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Memorial Inscriptions


Northbrook Cemetery

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UD 63
No stone

 

UD 64
Low headstone

 

 

EVER IN OUR LOVING AND GRATEFUL MEMORY

A WONDERFUL WIFE AND MOTHER

EMMA JANE MATTHEWS

AT REST 21ST MAY 1930

 

 

UD 65

Headstone

 

 

IN

LOVING MEMORY OF

JOSEPH HENRY HEARNE

DIED DEC. 24TH 1923

AGED 28 YEARS

AT REST

 

 

 

UD 66

No stone

 

UD 67

Celtic cross

 

IHS

 

IN

LOVING MEMORY OF

OF

 

On base

 

GWENDOLINE M. ROSE

DIED JULY 24TH 1902, AGED 3 YEARS
 

MERTON A. ROSE MC 2ND LIEUT.

5TH   BATTN ROY WARWICK REGT T.F.

DIED OF WOUNDS SEPT 19TH 1918. AGED 25 YEARS

INTERRED AT AIRE, FRANCE
 

OSMOND A. ROSE 2ND LIEUT. 2ND DORSET REGT

DIED SEPT 12TH 1919, AGED 24 YEARS

INTERRED AT KANTARA NEAR CAIRO, EGYPT

CHILDREN OF LAMBERT AND ELIZABETH ROSE

 

Headstone at foot at grave, inscription facing cross

 

ALWAYS REMEMBERED

LAMBERT HORFIELD ROSE

DIED APRIL 21ST 1934

AGED 76 YEARS
 

AND HIS WIFE

ELIZABETH JANE

DIED DECEMBER 19TH 1935

AGED 72 YEARS

AT REST IN THE LORD

 

UD 68

 

IN

AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE

OF

REUBEN

SON OF JAMES AND CAROLINE BROWN

WHO DIED JULY 1ST 1882

AGED 21 YEARS
 

I came to JESUS as I was

Weary and worn and sad

I found him a resting place

And he has made me glad
 

ALSO OF FRANK

SON OF THE ABOVE

WHO DIED AT ST THOMAS’ HOSPITAL, LONDON

JANUARY 1ST 1883

AGED 11 YEARS
 

Do not mourn his loss fond parents

You think of him as dead
 

ALSO OF THE ABOVE CAROLINE

BELOVED WIFE OF JAMES BROWN

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE

SEPTEMBER 13TH 1888 AGED 52 YEARS
 

One by one the crowns are given

On the bright and happy shore

ALSO OF THE ABOVE

JAMES BROWN

DIED OCT 10TH 1922 AGED 86 YEARS
 

Rest after weariness

Sweet rest at last

 

 

UD69-72[?]

No stone

 

UD 73A

No stone

 

UD 73

On small cross

 

 

SAMUEL JOHNSON TOMES

DIED JULY 2ND 1932

AGED 74 YEARS.

REST IN PEACE.

INTERRED

AT

IPSWICH

SUFFOLK

 

 

Kerb stones

 

 

 

IN MEMORY OF ELLEN TOMES WIFE OF

SAMUEL TOMES DIED MAY 8TH 1919 AGED 66 YEARS

UNTIL THE DAY BREAK

 

ALSO OF CHARLES THEIR SON DIED JULY 2ND 1893 AGED 3 YEARS

 

 

UD 74

Headstone

 

IN

LOVING MEMORY OF

 

MARTHA SEARLEY

WHO DIED JANUARY 22ND 1895

AGED 19 YEARS.

(FROM R. AND M.L.)

R.I.P.
 

ALSO IN LOVING MEMORY OF

HILDA MARY

DAUGHTER OF

CHARLES AND MARY ANN MASTERS

WHO FELL ASLEEP OCT 9TH 1913

AGED 4 YEARS AND 8 MONTHS

JESUS CALLED A LITTLE CHILD

UNTO HIM

 

UD 75

Headstone

 

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

THOMAS SHINER

DEARLY LOVED HUSBAND OF

ELIZABETH SHINER

WHO FELL ASLEEP IN JESUS

JANY 22ND, 1897

AGED 63 YEARS
 

ALSO OF

CHARLES WILLIAM

ELDEST SON OF THE ABOVE

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE

NOVR 4TH, 1877

AGED 11 YEARS

INTERRED AT LANGTON

WITH CHRIST FOR IT IS VERY FAR BETTER

PHIL. I. 23.

 

ALSO OF THE ABOVE

ELIZABETH SHINER

DIED DEC 26TH 1919
AGED 84 YEARS

“YE SHALL BE GATHERED ONE BY ONE”

 

UD 76

Cross

 

base of cross

 

IN

MEMORY OF

 

 

GEORGE BUSSELL

WHO ENTERED INTO REST

FEBRUARY 9TH 1912

AGED 50 YEARS

RESTORED

 

 

UD 77

Kerb

 

 

IN MEMORY OF HENRY CARTER
DIED JAN 14
TH 1933 AGED 76

 

UD 78-84

no stones

 

UD 85A

 

IN

LOVING MEMORY OF

 

GODFREY WHETCOMBE HURD

DIED 17. FEBRUARY 1970 AGED 73
 

ALSO

ELSIE LAURA HURD

DIED 22. FEBRUARY 1982 AGED 85


AND THEIR SON

KENNETH JOHN HURD

DIED 1 FEBRUARY 1997 AGED 77

REUNITED TOGETHER

 

UD 85-87

No stones

 

UD 88-89

 

 

IN

LOVING MEMORY OF

 

ELIZA

WIFE OF JOSEPH GRATTAN

WHO DIED APRIL 8TH 1901

AGED 57 YEARS
 

LORD ALL PITYING

JESU BLEST

GRANT HER THINE ETERNAL REST

 

 

UD 90-93

No stones

 

UD 94

Base of cross

 

 

IN

LOVING MEMORY OF

JANE BRADFORD

DIED 26TH JULY 1935 AGED 68 YRS
 

ITS SWEET TO THINK THAT WE SHALL MEET

WHERE PARTINGS ARE NO MORE

AND THAT THE ONE WE LOVED SO WELL

IS ONLY GONE BEFORE

 

 

UD 95

 

IN

LOVING MEMORY OF

 

GEORGE BONFIELD

WHO FELL ASLEEP IN JESUS

MAY 24TH 1885

AGED 60 YEARS
 

ALSO OF JANE BONFIELD

BELOVED WIFE OF THE ABOVE

WHO DIED OCTOBER 16TH 1908

AGED 83 YEARS
 

WHERE WE ALL HOPE YET TO MEET THEM

WHERE WITH OTHERS NOW THEY WAIT

TIL WITH HEAVENLY SMILES WE GREET THEM

AS WE PASS THE GOLDEN GATE

 

UD 96

Kerb

 

Side

 

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

 

Side

GEORGE HENRY COOPER WHO DIED NOV 21ST 1895
 AGED 39 YEARS

 

 

 

UD 97A, 97-98

No stones

 

UD 99-100

Double plot, crazy paving

 

 

IN LOVING MEMORY

FREDERICK HENRY LOCK CHURCHILL

FEB 15TH 1934
 

FLORENCE MARY CHURCHILL

JUNE 30TH 1946

REST IN PEACE

 

 

UD 101

No stone

BURDLE


UD 102

Marble cross lying down with kerbs

 

Kerbs

 

Side

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

 

Side

ELIZA JONES THE BELOVED WIFE OF
REV. ALFRED JONES
WHO ENTERED INTO REST

 

Side

ON JUNE 30TH 1900 AGED 71

 

Side

“IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH”

 

 

UD 103-104

Double plot, white marble cross laid down

 

 

Side

 

IN LOVING MEMORY

OF

 

HENRY CHARLES BURT

FATHER OF THE CHILDREN INTERRED HERE

BORN MAY 4TH 1858

DIED JANUARY 21ST 1922

 

PEACE PERFECT PEACE

Base

 

IN

LOVING MEMORY OF

LETITIA BURT

BORN 30 NOV. 1895

DIED 26 NOV. 1896

“FOR OF SUCH IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN”

 

CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH BURT

PASSED PEACEFULLY AWAY DEC. 6. 1941
 IN HER 75
TH YEAR

WHEN ALL MY TRIALS AND TROUBLES ARE O’ER

I GO TO REST ON THAT BEAUTIFUL SHORE

Back

 

ALSO OF

HENRY CHARLES BURT

BORN 22 DEC. 1893, + DIED 2 JUNE 1897

“LOST A WHILE OUR TREASURED LOVE

GAIN’D FOR EVER SAFE ABOVE”

 

Marble surround

 

[MADE BY] ALSFORD

BOURNEMOUTH. E.

Side

 

 

ALSO

HORACE CHRISTOPHER BURT
(CADET. ROYAL AIRFORCE.)

WHO DIED IN THE 3RD SOUTHERN GENERAL
HOSPITAL OXFORD AND WAS INTERRED HERE

ON THE 9TH JULY 1918, AGED 19 YEARS

 

 

Commonwealth war grave in the plot

 

 

 

 

 

 

CADET

H. C. BURT

ROYAL AIR FORCE

4TH JULY 1918

 

 

 

 

 

UD 105-106

Double plot

Head stone with rose motif

 

IN

LOVING MEMORY OF

 

ANN

WIFE OF FRANCIS STEVENS

WHO PASSED AWAY APRIL 22 1891, AGED 33

“HERE HAVE WE NO CONTINUING CITY BUT

SEEK ONE TO COME”
 

ALSO OF

WALTER SON OF THE ABOVE

BORN APRIL 14TH 1891

PASSED AWAY MAY 11TH 1892

“THY WILL BE DONE”
 

ALSO OF

FRANCIS STEVENS

HUSBAND AND FATHER OF THE ABOVE

WHO PASSED AWAY JUNE 29TH 1933

AGED 76 YEARS.

COMPLETE IN HIM

 

UD 107

No stone

 

UD 108

On cross

 

 

JAMES

WESTMAN

DIED MAY 21

1934

AGED 84

 

 

UD 109A

Book with inscription – very shallow - almost no sign of text.

 

UD 109-110

Cross with kerb on double plot

 

 

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

OUR BELOVED MOTHER

 

JERUSHAH SPARKES

DIED JAN 4TH 1920, AGED 74 YEARS
 

ALSO OF GERTRUDE SPARKES

DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE

DIED SEPT 12TH 1902, AGED 17 YEARS

I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH

 

Side

 

 

ALSO OF

JOHN SPARKES

DIED OCT 18TH 1931

AGED 82 YEARS

HIS END WAS PEACE

 

Side

 

 

FRANCES COX

DIED MAR 20TH 1938 AGED 67 YEARS

SAY NOT GOODNIGHT
BUT IN SOME BRIGHTER CLIME

BID ME GOOD MORNING

 

 

UD 111

Kerb only – mainly buried under grass, no obvious inscription

 

UD 112

No stone

 

UD 113

Headstone

 

 

IN

LOVING AND REGRETFUL

MEMORY OF

EMILY CAMPBELL

BORN DECEMBER 18TH 1874

DIED AUGUST 22ND 1901

 

 

UD 114-116

Triple plot with large stone

 

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

 

MARY

THE BELOVED WIFE OF

JOSEPH PARSONS SEN

DIED APRIL 16TH 1898

AGED 66 YEARS
.

ALSO OF WILLIAM

SON OF THE ABOVE

DIED APRIL 9TH 1898

AGED 23 YEARS
 

THAT WHO SO EVER BELIEVETH IN HIM

SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE ETERNAL

LIFE JOHN III.15.

ALSO OF THE ABOVE

JOSEPH PARSONS

WHO PASSED AWAY MAY 5TH 1907

AGED 76 YEARS

THERE REMAINETH THEREFORE A REST TO

THE PEOPLE OF GOD HEB. IV. 9.

 

Scroll stone in plot

 

IN MEMORY OF

DEAR FATHER AND MOTHER

JOHN PARSONS

DIED DEC 16TH 1940

AGED 81 YEARS
 

ALSO

MARTHA C. PARSONS

DIED SEPT 15TH 1941

AGED 81 YEARS

EVER IN OUR THOUGHTS

Photo by Cyndi Mark

 

UD 117-118

Double plot, celtic-style design cross

 

IHS

IN

LOVING MEMORY

OF

EVA MARY COLEMAN

DIED OCTOBER 4TH 1926

AGED 63 YEARS

AT REST
 

ALSO OF WILLIAM CHARLES

SON OF THE ABOVE

WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION NOV 5TH 1917
 

ALSO OF

ARTHUR COLEMAN

HUSBAND OF THE ABOVE

DIED JUNE 24TH 1930 AGED 67

REST IN PEACE

 

 

UD 119

Step base to a cross

 

Cross (removed)

PEACE PERFECT PEACE

 

Base of cross

IN

LOVING MEMORY

OF

SARAH ELLEN BANNISTER

WIDOW OF

ALFRED BANNISTER

BORN SEPTEMBER 9TH 1849

DIED APRIL 28TH 1899


I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH

 

UD 120

Headstone, covered in lichen

 

 

IN MEMORY OF

 

GEORGE BREHAUT

A..T..OF C..RASTS[?]

WHO DIED DECEMBER 6TH 1880

AGED 41 YEARS

 

[2 lines of text – difficult to decipher]

 

 

UD 121A

 

IN

LOVING MEMORY

OF

CHARLOTTE

THE BELOVED WIFE OF DAVID HORN

WHO FELL ASLEEP IN JESUS OCTOBER 2ND 1918

AGED 66 YEARS
 

ALSO OF OUR DEAR SON WILLIAM GEORGE

WHO DIED NOVEMBER 26TH 1914

IN THE EXPLOSION OF H.M.S. BULWARK AT SHEERNESS

AGED 28 YEARS


ON THAT HAPPY EASTER MORNING
 ALL THE GRAVES THEIR DEAD RESTORE (same line)

FATHER, SISTER, CHILD AND MOTHER

MEET ONCE MORE
 

ALSO OF THE ABOVE DAVID HORN

PASSED PEACEFULLY AWAY

OCTOBER 15TH 1936 AGED 79 YEARS

UNTIL THE DAY BREAK

 

UD 121

No stone

 

UD 122

Small cross

 

 

IN MEMORY OF

 

ADA JANE

BELOVED AND ONLY DAUGHTER

OF J.H. & S. ENDALL OF BIRMINGHAM

WHO FELL ASLEEP DEC 6TH 1899

AGED 22 YEARS

THY WILL BE DONE

 

 

UD 123-124

Sandstone cross. Double plot

 

 

SACRED

TO THE MEMORY

OF

 

HERBERT

THE DEARLY LOVED HUSBAND OF

MARY A. PALMER

WHO DIED NOV. 25TH, 1901.
AGED 33 YEARS

 

 

“THY WILL BE DONE”

 

Side

 

ALSO OF

HERBERT WALTER

THE DEARLY BELOVED

BABY SON OF

MARY & THE LATE THOMAS TYRRELL

WHO FELL ASLEEP JUNE 20TH 1918
AGED 3 YEARS

SAFE IN THE ARMS OF JESUS

 

Side

 

ALSO

OF OUR BELOVED

MOTHER

MARY ANN TYRRELL

WHO PASSED PEACEFULLY TO REST

APRIL 30TH 1931
AGED 58 YEARS

REST IN THE LORD

 

 

UD 125

No stone

 

UD 126-127

Floral motif. Double plot with large stone

 

IN

LOVING MEMORY OF

 

 

WILLIAM

BELOVED HUSBAND OF MARTHA BURT

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE

20TH AUGUST 1903, AGED 59 YEARS

 

SHORT WAS THE CALL HE HAD FROM ABOVE

NOT A WORD TO HIS LOVED ONES COULD SAY

HIS EYES CLOSED IN DEATH LIKE A BABE IN HIS SLEEP

AND SILENTLY HE PASSED AWAY
 

ALSO OF THEIR TWO CHILDREN WHO DIED IN INFANCY

CHARLES DIED 22ND DECEMBER 1879

AGED 8 MONTHS
 

EDWIN DIED 30TH JULY 1883

AGED 3 MONTHS
 

ALSO IN LOVING MEMORY OF FRANK BURT

THE BELOVED HUSBAND OF ETHEL JANE BURT

AND SON OF THE ABOVE

WHO DIED 7TH MAY 1912, AGED 31 YEARS
 

ALSO IN LOVING MEMORY OF MARTHA BURT

THE BELOVED WIFE OF THE ABOVE WILLIAM BURT

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE

19TH MAY 1918 AGED 74 YEARS

THY WILL BE DONE

 

On scroll

IN

LOVING MEMORY

OF

LILIAN G. HACKWELL

DIED MARCH 20 1921 AGED 17

 

ALSO WILLIAM G. L. HACKWELL

DIED FEB 1ST [?] 1896 AGED ... MONTHS

GRANDCHILDREN

 

UD 128-129

No stone

 

UD 130-131

Double plot

 

On scroll

 

IN

LOVING MEMORY

OF

RICHARD GOODHUGH DAWSON

DIED NOVEMBER 21ST 1916

IN HIS 68TH YEAR
 

ALSO

SARAH DAWSON

WIFE OF THE ABOVE

DIED DECEMBER 15TH 1918

 

UD 132-132A

No stones