Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Foldout

Saint John the Baptist, Coley : Graveyard


There are burials in the churchyard around the Church of St John the Baptist, Coley.

In 18??, the burial were extended to ground beyond the east end of the Church.

The Cemetery which stands in Coley Road, opposite the Church, dates from 1842.

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


Grace Akroyd

John Baines
Samuel Baines
Edward Brodley
Tom Bulman
John Burnley

John Cockshott
Thomas John Constantine
Frederick Crowther

Rev Thomas Dickenson

George Herbert Elsworth

Daniel Fletcher
James Freeman

Isaac Haley
Rev William Hammerton
Isaac Hemingway
Frank Arthur Hirst
Grace Holroyd
Rev Richard Hudson

John William Ingham
Wright Ingham

Eugene Alexander Watkin Jackson
Harry Percy Jackson
John Theodore Jackson
Angus Jagger

Thomas Lee
Amon Longbottom

Thomas Bottomley Mallinson
Whiteley Mitchell
James Hollings Murgatroyd
John Blackburn Murgatroyd

Jubal Northend

William Oates

Arnold Thomas Pickles
Ezra Pinder
Samuel Pinder
Daniel Johann David Pohlmann

Jasper Rushforth
William Rushworth

Samuel Schorfield
William Sharp
Rev Nathan Sharpe
James Henry Shuttleworth
Robert John Shuttleworth
Alice Dora Speak
Joseph Standeven
Ely Stansfield
Joshua Stansfield
Fred Stobart
Bentley Stocks
Michael Stocks
Michael Stocks
Abraham Garside Sunderland
James Richard Sunderland
John Sunderland
John Sunderland
John Sunderland
Joseph Sunderland
Dr Joseph Sunderland
Joseph Samuel Sunderland
Martha Sunderland
Mary Ann Sunderland
Sarah Sunderland
Thomas Sunderland
Thomas James Sunderland
Henry Sutcliffe

Rylatt Wakefield
George Watkinson
Gilbert Wells
Isaac Wheatley
John Hemingway Woodhead
Michael Woodhead
Peter Woodhead
Robert Woodhead
William Woodhead 

 

A monument to Samuel Baines was erected in the churchyard in 18?? by his sister, Sophie, in testimony of his worth and her sisterly love.

A book containing transcriptions of Monumental Inscriptions of the graves and of the memorials inside the Church can be consulted by arrangement with the Churchwardens





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Revised 11:19 on 23rd December 2017 / ww_47 / 12