Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Foldout

Saint John the Baptist, Halifax : Graveyard


The graveyard of Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Halifax.

There used to be a number of cottages at the north-east corner of the graveyard.

A spring in the cellar of the T' Cat i' th' Window – the water of which flowed through the graveyard – fed a well used by a community of 800 people in the nearby Berry Lane area.

In the churchyard are some gravestones bearing the date 1566.

The gravestone of John Logan – who died in 1830 at the age of 105 – lies below the sundial

The graveyard was closed to burials [31st May 1861], although Catherine Grace Doherty Waterhouse was buried in the family vault in 1916.

After 1861, Stoney Royd Cemetery then Lister Lane Cemetery were used.

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


David Aaron
John Alexander
Lewis Alexander
Dr Robert Alexander
William Alexander
William Alexander
Nicholas Appleyard
Nicholas Appleyard
Nicholas Appleyard
Susanna Appleyard

George Astin [aged 4 years 9 months] of Halifax (29th November 1850)
Titus Bancroft
Rev John Beste
Joseph Binns
George Bottomley
John Bottomley
John Bottomley
Rev John Broadley
John Brodley
Thomas Brodley
Thomas Brodley
Mary Broughton [1773-1850] of Halifax (3rd December 1850)
John del Burgh
William Burke [infant] of Southowram (23rd October 1849)
Henry Butterworth

Sarah Carpmael
John Cartwright
John Cartwright
John Chambers
Ralph Clayton
Rev William Clifford
Elizabeth Conroy [1794-1850] of Halifax (29th November 1850)
John Crossley
Simeon Crossley
Simeon Crossley
Henry Crowther
Joseph Crowther
Martha Culpan [1817-1841] of Halifax (22nd October 1841)
Ann Currer

Miss Dean
William Deighton
Richard Dollife

Benjamin Edwards
William Edwards

Dr John Favour
Hugh Fawcett
Richard de Fostard
Captain John Furness

John Gaukroger
Mitchell Gaukroger
Robert Gibson
William Gibson

John de Haldeworth
Jonathan Halliday
Joseph Halliday
James, son of Job Hanson
John Hanson
Sarah Hartley [1835-1850] of Halifax (29th November 1850)
William Heald
Christopher Holdsworth
John Holdsworth
Rev John Holdsworth
John Holdsworth
Thomas Holdsworth
Rev Thomas Holdsworth
William Holdsworth
John Holland
James Holt
John Holt

Elkanah Hoyle [age not recorded] farmer of Hipperholme (16th May 1794)
Elkanah Hoyle [age not recorded] innkeeper of Warley (28th April 1799)
Etienne Edme Jarry
Randolph McGregor Jowett [infant] of Northowram (23rd October 1849)
Mary Kershaw [1760-1841] of Halifax (21st October 1841)
Rev Samuel Knight

Hugh Lacy
Francis Alexander Leyland
Elizabeth Lister [infant] of Southowram (25th October 1849)
James Lister
John Logan

William Marshall
Thomas Maud
William Mercer
Rev William Midgley
James Mitchell
John Herbert Mitchell
John Herbert Mitchell
Phoebe Mitchell
Adam Morris
James Murgatroyd
Samuel Murgatroyd

David Nicholl

Mary, wife of Jonathan Oldfield

Rev Francis Parratt
Austin Pollard [infant] of Halifax (4th November 1849)
Francis Priestley
Jonathan Priestley
Rev Nathanael Priestley

John Ramsden
Elizabeth Rice [1804-1850] of Halifax (28th November 1850)
John Richardson
Sarah Richardson
John Roberts
James Robinson
Joseph Rothera
Samuel Rowbottom [1801-1849] of Halifax (19th October 1849)
Catharine Royds
Harriet Royds
John Royds
Mary Royds

John Saltonstall
John Saltonstall
Richard Saltonstall
Robert Saltonstall
Isabella Saltynstall
Henry Savile
John Savile
John Simpson [infant] of Southowram (24th October 1849)
Samuel Smallpage
Samuel Smallpage
Henry Stansfeld
Valentine Stead
Joseph Sugden
Robert Sunderland

Hannah Sutcliffe [1816-1850] of Southowram (3rd December 1850)
William Tongue
Abraham Turner
Abraham Turner

Henry Wade
Michael Wainhouse
Michael Wainhouse
Bryan Waterhouse
John Waterhouse
John Waterhouse
John Waterhouse
Richard Waterhouse
Robert Waterhouse
Joseph Watkinson
Maria Watkinson
Jane Wilson [1770-1849] of Northowram (28th October 1849)
John Wilson
Ephraim Winn
William Winn

 

Items in black are not linked to existing entries in Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion. The date of interment is shown in parentheses


See Halifax Parish Church: Railings and Burials inside Halifax Parish Church




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