I have recently got obituaries from the Leigh Journal & Chronicle for my 2 X Great Grandfather Henry Isherwood who died in Leigh in 1876.It says that he was buried in the "family grave" at St George's Tyldesley.Please can anyone tell me if this church & churchyard still exist and if there are any lists of monumental Inscriptions available? Thanks Jan Bo'ness Scotland.

Jan, Are you on the Leigh list? There is a lister on that who has been photographing graves at (I think) St. George's. If you are not on this list, I could put out a request for you. Valerie ----- Original Message ----- From: Jan Dollar <niven.dollar@blueyonder.co.uk> To: <ENG-LAN-LEIGH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 2:42 PM Subject: [(ENG-LEIGH)] Henry Isherwood > I have recently got obituaries from the Leigh Journal & Chronicle for my 2 > X Great Grandfather Henry Isherwood who died in Leigh in 1876.It says that > he was buried in the "family grave" at St George's Tyldesley.Please can > anyone tell me if this church & churchyard still exist and if there are any > lists of monumental Inscriptions available? > Thanks > Jan > Bo'ness > Scotland. > > > ==== ENG-LAN-LEIGH Mailing List ==== > Our list covers the following towns: Leigh (inc. Pennington, Westleigh & Bedford), Atherton, Tyldesley, Astley, Lowton, Golborne, Hindley, Abram, Howe Bridge, Culcheth and Glazebury. Make sure your family members join our list. This list is only as good as its members - please contribute regularly. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >

Jan Valerie told you that there may be a person on the list photographing graves at St George's in Tyldesley, I'm not sure if Valerie is thinking of me or if there is another person doing a similar thing in the Tyldesley area. I am going through the burial records at Tyldesley cemetery from 1878 to 1953, creating a searchable database, also in connection with this, if someone wants me to check a specific grave for a headstone I am willing to call in and send photographs of any I find. As for Tyldesley St George's, yes the church is still there and graveyard also, only due to the burial register not quoting a grave reference the graves are not easy to find. However I've been in Leigh library today and found the burial record for Henry Sherwood of Woodfield, Atherton, buried 19 January 1876 aged 70 years. Not come across Woodfield before. I also had a look around St George's today and the only Isherwood grave I could find was for a John and James Isherwood, I'll send photographs separately. Hope this is of some help, let us know if you require anything else. Keith