BURIALS at Beeston in the Parish of
Leeds
in the County of
York
in the Year 1860
| Name | Rachel Riley |
| No. | 1517 |
| Abode | Hunslet |
| When buried | June 7th. |
| Age | 74 Years |
| By Whom the Ceremony was performed | Geo:? Hilbanks? |
Only a year after Rachel's death, her daughter Elizabeth was living in Hunslet with Rachel's youngest daughter Sarah's family, so perhaps Rachel also lived there following Joseph Riley's death.
Daughter Elizabeth died in Hunslet 18 years later and was also buried at Beeston.
Burial at Beeston seems a bit strange. There don't seem to be Westmorlands buried there, and neither of Rachel's husbands were buried there. Perhaps the burial church was indicative of the difficulty of finding space for extra burials in older churchyards at that time. Though Beeston St. Mary's had been open since 1720, it does appear to have had a lot more surrounding space to expand into than most other suburban churches around Leeds, even as late as the 1893 OS map.
Source: West Yorkshire Archive Service; New Reference Number: RDP9/4/2
Source: Ancestry.com. West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Deaths and
Burials, 1813-1985