This is the gravestone of my Great Grandparents

which was erected as instructed by 

Mary  in her Will.

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In Loving Memory of James William Livesey

who died January 19th 1917 aged 67 years

Also Mary his wife who died October 16th 1929

Also Lily their daughter who died June 3rd 1895

aged 9 years

This is the gravestone of my Great Grandmother

Catherine Bramwell (formerly Livingstone)

and her parents and various siblings.

As you can see it gives a great deal of

information and was enormously useful

when I discovered it at the beginning of my

research into the Briggs family when I had

only got as far back as Catherine.

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In Loving Memory of

Hugh Briggs who died Feb 21 1869

aged 50 years

Also Martha the beloved wife of the above

who died June 8th 1888   aged 66 years

Also Samuel Briggs son of

Hugh and Martha Briggs

born May 12th,  Died May 12th 1851

and was interred at the Parish church

Also Hugh their son

who died Oct 1st 1859 aged 3 days

Also Samuel their son

who died December 31st 1861 aged 13 months

Also Catherine Bramwell, daughter of the above

born Feb 8th 1855  Died Aug 28th 1905

Also James their son and beloved husband

of Ellen Briggs

born July 17th 1847  Died Nov 6th 1920

Also Ellen Briggs his wife

born July 6th 1848  Died April 12th 1937

                                   © September 2002

This is the grave of my grandparents

which is next to the  Briggs grave above.

Alice Briggs Livingstone (who died from appendicitis)

and Robert are the children of

Catherine Bramwell above.

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Mary Elizabeth is the daughter of the Liveseys

James Briggs

wife Priscilla

niece Ellen Hodgkinson

William Harrison

1883

1881

1889

1899

38y

38y

18y

31y

Thomas Briggs

wife Jane

1926

1905

77y

56y

James Stones 

wife Catherine 

niece Mary Ann Stones  

Isabella Pedder wife of Samuel James Stones 

1874

1895

1866

1895

83y

88y

64y

40y

In affectionate remembrance of

FREDERICK JOHN KEMPSTER

(the British Giant)

Died April 15th 1918  Aged 29 years 

Frederick John Kempster was born in London and became a fairground attraction because of his height. He was 8foot 4½ inches tall and weighed 27 stone. He died in Queens Park Hospital, Blackburn at the age of 29 from pneumonia and was consequently buried in Blackburn Cemetery.

His coffin was over 9 feet long and 9 men were needed to lower it into the grave.

In Memory of Pte JAMES PITTS VC

The Manchester Regiment

Died February 18th 1955  

Aged 77 years

James Pitts was born 26th February 1877. At the age of 22 he was a Private in 1st Battalion The Manchester Regiment at the time of the Boer War in South Africa.

On 6th January 1900 during an attack on Caesars Hill, Natal,he was one of just two men left out of 16. They held their post under constant fire for 15 hours without food or drink until relief troops had managed to retake lost ground and regain the hill.

His VC is now in the museum of the Manchester Regiment in Ashton under Lyne

This headstone was erected in 1970