Born in Greenside, Wortley, William Hall was the son of a surgeon, Matthew Hall. Following the death of his father died in 1848, he was apprenticed to Dr Radcliffe of…
Category: Grave Spotlight
Below is a list of Graves that have appeared in previous issues of our Newsletters.
Victor Hugo Watson 1878-1943
One Friday evening in 1935, at home in Horsforth, Victor Watson suggested to his son Norman that he should try out a new board game from the USA called Monopoly.…
Charles Barker Howdill 1863-1941
The first child ever cremated at Lawnswood was Dorothy Howdill who died of scarlet fever in 1905: she was the daughter of local architect and photographer Charles B. Howdill and…
Cedric Arnold Wilkinson 1897 – 1918
The Greatest Raid! Cedric Arnold Wilkinson was born in Leeds in 1897. His father was a travelling salesman and the family lived in Abyssinia Terrace which was situated just off…
James Graham 1869 – 1931
James Graham is buried in Lawnswood Cemetery far from his birthplace in Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire. His parents were agricultural labourers and he was orphaned at the age of six. Graham was…
Tom Mann 1856 – 1941
Tom Mann was born on 15 April 1856 in Grange Road, Longford, now a suburb of Coventry, the son of a clerk who worked at a colliery. He attended school from the ages of six to nine, then began work doing odd jobs on the colliery farm. A year later he became a trapper, a labour-intensive job that involved clearing blockages from the narrow airways in the mining shafts.
John Frederick Bradley 1881- 1944
My grandfather John Frederick Bradley was born in 1881 at West Darby, Liverpool, the first child of John and Elizabeth Bradley. His brother George was born in 1884. Their mother…
Sir William Richard Gowers (1845-1915)
Sir William Richard Gowers was born in Hackney, London on March 20, 1845
William Whitfield 1829-1907
The Gravestone above is my family memorial for my Grandfather, Great Grandfather, Great, Great Grandfather and Great Great Grandmother. This stands in Section C Row 16, 50 yards directly behind…
Joseph Clark 1856-1939
This impressive black polished granite monument commemorates Joseph Clark and various family members, at least eight of whom are interred and others have their ashes buried here. The monument…