Birth 1848 🏛️ Irish Potato Famine | Chester, Cheshire 📍 ⓘBirth Civil Registration Index |
Death (3) 30/01/1851 🏛️ Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace | 70 Duke Street, Chester, Cheshire 📍 ⓘDeath Civil Registration Index Ref: Gt Boughton 19 23 |
Burial 01/02/1851 | Overleigh Old Cemetery, Chester, Cheshire 📍 Grave Number G50 ⓘOverleigh Cemetery Records, Chester 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 moreMargaret Brickland daughter of John Brickland, shoe maker aged 3 years of Duke Street. Died January 30th 1851 |