Survey of St Anne's Churchyard, BaslowTranscriptions by David Dalrymple-Smith, © Copyright 1980s and onwards This collection of webpages provides a record of the Memorial Inscriptions in St Anne's Churchyard in Baslow, Derbyshire as of October 2006, collated and transcribed by David Dalrymple-Smith.
The Church of St Anne in Baslow has two Graveyards. The “old” Church Yard surrounds the Church and dates back to the early 1700s. The new Burial Ground, started in 1960, adjoins it to the south near the Church Rooms. Members of the Baslow Women's Institute started to record the inscriptions on the Gravestones in the mid 1980s. Much work had been done when I (David) took over in the late 1980s, completing the Inscriptions in the old Graveyard. Hopefully the transcriptions are also accurate, but some stones are difficult to read, and clerical errors are bound to be present. I also surveyed and mapped the old Graveyard in 1988 and 1989. It is accurate to about ½ metre. The icons representing the Graves reflect the size and orientation of the stones. The Map was revised in 2006 and converted to digital format. The system of numbering was changed to make it more logical and user friendly. The Map and list have both been updated to include new burials, between 1989 and 2006. The original records, one page for each grave, were deposited in the Derbyshire Record Office at Matlock, but please note this is under the original numbering system. I have also included a list of names on the stones in the New Graveyard, with details of date of death and age when available. In all, there are 1896 names in 851 graves in the Old Church Yard, and 413 names in 270 graves in the new Burial Ground. All the Stones, and all the original transcriptions from the Old Churchyard, have been photographed, and together with the maps will be available on DVD from various sources. (or Email me - see below) I am happy for anyone to copy and use this material for any non commercial purpose, though I would appreciate acknowledgement where appropriate and a copy of any publication using my data.
THE EARLIEST STONEI think that this is the earliest stone. The inscription reads (with difficulty) Here lyeth the body The Parish Register records the burial of a Thomas Baggaley on 7 Feb 1694, perhaps the same person. BASLOW NEW BURIAL GROUNDNov 2005The New Burial Ground is south of the old Church Yard, between the Old Vicarage and Church Lane. Access is through the Churchyard, turning left at the Old Vicarage and right at the Church Rooms. It is divided into two sections by a path running the length of the area, ending at a bench next to the road. Ashes Burials are on the North side of the path, next to the Church Rooms while Burials are to the South side. The headstones stones are in regular rows, all facing east (towards the road). The rows are numbered 1 to 23 starting at the Vicarage end. For this publication, I have allocated the letters “a” to “i” to the Graves in each row, so the arrangement is as follows:
Using the Official Schedule of Burials held by the Parish Council and including further information from the Headstones, I have built up a list for each grave including Surname & Forename, Date of Death and Age at Death, or sometimes Year of Birth and Year of Death. THE WEBPAGESThe web pages were constructed by Rosemary Lockie from David's Excel spreadsheets, to use the following fields:
Additional details of the inscriptions (under the old numbering system) are lodged at the Derbyshire Record Office. There is a page for each stone, which includes the inscription and its size and general condition including deviation from the vertical. In some cases there is an accompanying photograph (in the Record Office).
A separate web page provides a Plan of the Arrangement. The above information was contributed by David Dalrymple-Smith in October 2006. |
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