Hello BlackpoolBelle, dobfarm and All
I am most interested in your Rev. John Cockin being an Independent, because a "Jane Cockin" (according to another FindMyPast scan) appears as a Witness to my 4 times Gt. Grandfather George Hood's marriage at Selby Yorkshire 18 July 1815 (George born Yorks per 1841 Census) and we can find no Parish of Selby September 1845 burial record (including Society of Friends, Quakers), or no Selby Parish baptism either, suggesting George might be a dissenter.
It's a long shot, but if checking, if you come across George Hood who died 18 September 1845 or other Hood burials up to November 1879 (Sarah Hood), please let me know?
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Regarding Grave Memorials, they are considered important ...
Memorandum by English Heritage (CEM 80)
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200001/cmselect/cmenvtra/91/91m85.htmIt is interesting the importance that the Secretary of State's advisor English Heritage (now Historic England) was placing on graveyard memorials, see preamble (quoted below) on the above Parliament UK link. Also see part 2 (on link).
1. PREAMBLE
1.1 English Heritage welcomes the opportunity to submit a memorandum to the Environment Sub-committee expressing our views on cemeteries. Our comments are restricted to England although many of the general observations we make apply more widely. The heritage value of cemeteries is enormous. The issues they raise are wide-ranging and complex and involve ethical and religious considerations, respect for our ancestors, archaeological, architectural, historic and wildlife importance, open space, tourism and amenity value. Most of these issues and the management decisions that result from them are best dealt with at local level. It is in local cemeteries in the main that local people's loved ones, relations and ancestors lie and where they too will lie in time (as inhumations or cremations). It is also local communities that benefit most directly from the amenity value that cemeteries provide. But the future of cemeteries is not solely a local issue. Genealogists and descendants of buried people have an interest, even though they may now live far away from the cemetery in which their families lie. And national bodies have a responsibility to identify the most significant cemeteries when judged against national scales of importance, and participate in discussions about their future.
1.2 English Heritage's concerns and responsibilities, as the lead body within the historic environment sector, revolve primarily around the following: the evaluation of the historical and landscape significance of cemeteries and the individual components within them (such as cemetery chapels or memorials); the archaeological importance of the human remains they contain; the provision of guidance on evaluating historical and archaeological significance; providing advice on repair, maintenance and management; and the disbursement of grants for repair within available resources and our statutory remit. English Heritage also has a well-respected education service which, among other activities, actively encourages teachers and tutors to make effective curriculum use of the historic environment.
2. THE CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE OF CEMETERIESYou will find more advice, by typing in the words ... historic England advice "Grave memorials" in your search bar.
If the council Planners, council's Conservationist, or Council's HER did not give the subject, the importance it deserved when considering the application, ask them why not and quote the bits which support your letter and that their actions may have thwarted your research to see whether there was a memorial or not and what information the Memorial contained.
Check the Legal requirement (the BBC News claimed there was one) about those being buried should be recorded on property Deeds and if so, you might suggest that there ought to be a record of the 'Grave Memorials' before work commenced, because Grave Memorials often contain more information, than the Burial Register (some of which are not available) and therefore Memorial information surveys are of immense importance.
Did you also note, in one of the West Yorkshire Archives links (by dobfarm), the link refers to grave registers ...
Includes baptisms 1949-1999, grave registers 1858-1984, minutes 1933-1999, church accounts 1974-1989, portraits and photographs of ministers 1806-1994Laying Memorials as paving should be banned, due to foot erosion, extra weathering, being dug up and further damaged, disposed of by Utility companies.
Regards Mark (retired council officer)
