Photo: Margaret Allison
In Ashington (Holy Sepulchre) Churchyard is a family headstone which reads:
In
loving memory
of
Sarah
dearly beloved wife of
William Barnfather,
who died at Ashington August 16th 1915,
aged 6? years
the above William Barnfather
died August ?5th 1923
aged ? years
Mary Ann Scott, their daughter
died May 29th ? aged 41 years
also Petty officer William Barnfather, M.M.
their dearly beloved son,
killed in France Octr. 6th 1918
aged 24 years.
Also Pte. James William Barnfather
their dearly beloved grand-son
killed in France Sept. 21st 1917
aged 20 years.
James William Barnfather is remembered at Ashington on A17.01 (A17.27), A17.06, A17.08 and A17.43 and in the D.L.I. Book of Remembrance page 256
