Nearly-Midnight The genealogy website relating to the family. A tangled web of people all related to one another, explore!
Robert Clark The Father of Henry Martyn-Clark - A missionary out in the North-West Frontier of India. One of the first Europeans to set foot in Afganistan
Affetside Census
A small village north of Bury, Lancashire, I can trace many of my immediate ancestors from there. On the Roman Road, Watling Street
Andrew Martyn-Clark My Father and his part in my World. Also my mother and his parents too.
Henry Martyn-Clark My Great Grandfather, his roots and his achievements. Discusses malaria but also his confrontations with Islam.

Update!


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Sunday 30 June 2013

Hornby


This was a fleeting visit, but I found the cross, photographed  a couple of interesting things as well as the cross and the inscriptions.
Here they are:
The Cross at Hornby by the roadside

RE-ERECTED IN 1920
TO THE HEROES OF
THE PARISH OF HORNBY
WHO DIED FOR US IN
THE GREAT WAR

IRVING ALDERSON
(Edmund Irving Alderson-
The link goes to the Commonwealth Graves Website
b. 4th August 1885 - d. 18 September 1916)
FRED ALDERSON
(There is an elder brother to Irving Alderson, but no solid evidence to confirm this.)
HAROLD SLINGER
(Household Cavalry and Cavalry of the Line (incl. Yeomanry and Imperial Camel Corps
d. 12 October 1917)


IN MEMORY OF THE
MEN OF HORNBY
WHO FELL IN THE
1939 - 45 WAR

GEOFFREY TASMAN BARKER L.M.
(Merchant Navy- d. 15 September 1940
SS Kenardoc)
FRANCIS BRUNDRIT RICHARDSON   M.C.
(26 Station Road, Hornby)

The cross is opposite the Parish Church.
It was moved to its present position
Dr John Lingard


Dr John Lingard
Catholic priest and historian
1811 1851
The reference above tells of an interesting story.
The Parish Church of St Margaret

The entrance to part of the Roman Catholic buildings.

\\\\\\\the cross doubles as a bus stop!

Great cherry tree and also a bus shelter.
The house of John Lingard is behind
This is no 589 on the War Memorials Archive.

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