Hempsted Monumental Inscriptions

St Swithun's Church, Hempsted, Nr. Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England

This list covers only a portion of the memorial inscriptions at Hempsted Church, and many of those listed, especially those dating from the 18th Century, have now disappeared. Additions to the list are most welcome.

  Date of Death Age & Notes
ATKINS, Elinor (nee MARSHE) Apr. 3, 1594 Note 1
ATKINS, Richard Nov. 8, 1610 Note 1
BARNWOOD, Edmund Mar. 1707 Note 4
BELCHER, Mary Oct. 14, 1755 40   Note 4
BRIDGES, Joane (nee ?) Jan. 20, 1613 Note 3
BRIDGES, John. Yeoman Jan. 7, 1613 Note 3
BUBB, Ann (nee ?) Dec. 6, 1679 Note 4
BUBB, Anne (nee ?) Mar. 6, 1741-2 Note 3
BUBB, John Apr. 8, 1722 58   Note 4
BUBB, John Apr. 20, 1722 Date buried   Note 3
BUBB, John Jan. 31, 1760 Date buried   Note 3
BUBB, Robert.
Murdered in his return from Gloucester
Nov. 17, 1697 63   Note 4
BULLOCK, Hannah (nee MILES) Apr. 17, 1782 31   Note 4
CARTER, Carey E.M Aug. 21, 1915 20   Note 5
CHILD, Elizabeth Mar. 27, 1716 Note 4
COOK, Hester Dec. 29, 1721 2    Note 3
COOK, Martha (nee ?) Oct. 12, 1723 45   Note 3
COOK, Samuel July 30, 1732 28   Note 3
COOK, Thomas Feb. 10, 1728 62   Note 3
COOK, Thomas Aug. 28, 1720 22   Note 3
COOK, William Dec. 6, 1732 25   Note 3
DAVIES, John Harries July 20, 1916 22  Note 5
DRIVER, Mary (nee PRIDDY) June 8, 1789 60   Note 4
ELLIS, Rebecca (nee ??) Mar. 2, 1782 34   Note 4
FISHER, Mary Aug. 2, 1786 71   Note 1
FLETCHER, Susanna (nee HOSKINS) June 9, 1653 Note 1
FRANKS, Richard June 11, 1750 2yrs 5mths.   Note 3
FREEMAN, Johannes Aug. 14, 1643 23   Note 3
GREGORY, Feances Oct. 24, 1766 Note 1
GREGORY, Rev. John Dec. 10, 1678 49   Note 1
GREGORY, Sarah (nee Lysons) Sep. 20, 1682 Note 1
GREVESTOCK, John. Clarke of church Dec. 26, 1620 Note 1
HALLING, Sarah (nee ?) Oct. 21, 1783 78   Note 4
HALLING, William May 12, 1775 60   Note 4
HALLING, William Oct. 11, 1783 38   Note 4
HARRIS, Louisa Oct. 29, 1701 10   Note 1
HARRIS, Mary (nee LYSONS) June 27, 1721 48   Note 1
HEARD, Charles May 23, 1765 24   Note 4
HEARD, Elizabeth (nee ?) May 17, 1756 55   Note 4
HEARD, Joan (nee ?) Nov. 16, 1729 76   Note 4
HEARD, John. Yeoman, of Parish July 25, 1779 52   Note 3
HEARD, Margaret (nee ?) Jan. 20, 1742 51   Note 4
HEARD, Robert Aug. 28, 1728 74   Note 4
HEARD, Robert July 25, 1753 64   Note 4
HEARD, Robert, of Parish Feb. 9, 1780 48   Note 3
HEARD, Samuel. Of Churcham Dec. 24, 1765 64   Note 4
HILL, Margery (nee BARNES?) Feb. 18, 1688 Note 1
HILL, John May 15, 1671 Note 1
HOLMAN, Henry June 26, 1635 Date Buried.    Note 1
HOPE, John May 12, 1770 62   Note 1
HOSKINS, Elizabeth (nee ?) Oct. 13, 1712 70   Note 1
HOSKINS, Elizabeth (nee ?) Sep. 17, 1719 Note 1
HOSKINS, Elizabeth July 11, 1724 15   Note 1
HOSKINS, Holman July 25, 1717 44   Note 1
HOSKINS, Holman, Junr. Oct.3, 1714 6   Note 1
HOSKINS, Mary Mar. 21, 1723 9   Note 1
JENNINGS, Henry Sep. 20, 1682 Note 4
JENNINGS, John. Of parish Elmore Feb. 9, 1764 39   Note 3
JENNINGS, Margaret Jan. 20, 1683 Note 4
JENNINGS, Mary (nee ?) Feb. 22, 1774 77   Note 3
JENNINGS, Thomas. Of parish Elmore Feb. 21, 1767 71   Note 3
JENNINGS, William June 9, 1685 Note 4
JENNINGS, William Aug. 28, 1770 33   Note 3
JOHNSON, John Feb. 8, 1894 37,  Note 5
JOHNSON, Mary (nee ?) Apr. 5, 1781 35   Note 4
JOHNSON, Sarah (nee ?) July 15, 1914 75  Note 5
KEYS, Ann (nee ?) Jan. 30, 1776 81   Note 4
KEYS, John May 1756 70   Note 4
KEYS, John Feb. 1771 32   Note 4
LYSONS, Anna Apr. 10, 1697 Born 22 Jan. 1697 Note 2
LYSONS, Anna Dec. 2, 1703 Born May 1, 1699 Note 2
LYSONS, Anna Nov. 11, 1784 Born 25 Feb. 1732 Note 2
LYSONS, Anna Maria Nov. 27, 1704 17 wks.  Note 1
LYSONS, Daniel. Pater Sep. 6, 1736 Born 2 Dec. 1672 Note 2
LYSONS, Daniel. Filius July 8, 1773 Born1 Dec. 1697 Note 2
LYSONS, Eliz. Feb. 11, 1728 27   Note 1
LYSONS, Eliz. Sep. 28, 1752 Born 2 Dec. 1695 Note 2
LYSONS, Esthera Feb. 19, 1764 Born 26 Nov. 1739 Note 2
LYSONS, Johannes Oct. 6, 1743 Born 28 Dec. 1736 Note 2
LYSONS, Johannes, LL.D Sep. 12, 1760 Born 28 Dec. 1706 Note 2
LYSONS, Maria Jun. 8, 1780 Born 25 Oct. 1700 Note 2
LYSONS, Mary April 17, 1720 19   Note 1
LYSONS, Mary (nee ?) July 19, 1750 76   Note 1
LYSONS, Priscilla May 3, 1764 Born 10 Oct. 1743 Note 2
LYSONS, Samuel July 26, 1720 Born 24 July 1728  Note 2
LYSONS, Sara Sep. 8, 1726 Born July 2, 1714  Note 2
LYSONS, Silvanus Dec. 9, 1731 66   Note 1
LYSONS, Thomas June 7, 1683 8    Note 1
LYSONS, Thomas July 22, 1702 Born 7 Mar. 1701 Note 2
LYSONS, Thomas Feb. 21, 1713 77   Note 1
LYSONS, Thomas Aug. 2, 1728 Born 19 Feb. 1704 Note 2
LYSONS, Thomas May 26, 1737 Born 10 Dec. 1725 Note 2
MANN, Margaret. Of parish Norton Mar. 22, 1785 53   Note 3
MEE, Eliz., Conjux Dec. 22, 1785 Born 2 Oct. 1702 Note 2
MERRETT, Alfred 1943 23  Note 5
MERRETT, Andrew Alfred May 29, 1959 61  Note 5
MERRETT, Sarah (nee ??) Jan. 29, 1995 96  Note 5
MILES, John. Sen. Oct. 2, 1770 62   Note 4
MILES, John Jan. 18, 1775 25   Note 4
MILES, Sarah (nee ?). Wife of John Dec. 23, 1730 30   Note 4
MILES, Sarah (nee ?). 2nd Wife of John Mar. 9, 1771 62   Note 4
NOURIE, John July 13, 1679 Note 4
NURSE, John Oct. 16, 1697 60   Note 4
NURSE, John Mar. 27, 1699 17   Note 4
NURSE, Mary Aug. 2, 1700 16   Note 4
OVERTHROW, L.F. Private Jan. 14, 1916 25   Note 5
PITT, Margaret Jane (nee JOHNSON?) Jan. 3, 1916 52   Note 5
PRIEST, Elizabeth (nee ?) May 10, 1737 59 Note 4
PRIEST, John Aug. 2, 1727 59 Note 4
REEVE, Eliz. July 1, 1772 Born 3 Jan. 1729 Note 2
RIDLER, Eliz., Conjux Jan. 15, 1708 Born 25 Dec. 1670 Note 2
SHEPPARD, William Mar. 26, 1674 Note 1
SHEPPARD, Alicia (nee ?) July 29 1693 Note 1
SHILL, John. Of Withington Sep. 20, 1726 21   Note 4
SMITH, Ann (nee ?) Oct. 14, 1780 69   Note 3
SMITH, ????? (nee ?). Of Hempsted Dec. 5, 1731 32 Wife of John  Note3
SMITH, John Aug. 26, 1723 72   Note 4
SMITH, John, jun. Yeoman Apr. 10, 1769 49   Note 3
SMITH, Mary (nee ?) May 6, 1752 70   Note 3
SMITH, Sarah Lavinia (nee JOHNSON?) Aug. 3, 1927 57  Note 5
SMITH, Susannah July 18, 1708 32   Note 4
SMITH, William Apr. 22, 1724 Note 4
STEVENS, Jane Apr. 15, 1791 56   Note 4
WIBBY, E.J., Lieutenant March 2, 1921 24   Note 5
WILLETTS, J., Sapper March 27 1942 54   Note 5
WITCOMB, Ifabel (nee ?) Dec. 26, 1696 90   Note 4
WITCOMB, John. Of Tuffley Oct. 15, 1784 36   Note 4

Notes

Note 1. Inscriptions in the Church. For further information, see Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to the County of Gloucester, Ralph Bigland. Part 2/ Daglingworth - Moreton Valence. Reissued by the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archeological Society in 1990, as Volume 3 of the Gloucestershire Record Series. ISBN 0 900197 30 7.

Note 2. On a marble monument, in the Church. For further information, see Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to the County of Gloucester, Ralph Bigland. Part 2/ Daglingworth - Moreton Valence. Reissued by the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archeological Society in 1990, as Volume 3 of the Gloucestershire Record Series. ISBN 0 900197 30 7.

Note 3. In the Churchyard, on tombs. For further information, see Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to the County of Gloucester, Ralph Bigland. Part 2/ Daglingworth - Moreton Valence. Reissued by the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archeological Society in 1990, as Volume 3 of the Gloucestershire Record Series. ISBN 0 900197 30 7.

Note 4 In the Churchyard, On headstones. For further information, see Historical, Monumental and Genealogical Collections Relative to the County of Gloucester, Ralph Bigland. Part 2/ Daglingworth - Moreton Valence. Reissued by the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archeological Society in 1990, as Volume 3 of the Gloucestershire Record Series. ISBN 0 900197 30 7.

Note 5. The inscriptions below were recorded on gravestones in the churchyard, May 1998. The list covers only a small proportion of the graves in the churchyard. Inscriptions on the war memorial are listed on a separate page.

Carey E.M. CARTER
1st Royal Glos Hussars. Killed in Action at the Dardenelles. August 21st 1915 Aged 20 Years

John Harries DAVIES
Killed in Action on the Somme. July 20th 1916, Aged 22 Years

In loving memory of Our Dear Mother Sarah JOHNSON, who died July 15th 1914, aged 75 years
Also of  John, son of the above, Head Master of Tarkastad Public School of South Africa, who died Feby. 8th 1894, aged 37 years.
A few more years shall roll
Also of Margaret Jane PITT, daughter of the above, who died January 3rd 1916, aged 52 years.
Also of Sarah Lavinia SMITH, daughter of the above Sarah JOHNSON, who died Aug. 3rd 1927, aged 57 years            

In loving memory of  Andrew Alfred MERRETT, died 29th May 1959, aged 61 Years.
And his wife Sarah, died 29 January 1995, aged 96 years
Also in Memory of their son Alfred . Killed in Action 1943, Aged 23 Years

M2/100610 Private L.F. OVERTHROW. Royal Army Service Corps 14th January 1916. Aged 25

Lieutenant E.J. WIBBY 2/73rd Malabar Infantry, 2nd March 1921. Aged 24

2199903 Sapper J. WILLETTS, Royal Engineers, 27th March 1942. Aged 54.