Family History Society of Cheshire - Brooklands Cemetery (Old Part)

in Cheshire

Folder Brooklands Cemetery (Old Part)

Documents

Select	Toggle	Title	Date
Select an item		Image Plot K618-19 John Brogden (1798-1869) a cleansing, building and railway contractor and an iron and coal master. Contractor for Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway (Altrincham Branch). Lived at Raglan House, Sale. ( jpg, 171 KB ) (1006 downloads) Popular	05 Jan 2019
Select an item		Image Plot B208-9 James Prescott Joule (1818-1889) famous physicist, mathematician, and brewer born in Salford. The "772.55" on the gravestone is a reference to his discovery -Wherever mechanical force is expended an exact equivalent of heat is always obtained. ( jpg, 233 KB ) (1615 downloads) Popular	05 Jan 2019
Select an item		Image Plot M582-3 Edward "Ned" Hulton (1838-1904) newspaper proprietor in Victorian Manchester. ( jpg, 212 KB ) (1115 downloads) Popular	05 Jan 2019
Select an item		Image Plot D2244 John Benjamin Dancer (1812-1887) Manchester instrument maker who supplied much of the equipment for Joule's early experiments. Scientist and recognised as the founder of microphotography. ( jpg, 215 KB ) (1096 downloads) Popular	05 Jan 2019
Select an item		Image Plot G1106 Richard Marsden Pankhurst (1834-1898) radical lawyer husband of Emmeline and father of Christabel, Sylvia and Adela of the Manchester Suffragette family. ( jpg, 217 KB ) (1447 downloads) Popular	05 Jan 2019
Select an item		Image Plot A144-145 Alfred Knowles (died 1880) a master cotton spinner. He moved to Northenden Rd, Sale in 1869. Earlier he had shared a house in Chorlton-on-Medlock with Friedrich Engles. ( jpg, 223 KB ) (1161 downloads) Popular	05 Jan 2019
Select an item		Image Brooklands Cemetery layout is fully described in the CD "Memorial Inscriptions of Brooklands (Old Part)" obtainable from D Johnson, 91 Streford House, Chapel Lane, Stretford, Manchester M32 9AY. ( jpg, 109 KB ) (1304 downloads) Popular	04 Jan 2019
Select an item		Image Brooklands Cemetery Old Part viewed from Marsland Rd. This public cemetery was opened in 1862 on land purchased by Sale Township. Previously, people from Sale and Ashton had been buried in church cemeteries at St Martin's and at St Mary's, Bowdon. ( jpg, 229 KB ) (1237 downloads) Popular	04 Jan 2019