LEWES - St John Sub Castro

[bertee]

That's great - thanks!
They are all people on my tree including my g-g-grandfather, so I'm grateful for this extra detail.
Thanks again

[bertee]

Just seen the memorial message - glad I didn't miss that.
Thanks so much for posting that.  I may well head over to Lewes today to see that in person.

[Chris in 1066Land]

Hi Bertee

Glad to have been of help.

As you enter the churchyard through the side gate, this memorial stone is just on your right about 3 or 4 rows in and not far from the gate.
The inscription is very poor, so you will have to look hard to see it.
Best of Luck

Chris in 1066

[luellalotts]

hallo chris...i went to st john sub castro today to try and find my great-grandfather's grave but no luck...could you do a look up for me please? his name was george blight and he died in lewes 11/11/1961 (my dad, his grandson, was a choirboy at this church in 1950's and it was their local place of worship)...many thanks in anticipation...louise

[Chris in 1066Land]

Hi luellalotts

Welcome to Rootchat and especially the Sussex Boards, one of the best.

Do you know if your grt grt grandfather had any rellies buried in the Sub Castro Yard ? If he did not, its odds on that he is in the main cemetery in Lewes as the smaller churchyards were getting full and they only buried existing family members to those already interred.

I will have a look at the burial Register to see if I can locate any

Chris in 1066

[Chris in 1066Land]

Hi again

have just checked the burial register for sub Castro between 1800 and 1993 and there is not a single person with the name BLIGHT entered in it.
Sorry, but he must be buried elsewhere as suggested in my earlier post

Once again, Sorry

Chris in 1066

[Chris in 1066Land]

Hi Luellalotts

Have just checked the baptism registers for St John Sub Castro between 1601 and 1993, but the name Blight does not appear at all.

Are you sure you have the correct church ?

Sorry I cant locate any information for you

Chris in 1066

[luellalotts]

dear lovely chris...thank you sooo much for looking but george is proving hard to find as i suspected...i have actually already tried lewes records office/all other churches in lewes/brighton & hove records...just thought i'd try to see if he'd been missed on their records...i even tried the funeral directors in lewes in 1961 (as his body would have to have been moved to storage until service)but all their records were destroyed in the floods of 2000!

thanks again for looking and getting back to me so quickly...i shall try funeral directors in his home county of cornwall to see if he had requested to 'go home' (already tried cornwall records office who say 'nothing' but i'm stubborn and aside from his body being donated to science, he can't have just disappeared!)

take care  x

[crimea1854]

Hi Chris

I believe that those Russian - actually Finnish - prisoners of war captured during the Crimean who were held in Lewes Prison, and died while in captivity, were buried at St John Sub Castro. If so are there any details, such as name, regt. etc., in the parish records?

Martin