St Mary's Cemetry, Mistley, Essex query

[PER]

Hi All,

Thank you for reading my query.

Do you know if any old headstones from the 1700's still exist (and are readable) at St Mary's in Mistley?
Do you know if these headstones have been transcribed anywhere?
          - Billion graves has 13 headstones relating to military people but not the full graveyard done.
          - findagrave dont have them

I think my 4x great grandparents were buried there, Hannah Dyer buried 1765 and Samuel Francis Dyer buried in 1771. There are not a lot of sources for this couple back then; so exploring the long shot possibility that a gravestone might give any further information.

Thank you for reading

Best wishes

Paula

[sandiep]

Essex & Suffolk surnames have transcriptions for Parish registers  in St Mary Mistley might give you some info

https://essexandsuffolksurnames.co.uk/parish-register-transcriptions/essex/mistley-st-mary/

[PER]

Thank you Sandip, I checked the burials on here but its the same as is on findmypast and freereg.org unfortunately. Also happy to look at different sources though

[sandiep]

Have you tried asking Mistley Parish Council  someone there might know if any transcribing has been done.  or Essex Family History society.

[rosie99]

Where did you find a record of Samuel with middle name Francis 

[PER]

Hi Rosie,

You are correct, Samuel's burial does not show a middle name. His middle name was shown on the baptism record of his son Robert in 1740 Mistley, Essex. Robert's ordination papers referenced this baptism which is how got back to Mistley. I don't believe Samuel and Hannah married in Mistley or Samuel was born there though. For further information i have written a biography at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dyer-14449

[PER]

Hi Sandie, Nope I haven't asked the parish council - yet - I will e-mail them soon. I did have a look at EFHS and they have not transcribed that graveyard

[sandiep]

hopefully someone at parish council might know as the church was demolished nothing is said on searches that stones were removed.
afraid I have run out of ideas but good luck do keep us informed, I can see from your wikitree you have search  a lot.
sandie