The Hoyland Family Monument

A big thank you to Charles Hoyland for this photograph of the Hoyland monument in a snowy Norton Cemetery in Sheffield. His searches into locating the grave of Charles Hoyland born1829 and buried in 1905 led to him finding three previously unknown grandchildren, Eva, Edith Wynne (whose first Christian name was also my grandmother's) and Florence Mary who all died young, aged 5, 11 and 7.

Charles set out to try to locate the graves and was amazed to find such a significant memorial. Apart from the children, the inscriptions also mark the burials of the first Charles Hoyland mentioned above and his wife Hannah Selina (maiden name Wynne), their son Charles Haywood Hoyland (1868 - 1954) and his wife Louisa Maria (maiden name Brooks). Finally there is their Charles Hoyland (1894 - 1918) who died aged 21. More research needed here.

Thanks again to the current Charles Hoyland.