of Chester” trans. E.S. Worrall, Catholic Record Society (Occasional Pub No. 1) (1980) p.27,  has the following family in the Township of Ormskirk –

Richard LANCASTER Husbandman, aged 40, resident [in Ormskirk] 6 years
Elizabeth, his wife, aged 40, resident [in Ormskirk] 6 years
Edward, his son, aged 7, resident [in Ormskirk] 6 years
Mary, his Daughter, aged 4, resident [in Ormskirk] 4 years
Elizabeth Do. Aged 3 months
resident [in Ormskirk] 6 years

and on page 76, has the following family resident in Ulnes Walton, in the Parish of Croston –

John LANCASTER.  Aged 27, Husbandman, resident 3 months
Eliz. His wife, Aged 27, resident 3 months
Mary, his Daugr, aged 2,  resident 3 months
Edwd, his Son, aged 3 months, resident 3 months

The Lancashire Archives in Preston has a copy of the early baptism registers of St Ann RC Church, Ormskirk, -

ORMSKIRK, St Anne; Archdiocese of Liverpool
C 1736-1836;  M 1784-1845;  B 1750-1792;  Copy reg Microfilm; DDX 241/26

Hope this helps