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!


Many photographs have been added! LazylikeSunday.net home page lists them Please copy and reuse them - a link to LazylikeSunday will be much appreciated!
Showing posts with label St Cuthbert's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St Cuthbert's. Show all posts

Monday, 24 December 2012

St Cuthbert's servicemen and memorials

In the churchyard at St Cuthbert's in Lytham there are both memorials and also gravestones. The photos are below. Somewhat disappointing that the graves have the little Remembrance Day crosses and the memorials do not. Perhaps the memorials are not so obvious. But its nice that people remember anyway. Hopefully I can derive links from some of them. Some will cross reference onto the main memorial in Lytham at Hastings Place and at St Cuthbert's.

ALSO WALTER ECCLES, SEC LIEUT
L.N. LANCS REGT, THEIR GRANDSON
BORN JULY 20TH 1888
KILLED IN ACTION, FRANCE, MAY 30TH 1916

CLOSE UP OF THE BOTTOM OF THIS MEMORIAL,
REGRETTABLY THE INSCRIPTION IS NOT VISIBLE


IN
EVER LOVING MEMORY
OF
JOYCE
DEARLY BELOVED WIFE OF
ALAN EGERTON FERGUSON
DEC 8TH 1939 IN HER 26TH YEAR
"THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD"
ALSO HER HUSBAND ALAN EGERTON F/LT R.A.F. V.R.
MISSING PRESUMED KILLED MANNHEIM
SEP 6th 1943 AGED 32 YEARS
AND WAS INTERRED IN RHEINBERG CEMETERY



IN LOVING MEMORY OF
ESTHER
THE BELOVED WIFE OF
HENRY SNALAM
WHO DIED FEB 11TH 1832
AGED 62 YEARS
ALSO FRED THEIR SON
KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE
JUNE 16TH 1917 AGED 19 YEARS
"AT REST"
ALSO MARY SNALAM
DIED JAN 13TH 1937 AGED 24 YEARS
ALSO THE ABOVE HENRY SNALAM
WHO DIED NOV 7TH 1947 AGED 81 YEARS
(More details are available at the link above)


IN LOVING MEMORY OF~
WILLIAM BROWN ROWSON
WHO DIED JAN 1ST 1936
IN HIS 81ST YEAR
MARY KEZIA ROWSON
WHO DIED MAY 29TH 1922
IN HER 67TH YEAR
ALSO
2ND LIEUT STANLEY ROWSON
11TH LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS
ONLY SON OF THE ABOVE
KILLED IN THE GREAT WAR IN FRANCE
SEPT. 30TH 1916 (the date at the CWC is the 29th of Sept)
ALSO EMMA DAUGHTER OF
WILLIAM BROWN ROWSON
WIFE OF THE LATE HARRY JACKSON
WHO DIED FEB 3RD 1961
IN HER 79TH YEAR


IN LOVING MEMORY OF
WILLIAM MILLIGAN M.D.
DIED MARCH 27TH 1923
AGED 64 YEARS
ALSO DONALD S.E. MILLIGAN
11 R.C. C.S., L.R.C.P., LIEUT R.A.M.C.
SON OF THE ABOVE AND LAID TO REST IN YPRES
OCT 12TH 1917
"AS A WELL SPENT DAY BRINGS A HAPPY SLEEP
SO LIFE WELL USED BRINGS HAPPY DEATH"
(more info at the link)

SEE BELOW

SUB LIEUT.
DONALD MORRIS MULLER
R.N.V.R.
THE DEVOTED SON OF
PAUL AND ANN MULLER
MISSING PRESUMED KILLED
OCTOBER 18TH 1941
AGED 23 YEARS
"HE GAVE HIS LIFE FOR THOSE HE LOVED
AND THOSE HE LOVED REMEMBERED"
(more info at the link)

ALSO OF
JOHN EDWARD (Clark)
ONLY SON OF
JOHN SARGENT AND ADA MARY CLARK
KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE
SEPT 11 1918 AGED 19 YEARS

Below are the familiar white gravestones:

SECOND LIEUTENANT
J.C.MEYRICK
LOYAL NORTH LANCS REGIMENT
26TH JUNE 1917 AGED 19

FLYING OFFICER
F. BARLOW
ROYAL AIR FORCE
5TH OF APRIL 1944

JUNIOR COMMANDER
H. LEIGH (Eleanor)
AUX. TERRITORIAL SERVICE
1ST OF JUNE 1943 AGE 31

"TO LIVE IN HEARTS
WE LEAVE BEHIND
 IS NOT TO DIE"


213437 GUNNER
J. MYERS
ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY
25TH OF FEBRUARY 1917 AGE 36

P/7919 LANCE CPL
J. ANDERSON
MILITARY POLICE CORPS
4TH DECEMBER 1917 AGE 56

47337 PRIVATE
H.J. LAMB
K.O. SCOTTISH BORDERERS
30 APRIL 1920

13364 PRIVATE
E.MEDCALF
ROYAL LANCASHIRE REGIMENT
17TH OCTOBER 1920 AGE 21
As before I appear to have missed several servicemen's graves. Any of the links will take you back to St Cuthbert's graveyard. There you will find the missing graves. There is more information on many of the CWGC website. The memorials will also take you back to the CWGC website too. I have not done any searching anywhere else.

Sunday, 16 December 2012

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...

Saturday, 9 June 2012

St Cuthbert's Church Memorial

Just up the road from St Cuthbert's cross is a memorial in front of the church hall is a small cross dedicated to those who fell related to the church. For some reason it is quite insignificant. I have driven and cycled past quite a few times and not noticed it. I have added the dedication stones of the hall to this blogpage, they are dated in the early 1920's. The church hall has predated the memorial by only a few years. The names on this memorial are also on the memorial in Hastings place

UKNIWM REF: 42707


 IN GRATEFUL MEMORY
OF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR.
 1914 - 1918
 "FOR THEIR SAKES - I CONSECRATE MYSELF. 

H. W. ADAM
C.BELL
C.D. BROWN
B. BROTHERS
N.T.BRYCE-SMITH
W.BILSBOROUGH
E.BURROW
H.CASHMORE
R.CHALLONER
A.DAVIES
P.DAY
D. DUGDALE
R.EAVES
J.C.FAIR
R.FISHER

F.FOX
D.D.HAYES
R.HELM.
A.J.HEPBURN
C.B.HOLMES
W.HOLLAS
L.HOWARD
H.HOWARD
J.K.JACKSON
W.JAMES
R.JAMES
T.C.LEAVER
H.R.LEAVER
A.J. LEWIS
J.C.McLELLAN
R.MILLER

J.C.MEYRICK
D.S.MILLIGAN
E.H.MOULDEN
H.NICKSON
S.HEWSON
F.SNALAM
R.A.STRICKLAND
W.TOOTELL
G.O. THACKER
H.WANE
J. WARD
H.J.WILKINSON
E.C.WRIGLEY
H.G.DAWSON
J.DENTON

View from the front of the building. St Cuthbert's church is on the left.
Lytham and the "other" cross  is to the right.

THIS HALL
WAS DEDICATED BY
THE RIGHT REV E.A.KNOX D.D.
LORD BISHOP OF MANCHESTER
OCTOBER 29th 1920
JOHN SINKER VICAR

J.F.GRUNDY
W.PHILIPSON
CHURCHWARDENS

THIS STONE WAS LAID
BY
EDWARD WILLIAM MELLOR
ON OCTOBER 15th 1919
_________
THANKS BE TO GOD WHICH
GIVETH US THE VICTORY

St Cuthbert's church hall

St Cuthberts church