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Suffolk Resources & Links / Woodbridge: St John's churchyard inscriptions (1846-1914)
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W. George Arnott noted the monumental inscriptions in St John's churchyard, Woodbridge, before the end of 1930. The attached transcript, with numerous corrections and supplementary details, refers to these families:
Alexander Amos Amys Baker Balls** Batchelor Baxter Berrett Bradbrook Branch Brightwell Brinkley Brook Calver Capon Carr Carter Churcher Clarke Cook Cooper Crosby Crowe Cuckow Culham Cully Daniels Day Debney Dowsing Drake Edwards Ellis Fisher Frott Fryett Fuller Gammage Garnham Garrard Gibbs Gobbitt Golding Goodall Gooderham Goodwyn Grayston Gurdon Gurney Hill Hillen Hitchcock Horkins Horn Houghton Jeffries** Jessup Keeble Kemp Kindred King Larrett Last Leech Levett Lincoln Marsh Martin Mathews Mayhew Meadows Mills Moore Morgan Morris Newson Nunn Oldring Orsborn Osborne Owles Pasifull Patrick Playford Pleasance Pulham Purkiss Read Reason Robertson Rose Scarnell Shelcott Shipp Silver Smith Smyth Spall Sparkes Sparrow Stananought Stanford Stannard Stanton Thompson** Thorpe Thurkettle** Tills Towler Trott Turner Violet Wade Ward Waspe Welton* Whayman Whisstock Wigg Wilkinson Woods Worth
* Photographed last year in the south-western part of the churchyard, the horizontal headstone of churchwarden Cornelius Welton (c.1801-1872), a former Wickham Market farmer, shows how far his fame has fallen. He was the first secretary of the East Suffolk Agricultural Association and a governor of the Albert Memorial Middle-Class College (now Framlingham College), both of which he had helped to establish. When he was planting trees few days before his death, he reportedly quoted the words "Plant as though you lived for ever, but live as though you died to-morrow" (Suffolk Chronicle 16 Nov. 1872 p. 8).
** Nearby are monuments to Isaac Thurkettle (1875) and Edward Jeffries (1877). North of the path, to the west of the church, a Seal of Solomon distinguishes the gravestone of George Thompson (1862) and his wife Elizabeth (1856) while Edward Balls (1875) is commemorated closer to the entrance.
David Gobbitt
Alexander Amos Amys Baker Balls** Batchelor Baxter Berrett Bradbrook Branch Brightwell Brinkley Brook Calver Capon Carr Carter Churcher Clarke Cook Cooper Crosby Crowe Cuckow Culham Cully Daniels Day Debney Dowsing Drake Edwards Ellis Fisher Frott Fryett Fuller Gammage Garnham Garrard Gibbs Gobbitt Golding Goodall Gooderham Goodwyn Grayston Gurdon Gurney Hill Hillen Hitchcock Horkins Horn Houghton Jeffries** Jessup Keeble Kemp Kindred King Larrett Last Leech Levett Lincoln Marsh Martin Mathews Mayhew Meadows Mills Moore Morgan Morris Newson Nunn Oldring Orsborn Osborne Owles Pasifull Patrick Playford Pleasance Pulham Purkiss Read Reason Robertson Rose Scarnell Shelcott Shipp Silver Smith Smyth Spall Sparkes Sparrow Stananought Stanford Stannard Stanton Thompson** Thorpe Thurkettle** Tills Towler Trott Turner Violet Wade Ward Waspe Welton* Whayman Whisstock Wigg Wilkinson Woods Worth
* Photographed last year in the south-western part of the churchyard, the horizontal headstone of churchwarden Cornelius Welton (c.1801-1872), a former Wickham Market farmer, shows how far his fame has fallen. He was the first secretary of the East Suffolk Agricultural Association and a governor of the Albert Memorial Middle-Class College (now Framlingham College), both of which he had helped to establish. When he was planting trees few days before his death, he reportedly quoted the words "Plant as though you lived for ever, but live as though you died to-morrow" (Suffolk Chronicle 16 Nov. 1872 p. 8).
** Nearby are monuments to Isaac Thurkettle (1875) and Edward Jeffries (1877). North of the path, to the west of the church, a Seal of Solomon distinguishes the gravestone of George Thompson (1862) and his wife Elizabeth (1856) while Edward Balls (1875) is commemorated closer to the entrance.
David Gobbitt