My Family Graveyard Log

I love researching with the added incentive of a family history challenge. The Graveyard Challenge is a fascinating example which can lead on toy further discoveries. Here are myself and my 62 direct ancestors with each of their burial locations.

1. Sheridan Margaret Green - living
2. John George Green - Father - cremated at Surrey and Sussex Crematorium, 19th October 2001, ashes sprinkled at the Kipling Gardens, Rottingdean.
3. Margaret Helen Fanny Green, nee Whitehead - Mother - cremated at Kingsdown Crematorium, Swindon, 16th February 2015, ashes sprinkled at the Kipling Gardens, Rottingdean.
4. John Joseph Green - Grandfather - cremated in Lewisham, 25 October 1971.
5. Elizabeth Harvey Green, nee Ellary - Grandmother - cremated in Lewisham, 19th March 1986.
6. Henry Whitehead - Grandfather - buried in a consecrated grave, Plot 42624, square 54, at Nunhead Cemetery, London, on 28th October 1961.
7. Annie Whitehead, nee Sear - Grandmother - buried in a consecrated grave, Plot 42624, square 54, at Nunhead Cemetery, London, on 26th June 1950.
8. John George Green - Great Grandfather - buried in a shared consecrated grave with 20 other burials, Plot Z 662, at Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, on 16th December 1926. He is listed as a labourer.
9. Elizabeth Green, nee Franks - Great Grandmother - buried in a shared consecrated grave with 20 other burials, Plot Z 535, at Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, on 15th July 1924.
10. John William James Ellary - Great Grandfather - buried in a shared consecrated grave with 30 other burials, Plot G/1246, at Ladywell Cemetery, Lewisham, (adjacent to Brockley), on 3rd January 1939. He was listed as age 72 with no occupation.
11. Elizabeth Harvey Ellary, nee Randall - Great Grandmother - buried in a shared general grave with 12 other burials, Plot D/Gen/647/A at Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, on 5th December 1914. Incorrectly recorded on burial register as wife of Henry a tin worker.
12. James Whitehead - Great Grandfather - buried at St Mary's Churchyard, North Aston, on February 4th 1941, age 84. No plot number is recorded.
13. Elizabeth Ann Whitehead, nee Stockford - Great Grandmother - buried at St Mary's Churchyard, North Aston, on 6th March 1931, age 74. No plot number is recorded.
14. Joseph Sear - Great Grandfather - buried in New Quay Cemetery, Cardigan, 15th May 1941, section B plot 397. His place of death is not recorded in the Ceredigion burial records.
15. Annie Sophia Sear, nee Godman - Great Grandmother - buried in Christchurch Cemetery, Caerleon, Monmouthshire, Wales, in Dec 1961, with her son-in-law Idwal Ieuan Jones.
16. John Joseph Green - 2 x Great Grandfather - Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, plot 196a, no gravestone.
17. Mary Ann Jane Green, nee Dutton - 2 x Great Grandmother - Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, plot 1452, no gravestone.
18. James Franks - 2 x Great Grandfather - buried in a shared unconsecrated grave with 23 other burials, Plot D 629a, at Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, on 30th December 1912. He is listed as a stoker.
19. Elizabeth Franks, nee Brown - 2 x Great Grandmother - buried in a shared unconsecrated grave with 8 other burials, Plot I 86a, at Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, on 29th March 1890. She is listed as the wife of James Franks, labourer.
20. John Ellary - 2 x Great Grandfather - buried by D Honour in a shared unconsecrated grave with 10 other burials, Plot D 488a, at Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, on 30th November 1905. He is listed as retired.
21. Mary Ann Ellary, nee Tetstall - 2 x Great Grandmother - buried by D Smith in a shared unconsecrated grave with 9 other burials, Plot V 342, at Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, on 22 August 1894. She is listed as wife of John Ellary, an engineer.
22. John Randall - 2 x Great Grandfather - buried by J Morgan in a shared unconsecrated grave with 10 other burials, Plot B 73, at Greenwich Cemetery, Greenwich, on 6th June 1911. He is listed in the Infirmary's Register of Deaths as a widower and a carpenter, and in the burial register as a labourer.
23. Elizabeth Harvey Randall, nee Davey - 2 x Great Grandmother - buried by George Sole in a shared unconsecrated grave with seven other burials, Plot J 269A, at Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, on 17th June 1899. Incorrectly recorded on burial register as wife of Thomas, a shipwright.
24. Philip Whitehead - 2 x Great Grandfather - buried by C Rede Clifton, Vicar of North Aston, on 16th May 1870 in St Mary's Churchyard, North Aston.
25. Hannah Whitehead, nee Nixon - 2 x Great Grandmother - buried by A Spencer, the Curate of Steeple Aston, on 19th May 1879 in St Mary's Churchyard, North Aston.
26. John Stockford - 2 x Great Grandfather - died 16th July 1885 in Duns Tew, Oxfordshire. Burial details to be confirmed - this period is not yet indexed by OFHS.
27. Mary Anne Stockford, nee Goodwin - 2 x Great Grandmother - according to another Ancestry user, buried 30th Mar 1875 at Duns Tew, Oxfordshire, England. Burial details to be confirmed - this period is not yet indexed by OFHS .
28. William Sear - 2 x Great Grandfather - buried on 27th Jan 1896 in Highgate Cemetery, Camden, in a consecrated grave, reference 17806, square 118, shared with four relatives: his wife Lucy Jane Sear (see 29), his father-in-law James Wright (see 58), his mother-in-law Caroline Wright (see 59), and Lucy's nephew Edmund Rose, who died at age four months. Edmund was the second to be buried in this plot, on 21st September 1874.
29. Lucy Jane Sear, nee Wright - 2 x Great Grandmother - buried 3rd July 1895 in Highgate Cemetery, Camden, in a consecrated grave shared with four relatives, reference 17806, square 118, (see 28).
30. John Godman - 2 x Great Grandfather - buried by F R Moore on 3rd April 1906 at St Pancras Cemetery, Camden, in a shared grave with eight other unrelated burials, grave reference N7/149.
31. Charlotte Godman, nee Hodge - 2 x Great Grandmother - buried on 16th June 1884 at Islington Cemetery, Finchley, in a shared grave with fifteen other unrelated burials, buried by J Pearce, grave reference R/3/11608.
32. John William Green - 3 x Great Grandfather - buried on 14th Mar 1895 at Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, in a shared unconsecrated grave with eight other unrelated burials, buried by D Smith, grave reference V/Uncon/286.
33. Wilhelmina Hannah Green, nee Fox - 3 x Great Grandmother - buried on 30th Jan 1890 at Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, in a shared unconsecrated grave with eighteen other unrelated burials, buried by D Smith, grave reference F/Uncon/42.
34. Edward Warner Dutton - 3 x Great Grandfather - buried on 20th Jan 1892 at Brockley Cemetery, Lewisham, in a shared unconsecrated grave with two unrelated burials, buried by D Smith, grave reference I/Uncon/342.
35. Mary Ann Dutton, nee Lannagan - 3 x Great Grandmother - buried in April 1899 at a School of Anatomy. Bodies unclaimed for 48 hours could be donated by the workhouse for medical research and training.
36. William Franks - 3 x Great Grandfather - buried 7th March 1876 at St Mary Magdalene, Roxton, Bedfordshire.
37. Ann Franks, nee Elderkin - 3 x Great Grandmother - died 1876, possibly in Chawston, Bedfordshire, burial not found as yet.
38. William Brown - 3 x Great Grandfather - buried 6th Oct 1859 at St Mary the Virgin, Eaton Socon, Bedfordshire.
39. Charlotte Brown, nee Stapleton - 3 x Great Grandmother - buried 29th Sep 1877 at St Mary the Virgin, Eaton Socon, Bedfordshire.
40. John Ellary - 3 x Great Grandfather - died at daughter's house in Cookley, Worcestershire age 71, burial not found as yet.
41. Anna Maria Ellary, nee Webb - 3 x Great Grandmother - died in Kidderminster, burial not found as yet.
42. James Tetstall - 3 x Great Grandfather
43. Ann Tetstall, nee Marigold - 3 x Great Grandmother
44. Edmund Randall - 3 x Great Grandfather
45. Maria Randall, nee Rapsey - 3 x Great Grandmother
46. John Davey - 3 x Great Grandfather
47. Frances Davey, nee Copelan - 3 x Great Grandmother
48. James Whitehead - 3 x Great Grandfather - buried by C Rede Clifton, Vicar of North Aston, on 27th Feb 1858 in St Mary's Churchyard, North Aston.
49. Ann Whitehead, nee Nevill - 3 x Great Grandmother - buried by C Rede Clifton, Vicar of North Aston, on 1st Oct 1867 in St Mary's Churchyard, North Aston.
50. Henry Nixon - 3 x Great Grandfather
51. Elizabeth Nixon, nee Rogers - 3 x Great Grandmother
52. Amos Stockford - 3 x Great Grandfather
53. Judith Stockford, nee Lines - 3 x Great Grandmother
54. William Goodwin - 3 x Great Grandfather
55. Esther Goodwrin, nee Harris - 3 x Great Grandmother
56. Joseph Sear - 3 x Great Grandfather
57. Elizabeth Sear, nee Saunders - 3 x Great Grandmother
58. James Wright - 3 x Great Grandfather - buried on 4th February 1895 in Highgate Cemetery, Camden, in a consecrated grave shared with four relatives, reference 17806, square 118, (see 28).
59. Caroline Wright, nee Irish - 3 x Great Grandmother - buried on 2nd Mar 1874, in Highgate Cemetery, Camden, in a consecrated grave shared with four relatives, reference 17806, square 118, (see 28). Caroline was the first to be buried in this plot.
60. Frederick Godman - 3 x Great Grandfather
61. Sophia Godman, nee Dell - 3 x Great Grandmother
62. James Hodge - 3 x Great Grandfather - TBC
63. Caroline Hodge, nee Browning - 3 x Great Grandmother - TBC.

Brockley Notes

Several of my family's Brockley burials were conducted by George Sole, a former London City missionary and cemetery chaplain. He was born at 54 Chenier Mews, St Giles in the Fields, Holborn, the son of a cooper. At the time of his death lived at 39 Brockley Road, Deptford. He was himself buried at Brockley Cemetery, in unconsecrated ground, on 16th October 1913 at the age of 73.

Nunhead Notes

Three members of my family are buried at Nunhead. My maternal grandparents are buried together in a consecrated grave, plot 42624, square 54, in Nunhead Cemetery. Annie Whitehead, nee Sear, my grandmother, was buried there on 26th June 1950, long before I was born. Although he remarried, Henry Whitehead, my grandfather, was buried with Annie on 28th October 1961, when I was five months old. My uncle Craftsman Arthur Henry Whitehead (Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) was buried in a consecrated grave, plot 41795, square 54, on 19th September 1946. The grave was recorded by the CWGC as a marble book and kerb, to be maintained by relatives. He was also remembered on the CWGC screen wall, panel 28.

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