Surgeon's Grave, Mottram-in-Longdendale.

Surgeon's Grave, Mottram-in-Longdendale.

Location

The Church of St Michael's and all Angels, Mottram in Longdendale, Cheshire. On the edge of the upper graveyard, to the north of the church.

Description

A memeorial to the SIDEBOTTOM family of surgeons.

Inscription

IN MEMORY OF RALPH SIDEBOTTOM, SURGEON, OF MOTTRAM WHO DIED FEBy 21st 1856, IN HIS FIFTY NINTH YEAR. ALSO HARRIET SIDEBOTTOM THE BELOVED WIFE OF RALPH SIDEBOTTOM, SURGEON, OF MOTTRAM, WHO DIED AUGst 21st 1842, IN HER FORTY THIRD YEAR.
ALSO BETTY SIDEBOTTOM WHO DIED JANy 15th 1821, IN HER FIRST YEAR. ALSO EDWARD SIDEBOTTOM WHO DIED FEBy 1st 1827, IN HIS SECOND YEAR.
ALSO MARY SIDEBOTTOM WHO DIED OCTr 22nd 1842 IN HER NINTH YEAR. ALSO SAM'L SIDDALL SIDEBOTTOM, SURGEON OF MOTTRAM, WHO DIED JULY 22nd 1855, IN HIS THIRTY FOURTH YEAR.
ALSO EDWARD SIDEBOTTOM SURGEON, OF MOTTRAM, WHO DIED MARCH 1st 1871, IN HIS FOURTY FOURTH YEAR, ALSO ESTHER SIDEBOTTOM, HIS WIFE, WHO DIED FEBy 5th 1905, IN HER SEVENTY THIRD YEAR ALSO KATE HOWARD SIDEBOTTOM DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE WHO DIED MARCH 22nd 1938 IN HER SEVENTY FOURTH YEAR
ALSO ALBERT SIDEBOTTOM FOURTH SON OF THE ABOVE, WHO DIED FEBRUARY 15th 1873, IN HIS FOURTY FOURTH YEAR.
ALSO RALPH HALL SIDEBOTTOM WHO DIED JANUARY 31st 1879 AGED 46 YEARS.
(also) WILLIAM SIDEBOTTOM OF LONDON WHO DIED OCTOBER 19TH 1879, AGED 55 YEARS
ALSO GERTRUDE JANE DAUGHTER OF EDWARD SIDEBOTTOM, SURGEON, WHO DIED APRIL 11th 1864, IN HER SECOND YEAR.

Note

A story about surgeons is told on another gravestone nearby, see the grave of Lewis Brierley

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