Bowling Bradford Cemeteries 1800s query

[dobfarm]

IF you contact Bradford cemeteries bereavement services in link below, they will advice you further or contact Bradford local studies library as they have a lot old records on burials and Arthur Blackburn MI's (Arthur Blackburn was a tramp who recorded a lot of churchyard headstone epitaphs early 20th century around Bradford )

https://www.bradford.gov.uk/libraries/find-your-local-library/local-studies-library/

https://www.bradford.gov.uk/media/1761/memorialinscriptions.pdf

https://www.bradford.gov.uk/births-deaths-marriages-and-civil-partnerships/deaths/burials-and-cemeteries/

[JackYorkshire]

Thanks 

[dobfarm]

Just for the record Bowling council municipal cemetery opened in 1889

 https://www.bradford.gov.uk/births-deaths-marriages-and-civil-partnerships/deaths/burials-and-cemeteries/

Scroll down the page in link above to find

' Cemeteries owned and managed by Bradford Council '

the list of cemeteries 2nd down is Bowling cemetery

[dobfarm]

Although the church at Bowling is still there, the graveyard was cleared out late 70's.
The whole area was cleared for the 'inner ring road ' Rooley Lane.
Correction from later post, graveyard was Bierley.
Scholemoor - Main council burial records office for Bradford would be able to provide the burial records.
 Regards Brian

Thank you so much for this. I heard some where many years ago from family that St. John's graveyard was cleared out, but I couldn't think now who to ask. I've found that "John Booth" a relative was buried in the 'Parish of S John Bowling' January 1890. Do you know what happened to the graveyard that was cleared out in the 1970s and where they would be now?

The grave register 1880 to 1896 for St John Bowling Bradford held in West Yorkshire Archives Bradford ground floor shared with Bradford Local studies library

https://www.catalogue.wyjs.org.uk/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=BDP11&pos=26

Snippet from link above

" BOWLING ST JOHN, PARISH RECORDS (BDP11)

Description   Including registers 1842-1994, grave registers 1880-1896, banns 1912-1993, churchwardens accounts 1887-1944, and papers concerning the National School, 1898-1901"


This is an aerial view now of st John's church and

https://www.google.com/maps/place/St+John's+Church/@53.7825525,-1.7315945,105m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x487be13e102fb81d:0xe87e7d53233ffeba!8m2!3d53.7825348!4d-1.7322568!16s%2Fg%2F1tkshbrz?entry=ttu

[dobfarm]

This youtube video in link below will show you the headstones that were put to the side of the church of St John's church Bowling Bradford

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5osu4GIdFoc

(After 5 seconds of advert click skip bottom right in video to bring the St John video to start)

In the video it states the grave headstones were as I said above were put to the side of the church and the body remains in the graves were interred (Reburied) in Bowing council cemetery 

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Summing up

Bradford local studies library will have the Blackburn Epitaph memorial inscriptions ('Blackburn' was a male clever tramp who went around Bradford churchyards over many decades collecting gravestone memorial epitaphs ) of St John's  church and West Yorkshire archives will have the St John's parish register burials and maybe graveyard burial register records

Hope this info helps any researcher of ancestry of St John's church bowling Bradford 

[JackYorkshire]

Thanks dobfarm, that's a brilliant video. Really helpful!