Saturday, 12 May 2018

Manchester St.Ann's Church

There are two Memorial plaques inside St.Anns church commemorating the fallen of the Great War. The main one remembers the men of St.Anns parish and the other was moved here from St.James's. 

There is also a private memorial to the Ferriar Family.



1914 - 1918
AND THEY LOVED NOT THEIR
LIVES EVEN UNTO THEIR DEATH
LAUS DEO

Albert BLACKLEDGE
John BLYTHE
William BLYTHE
Thomas William BONE
Reginald Francis BREEZE
Arthur Cecil BURROWS
John Wheeler BUSH
John CLARKE
Gerald CUTFORTH
Adrian Kingsley DORRITY
Stanley EVANS
Bernard GIBSON
Malcolm JACKSON
Fred KITSON
Charles MATHER
Tom NEWBROOK
James PEARSON
William ROBERTS
Harry ROBERTSON
James Kneal SENIOR
Robert Mackenzie SENIOR
Frederick James SMITH
James TURNER
Rowland WEST
George WILLIAMS
John William WILLIAMS
Geoffrey Hutton WILSON


IN THE FAITH OF JESUS CHRIST
THIS MEMORIAL IS DEDICATED TO THE
MEMORY OF THE MEN CONNECTED WITH
THIS PARISH AND CONGREGATION  WHO
GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND COUNRY
IN THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE


1914 PRO PATRIA 1019
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO
GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR
COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR

James CALARDINE
William J CORLETT
Leonard HIGGINS
James LONGWORTH
George LORD
Ernest OWEN
James PASS
John POYNTER
Fred ROYLE
William WHALLEY


THE ABOVE MEMORIAL WAS ORIGIONALY
ERECTED IN ST.JAMES CHURCH GEORGE
STREET MANCHESTER BUT UPON THE
DEMOLITION OF THAT CHURCH IN 1930
THE MEMORIAL WAS RE-ERECTED
IN THIS PLACE


SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
JOHN FERRIAR M.D.
WHO DIED ON THE 4TH OF FEBRUARY 1815
AND OF BARBARA, HIS WIFE
WHO DIED ON THE 1ST OF MARCH 1800
ALSO OF THEIR ELDEST SON
THOMAS ILDERTON FERRIAR
COLONEL IN THE COLOMBIAN ARMY WHO WAS
MORTALLY WOUNDED IN THE BATTLE OF CARABOBO
ON THE 24TH OF JUNE 1821
AND DIED AT VALENCIA ON THE 17TH OF JULY FOLLOWING
AND OF THEIR YOUNGEST SON
JOHN FERRIAR
LIEUTENANT COLONEL OF THE BATTALION OF CARABOBO
WHO DIED AT PASTO, IN COLOMBIA
ON THE 18TH MARCH 1829

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