Elizabeth Gaskell’s Children – Part 1, Marianne
Elizabeth Stevenson married Rev. William Gaskell at St John’s Church, Knutsford in 1832 and on 10th July 1833 she gave birth to a stillborn girl. Jenny Uglow writes in her […]
A Tale for Our Times: the Cholera Epidemic of 1832
While we are all locked down, attempting to survive the ever-increasing threat of ‘The Virus’, I thought it might be interesting to share with you an incident in the early […]
Martin Luther King Day at Cairo Street Chapel
The middle years of the 19th Century must have been a great time to be a member of Cairo Street Unitarian Chapel, for not only were plans being developed to […]
Samuel Gaskell – Warrington’s forgotten pioneer in the treatment of mental health
As part of the Heritage Open Days in 2019, the doors will be open at Cairo Street Unitarian Chapel, Warrington’s oldest Dissenting Chapel. Founded on the same site in 1662, […]
Cairo Street Unitarian Chapel, Warrington
In 1845 while scarlet fever was rife in Manchester, Elizabeth Gaskell took her young family, comprising then of three girls and a baby boy, William, out to North Wales to […]
Location of Marianne’s Grave in Worcestershire
Two of Elizabeth Gaskell’s daughters, Meta and Julia, are buried with Elizabeth and their father William Gaskell, at Brook Street Unitarian Chapel in Knutsford. Their daughter Florence is buried in […]