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Title: List of unsafe Gravestones at St John's Church Graveyard, Sandbach Heath.
Post by: sem73 on Wednesday 24 January 07 20:25 GMT (UK)

Hi All

Are these you ancestors??......in my local paper today.....

Charles Thornhill 1840-1917
Emma Thornhill 1837-1893
Thomas Hollinshead Thornhill 1873-1874
Eliza Jane Crewe 1873-1900
Joseph Crewe 1873-1909
Edith Gladys Crewe 1896-1918
Ruby Elizabeth Crewe 1904-1932
Harriet Lakin 1831-1899
Ann Bracegirdle 1836-1901

"Descendants of the above named or anybody with information about the families concerned should contact either of the Churchwardens, David Carr (01270 766035) or Liz Garner (01477 500562) by the 28th February"

Sarah :)

Title: Re: List of unsafe Gravestones at St John's Church Graveyard, Sandbach Heath.
Post by: JDGen on Thursday 25 January 07 08:24 GMT (UK)

Thanks for that Sarah, I'm connected to the Thornhills in your post.

Jean

Title: Re: List of unsafe Gravestones at St John's Church Graveyard, Sandbach Heath.
Post by: Pepsi62 on Thursday 05 April 07 19:44 BST (UK)

Thanks Sarah,

I am also connected to these Thornhills but I have only just seen your post and it is now well past the deadline date - did anything happen ?

Peter

Title: Re: List of unsafe Gravestones at St John's Church Graveyard, Sandbach Heath.
Post by: Gene Hunter on Sunday 18 January 09 19:28 GMT (UK)

I'm also connected to this family via Emma Thornhill, nee Holllinshead.  Charles and Emma also had a daughter, Gertrude Emma Thornhill 1878 - 1919.  Gertrude married Horace Drinkwater at St. John's in 1905.

Title: Re: List of unsafe Gravestones at St John's Church Graveyard, Sandbach Heath.
Post by: Pepsi62 on Monday 19 January 09 15:47 GMT (UK)

Hi Gene,
I am descended from Emma's brother Charles who is my g-g-grandfather.
I have the Hollinsheads back 3 generations from their father Peter, but some of the dates are a bit vague.
My Hollinsheads also married into the same family of Thornhills a couple of levels down and I have quite a few generations back on these also.

Peter

Title: Re: List of unsafe Gravestones at St John's Church Graveyard, Sandbach Heath.
Post by: JDGen on Monday 19 January 09 18:29 GMT (UK)

Hi,

Peter - we are already in touch on our lines

Gene Hunter - I'm connected through the THORNHILL/BIRCHALL line.

Charles THORNHILL married Emma HOLLINSHEAD
Parents of Charles: Thomas THORNHILL and Jane BIRCHALL
Parents of Jane: Charles BIRCHALL and Sarah Massey
Parents of Charles: Samuel BIRCHALL and Mary PERRIN

Jean

Title: Re: List of unsafe Gravestones at St John's Church Graveyard, Sandbach Heath.
Post by: Gene Hunter on Monday 19 January 09 23:14 GMT (UK)

Hi Pepsi,

Back from Charles you have:
Peter      1797 - 1861
Thomas  1754 - 1840
Joseph    1721 -
John        1693 - 1721
George    c.1665 - 1698
John        1640 -
Unknown

Unfortunately On John 1640 baptism it just says John son of Hollinshead and wife Margaret. at Gnosall, Staffordshire so that is as far as I've gone.

Gene

Title: Re: List of unsafe Gravestones at St John's Church Graveyard, Sandbach Heath.
Post by: Pepsi62 on Thursday 29 January 09 19:09 GMT (UK)

Hi Gene,
The ancestors I have are not quite the same as yours. this is what I have:

Back from Charles Thornhill:
Thomas, 1797 > 1871, m. Jane Birchall
Daniel, 1759 > 1833, m. Hannah Lunt
Daniel, 1717 > 1795, m. Martha Harding
Daniel, no more info.

Back from Emma Hollinshead:
Peter, 1797 > 1861, m. Elizabeth (Betty) Beech
Thomas, 1754 > 1840, m. Ann
John, 1719 > ?, m. Margaret
John, no dates, m. Elizabeth.

Peter

Title: Re: List of unsafe Gravestones at St John's Church Graveyard, Sandbach Heath.
Post by: Gene Hunter on Friday 30 January 09 13:09 GMT (UK)

Hello Peter,

Joseph bap. 21 Dec 1721 Lilleshall married Ann Moreton bap. 28 Jan 1721 St. Mary, Stafford on 20 Jul 1742 at Bradley by Stafford.  Their son Thomas was baptised 31 Mar 1754 at Penkridge, Staffordshire.  Thomas first married Elizabeth Scott bap. 06 Jun 1756, Tamworth, Staffordshire, married 27 Dec 1776 Adbaston, Staffordshire, he then married Ann Mulliner, bap. 20 Jul 1760 Middlewich, Cheshire married 21 Apr 1783, St. Mary, Sandbach.

Stephen

Title: Re: List of unsafe Gravestones at St John's Church Graveyard, Sandbach Heath.
Post by: Pepsi62 on Saturday 31 January 09 20:21 GMT (UK)

Hi Gene,
Thanks for that info - it has given me some more to go on.

I have Thomas with both his marriages but I did not have his father as Joseph - although there is a reference to Lilleshall.
I will have to go back and recheck my tree.

Peter

Title: Re: List of unsafe Gravestones at St John's Church Graveyard, Sandbach Heath.
Post by: Gene Hunter on Sunday 01 February 09 02:42 GMT (UK)

Hi Peter,

John 1719 married Margaret Unknown they had three children Thomas 1758-1762, Joseph 1761-1761 and William 1763 all at Lilleshall.

Stephen

Title: Re: List of unsafe Gravestones at St John's Church Graveyard, Sandbach Heath.
Post by: Pepsi62 on Tuesday 03 February 09 21:29 GMT (UK)

Hi Stephen,
Now I am a bit more confused.

I have Thomas 1754 with both his marriages, and I have John 1719 with 3 children Thomas 1754, Joseph 1761 and William 1763.

Which means I have Thomas 1754 as the son of John 1719 who is married to Margaret.

But you have Thomas 1754 as the son of Joseph 1721 - I do not have this Joseph - how does he fit in with John 1719 ?

Peter

Title: Re: List of unsafe Gravestones at St John's Church Graveyard, Sandbach Heath.
Post by: Gene Hunter on Wednesday 04 February 09 00:37 GMT (UK)

Hi Peter,

John and Margarets' son Thomas was born 1758 and died 1762, it's on the IGI.

Stephen

Title: Hollinshead
Post by: history62 on Tuesday 25 January 11 00:36 GMT (UK)

Peter, do you have a Catharine Hollinshead? She married George Lunt in 1856 in Staffordshire. I think both of their families were from the Barthomley area of Cheshire.

Quote from: Pepsi62 on Thursday 29 January 09 19:09 GMT (UK)

Hi Gene,
The ancestors I have are not quite the same as yours. this is what I have:

Back from Charles Thornhill:
Thomas, 1797 > 1871, m. Jane Birchall
Daniel, 1759 > 1833, m. Hannah Lunt
Daniel, 1717 > 1795, m. Martha Harding
Daniel, no more info.

Back from Emma Hollinshead:
Peter, 1797 > 1861, m. Elizabeth (Betty) Beech
Thomas, 1754 > 1840, m. Ann
John, 1719 > ?, m. Margaret
John, no dates, m. Elizabeth.

Peter

Title: Re: List of unsafe Gravestones at St John's Church Graveyard, Sandbach Heath.
Post by: Pepsi62 on Friday 28 January 11 21:29 GMT (UK)

Hi History62,
I don't have a Catharine Hollinshead who married a George Lunt on my tree at present. However I am updating my tree at the moment with new info from Barthomley and Audley in Staffs and if I come across her I will let you know.

Regards
Peter