St Cuthberts Church -link to the Birley memorial in Kirkham

If you visited before I have decided to put the servicemen's graves at St Cuthbert's separately. However this set of pictures are related to Kirkham and Wrea Green - the Birley family. This link goes back to the Birley memorial in the Kirkham Parish church graveyard. It considerably helped in "decoding" the information on the Birley memorial. Hopefully it helps in nailing some of the links that Birley researchers needed to establish.

THOMAS AUBRY SHEPHERD, MAJOR, DUKE OF L.O.Y.
ELDEST SON OF HERBERT SHEPHERD CROSS
BURIED AT BRAUCHING, OCT 3 1931

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
ANNE THE WIFE OF THE REVEREND
JOHN SHEPHERD BIRLEY M.A.
DIED 12TH MAY 1872 AGED 67 YEARS

THE REVEREND JOHN SHEPHERD BIRLEY M.A. OXON
OF MOSS LEE, BOLTON-LE-MOORS
AND KIRKHAM, LANCASHIRE
BORN OCT 11 1808, DIED JULY 1 1883

LUCY MARY SHEPHERD
WIFE OF HERBERT SHEPHERD-CROSS
BORN MAR 11 1846 DIED MAY 26 1891

(close up of the above )
HERBERT SHEPHERD-CROSS OF HAMELS PARK HERTS.
BORN JAN 1 1847 DIED JAN 9 1916.
AND LAID TO REST AT BRAUCHING

(Close up of the 2nd Photo)

(Close up of the 1st Photo)

This is the cross in context. I am standing behind the North-West corner of the church,
roughly facing south. The building behind is the community hall attached (not physically)  to St Cuthbert,s church. The memorial cross relating to the fallen from the congregation is at the front of this building. The road that is front of the church and the community hall is the "back road from Lytham to Blackpool. This road also has the Cross dedicated to St Cuthbert.

Not often I consider a page closed but unless someone can come up with more information to add...