United Reformed Church, Tockholes in the County of -- Lancashire --

Burials at United Reformed Church
in the Parish of Tockholes
Burials recorded in the Register for 1890 - 2018

The register book consists of sets of pages for each letter of the alphabet. Burials are grouped by grave and placed on a page with the correct letter of the alphabet for the family name of the grave owner(s). An individual whose name starts with a different letter from that of the grave owner is normally recorded twice, once on the page for the grave owner, and once on a page for their own letter, giving a cross-reference to the grave page.

In some cases, there was no longer room to write in additional burials (or interment/scattering of ashes) against the original grave record; in these cases names could be entered wherever space was available, with additional cross-referencing.

In this transcription we have chosen to present the book in two ways, as both a burials register (by date of burial) and as a graves register (all burials within a particular grave which are recorded in the current book - NB: this does not include burials recorded in earlier burials or graves books). Use the links on the left of the page to access these two views of the data.

There are many entries in the book which are undated. It is possible that these were records of a grave purchase rather than the burial of the named person, but we believe that they are mostly burials. They are included here at the end of the transcription.

The graveyard has had different numbering schemes in the past, and several grave numbers in the register have been amended. We have compiled these transcriptions with reference to a grave plan dating back to the early twentieth century, which recorded plots and sometimes the family name. We have occasionally used information drawn from headstones and from receipt books to verify the information. There are two main sets of grave numbers which are referred to in the Graves transcription as 'New Grave' (e.g. F12) and 'Old Grave' (e.g. 312). Some graves appear on the grave plan with just an Old Grave (OG) number, some with just a New Grave number, and some with both. New Grave numbers appear wholly in the section of the graveyard referred to as the 'Extension' and form ordered rows, in general. Old Grave numbers appear in both the 'Original' section and the 'Extension' but are not organised into rows.

In this Burials transcription, a Grave with two references e.g. F12 / 312 refers to the New followed by the Old numbers..