Holy Trinity Church Monumental Inscriptions
Holy Trinity Church is situated in Portland St., Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England.
The first volume of Gloucestershire Notes and Queries was published in 1881, edited by Rev. Beaver H. Blacker, M.A. The notes below are taken from this volume, and the spelling and grammar are as the original. The surnames have been put in capitals to aid identification.
This list covers only memorial inscriptions within the Church, and was compiled before 1881. Additions are most welcome
There are no less than one hundred and seventy two inscriptions, of which literal copies have been taken; and the following is an index to the names mentioned therein, with the date of death in each case :-
| Henry ADDENBROOKE, Esq. | July 6, 1857 |
| Louisa ADDENBROOKE | Nov. 30, 1859 |
| John ALLEN, Esqr. | April 5, 1850 |
| Margaret ALLEN | March 22, 1837 |
| Eleanor Caroline ANNESLEY | Sept. 21, 1843 |
| Hon. Mary Anne ANNESLEY | March 31, 1845 |
| Margaret Sarah ARBUTHNOT | May 6, 1844 |
| John AYLMER, Esqr. | Dec. 8, 1839 |
| Elizabeth BARON | July 22, 1876 |
| John BARON, M.D., F.R.S. | Oct. 2, 1851 |
| Samuel BARRETT, Esqr., Jamaica | June 13, 1824 |
| Lieut.-Col. Thomas BARRON, H.E.I.C.S. | May 25, 1844 |
| John BASTIN | April 11, 1845 |
| Amelia BAYLIS | April 11, 1831 |
| Betty BAYLIS | Sept. 5, 1830 |
| Colonel Nathaniel BEAN | Dec. 13, 1851 |
| William Partington BENT, Esqr. | Jan. 14, 1828 |
| Jane Robertson BERRY | Jan. 24, 1837 |
| John BERRY, Esqr. | Oct. 12, 1836 |
| Catharine BILLAMORE | Dec. 30, 1841 |
| Capt. Frederick Hadow BILLAMORE, H.E.I.C.S. | Aug. 20, 1835 |
| Capt. Robert BILLAMORE, I.N. | April 3, 1802 |
| Lieut. Robert Ashmead BILLAMORE, H.E.I.C.S. | May 7, 1818 |
| Major Thomas Richard BILLAMORE, H.E.I.C.S. | April 27, 1840 |
| Susanna Maria BINGHAM | Jan. 3, 1862 |
| Georgiana Mary BIRD | Sept. 21, 1849 |
| John BIRD, Esqr., H.E.I.C.S. | Aug.30, 1851 |
| Capt. John BLANSHARD, I.N. | Sept. 8, 1828 |
| Elizabeth BODEN | Aug. 24, 1827 |
| Lieut.-Col Abraham BOLTON | March 20, 1857 |
| Charles Thomas Lyndon BOLTON | Oct. 5, 1848 |
| Eliza Fanny BOLTON | May 13, 1848 |
| Elizabeth BRADNEY | April 19, 1830 |
| Jane Harriet BRADY | Feb. 25, 1842 |
| Margaret BROWNE | May 29, 1838 |
| Margaret Catharine BUCHAN | April 27, 1847 |
| Henry BULKELEY, Esqr. | March 27, 1848 |
| Col. William BURROUGHS, H.E.I.C.S. | June 7, 1853 |
| Louisa BURROWES | Oct. 27, 1837 |
| Louisa Ricketts BURROWES | Jan. 23, 1838 |
| Hon. Anne BUTLER | May 19, 1857 |
| Sarah BYRCHALL | Nov. 11, 1832 |
| Lady Anne CLAYTON | Nov. 23, 1837 |
| Lydia Lucy Augusta CLUNES | Oct. 28, 1842 |
| Mary Ruth CLUNES | Oct. 27, 1842 |
| Selina Elizabeth CLUNES | June 19, 1847 |
| Admiral Sir Isaac COFFIN, Bart, G.C.H. | July 23, 1839 |
| Lady Anna Maria COGHILL | March 10, 1848 |
| Geraldine Octavia COGHILL | 1828 |
| Richard Warren COLEY, M.D., R.N. | Dec. 18, 1839 |
| Eliza Pulleyn CROWDER | Aug. 27, 1851 |
| Colonel John CROWDER, K.H. | Aug. 27, 1838 |
| Sarah CROWTHER | Feb. 6, 1833 |
| Major John William DAWSON, H.E.I.C.S. | Feb. 13, 1832 |
| Mary Beaty DAWSON | April 20, 1847 |
| Eleanor DEWDNEY | [April 2, 1857] |
| Emily [Letitia] DEWDNEY | [Jan. 31, 1855] |
| Emily [Junr] DEWDNEY | [Feb. 8, 1850] |
| Lieut. Charles DOUGLAS, R.H.A. | June 7, 1827 |
| Harriet DOUGLAS | Sept. 21, 1857 |
| Isabella DOUGLAS | June 18, 1847 |
| Major Robert Sholto DOUGLAS, R.A. | Oct. 2, 1831 |
| Harriott DOWRICK | April 6, 1863 |
| Nathaniel DOWRICK, Esq. | April 3, 1833 |
| Georgina Helen DUFF | Jan. 1, 1832 |
| Ann DURBIN | Apr. 3, 1848 |
| Joseph Jeanes DURBIN [Esqr] | April 18, 1848 |
| Lieut.-General [Alexander] DYCE, H.E.I.C.S. | Dec. 24, 1835 |
| Hester Sophia FINLAY | May 22, 1839 |
| Lady Elizabeth FITZ ROY | March 30, 1839 |
| Dowager Lady Mary FORD | Jan. 20, 1837 |
| Annie Charlotte FOSTER | Dec. 6, 1836 |
| Elizabeth Ann FRENCH | Jan. 3, 1844 |
| Elizabeth Mary Robinson FRENCH | Jan. 10, 1839 |
| Miles Mundy FRENCH, Esqr. | Jan. 19, 1843 |
| Caroline FROBISHER | Nov. 4, 1833 |
| Lieut.-Col. Charles GARDINER | Oct. 12, 1838 |
| Lady Margaret GEORGE | March 22, 1835 |
| Frances GILLMAN | May 22, 1846 |
| Frances GILLMAN [Junr] | March 24, 1858 |
| John GILLMAN, Esqr., Surgeon, H.E.I.C.S. | Jan. 8, 1830 |
| Sarah GRASSETT | Oct. 14, 1837 |
| Lieut.-Col. Thomas GREENTREE, H.E.I.C.S. | March 26, 1830 |
| Jane GUBBS | Oct. 25, 1849 |
| John GUBBS, Esqr. | Aug. 31, 1840 |
| Dorothy HALL | Feb. 25, 1842 |
| William HALL, Esqr. | April 15, 1834 |
| Anna LLoyd HAMER | Jan. 17, 1856 |
| Jane HARRIS | July 22, 1829 |
| Capt. Charles Moore HARRISON | June 3, 1833 |
| Mary HELSHAM | Nov. 12, 1837 |
| Hannah HENLY | March 11, 1854 |
| John HENLY, Veterinary Surgeon | Oct. 7, 1842 |
| Sophia HENSHAW | Feb. 6, 1837 |
| Henry HEYMAN, Esqr. | Feb. 25, 1825 |
| Mary HEYMAN | March 10, 1844 |
| Rosina HEYMAN | Feb. 20, 1834 |
| Catharine HICKES | Nov. 15, 1821 |
| Colonel Warner Westenra HIGGINS, K.H. | Nov. 9, 1857 |
| Revd. David HOPKINS | Jan. 26, 1842 |
| Mary HOPKINS | Feb. 9, 1836 |
| William HOPKINS, Esqr. | March 22, 1833 |
| Arthur Josiah HORT | May 13, 1842 |
| Louisa Josephine HORT | Dec. 11, 1841 |
| Lady Margaret HORT | Sep. 15, 1843 |
| Lady Katherine HOWARD | Feb. 24, 1842 |
| Marianne HUME | Jan. 2, 1845 |
| Charles HUMFREY | March 2, 1838 |
| Elizabeth HUMFREY [Junr.] | March 19, 1826 |
| Elizabeth HUMFREY | Oct. 16, 1844 |
| Emily HUMFREY | March 1820 |
| Henry HUMFREY, H.E.I.C.S. | Sept. 17, 1842 |
| Lieut.-Gen. John HUMFREY, R.E. | April 5, 1832 |
| William Henry HUMFREY, H.E.I.C.S. | Sept. 23, 1827 |
| Frances HUNT | Sept. 8, 1835 |
| Thomas Welch HUNT, Esqr. | 1824 |
| Catherine HUTCHINS | Aug. 15, 1871 |
| Major George Henry HUTCHINS, H.E.I.C.S. | March 10, 1844 |
| Lieut.-Col. George HUTCHINSON, H.E.I.C.S., F.R.S. | Aug. 28, 1852 |
| General Sir William HUTCHINSON, K.C.H. | Aug. 28, 1845 |
| Lowman JEFFERY | Oct. 29, 1841 |
| Grace JOHN | March 13, 1835 |
| Mary Elizabeth JOHNSTONE | Sept. 9, 1843 |
| Lieut.-Col. John G[uildford] D[udley] JORDAN | April 30, 1836 |
| Philip JUSTICE, Esqr. | Sept. 29, 1827 |
| Nugent KIRKLAND, Esqr. | Feb. 2, 1840 |
| Harriet KNIGHT | Nov. 12, 1829 |
| Lieut.-Col. Edward KNOX | March 3, 1849 |
| Jane LANE, BARBADOS | April 23, 1837 |
| Sarah LANGFORD | June 13, 1838 |
| Barrett LEE (widow of Colonel LEE) | Jan. 22, 1875 |
| Colonel Michael White LEE | Feb. 10, 1847 |
| Elizabeth LEMAISTRE | July 11, 1857 |
| John Gustavus LEMAISTRE | Nov. 4, 1840 |
| Louisa Frances LINDSEY | Aug. 2, 1848 |
| Owen LINDSEY, Esqr., M.D. | March 17, 1851 |
| Susan LINDSEY | Dec. 22, 1854 |
| Robert LUCAS | April 16, 1856 |
| Charlotte Jeanette McALLISTER | Dec. 28, 1836 |
| Elizabeth Pomeroy McGHIE | June 17, 1826 |
| Sibella MACLEAN | Nov. 18, 1839 |
| Mary MANNERS | Nov. 2, 1849 |
| Major Thomas MANNERS | March 7, 1834 |
| Sir William MARJORIBANKS, Bart. | Sept. 22, 1834 |
| Francis MRKLAND, Esqr. | Feb. 5, 1833 |
| Mary MARKLAND | Aug. 10, 1839 |
| Mary MASSIE | Dec. 9, 1861 |
| Watkin Williams MASSIE, Esqr., H.E.I.C.S. | April 25, 1838 |
| Mary MATTHEW | Feb. 15, 1844 |
| Hon. Frances MAUDE | May 1, 1832 |
| Clara MAYERS | May 24, 1858 |
| Eleonora MAYERS | May 3, 1845 |
| Eleonora Lynch MAYERS | April 25, 1843 |
| Henry Adams MAYERS, Esqr., Barbados | Oct. 19, 1836 |
| Laura MAYERS | March 6, 1842 |
| Elizabeth MEARA | Dec. 6, 1838 |
| Revd. John MEARA | Oct. 26, 1839 |
| Elizabeth MERRY | Dec. 6, 1843 |
| William MERRY, Esqr. | Nov. 23, 1855 |
| Maria Frederica MINCHIN | March 4, 1848 |
| Capt. John MOLYNEUX | July 7, 1852 |
| Hon. [Lieut.-Col.] Robert MOORE | Sept. 17, 1831 |
| Elizabeth MORGAN | Dec. 5, 1864 |
| Hannah MORGAN | Dec. 10, 1835 |
| Hill MORGAN, M.D., H.E.I.C.S. | April 25, 1842 |
| Sarah Anne MORGAN | Dec. 8, 1822 |
| Anne Babington MOSLEY | Nov. 14, 1837 |
| Capt. George Patrick O'MALLEY | Nov. 26, 1844 |
| Arthur PAGE, Esqr. Barrister | Jan. 11, 1829 |
| Major Preston Fryer PARKE | Feb. 2, 1832 |
| Lieut. George PATRICKSON, H.E.I.C.S. | July 22, 1829 |
| Grace PATRICKSON | Jan. 1, 1843 |
| Hannah Hoey PATRICKSON | Jan. 21, 1833 |
| Mary PATRICKSON | March 6, 1854 |
| Rebecca Maria PATRICKSON | May 24, 1841 |
| Thomas PATRICKSON, Esqr. | May 27, 1819 |
| Lady Elizabeth PAUL | April 17, 1836 |
| John William PAXTON, Esqr., H.E.I.C.S. | June 21, 1831 |
| Colonel Thomas PENSON, H.E.I.C.S. | June 27, 1835 |
| Thomas PICKFORD, Esqr. | May 24, 1846 |
| Elizabeth Jane PIGGOTT | Oct. 23, 1846 |
| Joseph Moseley PIGGOTT, Esqr. | May 4, 1844 |
| Elizabeth Narney PITTS | Oct. 11, 1839 |
| James David POTTS, Esqr. | Nov. 16, 1844 |
| Anna Maria Frances PROLE | June 28, 1840 |
| Ellen Margaret PROLE | Jan. 13, 1840 |
| Lieut.-General George PROLE, H.E.I.C.S. | Aug. 6, 1835 |
| George Claudius PROLE | March 17, 1830 |
| Major George Newton PROLE, H.E.I.C.S. | Sept. 15, 1839 |
| Lydia PROLE | May 25, 1844 |
| Henry Percy PULLEINE, Esqr. | May 1, 1833 |
| Sir George Best ROBINSON, Bart. | Jan. 27, 1855 |
| Dame Louisa ROBINSON | Aug. 9, 1843 |
| Anne ROOKE | Feb. 14, 1829 |
| Henry John ROSS, Esqr., Crown Solicitor, Jamaica | May 10, 1830 |
| Frances Maria SCOTT | Sept. 5, 1845 |
| Thomas SCOTT, Esqr. | May 31, 1843 |
| Albinia Frances SELWYN | May 29, 1847 |
| Congreve SELWYN, M.D. | Oct. 2, 1846 |
| Thomas SHIRLEY, Esqr. | Feb. 22, 1834 |
| John SHOOLBRED, Esqr., M.D. | Oct. 12, 1831 |
| General Edward Melian Gullifer SHOWERS, R.A. | Dec. 13, 1868 |
| Stephen St. George SHOWERS | July 21, 1869 |
| Revd. John SLINGSBY, Fell. King,s Coll. Cam. | Sept. 2, 1826 |
| Anne SMITH | Feb. 13, 1833 |
| Anne Dorothea Harrison SMITH | July 26, 1843 |
| Hon. Charlotte Juliana SMITH | Oct. 26, 1830 |
| Edmund Carrington SMITH | Nov. 22, 1857 |
| Colonel James SMITH, H.E.I.C.S. | April 6, 1830 |
| Lieut.-Col. John Carrington SMITH | Oct. 20, 1843 |
| John Somerset SMITH | Nov. 25, 1827 |
| Eliza SPROULE | Nov. 6, 1827 |
| Samuel SPROULE, Esqr., M.D., H.E.I.C.S. | May 31, 1829 |
| Edward STARKIE, Esqr. | Nov. 4, 1834 |
| William STARKIE, Esqr. | Oct. 26, 1834 |
| Jonas STAWELL, Esqr. | Jan. 15, 1835 |
| Lieut.-Col. Josiah STEWART, C.B., H.E.I.C.S. | Nov. 23, 1839 |
| Jackson STOCKDALE, Esqr. | Feb. 26, 1838 |
| Imogen SWINHOE NOTE | Sep. 23 1878 |
| Julia Lucy SYKES | June 22, 1832 |
| Frances Wentworth TAYLOR | Sept. 17, 1841 |
| Helena TAYLOR | Dec. 19, 1836 |
| James TAYLOR, Esqr. | June 22, 1839 |
| Capt. William THOMASON, H.E.I.C.S. | June 29, 1835 |
| Anne Sophia TIMINS | Nov. 19, 1863 |
| Charles Sheldon TIMINS, Esqr. Com. R.N. | April 13, 1838 |
| Hon. Sarah Maria TOLLEMACHE | Jan. 3, 1835 |
| Charlotte Mary Amy TYLER | July 2, 1831 |
| John Chatfield TYLER, Esqr. | Oct. 15, 1851 |
| George Francis TYSON, Esqr. | July 7, 1827 |
| Marianne TYSON | Dec. 11, 1846 |
| Frances VANBRUGH | June 24, 1832 |
| Charlotte VASSALL | March 5, 1825 |
| Maria Jane VELLEY | Aug. 30, 1866 |
| Juliana Charlotte WADE | June 25, 1835 |
| H. P. WALLACE, Esqr. | Aug. 12, 1869 |
| Colonel Augustus WARBURTON | May 22, 1836 |
| John WARD, Esqr. | Oct. 17, 1841 |
| Martha WARD | March 14, 1839 |
| Elizabeth WARRINGTON | Feb. 22, 1841 |
| Peter WATSON, Esqr. | June 6, 1836 |
| Georgina WEST | April 30, 1843 |
| James WILLIAMSON, Esqr., M.D., H.E.I.C.S. | Aug. 18, 1850 |
| Capt. John R.F. WILLOUGHBY, H.E.I.C.S. | June 3, 1852 |
| Sarah Nickleson WILLOUGHBY | Feb. 21, 1853 |
| Lieut.-Gen. Sir Wiltshire WILSON, R.A., K.C.H. | May 8, 1842 |
| Mary WOOD | May 19, 1851 |
| William WOOD, Esqr., Surgeon | Sept. 21, 1838 |
| Catherine WORDIE | April 11, 1837 |
| Agnes WRIGHT | June 6, 1841 |
The burials beneath the church, and in the surrounding churchyard, have been very numerous. The register dates only from Dec. 19, 1823; but it contains many important entries, the total amount of burials amounting (Dec 12, 1877) to 894.
Elizabeth BODEN. In a vault beneath this church are deposited the remains of Elizth. BODEN, who died the 24th Augst., 1827, aged 19 years. By her decease the residuary property of her father (the late Lieut. Col. Joseph BODEN, of the Hon. East India Company's Bombay Establishment), now in the Court of Chancery, estimated at the sum of £25,000 or thereabouts, devolves to the University of Oxford, and according to the following directions extracted from his will, dated the 15th August 1811, is 'to be by that Body appropriated in and towards the erection and endowment of a Professorship in the Sanscrit Language at or in any or either of the Colleges in the said University, being of opinion that a more general and critical knowledge of that language will be a means of enabling my countrymen to proceed in the conversion of the natives of India to the Christian Religion, by disseminating a knowledge of the Sacred Scriptures amongst them, more effectually than all other means whatsoever.' Lieut.-Col BODEN died at Lisbon on the 21st Novr., 1811. To perpetuate his memory, and record the pious purpose to which he devoted his property to be applied, the surviving executors of his last will and testament have caused this tablet to be here affixed."
NOTE. Imogen SWINHOE was not named in the original Gloucestershire Notes and Queries list.
The following information was supplied by Roy Hyde.
I note that the list of Holy Trinity Church Monumental Inscriptions leaves out one of the most widely known, if not notorious, people buried there. I refer to Imogen Swinhoe, also known as "The Cheltenham Ghost". She left Swinhoe shortly before he died in 1876 and, I assume, went to live with her sister at Clifton. She herself died there two years later and was brought back to Cheltenham for burial in the same grave as her parents. Their headstone is one of those lying close to the church, just off Portland Street. This reads:-
Sacred to the memory of MAJOR GEORGE HENRY HUTCHINS
Late of the 30-Bengal Native Infantry
who departed this life the 10th of March 1844
AGED 51 YEARS
also of
CATHERINE
WIDOW OF THE ABOVE
who died August 15th 1871
AGED 59 YEARS
HER END WAS PEACE
Also of
IMOGEN SWINHOE
DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE NAMED
MAJOR & CATHERINE HUTCHINS
Who died at Clifton
SEPTR 23RD 1878 AGED 41
Further information on "The Cheltenham Ghost" is available from the Cheltenham4u web site