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Does anyone know what year they stopped burying people in the church yard of St Thomas church Brightside.

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Willam Odom's book "Memorials of Sheffield - its Cathedral and Parish Churches" has a page on St Thomas' Church, Brightside. The church was opened in 1854 and at the publishing date of the book (1922) the graveyard was still open. Odom normally records the closure of a graveyard where this had taken place before the time he was writing his book.

 

This book is available in the City Library.

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I believe there were occasional burials there as late as the 1970s.

 

Sheffield Family History Society have probably recorded all the monumental inscriptions and the burial registers should be at Sheffield Archives.

 

There phone number is 0114 203 9395

 

email archives@sheffield.gov.uk

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If I am incorrect here, please forgive me. However, I always thought that St Thomas's was in Wincobank, not Brightside, and at the bottom of Newman Rd.

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no, the one you are thinking about IS st t wincobanck but st t brightside is down near the upwell street lights and is now used by the circus

 

dave

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Oh dear ! :confused:

 

I always thought the church near the bottom of Newman Road was St. Margaret of Scotland :D

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Originally posted by Greybeard

I believe there were occasional burials there as late as the 1970s.

 

Sheffield Family History Society have probably recorded all the monumental inscriptions and the burial registers should be at Sheffield Archives.

 

There phone number is 0114 203 9395

 

email archives@sheffield.gov.uk

 

Thanks for the information Greybeard,

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Originally posted by Greybeard

Oh dear ! :confused:

 

I always thought the church near the bottom of Newman Road was St. Margaret of Scotland :D

 

no st maggies is on jenkin road, that and st t in wincobank are sister churches in the parish of Brightside and Wincobank

 

dave

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Originally posted by alchemist

no st maggies is on jenkin road, that and st t in wincobank are sister churches in the parish of Brightside and Wincobank

 

dave

 

Thanks, I usually confuse Jenkin and Newman ;)

 

I still think St T's should have been called St.T's Grimesthorpe . It would have saved a lot of confusion !

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