Our Lady and St Cuthberts (Priory) Worksop

[brianz]

I believe that I have several relatives buried in this cemetery. Looking on the maps it appears to cover rather a large area. Does anyone know if there has been any work done on recording the graves, or if a map of the graves exists or even if it is as big as it looks. any info would be appreciated.

       Thanks   Steve

[sunflower]

Hi Steve

I can't answer all your questions, but may be able to help with a lookup.  What names are you looking for?

Carol

[brianz]

Thanks sunflower, you have helped me on a previous post in this section titled "A lost Charlotte" in which you found the burial of Charlotte Hannam on 9th April 1802 at St Mary's Baptised 4th Feb 1795.
The problem that I have is that I have found conflicting evidence which suggests that she may have been buried at Our Lady and St Cuthberts. I also have another Hannam child without a Christian name baptised   at the same time as Charlotte  which I think may have been a twin and died at birth or very soon after and I thought if I could find the grave it may be mentioned on there, (just one of those little puzzles )
        Thanks   Steve

[larkspur]

I may be wrong and stand to be corrected, but I thought St Mary and Our Lady and St Cuthberts were one and the same. NFHS cd burial certainly only mentions St Mary (Priory)
"Although a parish church existed earlier, the foundation of the monastery was on March 3rd 1103. By 1170 the nave was completed and what survives is 135 feet long as compared with the original church which was 360 feet in length. The founder , Sir William de Lovetot, ordered it to be dedicated to St. Cuthbert, the further dedication to the Virgin Mary coming later. The monastic order established there was Augustinian. The de Lovetots and their successors in blood the de Furnivals and the Nevills were closely concerned with the Priory and were pious crusading warriors, All that is left to remind us of them are three mutilated effigies of Lord Furnival and his sister and brother-in-law Sir Thomas and Lady Nevill near the south transept.

In 1240 Maud Furnival, heiress of Worksop Manor, financed the building of the Early English Lady Chapel. The de Lovetots, Furnivals and their successors, were also Lords of Sheffield and there have been long links between the two towns."
From  http://www.rotherhamweb.co.uk/h/lovetot.htm

http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/feature/2_Arcades/site/ed-nt-workp.html
Worksop Priory


Worksop Priory
Officially titled The Priory Church of Saint Mary and Saint Cuthbert, Worksop Priory is today a Church of England parish church. It commenced life as an Augustinian Priory founded in 1103. The current incumbent uses the full pre-Reformation, mediaeval title the Priory Church of Our Lady and Saint Cuthbert, Saint Giles Carburton and Our Lady Clumber

[brianz]

Thanks larkspur
                       That would explain the discrepancy with the info I have found if the two are in fact the same place. Looking at the link on your reply it certainly looks like the same place.

Steve

[larkspur]

 

[D Orris]

Hi, don't know if this would help. 
For a burial of this date (1802), it would have been in the church yard, (Worksop Priory), however the church yard was tidied up in the 1960's - I think, I was a child at the time and vaguely remember my dad commenting that they were moving his ancestors.  Some grave stones remain, moved to one side to form a wall, others still in situ.
The burial site on Retford Road was started in 1901.
D Orris

[brianz]

Thanks D Orris  at least that gives me a reference point

    Steve