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In 1927 Charles Partridge of Stowmarket (1872-1955) noted inscriptions in the churchyard and tower of St Mary's, Woodbridge, dating back to 1693 and possibly earlier. The attached transcript of his manuscript incorporates information recorded by the Revd J. W. Darby in 1826 and additional data from parish registers and elsewhere.
Details of many other indoor memorials were published in A Record of Woodbridge Parish Church (https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=885344.0) by John Dallenger (1875).
Some of the monuments can now be seen on websites such as Find a Grave (https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2532874/val=st-mary's-churchyard&length=20), the Gravestone Photographic Resource (GPR) (https://www.gravestonephotos.com/public/cemetery.php?cemetery=888) and Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/norfolkodyssey/albums/72157610703518711/).
Regular interments at St Mary's ceased in July 1856, although the town's public cemetery is not thought to have come into use until 1863. Later churchyard burials required special permission from the Home Secretary. This was granted in just a few cases: in 1864 for Thomas Sheming (inscription number 217); in 1866 for Mary Turner (49), Ann Gissing (307) and Rosetta Grimwood (216); and in 1880 and 1910 for Charles Barnes and his son (207).
The following surnames (including those used as Christian names) are indexed:
Abbott Abell Ablitt Adams Aldous Aldred Alexander Alkins Alldis Allen Alstone Amos Amys Ansell Ashford Asker Ayton Backet Bacon Baldrey Barnard Barnes Barns Bass Bays Berry Bidbank Biggen Bird Black Blackman Blair Boast Bolton Booth Branch Brassey Brewer Brinkley Brook Buckingham Bull Burgin Burrows Butcher Button Buttrum Byles Calver Campling Capon Carr Carsey Carter Carthew Caton Chambers Chappell Christopher Churchman Clark Clarke Clarkson Cockle Coe Collins Commins Conyngham Cook Cork Cotton Couperthwaite Crouch Crane Crow Cummins Delf Devereux Dickson Dorling Dowsing Drake Draper Duffield Duncon Dunnett Durrant Durrell Easter Easto Edwards Ellis Elvis Evered Feddiman Fenn Field Finch Fisher Fisk Flaxman Flory Folkard Fosdike Fox Freeman Fuller Furnish Gall Gant Gardner Garrard Garrett Gibbs Gibson Gilbert Gillingham Girling Gissing Godbould Goddard Golding Gooch Goodwyn Gosling Grayston Green Grimwood Gross Grove Hafen Hall Halls Hamblin Hamill Hammond Hanton Harmer Harris* Hart Harwood Hawkins Hayward Heffer Helsham Hinsbey Hodder Holder Horrabin Houghton Howlett Hurren Hutchison Jacob Jarry Jeffree Jeffries Johnson Julian Keeble Kell Kett Keyes King Knight Lambert Langley Larter Laurance Leamon Ledbrook Lee Leek Leggatt Leggett Leman Lever Lincoln Linsted Loder Loft Lucas Lynch Lynn Macrow Mallett Manby Mann Markham Marsh Mathew Mayhew Meadows Mendham Mickleburgh Miles Miller Mills Mitchell Moncrieff Moor Moore More Munn Murrill Myers Neeve Nelthorpe Newby Newson Nicholson Nunn Orford Orsborn Owles Page Pattisson Pearce Philpott Pickfatt Pipe Pitt Pollard Pooley Porter Powell Prencep Pulham Rand Randall Read Reeve Revett Rice Richardson Riches Roberson Robinson Rogers Roper Rout Row Runnacles Russell Rust Sallows Savage Scarnell Scott Scrutton Searles Sergeant Sewell Sharman Shelcott Sheming Siggers Silver Simson Sizer Skinner Smith Smyth Spalding Sparks Spearman Spencer Squir(e) Stanford Stanton Stark Stebbing Stow Strahan Studd Sutton Swaine Sweeten Syrett Talbot Talbott Taylor Temple Thompson Tippell Trott Turner Turtle Upson Vesey Vicars Vicary Vickers Wade Walden Walford Ward Warren Watson Watty Webb Wells Whimper Whisstock White Whymper Wild Wilkinson Williams Wilson Winson Wood Woodhouse Woodroff Woods Woollerd Worthington Wyatt
* A Harris family gravestone (inscription 44) is in the foreground of local photographer Henry Welton's postcard, issued c.1906.
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I wrote yesterday that Woodbridge's public cemetery is not thought to have come into use until 1863. Further research suggests that it may well have been accepting burials by 1856, although the earliest surviving register appears to commence in August 1863, a few weeks after the death of the cemetery's lodge-keeper, William Mitson. He is commemorated there, together with his wife, Maria, a member of the town's Baptist congregation, who died in 1862, as shown by the GPR (https://www.gravestonephotos.com/public/gravedetails.php?grave=119513) and Beaumont Baptist Chapel records (https://www.thequay.org.uk/beaumont-burial-records#:~:text=%2D%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0/%20%2D%20/%20%2D-,Mitson,-Maria).
David Gobbitt