Southport Congregational Church, Chapel Street

[Gibel]

Weather permitting I can go to the cemetery this week, probably Wednesday, if you’d like me too.

[Jane Lucas]

Hi Gibel
Thank you so much for offering. A cousin went up the other day and found William Robinson (d1899) in Section K with first wife Jane .. he was the lifeboat service drowning.
Sadly, his son John, also drowned 1899, though buried with his daughter Mary (married Monk) is not marked on the gravestone. That is section 5.
They didn’t find Frederick Rigby. I’ll have to go back to my records to see where he was.
Jane
 

[Jane Lucas]

Ok .. so he is section 5, buried with Alice Rigby, a Nicholas Johnson and two Cairns.

Wish I lived near enough to wander around! I spent half a day at St. Cuthbert’s once, but mostly those headstones are too worn to read.

[Gibel]

I’ll look for Frederick this week when it stops raining.

[Jane Lucas]

Thank you! Yes.. horrible here too.. I’ve spent the day researching what happened to Frederick’s widow, Isabell Robinson. I couldn’t find a burial for her. Turns out she remarried a Nicholas Johnson, who died in 1914 and is buried with Frederick.. that’s fun for them.
She emigrated to Canada with her daughter also Isabella, and died there in 1942 aged 84.
If you have any Devon relatives, let me know.. I know the records here quite well.

[Jane Lucas]

In case anyone else comes across this thread I am posting an answer to my original question about exhumations at Eastbank Street/Chapel Street Congregational Chapel, Southport. I finally discovered where I found the list of exhumations. They are online at FindMyPast, buried deep in their catalogue. Never to be found by Parish as they have indexed these records with the Church name as the Parish!
I finally found it using the browse facility, Burials>Lancashire>Browse, then scrolled until I came across this.
Oops .. that should read re-interments

[Gibel]

That’s interesting to know. I wonder if they have the list of exhumations for Christ Church and Holy Trinity also in Southport. I will look later.

Not yet made it to the cemetery, once it stopped raining it became and still is freezing cold so I didn’t venture out until yesterday. Hopefully I’ll make it in the next few days.

I’ve failed at the first hurdle where’s the Browse facility on FindMyPast?

[Jane Lucas]

Hi Gibel.
Totally with you on the cold.. I have never known it this cold in Devon.. the bird bath has been frozen solid for days and was -9C with wind chill yesterday. I haven't been out either except to feed the birds.

I've found another way to get to the set in which these odd records are kept.  Go to all Record Sets, Type 'Burials' into the top box, filter by England, Lancashire. That brings up 15 record sets. Scroll down and you will see next to last entry 'England & Wales, Closed Cemeteries Burials & Re-Interments'

But you would normally use the 'Browse' facility by going to 'All record sets, then type in the name of a County, eg 'Lancashshire'. That brings up 12 record sets. The top three are Lancashire Banns & Marriages, Lancashire Baptisms, Lancashire Burials. I always use this way of getting to the Parish I want if I am looking for a baptism, burial or marriage and I roughly know the date. But, sometimes, I just want to browse through the Registers of a Parish. Scroll down a bit and you will see, fourth one down, 'Lancashire Parish Registers Browse'. I usually leave the year and register type blank, then put in a parish name.. eg North Meols, St Cuthbert. If you start typing, FindMyPast finds the exact set. Select it, the you will see 'View 22 Results' Those are all the Registers for North Meols that FindMyPast hold.

Hope that helps.
Jane

[ThrelfallYorky]

I went out with an ancient Fireman's axe ( the axe, not the fireman, being ancient - he's been dead quite a while ) - and hacked at the thick ice on the one of my garden ponds that has a pumped constant flow, because it was very nearly iced up! Broke through with the pointy end, and shifted /levered/ pushed lumps of ice under or on top of others bite, to free more area up.
Judging by the birdie foot-prints of all shapes and sizes, there are a lot of birds quite pleased at my actions.