St Wilfrid's Catholic Cemetery, Preston

NOTES and UPDATES:

Update 1 Dec 2025:

Burials in Date Order: This month I have uploaded revised pages for the years 1852 to 1854, and added revised information on Miss Elizabeth Waterhouse, who died on 24 Jan 1852, aged 33 years. After purchasing a copy of her death certificate I was able to identify her as the daughter of James and Elizabeth (Richardson) Waterhouse.

After purchasing another death certificate I've added information on Elizabeth Cummings, who was buried in St Wilfrid's Cemetery on 6 Apr 1852, aged 2 years.

Update 1 Nov 2025:

Burials in Date Order: This month I have uploaded revised pages for the years 1849 to 1851.

I have also added information for the previously unidentified Agnes Kirkham, who died on 13 Aug 1851, aged 26 years, after purchasing a copy of her death certificate.

Update 1 Oct 2025:

Burials in Date Order: This month I have uploaded revised pages for the years 1845 to 1848

I have also added updated information for the Family of Robert and Isabella Parker, whose son William Holder was buried in St Wilfrid's Cemetery on 4 Sep 1844.

Update 1 Sep 2025:

Burials in Date Order: This month I have uploaded revised pages for the years 1841 to 1844. I've also uploaded further details on Isabella Gillett, who died in Farington on 26 Feb 1841, after buying a copy of her death certificate. Strangely, the St Wilfrid's burial transcripts record her burial date as 25 Feb 1841 - the day before she died.

Update 1 Aug 2025:

Burials in Date Order: This month I have uploaded revised pages for the years 1837 to 1840.

I have also connected a previously unidentified infant to his parents, which I missed because he was buried under the name James Hodgson instead of John Hodson. He was born on 10 May 1837 and was buried on 3 Dec 1837, aged 6 months.

Update 1 Jul 2025:

Burials in Date Order: This month I have uploaded revised pages for the years 1833 to 1836.

As I revise these pages in date order I am also adding a "Contact Me" link near the top of each page to make it easier for visitors to get in touch if they have questions, find errors, or wish to provide additional information.

Update 1 Jun 2025:

Burials in Date Order: This month I have uploaded revised pages for the years 1829 to 1832.

Going through these files gives me a chance to proofread some of my earlier uploads and correct a few typos and other errors.

Update 6 May 2025:

Burials in Date Order: This month I have uploaded revised pages for the years 1825 to 1828.

I have also uploaded further information on the death of James Hennesy, who was buried in St Wilfrid's Cemetery on 7 Aug 1844. I initially had very little information on him until stumbling open a newspaper account of his death.

Update 1 Apr 2025:

Continuing on with the revisions of Burials in Date Order, this month I am uploading revised pages for the years 1821 to 1824.

In addition, I have uploaded over a dozen revised pages for burials in name order, as well as several new images.

Update 1 Mar 2025:

It will probably come as no surprise that there was no one buried in St Wilfrid's Cemetery with surnames beginning with X or Z, but what I do find surprising is that there was only one person buried in the cemetery with a surname beginning with Y - James Yates, who died in 1825.

I have now begun revising the section, Burials in Date Order, adding links to further information. In doing so I've been looking back at some of my earlier research and have decided to expand on some of the entries that are not as complete as later entries. This month I am uploading revised pages for the years 1817 to 1820.

Update 1 Feb 2025:

Today I have uploaded further information on 92 of the 111 people listed in the last section of surnames beginning with W - Winrow to Wyse, including the burial of Thomas Woodcock, a 4 year old boy, who died in 1839 after falling into an ash hold full of scalding hot water; Mary Woods, a 14 year old girl, who died on Christmas Day 1840 after her clothes caught fire; and Robert Worden, who cut his own throat during what the Coroner's Jury determined was a "temporary fit of insanity".

This completes the section of surnames beginning with W, with further information on a total of 346 of the 447 people listed.

Update 1 Jan 2025:

Happy New Year! Today I have uploaded further information on 69 of the 92 people listed in the fourth section of surnames beginning with W - Wilcock to Wilson, including the burial of Ellen Williams, a 3 year old child, who died in 1841 after her clothes caught fire; and the family of John Wilson, who was married four times and had a total of twenty children, including eleven by his fourth wife - a girl 27 years his junior. One of his wives and five of his children are buried in St Wilfrid's Cemetery.

This is my first update to the website since the end of August. It's been a busy few months and in September I spent almost three weeks on holiday in California. Back in England I found it hard to get back into the research and found this section particularly difficult. My next upload will complete the surnames beginning with W.

NOTE 1: Where I am not certain of information I will make that clear, but any project such as this will inevitably contain errors, and I would advise users to treat the information as a guide to help you with your own research. If you do find an error or can provide additional information please do get in touch.

NOTE 2: As the Notes page was becoming quite large, I decided to archive the older updates and start fresh for 2025. The older updates can be viewed on the ARCHIVED NOTES and UPDATES page.

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