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The burial
register for the consecrated section of Holbeck Cemetery, Beeston Hill,
Leeds (microfilm, Leeds City Library), records the burial of 74-year-old Thomas
Young Stokoe, tailor, of Northcote Street, Hunslet, in plot 11398 of
Holbeck Cemetery, Beeston Hill, Leeds. The Register of Vaults and
Graves in the Holbeck Burial Ground (consecrated portion), held
at Lawnswood Cemetery Leeds, listed plot 11398 as owned by Mary Douglas
Clarke, a married daughter, and lists successive interments in the grave as
follows (putting “Clarke” for “Clark” throughout):
12/01/1904 -
George Francis Clarke (son-in-law of T.Y.S.)
04/07/1905 -
Thomas Young Stokoe
07/05/1908 -
Arthur Stokoe Clarke (grandson of T.Y.S.)
08/02/1911 -
Arthur Clarke (grandson of T.Y.S.)
13/10/1911 -
Leslie Stokoe Clarke
Only Thomas
Young Stokoe and his grandson Arthur Stokoe Clark are named on the
headstone, which is small, being only 35½” wide at the base,
and 25½” tall. It now lies flat on its back in an area
were children climb over the low cemetery wall, making the graves
susceptible to damage. Recent chips out of the above stone are
evident, and it will presumably suffer progressive damage with time.
The majority of graves in the immediate area lack any headstone, presumably
due to damage in the past. Two lie face down. Other parts of
the cemetery are in better condition.
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