The attached document records the monumental inscriptions of nearly 150 pensioners and staff members of the Seckford Hospital almshouse who were interred in its cemetery from 1844 to 1902 and in 1999 and 2007. My introduction includes details of a few early burials (between 1589 and 1658/59) extracted from the Rev. J. C. Titcombe's book, An Illustrated Seckfordian History (1900).
Henry Norton Turner (1905-1995) has no apparent memorial in the cemetery but his cremation was noted in 2007 or soon afterwards by an unidentified resident who has since died. Her chronological list of inscriptions suggests that the wooden cross visible at the left edge of my photograph may now have been marking the grave of a Mr Hart for more than 20 years.
I found gravestones for members of these families:
Ablewhite, Adams, Alderton, Allen, Arnold, Astin, Baldwin, Barker, Barnes, Batchelor, Baxter, Beaumont, Bedingfield, Beecroft, Bilney, Bird, Boby, Brighten, Brightwell, Broodbank, Broom, Brown, Burrows, Butters, Calver, Capon, Carter, Christopher, Clutten, Cole, Coleman, Colthorpe, Cook, Cooper, Cotton, Crampin, Crisp, Culham, Cullingford, Day, Devereux, Disbrey, Durrell, Edgeley, Edmonds, Ellis, Emmerson, Fenn, Fisher, Fitch, Foreman, Fosdike, Fulcher, Fuller, Gall, Gibbs, Good, Goodwin, Goslin, Grayston, Gurney, Hairlocks, Harris, Hart, Jarrold, Keeble, Kemp, Knights, Larter, Last, Loder, Loom, Lucock, Mallett, Marsh, Mickleburgh, Moore, Norton, Nunn, Owles, Oxborrow, Oxx, Payne, Pinner, Rashbrook, Read, Richardson, Ringe, Rogers, Rose, Salmon, Scolding, Scrutton, Sheming, Simpson, Skinner, Smith, Sones, Stannard, Stollery, Taylor, Thompson, Trott, Trudgett, Turner, Tyler, Waller, Warren, Welton, West, Whisstock, Whyte, Wilkerson, Wilson, Woods, Wright, Yourll.
David Gobbitt
