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Sowerby Bridge Cemetery


Cemetery Road. Opened in 1861 by the Sowerby Bridge Board of Health. It was designed by William Gay [1814-1893].

On 27th December 1902, a number of oak trees were planted in the Cemetery by Mr & Mrs Frank Clay and members of their family.

There were 2 chapels: one for Anglican burials and one for Nonconformists.

The Nonconformist Chapel is listed

The following people, and/or members of their family, were buried and/or have memorials here:


Manoah Ackroyd
William Ackroyd

Charles William Bates
Charles Berry
Arthur William Bissell
John Blackburn
Dixon George Bottomley
Edwin Bottomley
George Brearley
George Arthur Brearley
John Brearley
Joseph Brearley
Joseph Brearley
Elijah Brewster
Frank Gledhill Briggs
John Alexander Brooks

Percival Clarke
Abraham Clay
Ellen Cowgill
John Christopher Curley

Isaac Easterby
Albert Henry Eastwood
Oliver Eatough
Clarinda Evers
Jabez Evers

Abraham Fielding
Emma, daughter of Frederick William Fielding
Alfred Scholefield Firth
William Edward Flight
Elizabeth, mother of Rev John Fox
Albert Ainley Frankland
Ronald Frankland

William Henry Gibson

Nathaniel Habergham
Travis Hall
John Hanson
John Hanson
Samuel Hartley
Wilfred Holroyd
John William Hopkinson
Thomas Horsfall

James Henry Illingworth

Thomas Edward Jones
Squire Judson

The daughters of The Kirby family

Alice Briggs Lent

Dominick Madden
Frank Marsden
John Marsh
John Marsh
John Marsh
Eli Marshall
Joseph Mitchell
Rev Richard Moffett

Walter Newsome
Ellen, wife of John Nicholl

Thomas Pollit
Godfrey Rhodes

Frederic Jowett Scholefield
Ronald Scott
Percival Shackleton
Fred Shipley
Rowland Siddall
George Alexander Smith
John Smith
Louisa Speight
John Stansfield
Benjamin Walter Stockton
Crowther Stockton
Albert Sutcliffe
Fred Sutcliffe
Herbert Ambler Sutcliffe
John Henry Swallow
John Swithenbank
Luke Swithenbank

Arthur Thomas
Arnold Thornton
Fred Tidswell
Thomas Tidswell

Wallace Whitehead
Edmund Whitworth
Edmund Wilcock
Henry Wilcock
Wright Wilcock
Thomas Wilkinson
Robert Wood 

 

Details of some other burials at the Cemetery can be found at Sowerby Bridge Burial Board : 1871-1902


See Quaker Burial Ground, Sowerby Bridge




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Revised 14:03 on 3rd December 2017 / ww_88 / 13