Sowerby St Peter's graveyard

Registers for baptisms and burials at St Peter's begin in 1643. There are five burials recorded in 1643, then a break until 1648.

James Hyleley of Hyley was amongst these first burials. James has already been mentioned in this Blog:

25 March 2020 - early references to the property High Lee in Sowerby

11 September 2021 - his father Michael's baptism and the family tree

19 November 2021 - described as the richest man in Sowerby

St Peter's Sowerby burial records
(with the permission of West Yorkshire Archive Service)
www.wyjs.org.uk/archives

Also buried at St Peter's were James's son James (buried 1680) and his son's wife Mary (nee Nailor, buried 1662). There were other relations of James buried here as well, including a number of infants.

There are no remaining gravestones bearing an inscription for any of these burials. 

                                                                    The church and graveyard today:

View from Towngate near the church looking across the Calder valley.
Sowerby Lane leading to High Lee is in the top left