1599 A maid out of Clyviger called HUNTINGTON

1601 2 children of Robert WHITTAKER being burned to death

1601 George SPENCER of Clyviger, slayne in a coal pit

1603 John ASPDEN of Overtowne (October)
Margaret d. John ASPDEN (December)
Child of John ASPDEN (January)

1623 Issabel WALTON of Jackhey (April)
Richard WALTON of Jackhey (August)
John ASPDEN of Overtown (July)
John ASPDEN of Overtown (August)

A selection of burials taken from the Register for Holm’s Chapel (sic)

1750 George HARRISON a Papist

1752 Mr. Thos. WHITAKER of Holm

1754 Henry, s. Jonathn LANCASTER after private Baptism

1756 Eliza BROWNE a stranger

1756 Old Harry HOWARTH was decently interred

1757 Was my poor wife Elisa WEATHERHEAD buryed

1768 Martha, w. John CHADWICK

1769 Mary, d. Richard CRABTREE (February)
Betty, d. Richard CRABTREE (March)
Matty, d. John CHADWICK (May)
Eliz, d. John CHADWICK (May)

1777 Betty and Nanny, drs. Thos HARTLEY (January)
Lawrence SMITH and Lawrence his son (February)
James, s. John SIMPSON (March)
William, s John SIMPSON (May)
John SIMPSON (August)

1780 Ellis CROSSLEY, first Member out of the Club at Holmes’ Chapel

1782 The Rev Mr. William WHITAKER

In 1783 a new tax takes place, viz, 3d for every burial; those that have Relief from the Town excepted

1784 John WHITEHEAD, pauper

For the next 20 years the entries are written by Thomas Dunham Whitaker and often contain details of death…

1791 Mary, d. Joshua ASHWORTH of Thieveley, casually burnt to death by its cloaths taking fire, aged 2 years

1792 Elizabeth BAMFORD, d. James, a mason, teething, 2 years, Overtown

1793 John FABER, pauper, 26 yrs, scrofula and consumption caught by night hunting

1794 Collinge COLLINGE 4 days, a monster unable to take any nourishment, Pasture

1794/5 April to March, 13 deaths from Smallpox

1796 John SIMPSON taylor, 76 yrs Jack Hey Lane, hanged himself
…interred without service

1796 William SHACKLETON, s. Benj: coal carrier, 8 yrs killed by falling down a coal pit at Portsmouth

1796 Samuel LORD fmr, a Roman Catholic 77yrs, general decay, Leigh
Farm Jackhey Lane
Anne FIELDEN widow, neice of the above, found dead betwixt
Higher Helliplat and Spencer’s style, Bull’s Head, Jackhey Lane
(Both buried on the same day, October 29th)

1797 Hannah WILD, base d. Elizabeth 6 weeks, fits, Farside

1797 Laurence WALMSLEY, s. James, potter, near 3 yrs, putrid sore throat, Cliviger Pottery

1798 Richard HEAP, base s. Grace, spinster, 4 yrs, fits after smallpox, Greencliff

1798/9 August to February 8 deaths due to Smallpox

1799 James SCHOFIELD pauper, 70 yrs, for want of food, cloaths and bedding in this hard winter, alas! Stonehouse

1800 John HAWORTH lbr, indigestion after a plentiful meal upon a famished stomach at the last funeral! Stiperden

1801 John DEARDEN, an idiot 47 years of an infectious fever caught in Rossendale, Buckleys

1801 James BRADLEY, collier, beaten to death at Mereclough
(Abraham ORMEROD and John his son of Height found guilty of manslaughter at Lancaster Assizes in 1802)

1803 Anne SIMPSON, d. Henry, weaver, 4 months, hooping cough, Jamhole
(5 children died in the parish during May and June of hooping cough)

1804 William PRIESTLEY, s. Henry, shoemaker, 3 years, decline after smallpox, cottage at Barcroft

1805 John Chadwick , for 61 years sexton of this chapel, 89 years, old age, Holmes Chapel

1806 Benjamin CROSSLEY 12 years, killed by a cow to which he had fastened himself by a rope … at Scholeyhead

1807 John CHADWICK, lbr, 20 yrs, quinsy caught by sleeping on the grass at Holm
Chapel

1808 John SMITH, lbr 39yrs, overheated by mowing Cliviger Laith

1808 Henry SCOFIELD, s. Wm., lbr., 30 months, burnt to death by being clothed in cotton!

1808 Ellen INGHAM d. Wm, a collier, 31 yrs, drowned in a well, the water only 9 inches deep, Cawsway Side

1809 William WILKINSON, weaver, 23 yrs, typhus fever, Honeyholme

1810 William CROSSLEY, farmer, 70 yrs, apoplexy, Scholeyhead

1811 Mary BRADELEY, single woman, 45yrs, consumption, Mereclough

1812 Henry ORMEROD, s. John, farmer, 30 weeks, gradual decay, Hurstwood Hall

1813 Alexander LORD, 93 yrs, Stone House

1814 Jane, w. John CHAFFER, a Roman Catholic, buried without the funeral service, 66 yrs, Buckclough

1817 The Rev. Thomas Thoresby WHITAKER Master of Arts, 31, Whalley

1818 Ann BRADLEY, 95 yrs, Jackhey Lane

1819 Jeremiah CHAFFER, an infant, New-hey

1822 Mary SCHOLFIELD, an infant, Rattenclough

1824 Mary TAYLOR, an infant, Law House

1825 James HALL, an infant, Southard Bottom

1826 Ellis SIMPSON, an infant, Dineley

1827 Mary STOTT, an infant, Robincross Hill

1828 Lucy SIMPSON, 34, Walkmill

1829 John CROSSLEY, 71, Bull’s Head

Reproduced with kind permission from “The Register of the Parochial Chapelry of St. John - the - Divine (formerly St. John - the - Evangelist) Holme in Cliviger (or Holmes Chapel)” published by ‘The Lancashire Parish Register Society'