Woman fails to reunite late parents in grave

A WOMAN has failed in her bid to exhume her father’s remains so he could be re-buried with her natural mother.

Cyril Halstead Cawthron was married to Marion, his first wife, for 15 years until she died in 1956.

She was buried with her husband’s late parents in St Wilfrid’s churchyard in Standish, Wigan, and it appeared he would join them when his time came.

But eight years later he married Joan, his second wife, and they were together for 28 years until Mr Cawthron died in 1992. Joan died a short time later and the pair were buried together in a separate plot at St Wilfrid’s.

Elaine Durrington, Mr Cawthron’s daughter, asked the Church of England’s Consistory Court for permission to have her father exhumed and buried with his first wife. But Judge John W Bullimore ruled his body should stay where it is, saying there were no circumstances that could be considered “exceptional”.