Luddenden Dean Wesleyan Chapel was destroyed by fire in 1954, but the graveyard remains.
The following people, and/or members of their family, are recorded here:
James Astin [1809-1882] James Astin [1816-1890] Robert Astin [1777-1856] Thomas Astin [1826-1905] Joseph Baldwin [1886-1920] Albert Brotherton [1886-1947] Ethel Brotherton [1889-1972] John Brotherton [1844-1907] Richard Brotherton [1815-1890] Midgley Calvert [1865-1948] Miles Calvert [1840-1908] Hodgson Greenwood [1862-1903] James Greenwood [1897-1918] John Murgatroyd [1819-1891] John Murgatroyd [1860-1915] Thomas Murgatroyd [1813-1883] Squire Shoesmith [1791-1801] John Smith [1848-1927]
In the graveyard, there is a communal grave to the orphans who died whilst working at Calvert's Mill at Wainstalls.
In 1876, Jonathan Calvert bought this plot, and a number of orphans who worked in Calvert's mill are buried here
- Mary Ellen Clark
- Alice Devitt
- Elizabeth Edwards
- Jane Johnson
- Sarah Shaw
- Marie Emery
- Annie Lockhart who is named on the headstone of Grave 183, but is buried in Grave 184,
On 8th March 1889, I. & I. Calvert bought this plot, and a number of orphans who worked in their mills are buried here
- Annie Lockhart who is buried in Grave 184, but is named on the headstone of Grave 183
- Mary Murphy
- Margaret Butler
- Alice Jubilee Jones
The grave is unmarked
Some of the monumental inscriptions in the graveyard are shown in the CD entitled Halifax Monumental Inscriptions #2
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