Yorkshire Almanac 2026

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And as for the goods of this transitory world with which it hath pleased God to endow me, my will and full mind is as followeth, first, that every one of my neighbours and relations in Carlecotes, Ecklands, and the upper part of Thurlston Mere who are at my burial shall have six pence a piece, and all the poor that comes from other places shall have two pence a piece.

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• Carlecotes (1) W/G ·
• Charity (practice) (10) W/G ·
• Eyre, Susannah (?-1668) (2), daughter of Godfrey Mathewman of Ellentree Head, lived at Hazlehead Hall, wife of Adam Eyre W/G ·
• Funeral (25) W/G ·
• 📌Hazlehead Hall (3), home in the 17th century to Adam Eyre W/G ·
• 📌Hazlehead (3), hamlet mid-way between Millhouse Green and Carlecotes W/G ·
• Thurlstone (2) W/G ·
• Will and testament (12) W/G ·

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The scan is from Chris Hobbs, who has a great collection of information on Horatio Bright. The mausoleum is at 53.389403,-1.645310, and was robbed in the 1980s, after which the bodies were reinterred at Crookes Cemetery, not at Ecclesfield Jewish Cemetery as Judy Simons claims (Simons 2021). Mary Alice and Samuel Bright had died in 1891. Hobbs says that Mary Alice “was embalmed and placed in a glass sided coffin. The mausoleum was decorated with pictures, statutes and ornaments and fitted with mahogany panelling. He even installed a small hand operated organ so that he could play funeral music to his departed love ones on his frequent visits.” The organ story may or may not be true, but our reporter specifically rebuts the first two claims. Given Bright’s atheism, or agnosticism, or personal faith, I’m curious who paid for the Methodist chapel adjoining the plantation in which he was laid to rest:

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