Layton Cemetery 2019

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I went to Layton Cemetery. As part of local heritage, they were conducting a guided walk. The founders of Burton's biscuits and Burton's sweets was pointed out, along with some famous people responsible for building The Tower, the Pleasure Beach, and being theatre owners, do-gooders, an afro-american hero who came to Blackpool and died three weeks later and was put in a paupers grave, a gipsy queen who advised Queen Victoria, a couple of murderers, a couple who were murdered; a doctor who was a quack, a suffragette friend of Emily Pankhurst whose descendants were also on the tour ... It was very interesting. Some snaps on my camera to remind me.. They reckon 250,000 are buried there.

James Walmsley died June 17 1915 age 66 and wife Hannah died Feb 12 1928 age 73
James Walmsley lived in the Tower running the aquarium while the Tower was being built around him. Story goes that he was the first to give his address as The Tower, Blackpool. Said to test the water daily, to see if it was okay for the fish. He drowned in dubious circumstances. His story is related in issuu.com/heritageblackpool/.

William Lambert Cookson, mason.
Article: Blackpool Gazzette:
Established in 1899 by William Lambert Cookson, the firm of WL COOKSON Ltd is a family business, renowned for personal and first-class service throughout the Blackpool, Fylde and Preston areas and beyond.
"William Lambert Cookson of 119 Talbot Rd Blackpool died 24 April 1927 Probate Lancaster 2 Sept to Jane Cookson widow and William Lambert Cookson Monumental Mason Effects £30,660,15s" source

Ada Boswell, Queen of the Gypsies, who met Queen Victoria. Daughter of the famous "Gypsy Sarah".
Roman Genes - mentioned
Ada Boswell Obituary - Gazette, 14.5.1901:
A GIPSY QUEEN DIES AT SOUTH SHORE - Pathetic Interview With her Daughters.
The Gipsies at South Shore have lost their Queen, and the encampment has been deprived of its most picturesque figure by the death of Ada Boswell, who was styled the "Royal Queen of the Gipsies." This gifted Romany, a daughter of the famous old "Gipsy Sarah " succumbed to an attack of heart disease early on Saturday morning, and there was much lamentation in the tents of her bright-eyed, dark-skinned people. The funeral took place at the Blackpool Cemetery on Monday, and hundreds of people collected at the encampment, and afterwards at the grave side, as the Gipsy Queen went the way of all queens, whether they occupy a throne, or a humble though picturesque tent".
Also mentioned here

Emily Baker, James Howarth d 1938 aged 32.
mentioned in ar.billiongraves.com
"Also of James Howarth J.P. Husband and father of the above who died October 1st, 1911, age 68 years"

Anthony Bulos KARMY - family from Israel.
died Oct 8th 1916 age 63 years
Also Henry Victor Karmy

George Washington Williams, Afro-American Historian 1849-1891. Originally he was buried in a paupers grave here, having arrived in Southampton, ill, and being advised to take the sea air at Blackpool. After three weeks in Blackpool he died. People from Ohio heard about the paupers grave and raised a subscription to provide this memorial stone.
American soldier, minister, politician and historian. Author of A History of Negro Troops in the War of Rebellion and The History of the Negro Race in America 1619–1880. Wikipedia entry.

Alfred Halstead Journalist

 Samuel Laycock (1826–1893) was a dialect poet who recorded in verse the vernacular of the Lancashire cotton workers.

Wikipedia entry

Gerald Irving Richardson G.C. Superindent. Lancashire Constabulary, Blackpool division, Who died in the performance of his duty 23rd August 1971 Aged 38 years. One of the highest-ranking officers to be murdered in the line of duty in Great Britain. In 1972 he was posthumously awarded the George Cross.

On 23 August 1971, Richardson assisted in a car chase of a gang of five armed robbers who had attacked a jeweller's shop in Blackpool. As the gang split up and attempted to escape on foot, he and PC Carl Walker, who also later won the George Cross, chased one of the raiders, Frederick Joseph Sewell (known as 'Fat' Fred'), down a dead-end alleyway. Sewell shot Walker in the thigh before Richardson tackled the gunman and attempted to persuade him to surrender his weapon. However, Richardson was shot twice in the stomach at point-blank range and died of his injuries later that day at Blackpool's Victoria Hospital. His funeral was attended by around 100,000 members of the public
Wikipedia entry

Edward Topping died March 9th 1891 aged 49 years, also Mary Topping 1838-1911, also Thomas Edward Topping.
Colonel (Honorary Brigadier-General) Thomas Edward Topping CB CMG DSO TD ADC was made a Honorary freeman with freedom of the Borough and Blackpool Medal in 1922.

William Hoyle author of hymns and songs
More here:

In 1863 William Hoyle founded what was to be the biggest regional branch of the Band of Hope: The Lancashire and Cheshire Band of Hope Union, which was immensely popular. Two years later he established the monthly publication Onward: The Organ of the Lancashire and Cheshire Band of Hope Union, which was heavily slanted towards the younger reader. It too was extremely popular and was published in both Manchester and London. Although Hoyle appears to have just contributed to this periodical rather than edited it, he edited the more modest Band of Hope Treasury (1869–90), also a children's temperance magazine.

William Hoyle also published, in many different editions, Hoyle's Hymns & Songs for Temperance Societies and Bands of Hope (the first being in about 1869), and Hoyle's Reciter: Fifty-four original Recitations and Dialogues (date unknown, and some of these being in the Lancashire dialect). He also wrote 'William Foster: a life story' (1895), a brief biography about a man he greatly admired, although this work was never published.

Joseph Bramwell Burton departed November 16 1967
The Burton family manufactures biscuits under such names as Jammy Dodgers, Maryland Cookies

In loving memory of Councillor
George Frederick Burton, J.P. died July 10th 1942 aged 52 years,
and of his dear son Ralph Bramwell died October 27th 1944 aged 24 years, and of his dear wife Annee Burton, died October 13th 1987 aged 95 years
- Burtons Sweets.

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