The Vicar then was Rev Richard Grosvenor Bartelot MA FSA (1868-1947) [Note:- Many of the gravestones being moved must have been in poor condition by 1907 making transcription difficult. I have therefore checked against, and quoted the parish register entry, for each burial as these are likely to be more accurate being contemporary with the event and commented where there is any discrepacy with the transcription. Michael Russell OPC for Fordington] I. Sacred to the memory of John George HOCKEY the ... of John & Sarah HOCKEY who died May 10 (?) 1857 (?) aged 2 years. Also Emily Rhoda HOCKEY daughter of .... who died .... aged ..(4 lines partly illegible)
II. Sacred to the memory of Elizabeth WHITE who died February 5th 1855 aged 41 years. this stone is erected to her memory by her son H. WHITE [Note:- Elizabeth WHITE from the High Street was buried at st Georges Church on 05 Feb 1855 aged 41] III. In memory of Honor wife of John BROWN Senior who departed this life April 13th 1834 aged 67 years, Also John BROWN husband of the above who departed this life December 16th 1838 aged 75 years
IV. Sacred to the memory of Sarah BROWN daughter of John & Honour BROWN who departed this life March 30th 1793; Also John & Sarah their children. Sarah died July 4th 1803 aged 7 months; Likewise of Charlotte this daughter who died July 24 1809 aged 4 years*.
Same stone on the reverse:- To the North adjoining this stone lies interred in one grave the bodys [bodies] of Samuel & Mary the parents of John BROWN Senior. Samuel died August 4th 1794 aged 60 years. Mary died Jan 22 1814 aged 90 years & retained her faculties to the day of her death V. John RANDALL who departed this life March 13th 1863* aged 58 years; Also Elizabeth wife of the above who departed this life July 9th 1864 aged 60 years
VI. To the memory of Robert PARSONS who departed this life October 12th 1836 aged 19 years (10 lines of poetry, dedicated by a widowed mother)
VII. Sacred to the memory of James BOGGETT who departed this life March 19 1814* aged 35 years. Also Lydia BOGGETT wife of the above who departed this life February 5th 1830
VIII. Here lyeth the body of George BRICE who died January ye 28th 1736 aged 65 years. Also Jane his wife who died February ye 25th 1724
IX. In Memory of Maria GAULTON who departed this life August 1st 1829 aged 25 years. Also of Mary Ann WARREN who died March 25th 1851 aged 50 years; Also Sarah Allen GAULTON Mother of the above who died June 14th 1852 aged 72 years, Also Martha Milbourne GAULTON who departed this life October 3rd 1851 aged 40 years, Also Charles WARREN who died December 6th 1865 aged 26 years, Also John WARREN who died March 7th 1866 aged 66 years
X. Fragment: Sacred to the memory of Jeffery MADDICK who departed this life May 26th 1826 aged 73 years - Also Elizabeth wife of .......July 13th.
XI. Stone (flat) just outside the centre of the east end of the church: MEMORIE SACRYM REVD VIRI JOHANNIS JACOB L.L.B. HUIVS ECCLESIAE PER QUADRAGINTA ET SEX ABBOS VICARII OBITT DIE XXII MENSIS JANVARII MDCCLIX
XII. Beneath this stone lies the remains of Henry Edward BINGHAM who died June ye 21st 1813 aged 5 years and six months
XIII. In the Harvey Vault just east of the old north transcept the following breastplates & tombstone: In memory of Susanna Maria daughter of Robert RIDEOUT and Susanna HARVEY who departed this life 12th May 1807 aged 3 years & six months. Susan HARVEY died December 1st 1858 aged 80 years (six bodies altogether left as they were) Tombstone with (illegible word) In memory of William LUCAS died January 29th 1819 aged 48 years; Also Elizabeth wife of the above died August 12th 1820 aged 58 years; And Elizabeth their daughter died Nov 26th 1828 aged 19 years. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord
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