Ore cemetery (Winchelsea Road)

[cheryl59]

Does anyone know if there are any transcripts or if there are still stones standing in this cemetery?


I'm looking for my great-grandfather who's pretty elusive ! 

Alphonso (Alphonse Joseph) DELONNETTE died in 1908 (death registered in January quarter 1908 - district Hastings volume 2b page 8 - on Free BMD) and was buried in Ore cemetery (Winchelsea Road) on February 7th 1908 (Ore burials parish 435/1/5/5 (kindly provided by someone online) -  His age was recorded as 72 and his abode 45 Victoria Avenue, Ore. )

Just wondering if there would be anything else on his headstone

[Chris in 1066Land]

Hi Cheryl

The Ore Burial ground on Winchelsea Road is still there, but it has been sadly neglected. (Ore Cemetery is on the Ridge, opposite the New St Helens Church) - two very different locations

The chapel that once stood on the Burial Ground has gone and so has most of the monuments - at the moment just 12 are still remaining above ground.
Walking around the Burial Ground, you can still feel some monuments under the grass (have fallen over and been overgrown)

I am in the process of recording, photograping, transcribing the stones in the Old St Helens Churchyard, then I will attempt to find as many stones as possible in the Winchelsea Burial Ground and do the same with them.

see - www.rootschat.com/history/hastings - then click on Hastings and then St Helens Church for pictures and names in the Old St Helens Yard.

Incidentally, Victoria Avenue is jus round the corner from me.

Chris in 1066

[cheryl59]

Thanks Chris - you're a mine of information

The frustrating thing is, I used to live just up the road from the Ore Burial Ground (yards away in Rye Road) but that was in the days before I got the family history bug so I never paid any attention  Not so easy now I'm living across the Channel !  LOL