| 👶 Birth | 1848 | Chester, Cheshire 📍 ⓘBirth Civil Registration Index 🏛️ Irish Potato Famine — mass emigration · Chartist movement peak · Public Health Act |
| ✝️ Death | 30 Jan 1851 (3) | 70 Duke Street, Chester, Cheshire 📍 ⓘDeath Civil Registration Index 🏛️ Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace |
| 🪦 Burial | 01 Feb 1851 (3) | Overleigh Old Cemetery, Chester, Cheshire 📍 Grave Number G50 ⓘOverleigh Cemetery Records, Chester Margaret Brickland daughter of John Brickland, shoe maker aged 3 years of Duke Street. Died January 30th 1851 This is a public grave with no gravestone and one of the first ever opened. The running number is 19. The cemetery was first opened in 1850, this means that she was the nineteenth person to be buried in the cemetery. The running numbers of the other people in the grave are very similar and indicates that there may have been some sort of epidemic that winter. At that time public cemeteries had only just been introduced and many people would prefer to be buried in a churchyard. As a result nearly … Show more |