Oxford Street Rock Pub Manchester

[annafabulous]

I'll credit it if that's okay, it's easier that way. Thank you!

[Mr. MIGKY]

Migky where did you find this evidence?

A little bit about one of the early landlords

Dayffd (David) Lewis and his wife Annie Elizabeth Lewis are buried together in Southern cemetery.
Church of England section. Grave number H 1830.
If you start a new post on the look ups section, asking if any one is willing to see if there is a headstone and photograph it for you, i am sure you will get some kind soul who will do anything for a freebie pint
Dafydd died  age 71
buried 20th Feb 1926

His wife Annie Elizabeth Lewis in the same grave died ages 79 and was buried on 24th March 1949.

Migky 

I'm working on a wikipedia page right now

You can verify that information from Manchester burial web site  or you can go to greater Manchester county records and also at the library once it opens again.


Migky

[annafabulous]

I'm looking on Manchester City Council burial records database & not finding anything there?

[annafabulous]

I'm just asking because we're going to the Southern Cemetery tomorrow to find the graves of 80 Oxford Street residents to see if we can find any more clues, so trying to make a list of those graves we need to visit

[annafabulous]

Been researching tonight. On the St Peters marriages site I found a James Cullen married a Mary Wrigley in 1872. The Manchester's burial search page shows there is a James and Mary Cullen buried together, next to a Harriet Wrigley (I assume she's a relative) in Southern Cemetery. I'm going to find them, the Bostocks and the Lewis' tomorrow.

Will post pics as follows. Can you put photos of graves on here? Might take a snap of me as a detective with my notepad, big camera and torch. 

[Barbara.H]

You've caught the grave hunting bug all right! 

look forward to the pics - there is a minimum 500kb size requirement, a reminder will pop up when you hit the 'attach photo' option.

Best of luck
  Barbara

[annafabulous]

Here are my photos from today!

http://s557.photobucket.com/albums/ss13/annafabulousxo/Southern%20Cemetery/

There is the Bostock grave and the Cullen grave among those. The Cullens were buried with a Roland Cullen...

'Royal Welsh Fusilier, who gave his life for his country in Flanders. July 29th 1917 aged 31years.'

I'm gonna see if I can find out more about him online, there's gotta be records of him in some army records somewhere.

It was a super cool day. I went with my boyfriend and my best friend. Finding the graves was so exciting. I felt like a real detective 

[Barbara.H]

Brilliant Anna! 

I'm sure Migky will be able to help find something out about Roland Cullen. Start here, at the War Graves search site:
http://www.cwgc.org/debt_of_honour.asp?menuid=14

Looks like he was buried abroad and the gravestone at Southern is in memory of him.

A million years ago I was an art student at the Poly (as it used to be), & we went drawing the memorials at Southern Cemetery; that was ages before I got into family history  . I'm sure I did a woodcut of one of those angels.

[Mr. MIGKY]

Here is Roland's CWGC grave.

Click for Roland's grave


Migky