Thackley End Graveyard
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Thackley End Graveyard

Bradford, Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England

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    Bradford, Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire England
    Coordinates: 53.84373, -1.74577
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In an area that once was known as 'Thackley End', surrounded by modern houses and gardens, there is a small walled plot of land. On the wall is a carved stone, recording that "This place is set apart by William Smith, 1790, for a burying place for his own family for ever".


J.Horsfall Turner, local historian and writer, described it as


… nearly circular, and the base of the wall is built up to make seats all around. There are about seventeen grave-mounds without gravestones. One grave has rough edgestones without inscription, and another has a table gravestone unlettered, and a third stone is prostrated but may have an inscription on the under side.


This graveyard came to be built because of a decision made by the leaders or members of the local Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers. William and Ann Smith were devout Quakers who lived at Thackley End. They had an only daughter, Lucy Ann. In 1785, she married the son of another established local family, Dr. John Rawson. Their first son of William Smith Rawson, sadly died aged 1 year, in 1789. The local Quakers refused to let the infant be buried in their Idle Burial Ground because his parents had been married by a Protestant priest and in addition his father, Dr. John Rawson, was not a Quaker, which meant that his mother, Lucy, was disowned by the Quakers. So, the establishment of the small Thackley burial ground by William Smith was probably the result of the Friends' firm rule that stipulated that Quakers could not marry outside their faith and if they did so would be disowned.


Source: THACKLEY AND IDLE HISTORY FILES

In an area that once was known as 'Thackley End', surrounded by modern houses and gardens, there is a small walled plot of land. On the wall is a carved stone, recording that "This place is set apart by William Smith, 1790, for a burying place for his own family for ever".


J.Horsfall Turner, local historian and writer, described it as


… nearly circular, and the base of the wall is built up to make seats all around. There are about seventeen grave-mounds without gravestones. One grave has rough edgestones without inscription, and another has a table gravestone unlettered, and a third stone is prostrated but may have an inscription on the under side.


This graveyard came to be built because of a decision made by the leaders or members of the local Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers. William and Ann Smith were devout Quakers who lived at Thackley End. They had an only daughter, Lucy Ann. In 1785, she married the son of another established local family, Dr. John Rawson. Their first son of William Smith Rawson, sadly died aged 1 year, in 1789. The local Quakers refused to let the infant be buried in their Idle Burial Ground because his parents had been married by a Protestant priest and in addition his father, Dr. John Rawson, was not a Quaker, which meant that his mother, Lucy, was disowned by the Quakers. So, the establishment of the small Thackley burial ground by William Smith was probably the result of the Friends' firm rule that stipulated that Quakers could not marry outside their faith and if they did so would be disowned.


Source: THACKLEY AND IDLE HISTORY FILES

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