Drypool Cemetery, Hull - (disused one)

[bendywendy]

Bee, my husband thinks the same too, so he is taking me tomorrow to have a looksie after my visit to the Treasure House.
All this rather confusing to say the least about these cemeteries and churches, just finished reading that little booklet about Drypool, still confused about some parts.

National Archives
Drypool St Andrew's
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=047-pe109&cid=-1#-1

 DRYPOOL ST PETER PARISH RECORDS
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=047-pe110&cid=-1#-1

DRYPOOL ST COLUMBA PARISH RECORDS
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=047-pe111&cid=-1#-1

b.

[terrac]

It certainly used to be a cemetery.  My mum grew up in the area in the 1950's and 1960's and knew it as an old cemetery.

There is another old cemetery here on great union street off garrison road near the start of the old hedon road where a church called St Peter's used to stand. I think this is classed as the drypool area.

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[Bee]

Hi Wendy

Hope you had a successful day yesterday.

My brother in law used to play in the old cemetery as a child, and he says the headstones where still there in the early 1950's.

Bee
 

[terrac]

A great site for the area is Crowle St Kids website. Worth a browse if you have not seen it.

They have a bit of information here:    http://www.crowlestreetkids.com/church300.htm

The Drypool and Southcoates Cemetary on Hedon Road.

Formed in 1852 by the parishioners of Drypool.

The first is the Drypool and Southcoates Cemetery situated on Hedon Road.  It was opened in 1852 for use by the people in the Holderness Road area.

The stones have all now been removed but there is a schedule of the names, dates, ages that were on the headstones, which is now held by the Hull records Office (Hull Archives Lowgate).

[bendywendy]

Hi everyone and thank you to all

I had a productive morning at the Treasure House.
I asked about the Drypool records being held at the National Archives and was told they only hold microfilm copies, the originals are at Beverley, so I ordered up what I am researching for, but when I mentioned this to the staff they pointed out a man whom I had been talking too earlier as David Mount of EYFHS and who collates all the info for the MI's in East Yorkshire.
A staff member went over to him and introduced us, he was as very interested as I was, in what I was seeking.

David told me he had for years been trying to find out what had happened to all the gravestones from the various cemeteries that Hull Corporation had removed and then grassed over the graves.

Along came the file we required, well after reading through 10 pieces of correspondence between this family, the Diocese, Hull City Council it was well documented that this family wished to remove Gravestones from the Old Drypool Burial Ground / Drypool Disused Cemetery / Drypool Churchyard, in fact the name varied on each letter.
This correspondence commeneced abt 1939 and was ended 1948 with the Gravestones being removed from Drypool and placed as "graves" in Hedon Road Cemetery.

David Mount was most interested in this as he had done the MI's for Hedon.... BUT... we asked each other was only the Gravestones removed or was the remains exhumed, a task he has set himself to research, he will let me know.

In the midst of these letters this family was offering to pay Hull Corporation a lump sum of money for the Corporation to upkeep these Gravestones in PERPERTUITY. As far as we could determine monies were paid to the church and Hull Corporation, of which the latter I am going to contact to ask if they are still keeping these Gravestones in good condition... I can "see" a lot heads turning with this question.

I did not have time to go to Hedon to view these gravestones, but when I do go it will be very interesting to see them.

I will at a later date place the family name on here of whom I am talking about, but this research is for someone else, who may be making a further programme about this family, what I can state is the family were exceptionally well known in Hull.

bendywendy

[terrac]

Very interesting. Please keep us updated, would love to know if the graves were exhumed but I suspect possibly not if the land is still grassed.

Crowle St Kids website has a picture here:  http://www.crowlestreetkids.com/build211.htm

Is there any hint as to WHY the family wanted these gravestones moved?  Would be interesting to know who and why.

[bendywendy]

From the letters it appears the family could have instigated the removal of the gravestones, it could be that at some time prior to 1939 ish the Corporation were going to clear this cemetery and the family wanted the Gravestones to be kept and sited elsewhere.

I have just rang Hull Cemeteries department and they don't have any knowledge of what I have found, I now have to ask Treasure House if they can have copies of these documents. The lady I spoke too said they do have some Graves kept in Perpertuity but by the families not by the now Hull City Council and if this is the case it would be a first to their knowledge.

One thing I mentioned to both David Mount and this lady at the cemeteries department, is that this family did not like waste, would they have taken up empty burial spaces to then place the gravestones upon

bendywendy

[Rena]

My gt.grandmother Lucy married in St. Peters Church and lived opposite it until her death in the 1890s.

Now that I've seen this thread I'm wondering if she was removed from her original resting place and re-interred.   

Before she died one of my mother's cousins told me that her mother used to take her to visit Lucy's headstone in the large Hedon Road Cemetery just passed the prison.  They used to enter the main gate and turn immediately right (before the gatehouse) and after a short walk Lucy's headstone was on the.... (darn it - my memory's failed & I can't recall whether the headstone was on the left or right - but I think it was on the LH side)

[bendywendy]

Rena, what is Lucy's surname and do you know if she had a headstone, I can check in the MI's for Hedon and let you know in due course.

To have removed any remains Exhumation Orders would have been required, one this was costly and required a great deal of documentations and two there had to be good reasons for doing so.

b.