The Lancashireman's graveyard book

Who's in that grave? - Inghamite chapel, Wheatley Lane:

The Inghamite chapel at Wheatley Lane has an extensive graveyard with around 30000 burials. The church has its own website, which includes a page about the churchyard.

Most of the burial registers have been transcribed by lan-opc, indexed by name and date. The records are also searchable in the lan-opc search engine. However, there is no way to search by grave.

The pages linked below provide lists of graves ordered by grave number and a list of the people buried in each grave, along with links back to the lan-opc pages.

Unfortunately it isn't possible to list every single grave and its occupants. Apart from occasional errors in the registers and the transcriptions:

• The burials in the early registers, up to 1838, have neither section nor grave. Those in the 1831-1838 file have a textual description of the grave's location. These burials are not listed here.
• Some of the later burials also have a textual description but often include initials, from which it might be possible to link burials together. At the moment these burials are not listed here.
• Many burials in the Muslim sections have only PAK in the grave number. These burials are not listed here.

In addition to the above:

• Some burials have a grave number but no section. In many cases it is possible to identify the section.
• Some burials in the Rose Bed, Lawn Plot, CH and WP sections are listed as section A1 but with an indication in the grave number.

Where the correct section can be identified, the grave has been placed in the correct section. This page gives a list of the adjustments made.

Burials where the section is given as 7G, 7g, 7V or 7v are placed in the list for section 7. Burials where the section is given as A1LP or A1/LP are placed in the list for section A1 LP.

The graves are listed in numerical order when there is a number available. When there are two numbers, the first is used. Graves without a number are placed at the end of the list.

• Section 1
• Section 2
• Section 3
• Section 4
• Section 5
• Section 6
• Section 7
• Section 8
• Section 9
• Section 10
• Section 11
• Section A
• Section A1
• Section A1 RB
• Section A1 LP
• Section A1 CH
• Section A1 WP
• Section A2
• Section A3
• Section A4

The pages listed above are generated from the lan-opc files using a program called WhosInThatGrave.py, which you can find on Codeberg in the witg directory.