Cheadle Edgeley Methodist Church

[poirot]

Hi, I hope this information is what you are looking for.

Buried together in grave F7 are:-

Isaac Linney 13/2/1879 aged 77

Elizabeth Linney 8/10/1857 aged 58

Rev Robert J T Hawksley 12/9/1881 aged 64

Maria Hawksley 15/5/1903 aged 73

Cheers

Poirot

[jennigal923]

Thank you Poirot

Perfect! THANK YOU - I wish that the headstones had been preserved  :O(  Would love to have that piece of history.

Regards
Jenni

[poirot]

Hi Jenni,

Glad to help.

Have you seen Isaac's will which is on Find my Past. He names his two daughter Mary Ann Leigh & Maria Hawksley.

poirot

[poirot]

Sorry I gave you the wrong info it is the Rev Hawksley's will that I looked at.

Poirot

[RobinRedBreast]

I have some news for you. Our Librarian has sent me the list of the people buried at the Chapel so if you let me know who you are interested in I will see if they have been recorded.

Regards,

Poirot

Hello there,

I have just come across this post.

One of my 5x great grandad's was Henry Henshaw (1773 - 1849).
Henry was buried at this Cemetery on the 3rd of May 1849. I believe Henry is buried in grave G62, and his wife Hannah (nee Woodall 1778 - 1857), was buried in the same grave on the 16th of March 1857.

Do you please know if anyone else was buried in grave G62?
I think their daughter Ann who died unmarried may have been buried there on the 2nd of December  1874, but I'm not certain.

Any information would be gratefully accepted.

Thank you very much. 

[Ray T]

A bit more info. On Ancestry you can see the original register under Non Conformist records and I have the CD's for The National Burial Index so he is definitely buried in Edgeley Weselyan Chapel graveyard.

But because he died in the poorhouse there is no stone.

poirot

Thanks for the info Poirot - sorry, I’m only 10 months late! - don’t know why I dropped out of the loop on this one ??!!

[poirot]

There are three Henshaw graves. B62 has Henry Henshaw d. 1/5/1849 aged76, Hannah d. 11/3/1857 aged 78, Emma d. 14/6/1846 aged 27, Mary Kinch d. 15/1/1850 aged 50 & Elizabeth Henshaw d. 17/12/1854 aged 43.

Next to it in B63 are Ann Henshaw d. 24/11/1874 aged 71 & Mary Ann Hamilton d. 1/6/1857 aged 24.

The 3rd grave is L46 and in it are Peter Henshaw d. 17/10/1861 aged 68, Ann d. 2/5/1840 aged 42, Samuel d. 17/10/1835 aged 9, John d. 28/2/1845 aged 9 & Harriet d. 20/3/1845 aged 13.

Looking at the size of the graveyard I would think that the stones are underneath the tarmac of the car park and I don't believe the remains were exhumed and reburied in Stockport Crematorium like I was told.

Not sure if I mentioned it in an earlier post but there was an article in a local Stockport paper reporting that human bones had been found during roadworks near Somerfields. I let the paper know that there had been a graveyard there.

My husband's great grandmother was Sarah Henshaw a daughter of Henry & Hannah.

I was lucky enough to have inherit a beautiful sampler sewn by Emma in 1830, the youngest daughter. It lists Henry & Hannah with their 10 children and their dates of birth. Absolutely brilliant.

Poirot

[RobinRedBreast]

There are three Henshaw graves. B62 has Henry Henshaw d. 1/5/1849 aged76, Hannah d. 11/3/1857 aged 78, Emma d. 14/6/1846 aged 27, Mary Kinch d. 15/1/1850 aged 50 & Elizabeth Henshaw d. 17/12/1854 aged 43.

Next to it in B63 are Ann Henshaw d. 24/11/1874 aged 71 & Mary Ann Hamilton d. 1/6/1857 aged 24.

The 3rd grave is L46 and in it are Peter Henshaw d. 17/10/1861 aged 68, Ann d. 2/5/1840 aged 42, Samuel d. 17/10/1835 aged 9, John d. 28/2/1845 aged 9 & Harriet d. 20/3/1845 aged 13.

Looking at the size of the graveyard I would think that the stones are underneath the tarmac of the car park and I don't believe the remains were exhumed and reburied in Stockport Crematorium like I was told.

Not sure if I mentioned it in an earlier post but there was an article in a local Stockport paper reporting that human bones had been found during roadworks near Somerfields. I let the paper know that there had been a graveyard there.

My husband's great grandmother was Sarah Henshaw a daughter of Henry & Hannah.

I was lucky enough to have inherit a beautiful sampler sewn by Emma in 1830, the youngest daughter. It lists Henry & Hannah with their 10 children and their dates of birth. Absolutely brilliant.

Poirot

Thank you very much for this.

So Henry and Hannah are buried in B62, and not G62?

I think I got the G62 reference from "N Cheshire Memorial Inscriptions" on Find My Past, but may have been mistaken.

You are very lucky to have inherited that sampler. 

My 4x great was William Henshaw, son of Henry. He was born on the 26th of October 1805, according to his baptism.
William is the only one of Henry's children I have an actual birth date for. 

Thank you very much. 

[poirot]

Oops sorry about that typing error. Yes definitely grave G62.

I have 216 people on my Henshaw tree going back to the 17 hundreds. I no longer post my trees as public due to incorrect information being added by other people who have no relation to my various lines.

I live a few minutes walk from Henry & Hannah's Heathbank House and what was their Smithy.
I met the present owners a few years ago and was invited in which was interesting. I have a copy of Henry's will.

Their son James, also a Blacksmith, had his Smithy attached to one of the cottages where I live.

The Smithy is no longer there but the anvil is still in one of the gardens. Originally four cottages but now two and still owned by descendants of James and his four children.

Your William & his brother Thomas had a business together in Stockport and as they were Blacksmiths & Wheelwrights they made tradesmen's vehicles in addition to their normal work.  You probably already know this.

There are a number of Henshaw graves in my local parish Church graveyard of All Saint's, Cheadle Hulme.

The graves in Stockport are in Christchurch and St Thomas's graveyards.

If you would like any other information I would be more than happy to share with you by message or email.