Manchester General Cemetery Transcription Project

[A J Hampson]

Thanks, Luzzu, for your reply and the link to the photograph. My interest in Elijah stems from local history: I live in New Moston (on what was Dixon St, in fact!) and you probably know that, among his many other activities, Elijah helped form the Bridgewater Freehold Land Society in 1851, to provide allotments of land that would give voting rights to the owners or tenants. The parcel of land purchased (originally part of Chadderton) became New Moston. Elijah himself did not reside here until the 1860s, his last residence, Vine House, being an existing property, built on the site of an 18th century house that had suffered a major fire. The 19th century house still exists (pic attached) on what was formerly Ricketts St, now Parkfield Rd North. Elijah was certainly an interesting character, and I think we could do with a few more like him today! Cheers, Alan

[Cancan]

Weather permitting we are hoping to be at the cemetery abt 10.30am on

Sunday 2nd Aug 2015

For plenty of digging and recording of the gravestones
All Hands Welcome

[Luzzu]

We have just added a photograph of the vault stone on Elijah and Martha Dixon's grave - Non Conformist 4077 - to our website.  According to the registers they are buried in a vault rather than a grave but it looks like a single vault rather than one of the larger family vaults.  Unfortunately any inscription that was there originally has long gone.

Thanks Alan for posting the photograph of Vine House.

[Cancan]

Weather permitting we are hoping to be at the cemetery abt 10.30am on

Sunday 9th Aug 2015

For plenty of digging and recording of the gravestones
All Hands Welcome

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[Cancan]

Weather permitting we are hoping to be at the cemetery abt 10.30am on

Sunday 16th Aug 2015

For plenty of digging and recording of the gravestones
All Hands Welcome

[Cancan]

Weather permitting we are hoping to be at the cemetery abt 10.30am on

Sunday 23rd Aug 2015

For plenty of digging and recording of the gravestones
All Hands Welcome

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[Cancan]

Weather permitting we are hoping to be at the cemetery abt 10.30am on

Sunday 30th Aug 2015

For plenty of digging and recording of the gravestones
All Hands Welcome

[Cancan]

Weather permitting we are hoping to be at the cemetery abt 10.30am on

Sunday 6th Sep 2015

For plenty of digging and recording of the gravestones
We have having a bit of a push to try to complete one section
before weather starts to change for the time of year
All Hands Welcome!

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[Luzzu]

Have you visited our website recently?

www.mgctp.moonfruit.com

New information relating to Manchester General Cemetery is being added all the time as the project progresses.

We now have a page dedicated to Policemen and Firemen buried in the Cemetery and recently added Notable Burials include:-

Samuel Perkin (1765-1837) - Samuel Perkin was buried on 11th November 1837, just two months after the Cemetery opened.  This is the earliest gravestone we have recorded so far;
James Dilworth (1789-1854) - the founder of James Dilworth & Sons, Manchester yarn agents.  The Dilworth family vault is one of the largest in the Cemetery;
David Stewart (c1810-1850) - an "ancient forester" - an organisation which was formed in 1834 and which still trades today as the Foresters Friendly Society;
Mary Mitton (1803-1869) and her son, Thomas (1846-1869) - their gravestone told us that mother and son died on the same day which prompted us to research why - tragically they died together when a fire broke out at their shop on Rochdale Road;

Please do not hesitate to contact us either via this thread, PM or use the "Contact Us" page on the website if you have ancestors buried in Manchester General Cemetery.  We will always do our best to help.

Luzzu