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DATE FORENAME SURNAME Gender Years Months RESIDENCE GRAVE NOTE
03/10/1908, Alfred James Athersuch, Male, 0 years, 0 months 64 St James St, A9158, 12 days
25/02/1915, PERCY ATHERSUCH, Male, 0 years 0 months, 7 ESCAR ST, NE3376 3 DAYS
03/04/1924, Clara Elizabeth Athersuch, Female, 46 years, 0 months, 12 Nelson Square, A6387
03/11/1962, Bessie Edwina Athersuch, Female 59 years, 0 months, Clegg St, A6387

As it seems such an unusual name I looked it up on Ancestry and in the general search there are only 8 births and 3 deaths in Lancashire and they are in Burnley, no sign of any in the 1901 census unless I am going through them with my eyes shut.

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Gloria

I'd be dangerous with a brain.

Name: Alfred James Athersuch
Birth: Sep 1908 - Burnley, Lancashire, Yorkshire - West Riding

These are they.

Name: Bessie Edwina Athersuch
Birth: Jun 1903 - Burnley, Lancashire

Name: Georgina Winifred Athersuch
Birth: Sep 1906 - Burnley, Lancashire

Name: Percy Athersuch
Birth: Mar 1915 -Burnley, Lancashire

Name: Phyllis C Athersuch
Birth: Sep 1910 - Burnley, Lancashire

Name: Ruby M Athersuch
Birth: Jun 1919 - Burnley, Lancashire

Name: Sydney A Athersuch
Year of Registration: 1912
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
Mother's Maiden Name: Jones
District: Burnley
County: Lancashire

Name: Sydney A Athersuch
Birth: Dec 1912 - Burnley, Lancashire

Name: Alfred James Athersuch
Birth: abt 1908
Death: Dec 1908-Burnley, Lancashire

Name: Clara E Athersuch
Birth: abt 1878
Death: Mar 1924 - Burnley, Lancashire

Name: Percy Athersuch
Birth: abt 1915
Death: Mar 1915 - Burnley, Lancashire

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Gloria

I'd be dangerous with a brain.

Hi Gloria, you are right, this is not a local name.

Sidney Athersuch can be seen in the WW2 soldiers (his sister lived at Harle Syke), and it seems that Sidney's father moved to Burnley in the early 1900's.

There is more on this family here viewtopic.php?f=11&t=36&start=15

The library sent me this.

A6387 was purchased by Percy Athersuch – constable. Clara, 1924 is the first burial followed by Percy Grenville Athersuch on 25/01/1937 aged 60 yrs, with Bessie in 1962 being the last internment in the grave.

I have researched the name Athersuch extensively. The main family Athersuch (of which I am member) are from the Coventry area, but there is another (probably unrelated) family Athersuch in Bristol from the early 1700's. Percy Grenville did indeed move to Burnley in the early 1900's from Bristol (he was born in Clifton in 1876 and was a saior before joining the Coldstream Guards in 1899 - 1914 when he was invalised out of the army and eventually joined the police and ended up as a police tailor. If you want more information I would be happy to send you a family tree. Sorry my online tree is offline at present thanks to some hackers compromising my webspace!