What sort of date are you looking for. Linthwaite church was a Waterloo church built in the early 19 C. I used to live at Linthwaite. They have an old graveyard round the church another across the road in Church Lane. The ones you mention are not relevant to Linthwaite. There is also a chapel in the bottom of Linthwaite, I think they have a graveyard. Audrey Town Audrey Town, Skelmanthorpe West Riding of Yorkshire GoONS 1948 Oddy & Roworth Studies + variants YAS FHS founder member, Notts FHS Derbys FHS, QFHS, H&DFHS -------------------------------------------------- From: "Ellen Murray" <ellen.murray@sympatico.ca> Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 10:04 PM To: <west-riding@rootsweb.com> Subject: [WRY] Linthwaite Cemeteries > Am planning trip across the pond 2012 & am hoping to find burial place of > my grdparents before leaving. Understand they may be buried in > Linthwaite. > > Would someone be kind enough to give me names & address of Cemeteries in > Linthwaite so that I may write to them. > > Have Rose Hill on Birkby Hall Rd, Huddersfield Crematorium on Fixby Rd., & > Rastrick on Carr Green Lane already. Are there more? > > Ellen > > > Some useful websites - > FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ > FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > FREEREG - http://www.freereg.org.uk/ > > Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

On 6 Nov 2011 at 15:09, Audrey Town wrote: > What sort of date are you looking for. Linthwaite church was a > Waterloo church built in the early 19 C. < It occurs to me that there may be newcomers to genealogy and family history who are wondering "What on earth is a Waterloo church?", so I hope Audrey, as a fellow GOON, will not take umbrage if I explain. Some of we older hands do, I fear, occasionally make the mistake of assuming that everybody else knows what we are talking about when we toss these references around! Waterloo churches are often also known as "Million" churches because they were built under a movement started to commemorate the victory over Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 and parliament in 1818 voted the sum of one million pounds to provide funding for a radical church building programme. This Act became known as the "Million Act". After various other financial initiatives and moves over a fair number of years, by 1856 over three million pounds had been spent on building a total of 612 new churches, 106 of them in Yorkshire, the majority in the West Riding. One of them was Christ Church, Linthwaite, a chapelry of the Parish of Almondbury, built in 1827-8. A comprehensive description of Waterloo/Million churches is to be found in my good friend Colin Blanshard Withers' excellent book on Yorkshire Parish Registers as an appendix, along with a complete list of all the Yorkshire churches so built. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE