by Sarsfield Blog | Mar 2, 2015 | Blogs
Lifting, Storing, Updating and Re-affixing a Family Gravestone Following a Recent Death While a death in the family is always a sad and distressing time, some things can bring a small measure of comfort. Some families decide to purchase a family plot in a burial...
by Sarsfield Blog | Jun 30, 2014 | Blogs
A Tale of Romance and Tragedy: A Popular Actress and her RAF husband Mary Lawson was a highly popular and sought-after stage and screen actress in the 1920s and 30s. From working class roots from County Durham, she made her first appearance singing for wounded...
by Sarsfield Blog | Jun 16, 2014 | Blogs
12 May 1879 – 16 October 1946 Percy Bates was the second son of Edward Percy Bates and grandson of Sir Edward Bates, 1st Baronet and a Conservative Member of Parliament. He dedicated much of his life to ship-building and in his role as Chairman of the Cunard-White...
by Sarsfield Blog | Jun 9, 2014 | Blogs
2 August 1858 – 13 August 1935 William Watson was the youngest of three sons of a master grocer. Born in Burley, Yorkshire, he moved to Liverpool with his family at an early age and grew up there. His early interest was in Romantic poetry but his first volume met with...
by Sarsfield Blog | May 27, 2014 | Blogs
1852 – 1932, Widnes Scientist, Industrialist and Public Figure Sir Henry Wade Deacon was a son of Henry Deacon, a major industrialist and one of the first entrepreneurs to establish chemical works in Widnes. Henry Deacon counted Michael Faraday, one of the most...
