Death & burial
Richard Harling died at the age of 33 at Manchester on the 17th of November 1859.
Next-of-kin: Brother, James Harling, living at New Radford, Nottinghamshire.
He left no will. His credits were £2/7/8d.
His death certificate shows that he died at the Cavalry Barracks, Hulme, Manchester, on the 17th of November 1859, aged 32 years, a "Private, 4th Light Dragoons", from "Disease of the Spine, 16 months. Chronic abscess". A John McVeast [sic] was shown as being present at the death (This would have been 906 John McVeagh, of the 4th LD., who was the Hospital Sergeant at the time.) (There is copy of the death certificate in the 4th Light Dragoons "Certificates" file.)
[Richard Harling was presumably Roman Catholic because his burial record is annotated "R.C.".]
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He is believed to have been buried in St. George's Churchyard at Hulme. Manchester, although a book at present in Manchester Central Library listing all the graves in this cemetery makes no mention of him. Not having been seen, it could be that this shows only the gravstone inscriptions recorded, and he may not have had a stone erected
In early 2001 the church and its churchyard was sold to a property company for development, the church itself being turned into "luxury flats". The churchyard on the north side has been cleared, the bodies being disinterred in the presence of a priest and re-buried on the southern part of the churchyard, and a brick-paved car park built in its place with a new boundary wall.
Further enquiry has shown that the more important monuments would be preserved and re-erected in a garden of remembrance, but others were laid flat and set in concrete under the brick-paved car park. It is more likely that they were broken up and used as hardcore.