Burials/MIs/Graves Stotfold

[brer]

Does anyone know if the burial records or MIs for St Mary's, Stotfold are available online anywhere please?

Thank you

~ Claire

[bedfordshire boy]

Burials 1563-1851 are on the NBI, which is available on the PPV site www.findmypast.com

Who are you looking for?

[brer]

I'm looking for more info on my GENTLEs - I've got the info from the NBI but would love to know if there are any gravestones with their names on.

Thanks

~ Claire

[johnP-bedford]

Beds Family History Society have the MIs of Stotfold St Marys, surveyed 1914, available on microfiche

http://mysite.verizon.net/brianmpayne/publications.html

I am not sure if a hard-copy is in my library until I get home this evening.

regards
John (librarian BFHS) 

[brer]

Fantastic - thank you 

[johnP-bedford]

Hello brer Claire;

There is a hard copy & it's here with me ...

The only Gentle that's recorded on the Stotfold, St Mary's MIs is....

Headstone; In loving memory of Esther Gentle, the beloved wife of Reuben Gentle,who died Decembr 31st 1883 aged 33 years. "Why should our tears in sorrow flow,When God recalls his own, and bids them leave a world of woe, for an immortal crown. Her toils are o'er her work is done, She gains her Saviour's breast. She fought the fight the victory won. and entered into rest"

Is this Gentle one of yours ?...
 
Any other surnames ?

regards John

PS,, I just googled Gentle + Stotfold & got this .,..

http://www.stotfoldtowncouncil.gov.uk/history/burial/list.php

 that link no longer valid but this is now available
http://www.stotfoldtowncouncil.gov.uk/Core/StotfoldTC/Pages/Cemetery_Search_2.aspx

have you seen it ?

[brer]

Hi

Thanks for this!  Reuben is one of mine but not on my direct line.

I know there are lots of GENTLEs there but obviously not with headstones.  The only other names really would be WILSHERE/WILTSHIRE or ROWNEY.

Thanks again

~ Claire

[bedfordshire boy]

Good find John! A quick look throws up my grandparents, and my uncle who only died 2 years ago.

The cemetery is out of the village, separate from the church, and I wonder if your MI transcript is just for the burials that took place in the church grounds. I think it probably is as the Stotfold site just covers the cemetery which opened in 1898

David

[johnP-bedford]

morning Claire,

Could Rowney be ROWLEY ? there are a couple of them, but there are no Rowney or Wilshere/Wiltshire names listed at St Mary's -  but Rowley & Wilshere/Wilsher appear on the Stotfold Cemetery website. 

Also from that site - if you take the link St Marys Church / Tower Grafitti there is a record of J Gentle and C A Gentle being carved in stone !

David - no Coopers at St Mary's unless they were another family name.

BFHS don't have a Stotfold Cemetery MI publication,  the only other is from the Three Counties Asylum - & you're not mentioned in that either . . . . .

cheers John