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Latitude: 53.1945 / 53°11'40"N
Longitude: -2.4523 / 2°27'8"W
OS Eastings: 369877
OS Northings: 366479
OS Grid: SJ698664
Mapcode National: GBR 7W.2QV6
Mapcode Global: WH99L.9YGW
Plus Code: 9C5V5GVX+R3
Entry Name: Cooke Family Tomb in Middlewich Cemetery Circa 80 Metres South of Mortuary Chapels
Listing Date: 5 December 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1138792
English Heritage Legacy ID: 56357
ID on this website: 101138792
Location: Middlewich Cemetery, Newtonia, Cheshire East, Cheshire, CW10
County: Cheshire East
Civil Parish: Middlewich
Built-Up Area: Middlewich
Traditional County: Cheshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cheshire
Church of England Parish: Middlewich St Michael and All Angels
Church of England Diocese: Chester
Tagged with: Architectural structure Tomb
MIDDLEWICH C.P. CHESTER ROAD
SJ 66 NE North Side
1/26 Cooke Family Tomb in
Middlewich cemetery
circa 80 metres south of
Mortuary Chapels.
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GV II
Monument, 1869, of stone. Square pier, surmounted by spire, has
inscription in gabled arched cusped panel on each side; plain
rectangular base stone. Inscriptions read: HERE LIES INTERRED IN ONE
COFFIN ALL THAT REMAINED OF THE BODIES OF EDWARD COOKE AGED 40 YEARS,
ELIZABETH HIS WIFE AGED 34 YEARS AND THEIR FOUR CHILDREN, ELLEN AGED
7 YEARS, SOPHIA AGED 4 YEARS, EDWARD AGED 2 YEARS AND MARY AGED 6
MONTHS (west); ALSO ELIZABETH SHAW AGED 12 YEARS. ONE ENTIRE FAMILY
BURNT TO DEATH AT THE CONFLAGRATION OF BRIERLY HULME FARM HOUSE, IN
KINDERTON CUM HULME ON THE MORNING OF SUNDAY THE 24TH DAY OF NOVEMBER
1867 (south); "IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH" (east); ERECTED
BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION AD 1869 (north). The catastrophe is still
remembered locally.
Listing NGR: SJ6987766479
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