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Cholera Deaths
Burials in July & August 1832

   

Age

25th July

Jane Allen

26

 

William Halford

46

26th July

Susanna Oakeley

26

30th July

William Henry White

2

 

Elizabeth Purser

36

1st August

George Purser

7

 

Thomas Church

80

2nd August

Hannah Powell

64

 

Ann Bates

8

 

William Richards

2

3rd August

John Pritchard

32

 

Bleven Smith

75

4th August

Elizabeth Embury

42

 

Susanna Bates

31

5th August

William Purser

3

 

 

 

It was probably from this date that the 'New' burial ground was used. Mrs Lawson records that a woman called Church was one of the first to be buried there and, in the minute book it is recorded that on the 7th the Secretary was instructed to ask the permission of the commissioners for the Building of New Churches for an additional burying ground.

 

6th August

Sarah Church

63

8th August

William Fereday

63

 

Elizabeth Fowler

23

9th August

Thomas Bourn

26

10th August

Mary Bourn

25

 

John Shepherd

26

 

Jane Ward

2(?)

11th August

William Taylor

53

13th August

Frances Fereday

10

 

Elizabeth Lane

16

14th August

Mary Sutton

80

 

William Turner

2

 

Elizabeth Ferriday

14

15th August

Eliza Mills

23

 

Joseph Hill

1yr 9mths

 

James Allen

56

16th August

Lydia Ferriday

55

 

John Pratt

2

18th August

Henry Stokes

35

21st August

Henry Johnson

2

29th August

John Sandilands

9

   

The next death recorded in the burial book was on September 13th 1832

   

Information taken from a document on show at the Civic Society's Jubilee Exhibition
'Then & Now: The Nation in the Parish'

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