Updated - March, 2008

Rowlands Old Graveyard

 

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The Old Graveyard At ROWLANDS.

 

   

       

Rowlands Old Graveyard

Photo taken 1960's / 70's

 

Plan of Rowlands Old Lower Graveyard

Many Thanks to James Tattersall

for allowing me to place this on the Summerseat Site.

 

Rowlands Old Graveyard

photo taken 2007

 

 

This page is about the old graveyard at Rowland's Methodist Church in Summerseat.

Unfortunately this graveyard is officially closed, and it has not been possible to enter this graveyard for many years now, this is due to the ground and also some of the large headstones being very unstable,

and also as can be seen in the above photo, it is really overgrown to the extent that it is not possible to enter. I did try for over two years to get something done, so as we may once more visit the final resting places of our dear family ancestors to pay our respects. I was in contact with the Methodist Church Council regarding having the old graveyard renovated, but all to no avail.

NOTICE

I have been in contact recently with somebody else who has an interest in the old lower graveyard at Rowlands Methodist Church, Summerseat, Lancashire, and he has setup a "Friends of Rowlands Lower Graveyard, Summerseat, Lancashire" email group which you can join by sending an email to:

rowlands-subscribe@topica.com 

If you have an interest in the old lower graveyard at Rowlands, then I would ask that you join this group, more information will be posted on this site shortly.

I have great pleasure in being able to list many photos, which have been sent to me by someone who has really gone out of their way to assist many of us that are researching our ancestors from Summerseat, as we are now able to see many of the headstones that are in the old graveyard, I have placed 30 grave photos in each of the galleries. I do really hope that you find these great photos of interest, and I am sure that you are as grateful as I am to the wonderful thoughts of the person who has taken the time to sort these out for me to show on this web site. This is not a full list of the graves, as unfortunately, some of the headstones have fallen over, and the inscriptions are face down, and so it is not possible to collect a full photo history of the old graveyard.

There are now 95 graves listed in the Headstone Photo Galleries.

 

Headstone Gallery 1 ] Headstone Gallery 2 ] Headstone Gallery 3 ]

 

 

 England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983

Bury Parish, Lancashire

Here is a great site to visit with plenty of  information. 

The aim is to provide information that may be useful to folks researching their ancestors from the Bury area.

Well worth a visit.

Cemeteries of England

Found this site very good, lists cemeteries around England, and many of them have Transcriptions listed.

From the Home page you can navigate to many listings around the world.

 

 

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