RootsChat.Com

Thank you for the reply Tom. Most of my Spink family were from Middleton/Hunslet area OF Leeds. We have a few family graves in the Woodhouse Hill cemetery of which I have found them all. In Holy Trinity lie the earlier Spink members of which is John Spink b 1796 d 1870 - his first wife Hannah Spink (nee Holmes) and his second wife Elizabeth Spink d 1870. Woodhouse Hill cemetery was opened in the 1840s and thats where I hoped they would be dying in 1870 which told me there was probably a family grave in Holy Trinity. The first place I started to look at Holy Trinity was by the vault of John Blenkinsop near to the church entrance and I stood on a piece of broken gravestone for George and Elizabeth Spink but I couldnt find the rest of the gravestone - it was probably dragged there from another part of the graveyard. Thats the nearest I have come to finding any Spink names in there and by the microfiche records there is quite a lot. I`ve been told quite a few people had started doing recordings of graves here in the past and hoped that just one might appear on a site like this. Fingers are always crossed. Brian.

Thanks cjl - I shall try that.
Lizzie - somebody probably has the Rothwell Holy Trinity graveyard map up on their wall as a poster. The more I delve into this churches past the more funny goings on I uncover. Local heresay has it that early photographs of the church show lots of box type tombs at the front of the church - these all vanished and the front landscaped with all the stones and occupants carted off to landfill - so much for consecration! If you cant see it - it aint ever been there! and they were burying here from the 1500s to the end of the 1900s.

DOES ANYBODY HAVE LINKS WITH THE SPINK FAMILY FROM HUNSLET. THE DIRECT LINE IS - JOHN SPINK B 1796 - JAMES SPINK B 1820 - WILLIAM SPINK B 1851 - JAMES SPINK B 1881 - THOMAS WILLIAM SPINK B 1900 

Moderator Comment: title edited to remove excess capital letters.
See Topic: >>----- Guidelines for Postings / Netiquette -----<< , Reply #2 for explanation.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,123033.0.html

Moderator Comment:
Edited in accordance with RootsChat policy of not publishing details of living people here, or details of people who may still be living. This is to protect all concerned from spam, identity abuse, internet abuse, etc, etc.
Please use the Personal Message (PM) system for exchanging personal data.