Swinton Unitarian Church Yard Burial Ground, Swinton Manchester Help Needed

[suememmott]

I have just read your appeal for people with ancesters buried in the Swinton Unitarian cemetary to come forward. I have many relatives buried in that cemetary from the Brookes, Royle, Collier and Pearson families. Of course I would be very much against their remains being removed, as I am sure my (96year old) Grandmother would be too. She still comments on who is buried in different parts of the ground, when we visit the current car park.

[Wallie Lizzie]

So glad you have replied here Sue, I have sent you a pm with more information regarding the burial ground.

[suememmott]

Sorry, am new to this site. Cannot seem to open the pm. It tells me I must have reached a limit?

[Luzzu]

Hi,

You need to make three posts before you can send and receive PM's.  If you reply to this post, you should be able use the PM system.

Luzzu 

[Wallie Lizzie]

It's ok Luzzu we have now got in touch via email, thanks for the help though

There is a meeting of The Friends of Swinton Unitarian Burial Ground at The Red Lion (The Cat) Moorside Road, Swinton Tuesday 24th April at 7 pm if anyone can attend.

There is also a Circle of Remembrance planned for Saturday 12th May at 12.00 midday, for any one who supports not having the 313 people removed from the burial ground.

Regards

Lizzie

[manmack]

the CWGC cant help you with this,they have no power in these matters,they are only responsible for making sure that the soldiers grave is properly marked and the headstone they erect is properly maintained,they have no say when it comes to the grave itself,because its a private grave,only graves in CWGC cemeteries are their resposibility,when a burial ground becomes redundant,the CWGC make arrangements to remove the headstone and have the soldier commemorated elsewhere,usually at the nearest cemetery.
the only surefire way that this graveyard could have been saved,is if the CWGC had left the headstone where it was,because NOBODY can touch a grave thats in the care of the CWGC

mack

[Wallie Lizzie]

Thanks so much for that Mack, we have already been down that route with the CWCG. For some reason Pte. W. Blears is remembered on a war memorial at Southern Cemetry, although I am not sure why as it is way over the other side of town to Swinton. The planning application has been defferred and left in the hands of the Ministry of Justice for the time being.

 It is up to the living relatives of anyone buried there to oppose the plans, that is why we are trying to find living relatives. The land was sold by Salford Council with a 50 year convent that it could not be built on until 50 years had passed from the last burial, which was Harriet in Nov 1962.

Please keep spreading the word and hopefully any living relatives can then have the chance to have their say on the matter, before it is too late and the 313 people are removed from Swinton Unitatian Church Yard. I have a copy of the burial book if anyone thinks they have family members laid to rest there.

Thank you for all your support!!

[Wallie Lizzie]

Saturday 2nd June 2012 11.45 a march round the outside of Swinton precinct and a circle of remebrance on the burial ground on Swinton Hall Road.......All Welcome!

[Henry Hotspur]

I applaud your efforts in this matter.
I had relatives in the Cheetham hill wesleyan cemetary.
The last burial there was in 1966, but that didn't stop the caring local council and Tesco,s, conspiring in 2003, to bulldose TWENTY THOUSAND bodies up and transfer them to a mass grave in Bury.
Interestingly there has never been any record of valuables recovered from the graves and re-intered with the remains.
Many, many, bones turned up at a land fill site afterwards from the cemetary and I presume the headstones were used as hardcore.