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Bacup Times, 3rd June 1939.

Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Ives.
Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Ives died at her home on Tuesday morning in her 66th year, having been in poor health for the past two years; she had suffered with heart trouble. She was formerly a well-known contralto vocalist and was at one time a member of the old Bacup Choral Society and the Bacup United Prize Choir. She was connected in her younger days with North Street Methodist Church. In addition to her husband, she is survived by a son, three daughters, four grandchildren and a sister, Miss Sarah Lord.

Bacup Times, 13th September 1952.

Octogenarian's Death, Mr. Thomas Edward Ives.
Eighty-six year old Mr.Thomas Edward Ives, of 26 Brunswick Terrace, Stacksteads, died at his home on Wednesday after a short illness. He was a retired slipper worker. A son, two daughters, a brother and a sister survive. The funeral takes place today at Bacup Cemetery.

(not very informative - no mention of grandchildren or gt.grandchild - the brother was James and the sister was Clara Ives who lived with her niece, Margaret Hannah Taylor, at Edgeside, Waterfoot).

Burial Registers

Bacup Cemetery Grave No: E347. General. (a public grave)
NameAgeInterred
William Ives50 years18.10.1884

Bacup Cemetery Grave No: A568. Consecrated ground.
NameAgeInterred
Harold Ives 10 months23.06.1900
Doris Ives 14 months18.04.1903
Clara Morris 76 years 15.11.1921
Elizabeth Ann Ives65 years 03.06.1939
Thomas Edward Ives86 years 13.09.1952

At the end of Feb., 2000, I went with Frank jnr., to Bacup cemetery and after a brief search we located the grave, now grassed over because the small headstone had been laid flat. However, we pulled sufficient of the turf to one side to enable a photograph to be taken.

Bacup Cemetery Grave No: E28. Consecrated ground.
NameAgeDied
James, son of James & Mary Jane Ives48 years01.12.1947
Mary Jane Ives 77 years24.11.1952
James Ives 89 years30.11.1964
Gladys Mary, daughter of James & Mary Jane Ives, wife of Alan Chattle67 years28.05.1976


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