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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => Sussex => England => Sussex Lookup Requests => Topic started by: Keith Sherwood on Wednesday 27 March 24 22:46 GMT (UK)
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Hi, Everyone,
Could someone tell me whether there are transcriptions kept anywhere of the MI's in the churchyard of St Nicholas, Brighton. Might there possibly be some at the Lewes County Record Office, or The Keep in Brighton? Last time I was down in Brighton in October 2023 when I tried to visit The Keep there had been some kind of a flood and the place was firmly closed...I had been hoping to look for GUILFORD headstones.
Keith
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I cannot find any Guildfords on FindaGrave. That isn't to say there aren't any, just that none are listed.
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Emelton,
Thanks so much for taking the trouble to look for me!
Generations of the Guilford family definitely got married there, but whether individual members lie in that graveyard I still have to discover...
Keith
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www.freereg.org.uk has 16 Guildford burials at St Nicholas betwee 1768 and 1852. I know these aren't MIs but it may help pinpoint family.
Have you thought of contacting the Suusex Family Gistory Group in case they can help.
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Oh, good, those'll do just fine.
And they don't sound too long ago that the inscriptions are sure to be worn away by the elements. Must get down to Brighton soon again and have a tramp around the churchyard armed with those details.
Many thanks again,
Keith
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The Sussex Family History Group have a Monumental Inscription Index which includes St. Nicholas, Brighton.
According to the Index there are 44 Guilford burials in the churchyard. These details are only accessible to members though.
Pheno
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Pheno,
That's very good to know too, thank you for that. Might see how much they charge for an annual subscription!
Keith
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The Brighton Mortiquarian
Recording Our Deceased
https://mortiquarian.com/about/st-nicholas/recording-our-deceased/
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There are virtually no grave markers in the churchyard, only large chest tombs are still in place. Unfortunately, a trip to look for stones may be pointless.
The record office at Lewes closed over ten years ago and the records were transferred to the Keep.
Are you looking for any particular Guilford names?
Nell
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Sadly, I don't think there are any Guilfords in the lists on the link I provided in Reply #7, names collected by Brighton Council way back when the gravestones were cleared.
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KEITH,
Do you have any nearby GUILFORD families in Sussex. Sometimes mis-transcribed as GUILDFORD.
below are some of mine:
Births Dec 1874 (>99%)
Guilford Ada Louisa Thakeham 2b 316
Births Jun 1877 (>99%)
Guilford Florence Lucy Thakeham 2b 313
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Right,
I have a much better mental picture of how the churchyard looks now, and the next to no possibility of finding legible GUILFORD headstone at St Nicholas. Many thanks Little Nell and jonw65 for that vital information. And it will therefore be to The Keep that I direct my attention from now on.
The freereg.org.uk link supplied by Emelton yielded 30 GUILFORD burials there, but at the moment I only have the bare bones of just the one male GUILFORD direct ancestor in each generation, and need to flesh out with baptismal dates to find who all the siblings were in each generation. Before I can more precisely say whom I'm looking for with those burial entries, Little Nell.
Or to know if there are any connections to your Thakeham GUILFORDS, Elliott...
Keith