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Many of the gravestones in Great Yarmouth's churchyard have been lost due to time and the wartime bombing.

In January, I visited Norfolk on a family history hunt and went to Great Yarmouth Library to find out more about the lost gravestones. I have posted a video on YouTube about this which can be seen in the below links.

You can watch the full version (12 minutes) or a shorter 4 minute edit:

UNCUT EPISODE - https://youtu.be/Rdwr70tF5_8

4 MINUTE EDIT - https://youtu.be/OY2hXJ7YZ2Y

My ancestors were the King family and in the library they have three volumes titled:

"Inscriptions in St Nicholas Churchyard. Great Yarmouth 1830-1834 Transcribed by William de Castre 1917" (Ref: L9295 5)

The front pages state the inscriptions were recorded by John Fletcher Cooper in 1830-1834 and the inscriptions down to the 1840s were made by Henry Daveney. William de Castre collated them all together.

Inside is also a list of other sources known to have Yarmouth gravestone transcriptions and also a newspaper advert posted by William de Castre stuck in the front asking for help on a lost volume of transcriptions.

I include these images here as they may be of interest to other researchers with ancestry in Great Yarmouth.

The links to my other videos on Norfolk and Suffolk will be able to be seen in the playlists below and there will be videos on other East Anglian places and family history.

UNCUT - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcSNM0eNqxZHQR8y_UcJr2iRIpCaj14WF
4 MINUTE EDIT - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcSNM0eNqxZFSZslXs1lMzbCuQhtO7KgL

If anyone please knows if the four volumes mentioned in the newspaper article, which were listed in an 1859 sale catalogue of inscriptions in Great Yarmouth covering the period 1690-1842, survive, I would love to know.

Best wishes,
Jon

Quote from: jonwicken on Thursday 14 August 25 09:40 BST (UK)

Quote from: LizzieL on Thursday 14 August 25 07:59 BST (UK)

Daniel King is a churchwarden there.

I hadn't seen that though! Any idea what page that is on please?

Thank you.

If you have access to Ancestry and go to the images of the Suffolk registers. Then Sotherton  (1675-1812) you get a book of 144 pages. I found his signature at the bottom of pages 91 and 93 - there may be more

Thanks so much for this. I have had a look and found he was church warden at Sotherton from at least 1779 to at least 1784. Isaac Newson was church warden in 1777, so it will have been after this. This was a great little addition to add to his life story. Thank you.

Daniel King is a churchwarden there.

I hadn't seen that though! Any idea what page that is on please?

Thank you.

Quote from: amondg on Thursday 14 August 25 07:00 BST (UK)

On his second marriage in 1771, one of the witnesses is a John King, could he also be a brother?

Yes John King is Daniel's brother and was baptised in 1743 in East Bergholt.

John King married Sarah Eastoe in 1767 at Blythburgh and he died in 1779.

The burial registers at this time do not record any family relationships, just state the name of the person buried.

However his wife Sarah had a "base born" son in 1781 and stated to be a widow, so this is known to be his burial in 1779.

Kind regards,
Jon

It's 41 miles from East Bergholt to Blythburgh  a bit too far away?

Bulchamp was an area within the Blythburgh

That is what I thought at first too. But there are not many people named Daniel King in the Suffolk registers so it made it easier to look at them all.

In Blythburgh in 1748 a Daniel and Judith King had a son Samuel King baptised there and this therefore made it possible to connect to the marriage and children at East Bergholt.

So Daniel King married Judith Hyham at East Bergholt in 1737.

They had these children in the registers at East Bergholt:

Daniel King 1738/9
Daniel King 1740
Mary King 1743
Samuel King buried 1745 

Then this son in Blythburgh:

Samuel King 1748

It also seems they must have had Judith King of Bulcamp who married Arthur Ellis in 1773.

I think as the two Daniel baptisms are only a year apart and there is not a burial of the first Daniel, that perhaps this is a private baptism in 1738/9 and then being received into the church in 1740.

But only the marriage licence can help with Daniel's age. It could be that maybe the name of one of the children has been incorrectly recorded and one may be Thomas. I am trying to check all this out. 

Going back to my identification of the East Bergholt couple with my Kings, I then saw on the 1759 Blythburgh marriage of Daniel King and Anna Jex that the other witness to Thomas King was a Robert Higham.

As Daniel's mother was a Judith Hyham, I theorised that that Robert was a first cousin and started researching the Heigham|Higham|Hyam|Hyham|Heyam family.

It turns out that Judith Hyham|King was the aunt of this Robert Higham. Her brother was Robert Higham senior and Judith and Robert were both baptised in Ipswich in 1711/12 and 1722/3.

Their parents were John Heigham|Higham|Hyam|Hyham|Heyam and Judith Peed, who married in Witnesham in 1704.

John died in 1722 and in 1726 at Ipswich Judith remarried James Kingsbury of East Bergholt, which is evidently how her namesake daughter came to be married there, as she must have moved with her mother and new stepfather.

I have been enjoying the Suffolk parish registers and all this sleuthing as I am sure you can imagine!