Stories From The Churchyard | St. Wilfrid’s Church, Melling

Описание: When a work commission took me to St. Wilfrid’s Church, in the village of Melling, near Lancaster, in spring 2023, I couldn’t resist lingering in the churchyard for a little longer, to see whether any of the gravestones would reveal clues about the people whose lives they remembered.



That was how I learnt that St. Wilfrid’s is the last resting place of a woman named Lettice, a man who spent twenty seven years as a widower, a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire whose daughter died in India, a farmer whose second wife was young enough to be his own daughter, and the schoolmaster who served as the local census enumerator in 1881.


To draw things to a conclusion, this edition of Stories From The Churchyard ends with a handful of extracts from the burial register at St. Wilfrid’s that really make you wonder . . .




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RESOURCES USED TO PREPARE THIS VIDEO


https://www.riponcathedral.org.uk/st-... [accessed 17 May 2023]


'The parish of Melling', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 8, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1914), pp. 186-191. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/... [accessed 26 April 2023]




Sourced via www.thegenealogist.co.uk (subscription required):


1851 census for Wrayton, Melling with Wrayton, Lancashire
1851 census for Ingleton Hall, Ingleton, Yorkshire
1861 census for Wray House, Wray with Botton, Lancashire
1871 census for Egremont, St. Helens, Isle of Wight
1881 census for Albion Hotel, Plymouth, Devonshire
Overseas Marriage for Edith Jane Marshall, station - Bareilly, year - 1892, page 132




Sourced via www.familysearch.org (free to use; log-in required):


Marriage registers for St. Helen’s Church, Overton
Marriage registers relating to Thomas Webster and Elizabeth Burrow.
England, Lancashire, Marriage Bonds and Allegations, 1746-1799 (relating to Robert Burrow and Elizabeth Guy)




Sourced via the Lancashire Online Parish Clerks website www.lan-opc.org.uk :


Transcribed baptism, marriage and burial registers for St. Wilfrid’s Church, Melling




For birth and death registration indexes relating to the Marshall Family (free to access, but a log-in and password must be created to search the records):
https://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/ce...




For the date of Easter in 1871:
https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/... [accessed 28 May 2023]


For the date of the 1871 Census:
https://www.1911census.org.uk/1871 [accessed 28 May 2023]




From the British Newspaper Archives (subscription required):


Westmorland Gazette (12 January 1856, pg. 5)
Lancaster Gazette (1 March 1856, pg.5)
Lancaster Guardian (21 November 1857, pg.5)
Liverpool Albion (23 November 1857, pg.6)
Blackburn Standard (25 November 1857, pg.3)
Montrose Review (Scottish paper, 27 November 1857, pg.8)
Staffordshire Advertiser (28 November 1857, pg.3)
Kendal Mercury (13 August 1859, pg.5)
Lancaster Guardian (18 August 1860, pg.5)
Lancaster Gazette (17 September 1881, pg.5)
Yorkshire Evening Post (21 September 1892, pg.2)