St Michael's churchyard at Kirkham

Amongst those buried here are Ada, the last of the family to die in Kirkham and Edmund William, the last Birley to be buried in the town who died in December 1940.

John, the first to be buried at Kirkham, in 1767, lies with his second wife, Elizabeth, in a separate grave a little nearer the church

The family tree of Birley of Kirkham.
The names of those members of the family who were particularly important in Kirkham are highlighted
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