WAWNE GRAVEYARD LIST BY YEAR 216
graves, listed in date order. listed in blocks
of decades after 1800
The Family History button below leads to many other links, and particularly to the archives we hold in The Museum inside The Old School in Sutton, and where we also assist visitors with their family history enquiries every Friday morning through lunchtime, 10 - 2. |
It should be remembered that a Christian church, and thus a burial ground, has been here for nigh on a thousand years. The written records go only as far back as the 1700s, and they for the most part are now in deep archives in The Treasure House. Before that, the English Reformation and Civil Wars somewhat interupted church life on a regular basis, and even if there were written records back in the mid-1500s when Henry VIII first proclaimed there should be, they don't exist now. Even those for the 1700s and early 1800s much depended on the education of the vicar, his handwriting, let alone his sobriety. Poor storage, damp, weather leaks, fires and general bad luck meant even more were lost. But, for most parish churches, record keeping improved, as well as storage, got better as the decades went on. But those hundreds of ancient folks, whose names we will never ever know now, are still here, resting in this earth. Requiescat in Pace |