Grave Tales of South Yorkshire

by Brian Elliott (Editor), Giles Brearley (Author), Brian Elliott (Editor), Giles Brearley (Author)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $3.25

  Grave sites and their ornamentation, provide a unique and fascinating view of our ancestors. In this book, we visit the graves of the famous and the unknown in the graveyards of South Yorkshire. With biographical details of the dead and easy to follow guidance to their final resting places. We are conducted from the graves of fever victims, buried en masse in quicklime and with hardly a note of their names, to monuments in memory of those killed in the many mining accidents and pit explosions in the area. Among the notables buried in South Yorkshire are: The chaplain of Lord Nelson, who was at his side at Trafalgar, A-Lady-in-Waiting to Elizabeth I and the bodyguard of Charles I. Among the industrial giants are Lionel Copley, who took ironmaking from being a Cottage Industry, to being a major manufacturing industry and Benjamin Huntsman, who, almost by happy accident, discovered stainless steel. All these and many more noteworthy people are buried in South Yorkshire and this book reveals their lives, deaths and final resting places. A must for local historians and generally interested readers alike.