Rowlands Graveyard

Rowlands Graveyard

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ROWLAND'S CEMETERY, SUMMERSEAT.

There are two graveyards at Rowland's Methodist Church in Summerseat.

Unfortunately the old bottom graveyard is officially closed, and it has not been possible to enter this graveyard for many years now, due to the overgrown condition.

Please visit the Rowland's Old Graveyard page where you can now view 94 photos the headstones in the old graveyard section at Rowland's. I have also transcribed and added the monumental inscriptions for these graves.

The top graveyard is kept in good order, and here I have placed photos of 170 graves, together with the full monumental inscriptions from the headstones that are in the top graveyard.

There are a few graves that are unmarked, so this collection may not contain a list of all the people that are buried in Rowland's Top Graveyard.

Due to the number of photos, I have placed these on three pages, and have tried to place them in alphabetical order,

although some of the graves do show other people with different surnames, so I suggest that you view them all if you

are specifically looking for a name.

Please be patient for these pages to open, as they are fairly large files, with many photos.

All the images are watermarked, so please contact me should you require a high quality copy of one of the photos listed,

not forgetting to give me the Photo ID Number, which can be seen under each photo.

I have placed here a few photos of the The ornately decorated tomb of John Robinson Kay, together with photos of the War Memorial and also photos of the 12 Memorial Stones in the Memorial Gardens, the other 170 grave headstones together with the full monumental inscriptions, are on the following three pages.

[ Rowland's Graveyard Part 1 ] – [ Rowland's Graveyard Part 2 ] – [ Rowland's Graveyard Part 3 ]

You can click on the images below, and they will open up in a new window.

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The Tomb Of John Robinson Kay

The following is written around the top edge of the tomb.

To The Memory Of John Robinson Kay Esquire Of Walmersley House Summerseat Eldest Son Of Thomas Kay Esquire Of Keighley Green

Burnley – Born July 20 1805 Died March 26 1872. This Monument Is Erected By His Sorrowing Widow As A Lasting Memorial Of Her Departed Husband.

This shows the inscriptions that can be seen in the two panels.

To The Glory Of God

And In Loving Remembrance Of

John Robinson Kay

Fortitude In Difficulty Justice

In Principle And Humility In

Prosperity Characterized His

Life While The Earnestness Of

His Career In The World And In

The Church Exemplified The Purity

Of His Faith The Certainty Of His

Hope And The Ardour Of His Love

In Christo

Mary

Wife Of John Robinson Kay

And Daughter Of Richard Hamer Esquire

Of Bury Lancashire

Born May 12 1802. Died January 11 1883

In Hope Of A Blessed Resurrection

A Most Tender And Loving Wife And Mother Wise And

Faithful In Counsel A True Servant Of The Church

She Sympathized With The Afflicted And Bountifully

Distributed To The Poor Excelling In Every Good

Word And Work She Heartily Embraced The Faith Of A

Crucified Jesus Laying Hold Of Him As Her Only Saviour

He That Followeth Me Shall Not Walk In Darkness

But Shall Have The Light Of Life. JOHN VIII 12.

All Things Come Of Thee And Of Thine Own Have

We Given Thee. LGHRON XXIX 14

The War Memorial

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Honoured Memory

The men Connected With This

Church And School, Who Fell

In The Great War 1914-1919

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Christopher Berry

Ernest Berry

Edward Brennand

Ralph Bucill

Anthony Mellowdew Eastwood

Harry Eastwood

Howarth Greenwood

Fred Hardman

George harry haslam

Edwin Haworth

Joseph Haley

Charles William Heffer

William Heyes

Ernest Hickling

James William Holden

Fred Holgate

Herbert Hopkinson

James Howarth

Frank Hudson

James Hutton

John Brierley Hutton

Fergus Milton Kay

James Edward Kershaw

Samuel Kershaw

Ernest Marshall

Herbert Marshall

Joseph Temple Milburn

Charles Murfitt

Jack Oversby

John Sidney Smith

William Tattersall

Harry O’Connell

“We Have A Voice, With Which To Pay The Debt,

Of Boundless Love And Reverence And Regret,

To Those Great Men Who Fought, And Kept It Ours”

Tennyson

Erected By The Congregation, Scholars And Friends.

This Memorial Is Dedicated To The People

From Summerseat Who Died In The Service

Of Their Country

1939 – 1945

SGT. Herbert Cook R.A.F.

GNR. Clifford Green R.A.

AB/S. Barnes Howarth R.N.

GNR. Robert Mansfield R.A.

GNR. Thomas McDonald R.A.

TPR. William P. Sanders R.A.S.C.

We Will Remember Them

A Nation That Forgets Its Past Has No Future.

The Memorial Garden

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Norman Butterfield

1928 – 2008

Sybil Butterfield

1931 – 2008

Together In Life

Together Forever

In Loving Memory

Jack Coupe

1920 – 1993

And His Wife

Doreen Coupe

1924 – 2005

Treasured Memories Of

Joan Wesley Crossley

Died 1.11.2007

Aged 80 Years

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Treasured Memories Of

John R. Downing

16^th Oct 1943 – 31 Aug 2007

Our Love Forever

In Loving Memory Of

Kenneth Ernill

1908 – 1986

Also His Loving Wife

Betsy Alice Ernill

(Nee Blackburn)

1915 – 2005

In Memory Of

Muriel Hargreaves

1918 – 2007

And Her Parents

James Henry

Bertha Hargreaves

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In Loving Memory of

John Eric Hing

1920 – 2002

Also His Loving Wife

Doris Hing

(Nee Rothwell)

1921 – 2005

At Rest

Peter Jackson

1941 – 1998

In Loving Memory Of

Brothers

Albert Marshall

Died 28.12.2001

Aged 72 Years

James Marshall

Died 30.4.2009

Aged 81 Years

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In Loving Memory

Kim Louise

Munir

1969 – 2008

In Loving Memory

Emma Tyson

1913 – 2009

Alice

Wildblood

1927 – 2009

At Peace

Now please follow the links below to view the complete gallery of photos which shows the Headstones, together with Monumental Inscriptions, from the 170 graves that are located in the Top graveyard of Rowland's Methodist Church.

[ Rowland's Graveyard Part 1 ] – [ Rowland's Graveyard Part 2 ] – [ Rowland's Graveyard Part 3 ]

[ Rowland's Old Graveyard ]

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