« on: Saturday 25 January 14 15:11 GMT (UK) »
After years of wondering what became of him I have found that my 3x Great Grandfather Robert Taylor (born Charlesworth, Derbyshire c.1804) died on March 13th 1875 in Burnley, Lancashire. I looked through the records of the Municipal Cemetery and also the local churchyards but could not find out where he was buried. I looked at the parish burials on Find My past and was amazed to find he had been buried in Charlesworth on 17th March.
What I can't get my head a round are the logistics of transporting a dead body all the way to Derbyshire. I presume they must have used a horse drawn hearse but as he only had 1 son and 2 daughters and they were employed as cotton weavers I would have thought the expense would have been too much.
It is the first time in all the years that I have been tracing both mine and my husbands family trees that I have come across this
Brown...Burnley
Crossdale/Croasdale...Lancashire
Foy....Cornwall,lancashire
Simpson...Ireland,Lincolnshire
Lewis....Burnley,Flint
Hoyle...Burnley.Rossendale
Taylor....Derbyshire,Burnley
Whitehead....Rochdale,Burnley
Barrett....Bacup,County Mayo, Burnley
Barber....Freiston
Hough...Wigan,Burnley
Aldersley...Kelbrook,Nelson,Burnley
Eastwood....Nelson,Burnley
McKenzie...Bury,Burnley
Wildman....Burnley
Greenwood.....Burnley
Rhodes...Blackburn,Burnley
Ashworth...Lumb,Rossendale