To: [email protected]
From: walter@[email protected] (walter)
Subject: Re: Hargreaves in Accrington
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 00:29:57
Cc: walter@[email protected]

In article  [email protected] (Lawrence Ernest Lyons) writes:
>Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 16:43:43 +1000
>From: [email protected] (Lawrence Ernest Lyons)
>Subject: Hargreaves in Accrington

>Greetings from Australia, Walter. I'm on the Hargreaves list and presumably 
>am the person James Green meant when he said Accrington appears on the list .
> My gggrandfather was Jonas Hargreaves and he died in Accrington15th May 
>1846.  He was buried in the Oak St Chapel  which was demolished in 1965
>(dry rot).  When it was demolished they found a crypt and in it was a lead 
>lined coffin with the name Jonas Hargreaves on it!  He was then interred 
>in the Accrington Cemetery.
>You can see some of this on the web at 
>http://www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/~nozjh/menu.html
>There is a mystery surrounding all this- Jonas was a retired Sergeant major 
>in the 82nd Foot Regiment and discharged due to being blinded by a bayonet 
>in 1825.  He went to live in Halifax, then in May 1845 went to live in 
>Accrington where he died one year later. I'm not aware of him having  
>relatives there so why up and go at 65?
> The mystery is why was a new comer to the town buried in such a way as to 
>be given the crypt? he was not wealthy.    I'm trying to find out if his 
>son, Charles H. who was later ordained as a Conregational ministe,had any 
>role in the Oak st. Chapel. This might explain the preferential burial 
>treatment. 
>When you say your Hs were mill owners, when was this?  There are mill 
>owners in our family but not in Accrington that I know.
>Does any of this tie in with your Accrington Hargreaves?  I'd be glad to 
>hear about them.    Alison   (Alison hargreaves Lyons )

Re the above info re Jonas Hargreaves, I've checked in the local studies 
Library & they have no knowledge of any lead lined coffins etc, when I get 
chance I will check burial records. Where does the above info come from, 
SOURCE PLEASE

 As to Hargreaves in Accrington, Broad Oak Print Works was taken 
over by Thomas Hargreaves circa 1812, he built the Oak Hill Mansion, and 
Gardens (now a public park) he also has a street named after him where I 
used to live, thou why this street I don't know, he owned the houses in 
Adelaide St, orignaly Swan St, one of his sons built Arden Hall and has a 
school named after him, the Benjamin  Hargreaves School in Plantation St, 
The other son resided at Broad Oak House. Thomas Owned several properties 
in Accrington, Woolhurst Bank Farm, Grange Farm, Antley Estate, & Several 
Cottages in Daisy Hill Accrington. I did have a letter some time back from 
some one in Australia re a Hargreaves who lost out on a venture in that 
Country.

Walter Holmes
Accrington
Lancs
England