Graves in the Extension of Thornbury Baptist Church

In 1895 the old burial ground attached to Thornbury Baptist Church was extended to provide space for 50 extra graves. Click here to see the details of people buried in the Old Burial Ground

We are grateful to the Baptist Church in Thornbury for allowing us to look at the records held in their safe. Amongst these we were fortunate to find a plan in the burial register showing the rough location of each grave in the extension to the burial ground. The plan (shown in the image on the left) gives each grave in the extension a reference number.

The register provides the names of people buried in each of these graves, the area where they lived, the date when they were buried, their age at death and the name of the Minister performing the service. There is a question about the accuracy of the list as a note made in the margin of the register that the remains of the people listed against grave 24 may not be there and the graves 25 to 28 were never dug.

We know from other sources ( Burials in the Church Minutes and Burial Certificates ) that other people were buried in that part of the churchyard but we don’t know which grave they were buried in.

Note that this part of the graveyard was severely affected by the re-development of the church in 1988. Graves had to be exhumed and the gravestones which remained were re-located around the wall of the Old Burial Ground. These gravestones represent only a small proportion of the original graves and of the stones that remain some are completely illegible. We have transcribed the stones that we were able to read. See those inscriptions.

Grave	Names	Abode	Date of burial	Age	Performed by
1	Edward LIDDIATT Florence Mary COOPER	Thornbury Thornbury	1/1/1899 22/11/1933	43 45	George Rees Rev. F. E. Harker
2	Anna STINCHCOMBE	Thornbury	4/10/1907	73	William J Young
3	Mary WILES	Thornbury	20/7/1900	73	A. O. Moore
4	George REES	Thornbury	28/4/1910	71	William J Young
5	Walter William REED	Thornbury	8/9/1905	39	Rev. G. Jarman
6	George BOYT	Tytherington	5/2/1907	95	William J Young
7	Elizabeth BOYT	Tytherington	11/3/1909	93	William J Young
8	Jephunneh BOYT Julia A. BOYT	Milbury Heath Milbury Heath	13/11/1909 1/10/1919	51 60	William J Young Ernest C. Camble
9	Elizabeth HOOK Jesse HOOK	Itchington Thornbury	12/3/1908 26/6/1916	74 87	William J Young Ernest C. Camble
10	Harriett SKUSE	Tytherington	21/3/1907	69	William J Young
11	Alice DOWDSWELL Isaac DOWDSWELL	Morton Morton	8/5/1905 21/3/1906	66 71	Rev. G. Davies Rev. G. Davies
12	Cecil KINGSCOTE?	Tytherington	10/2/1904	25	Rev. W. W. Reed
14	Thomas WORKMAN	Sibland	5/3/1902	50	A. O. Moore
17	Ada NATION	Bristol	23/10/1919	41	Ernest C Camble
18	William BROWN	Thornbury	9/3/1918	71	Ernest C. Camble
19	Elizabeth CHAMPION	John Street	22/4/1915	70	William J Young
20	Charles COTTLE	Winterbourne	21/1/1911	60	William J Young
21	Mark WILLIAMS Emma WILLIAMS Edwin WILLIAMS	Thornbury Thornbury Thornbury	20/9/1910 29/11/1916 14/12/1920	69 73 50	…Ernest C. Camble Ernest C. Camble
22	Herbert BOYT	Grovesend			Rev. F. Tarrant
23	Mrs George BOYT George BOYT	Tytherington Tytherington	January 1924 30/12/1930	..79	Rev. J. E. Dennis W. West Johnson
24	Mrs Emma SKUSE Thomas SKUSE Henry George SKUSE	Sibland Sibland Havard House, Claverham, Somerset	26/4/1924 5/2/1924 27/9/1949	69 .. 90	J. E. Dennis J. E. Dennis T.J. Farley Pettman
25	Godfrey William LAMBERT	John Street	14/8/1925	7m	J. E. Dennis
26	William Pope STINCHCOMBE	Rock Street	15/3/1926	87	J. E. Dennis
27	Mrs Louisa KNIGHT Gilbert Ambrose KNIGHT	The Plain Castle Street	23/2/1926 23/2/1926	82 13 days	J. E. Dennis J. E. Dennis
28	Mrs Louisa BROWN	John Street	19/4/1926	77	J. E. Dennis
29	Mrs Elizabeth Mary WORKMAN	6 Church Avenue, Bristol	29/8/1927	75	J. E. Dennis