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Day8: 1700-1799
St John's #Graveyard, #Marsden, opened 1849.
1700s #Pendle Valley was presided over by the Diocese Chester, 80m away.
Slowly evolving, the area was strongly nonconformist.
John Wesley, Benjamin Ingham and William Grimshaw all preached here.
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Day6: Hourglass
In Area B, there are 398 infants and children interred whose hourglass was very short and Edna Chadwick, whose hourglass was very long, being 104 when she died in 2008.
St John's Church #Graveyard, #Nelson formerly #Marsden, Lancashire
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Wilson Duerden, who lived at Clough Head almost across from the gates of St John's Church and #Graveyard, #Marsden, #Nelson.
Interred with his wife and three of their daughters.
A beautiful monument with Lilies, Roses, Ferns, Acorns and Angles reaching down from Heaven.
