The Family of Thomas and Margaret Alice Battersby: Burial Records

DEATH NOTICES:

"On the 10th inst., at Fulwood, Margaret Alice, the beloved wife of Mr. Thomas Battersby, and eldest daughter of Mr. William Swarbrick, Ashton-on-Ribble, aged 30."

(From a Preston paper, December 1886)

"Battersby - On the 5th inst., Haighton Tower, Grimsargh, Thomas Battersby. R.I.P. Requiem Mass, St. Joseph's, Preston, Friday 10 o'clock."

(From The Lancashire Daily Post, Wednesday, 6 April 1921)

BURIAL RECORDS:

Margaret Alice Battersby, age 30, of Fulwood, was buried on 14 December 1886. Hers was the 1st Interment, buried 20ft deep, in grave S-745. Register no. 25067.

Elizabeth M Battersby, spinster, age 18, of Lauderdale House, Fulwood, was buried on 22 September 1903.
Hers was the 2nd Interment in grave S-745. Register no. -------.

Thomas Battersby, age 68, of Haighton Tower, Contractor, was buried 8 April 1921. His was the 3rd interment in grave S-745. Register No. 53040.

NOTES:
1:	Thomas and Margaret's grave has a large marble headstone that has fallen face down so cannot be read.
2:	The grave was purchased by Thomas Battersby in December 1886 and contains 5 burials, including their son and a daughter-in-law.
3:	The above information is taken from microfilmed copies of the Preston Cemetery burial registers held at the Lancashire Archives, a visit to Preston Cemetery, and from microfilmed copies of newspapers held at the Harris Reference Library in Preston.

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