Photographed on completion of the Silverdale St John project in 2000
Left to Right are:
Nell Jump - Peter Joslin - Patricia Rowlinson - Amy Byrom - Jean Mossop - Margaret Joslin
and the Late Barbara Baxter (Barbara took the photograph for us)

The project team at Lancaster and Morecambe better known locally as the “Dead Club”

To mark the teams achievements in 2000 the society President Derrick Walkden attended a special luncheon
at the Strathmore Hotel, he presented Mrs Nell Jump with a bound copy of her first volume “Lancaster 1860”
Some of the members of the 2000 team are left to right:
Margaret Berry, Norman and Patricia Rowlinson, Derrick, Nell, Barbara Baxter,
Amy Byrom, Jenny Ashworth, Dorothy Brooks and Margaret Joslin.

During this Millennium year the team has completed the following nine projects:
Monumental Inscriptions for HEYSHAM St. Peter, CARNFORTH Municipal,
TUNSTALL St. John, WRAY Holy Trinity, TATHAM St. James, SILVERDALE St. John,
THURNHAM St. Thomas & Elizabeth, GRESSINGHAM St. John
and The John Jump Index of events in LANCASTER in the 1860 Newspapers.

Sadly all things come to an end....
It was announced in July 2009 that the present Lancaster & Morecambe 'Dead Club' would retire
on safety grounds from work in grave yards. (see report below)

Lt. to Rt. are: Jean Mossop, Margaret Joslin, Peter Joslin, Norman Rowlinson, Patricia Rowlinson and Nell Jump
Venue for our farewell Lunch was the recently refurbished
MIDLAND HOTEL Morecambe

The Midland Hotel Morecambe
originally built in 1933 by the L.M.S. Railway Co.
The beautiful and recently refurbished Art-Deco ‘Midland Hotel’ was the venue for a meal to mark the retirement
of our famous ‘Dead Club’ All the members past and present can be very proud of the achievements
of this Lancaster & Morecambe projects group over the past 20 years.
No Lancashire burial ground north of the Lune and a lot of them south of the river; have escaped our team of transcribers.
Our local website www.lancasterfamilyhistory.org.uk carries a list of indexes of people mentioned on the memorials,
images of most of them can be supplied to members.
From the small Quaker burial grounds to Non Conformist, Parish Church yards and large Municipal Cemeteries;
they have all been visited over the years.

Latest Burial grounds to be recorded in 2009 or are in progress are, Hale Carr (Municipal Cemetery)
Bolton-Le-Sands (Holy Trinity) Warton (St. Oswald) Calder Vale (St Johns) Barnacre (All Saints)
Cockerham (St. Michael) all these will soon be complete with Indexes and images to go on our website.
The team remain committed to the Lancashire BMD project (every Friday at Preston)
and to the ongoing transcribing of local parish registers.
As age creeps up on us, It is only the dangers in grave yards that we are concerned with,
none of us are as nimble as we were twenty years ago and we are heeding the warnings that we placed on our projects webpage.  

 Just because the present team has ‘Hung up it’s boots’ it does not mean an end of outdoor projects,
a ‘Dead Club 2’ could be formed with younger members to carry on the tradition that has been so appreciated by researches in this area.
If you feel you could help with family history projects; then please contact:
Peter W Joslin. L&M Project Coordinator peterjoslin@btinternet.com