31 Days of Graves Day 10 Profession

This is a very tricky theme to deal with! I’ve interpreted ‘profession’ to mean occupation. We’ve already met an apothecary and a matmaker on Day 8, but which of these other professions to write about?? I’ve stuck to writing about only those people whose profession or occupation is noted on their memorial stone, tempting though it is to include other people I know about!

In the churchyard of All Saints with Holy Trinity as well as William Green the butcher, we also have the Newberry dynasty of butchers. Thomas Harriman was a carpenter, and Joseph Blunt a draper. Thomas Cresswell was a hatter, and James Mitchell an ironmonger and cutler. There is also Alpheus Buck, the plumber, Thomas Stanley the postmaster, and the Wells family of innkeepers. Naturally, there are clergy, like William James Whitaker, but also John Smith, servant to the Rev. James Bickham.  

So far, I have only found one midwife commemorated amongst the stones – Catherine Mottershaw, née Foreman, who married William Mottershaw in about 1859. Let’s take a closer look at the memorial stone inscription:

Sacred to the memory of

CATHARINE FOREMAN

Midwife

late Wife of

Willm MOTTERSHAW

she departed this Life

September 11th 1784;

Aged 48 Years  

Meanwhile, over in the Leicester Road old cemetery, we find bellfounders (members of the Taylor family) and members of the clergy in the Rev. David Dewar of Holy Trinity church. Former mayors, councillors, and JPs are also well-represented with memorials to Thomas Mayo (known as the grand old man of Loughborough) who was mayor 9 times; George Hill, and Hilda Dormer, the first woman mayor of Loughborough, in 1947-1948 (pictured below). John Sparrow was a journalist who died at the young age of 27 in 1886. There are also a few memorials to head teachers, including James Upton (whose school was attended by Ion Livingston Gimson whom we met on Day 2), and William Hollinshead, head teacher of Rosebery School, who died from injuries sustained when falling from a ladder at the school.     

Thank you for coming along on this journey of discovery with me!

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