What happened in March 1913 in Yorkshire Engalnd?

Question

I was doing a little research on an Entwistle Family because of a possible DNA link.   (No WikiTree Profile found)

I found a burial for John Entwistle (1863-1913) in Leeds, Yorkshire at Billion Graves.  On looking at the stone there are quite a few males that seem unrelated all dying on or around the 25th of March 1913.

Then it goes on to April  is this institution burials??

https://billiongraves.com/images?t=med28764547&col=1&cat=160286&rec=35113974

Anyone have any ideas of where to find any information.

Not what I originally set out to investigate.  I always get sidetracked with interesting snippets of history.

Comments

It's a "guinea grave" from the look of the gravestone photo (can only see the thumbnail as I am not registered). People paid a guinea and were buried with a dozen or more others who died around the same time. They got a headstone with their name and dates etc in a list with the others. They avoided the stigma of a pauper's grave without getting themselves into debt. These are quite common in Leeds in various cemeteries, my great great grandma was buried in one and they were not poor, about average income.

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Thank you for that. I don't get past a sign up page on the link above so didn't see the photo.   I've not come across this before but googling found lots of sites with photos of the graveyard

Answer 1

There were 6 burials on that day, all from different addresses. It doesn't seem to be an unusual number. Some days there seem to have been just a couple of burials, sometimes six or seven. Leeds was a city with a large  working class  population living in poor conditions. 148 people died in Leeds in the week ending March 22 1813(couldn't find the figure for WE March 29. I  found them when I searched  the local newspapers in the British Newspaper archive but found nothing  about his dead )  This was just one of several municipal cemeteries.

  The record says he was a fish dealer but as he was buried in the same grave as two  unrelated people, he probably wasn't well off. Cemetery register

Edit after reading Lynn's comment, I checked the burials on the previous page. There seem to be two more in the same grave from the page before but findagrave shows there were others added later https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/638912/memorial-search?firstname=&middlename=&lastname=&cemeteryName=Beckett+Street+Cemetery&birthyear=&birthyearfilter=&deathyear=&deathyearfilter=&memorialid=&mcid=&linkedToName=&datefilter=&orderby=n&plot=24654