Obadiah Popplewell was my great great grandfather, he was a Woolen Weaver from Batley, West Yorkshire. His son Harry, the father of my Nana died in February 1903, aged 26. Two months later Obadiah also passed away, on the 3rd April 1903 aged 66. Both Obadiah and his son Harry where buried St. Paul’s Church Hanging Heaton, Batley.
Harry’s widow Rose and his two year old daughter Violet (my Nana) moved away from Batley and Rose eventually remarried widower William Whiting of Bridlington, North Yorkshire. As far as I know Rose and Violet never had anymore contact with the Popplewell family of Batley, but when my half sister Jacqui was a young child her ‘Mum’ Violet, gave her this beautiful funeral card of Obadiah Popplewell to draw on! Thankfully Jacqui appreciated it’s beauty and value and kept it safe, just recently she rediscovered it and shared the photo of it with me.
