Rochdale Cemetery request

[tony h]

Good morning Gill, I hope you are all keeping your feet dry, I've been watching the flood warnings rolling in again

Hello Julie,
I have an outstanding looK up in Rochdale Library on my to do list so feel free to shout If i can help.

Best wishes
Tony

[Dale]

Gidday you lot!
30+ degrees in my neck of woods but about to be hit by a tropical cyclone so have  had to move the outdoor furniture and roll up the sun umbrella!

There's Butterworths, Hursts and Cleggs Down Under and I have friends or family with each of those names!

How's the internet Maori lessons Tony? Kei te pai??
Arohanui
Marlene

[Gillg]

'Ow do, lads and lasses (Rochdale-speak, since I can't manage Maori)

Feet dry so far, thanks, Tony.  It's nowhere near as bad as the summer floods, though I do know people who are still living in caravans because they cannot get back into their homes yet.  Poor things, living in such cramped conditions with the knowledge that their homes have probably become unsaleable has also had a disastrous effect on family relationships, I believe.  Highways authorities were very busy last week clearing out culverts and ditches (about time, too!), and my husband was forced to take an alternative route home one day, crossing the Severn via the new bridge at Chepstow (road signs in English and Welsh) rather than driving along the river bank up to Gloucester.

Marlene, you're just trying to make us jealous with your 30+ degrees.  Make sure you get the cat in safely as well as the garden furniture, won't you?

Regards to all Butterworths, Hursts and Cleggs here in the UK and in NZ. 

Gill

[tony h]

Kei te harikoa ahau, Marlene, tēna rawa atu koe.

Reet gradely, Gill, thank you

 
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[Gillg]

By gum, lad, tha's a clever clogs!

Tarra!

Gill.

[emmsthheight]

Hi Gillian, Tony and all!

I've just had a great time reading this whole saga.  Fancy meeting up again in Rochdale,, Gillian!  Mainly though just to reiterate what people have said, I've always been astounded by the service above and beyond expectations given by Rochdale Local Studies, Bury Library and Heywood Library and also |Rochdale Cemetery regarding their own and Heywood records.

I contacted the cemetery, really on in my research, before they were so inundated, just to see whatthe set up was for lookups.

They asked mne to give them a name, and I didn't even have dates on me, but they got back in no time with two graves, one of which had three generations of grandparents - g, gg, and ggg and a child I wasn't aware of.  The other and one they guessed was a family grave, gave me details that found a good few marriages, and other info.

I will look through all my grave papers and see if there are any links.

By the way, I've not forgotten the Cumbrians, but I've not managed to get recently.

Thanks for the great read.

Emms

[Dale]

Rascal acknowledges your concern and makes it perfectly clear that her grey tabby fur coat is far too hot for the conditions. She is thus content to lie in the ever diminishing puddles left by the sprinkler at about 9pm each night, knowing that I am in the nearest room  about that time, frantically chasing peripatetic Fairys  all over the globe!

Tony thanks for the Maori- you are a gem! Pity that Betty Windsor's family has decided not to attend Sir Edmund Hillary's funeral tomorrow - note that 100 years from now it will probably be cited as a turning point for Republicanism in Aotearoa.

Tena koe Emma! Greetings from the home of the All Blacks!

Ka kite
Marlene

[Gillg]

Hi Emms

Glad you enjoyed the read.  Now you're taking me back to my childhood, when being called Gillian meant I was in trouble with my Mum  . 

Regards,

Gill

[tony h]

Hi Gill GILLIAN, WHERE ARE YOU, YOUR TEA HAS BEEN ON THE TABLE FOR TEN MINUTES 

Marlene, it is an eternal shame none of Betty's brood were there for Edmund's funeral, when he was so 'present' at her Coronation. He was my childhood hero
Arohanui

Tony