Carver Street Chapel Sheffield
An earlier article on the site related on The Death of Two Brothers - Sheffield November 1925 James Mackenzie and Herbert Knox Melling. The Melling Brothers were killed in a motor-cycle accident on the A57 and their joint funeral was held at the Carver Street Methodist Chapel in Sheffield.
At the time there was little on-line on the chapel and so in the interim I have put together a few newspaper reports about the Chapel and its varied history. The first of these is from the Sheffield and Rotherham Independent 25th July 1889
The second report is from the Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 22 February 1927.
"The trustees of the Carver Street Wesleyan Chapel, Sheffield are giving notice of their intention to apply for a licence for the removal of human remains and
monuments from the burial ground.
About 125 graves are involved owing to the proposed extension of the Sunday
School. Any heirs or relatives can undertake the removal provided a licence is obtained
from the Home Office. (They could re-inter their relatives in their chosen burial
ground). Trustees intend two months after this notice to apply to the Secretary of State for the removal of the remains and for their
re-interment in the General Cemetery.
The names so far as can be ascertained of persons whose remains it is proposed to remove are as follows:-
Henry Hardwick, Edward Dickinson, George Thomas and Mary Ann Thorpe, Hannah,
Samuel and Joseph Henderson, Samuel, Mary and Samuel Driver, Joshua Ormerod, Elizabeth and George Baker, Fanny and Elizabeth Morton, John and Elizabeth
Middleton, George Wild, Hannah Best, Henry Valentine Bartlett Bridges, Henry Valentine Bartlett, Samuel Harris, Francis and James Flood,
Harriott, Sarah Ann,
Mary and John Smith, Benjamin Longden, Mary Ann Unwin, William Croshaw, S.
Binney,
Ann Law, Ann Sebina Andre, Jane Fox, Sarah Ann Hanly, James Jackson, Mary Ann Eaton Smith, Ann Smith, George Gregory, Ann Taylor, George Rebecca Charles
and Betsy Ann Cox, Martha Marshall, Margery Spoor, Eliza, Eliza and Tabitha Wrigley,
Thomas Henry and Charlotte Millington, John Wells, William Rhodes, Ann Monks, Edwin, Ann and Robert
Moulson, Mary and Mary Johnson, Caroline Kirkby, John Sacton,
William, Mary Eliza, Walter and Sarah Saxton, Harriet Bellamy, Jane and Juliana
Howlden, Louesa Marshall, Maria Ford, Willian Curtis, John Hobson Sheldon,
Thomas, Jane and Thomas Sheldon, William and Martha Dewsbury, William Proctor, John ....(no surname), Elizabeth and Jonathan Dyson, Joseph
Corridge, Thomas Billam, Hugh Railton, James Goy, Phoebe and Ruth Parkin, Emma and Martha Barnes,
David Lamb, Helen Jane Bagshaw, John and Hannah Pinder, Jane Pinder, Elizabeth and Thomas Merrill, Thomas Blackwell, Septimus
Priestley, Henry Berry, Joseph Newbound, Elizabeth, Elizabeth, Lydia, Joseph, and Hannah Stacey, William and John Walker, Martha Ann and Ann
Wilcock, Elizabeth and John Lancelot Shephard,
Elizabeth, John and Mary Ward, Robert and Emma Gregory, George Mitchell, Herbert Hazelwood, Henrietta, Henrietta Ann and Samuel Merrill, Mary, William and
George William Clark.
(The article names them individually so they might be in separate graves).
A plan of the burial ground showing the position of the graves and monuments or tombstones are deposited at our office No. 9 Bank Street (Branson & Son
Solicitors). All monuments and tombstones to be re-erected at the place of
re-interment."
I do not know the section in the General Cemetery where those that were re-interred were laid to rest.
It was followed seven months later by this report in the
Sheffield Daily Independent dated 9th September 1927. It appears that only about
80 bodies were going to be exhumed and not 125 as mentioned in the earlier
article.
I believe some more graves were disturbed when parts of West Street was widened for the
Supertram project. But as the following report in the Sheffield Weekly Gazette
shows the Chapel was delisted and it became an Australian Chain Bar called The
Walkabout. I can recall at the time the change of use was controversial given
that one of the mail tenets of Methodism is abstinence from drink but this was
discounted by Sheffield City Council planners.
I believe the most recent removal of remains from Carver Street was for the building of a beer store for the pub. The remains were studied by archaeologists/osteologists from Sheffield University and later re-interred - not sure where.
Sources
Sheffield and Rotherham Independent 25th July 1889
Sheffield Daily Telegraph, 22 February 1927.
Sheffield Daily Independent 9th September 1927
Sheffield Weekly Gazette 16th July 2004
Sheffield Indexers
Ancestry - UK Census
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