Barnsley Family History Society

FRIENDS OF BARNSLEY CEMETERY
OPEN DAY
AND GUIDED WALKS

COME AND FIND OUT THE STORIES BEHIND SOME OF THE WAR GRAVES

WANT TO KNOW WHERE YOUR ANCESTOR IS BURIED?
WE HAVE THE REGISTERS ON DATABASE FROM 1861 to 1960

DISPLAY OF OLD PHOTOGRAPHS AND MAPS

GUIDED WALKS

The guided walks are limited in numbers so attendance is by ticket only
which are available on arrival.

Dates and Times

Sunday, September 21st, 2008, 2.30pm
Sunday, October 12th, 2008, 2.30pm
Sunday, November 9th, 2.30pm
(A two minute silence and the laying of a wreath on the cross of sacrifice
will take place immediately before commencement of this walk).

For further information contact Gillian Nixon on gnix@blueyonder.co.uk or Tel or Text 07957729927

Can anyone help?

The following message was received by our Chairman, Ron Spensley. If any member of the Society, or casual visitor to the site, thinks that they have any information that can assist Dan in the preparation of this programme, would they please contact him directly. Please click HERE

"I'm producing a radio programme on letters sent to my grandma around the time of the second world war. I need to interview a number of people and was hoping you could suggest people who may be relevant and willing to be interviewed for my piece.

The letters are from a lady called Whinnie Whalley (formally Dunning ) who used to work at the CEAG. I'm looking to interview a local historian about Barnsley during the second world war as well as anyone who worked at the CEAG around that time and a miner or a miner's wife.

If you could suggest anyone who I could contact it would be greatly appreciated. Ian McMillan has agreed to narrate the piece.

Many thanks,
Dan Hodgson".

The Society takes a special interest in the region centred on Barnsley, extending from Thurnscoe and Goldthorpe in the East, to Dunford Bridge in the West, and from Darton in the North, to Wortley in the South.

This area includes the ancient parishes of Cawthorne, Darfield, Darton, Felkirk (including Brierley, Shafton and until 1901, Grimethorpe), High Hoyland, Hoyland Nether, Monk Bretton, Penistone, Royston, Silkstone (formerly including Barnsley), Tankersley, Worsbrough, and Wortley, these forming a part of the Archdeaconry of Doncaster.