Hello Gillian
There is a gravestone for John Hazlett, Portrait Painter, who died May 9th 1837 aged 70 years, in St. Mary's parish church in the Market Place, Stockport. He is buried along with a family named Etchells.
Edward Etchells d.11-12-1794 46
Edward (son) d.4-6-1791 10 mths
William (son) d.2-5-1804 15
Robert Etchells d.23-3-1845 59
Mary (wife of Robert) d.15-9-1861 74
Caroline (dr.of Rbt & Mary) d.31-8-1837 9
Gideon Burton (son in law of Rbt & Mary) d. 29-1-1854 37
John Hazlett Portrait Painter d.9-5-1837 70
Edward Etchells was a Chapman. Gideon Burton was a Draper, Oldham Street, Manchester.
John Hazlett has no entry in St. Mary's parish records.
I am a local historian in Stockport and have transcribed the gravestones and allocated numbers to them and I often wondered who he was and how he ended up in Stockport.
Could you let me know anything about him. I am undertaking a second booklet of interesting gravestones and this one was on the list.