Fatima Barkatulla – Fatima Elizabeth Cates grave at Anfield Cemetery
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A speaker discusses the history of Fatima Elizabeth Cates, one of the first Muslims in the UK. She explains that she found her grave at the Anfield Cemetery and that her family members found her niche. She also mentions a fundraiser to raise money for the buried buried sister and encourages those who visit the cemetery's burial burials to preserve the history.
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Brothers and sisters, I'm here
today in Anfield
Cemetery here in Liverpool,
up north
in England.
And
I really wanted to come and visit the
grave of Fatima Elizabeth Cates.
Her name was originally Frances
Elizabeth Cates,
and she was one of the first Muslims
in the UK. One of the first Muslim
women in,
in Liverpool, if not the first Muslim woman
in Liverpool.
And
I managed to
find
the gravestone.
We pray for her and those Muslims who
came before us here in the UK.
Just to let you know the story behind
her
her gravestone.
1 of the brothers in London,
I believe his name is brother Hamid Ali,
he
he set up a school, and he named
it Fatima Elizabeth Cates
School, I believe.
And, I visited the school actually. It's for
children, and he named it after her. And
then he started, researching
her
grave. You know? Like, where where was she
buried?
And alhamdulillah, he went through the archives and,
for Anfield Cemetery, and he found
her name, Frances Elizabeth
Elizabeth Cates.
And then it said that the person who
had,
arranged her burial
ceremony
was Abdullah Quilliam.
Abdullah Quilliam, you know, one of the
early Muslims in or the Victorian Muslims,
who established a masjid in Liverpool.
And, SubhanAllah,
he and some other brothers and sisters, they
found her gravesite
right
here in Anfield Cemetery.
There's the church, the chapel.
And as you can see, it's a very
old cemetery.
But when they found her grave,
they found that there was absolutely nothing there.
It was
an unmarked grave
in between
gravestones.
And, so,
sister,
I believe her name is Amina
Swazbrick.
She,
started a fundraiser
to try and raise funds so that we
can mark
the grave of our sister Fatima Elizabeth Cates
so that future generations
and the Muslims who come here would would
know, you know, where she is.
I think it's really important to preserve that
history.
And so,
you know, I remember when she was fundraising,
we all took part in that effort.
So
we managed to
establish
her gravestone.
And so if you're ever in
Liverpool,
if you want to come and salons to
the, you know, the Muslims
who are lying here
in their graves,
you can do so.
Unfit cemetery,
you can look it up.
It's quite easy to find. Alhamdulillah.
You can just literally goo put put it
in Google Maps, and you'll find it.
The grave of Fatima Elizabeth Cates
in Anfield Cemetery
here in
Liverpool.
May Allah
bless our brothers and sisters from the past.
May Allah
make their becoming a Muslim
in a time when there were very few
Muslims in the United Kingdom. Make it a
sadaqa jariyah for them,
and,
may he make their graves,
a
garden a a little garden from the Gardens
of Paradise,
and
may we meet them on the day of
judgment.