Salem Methodist Church
Watley’s End, Winterbourne

Monumental Inscriptions

An alphabetical list of the headstones in the church graveyard first recorded by the Bristol & Avon Family History Society, and transcribed here, with the permission of the BAFHS, by the Frenchay Village Museum.

Only the genealogical data was recorded by the bafhs.

Names shown in Bold Type;
Surnames in BLOCK CAPITALS.

ALLPASS	Mary BAGGERIDGE,
wife of John BAGGERIDGE of Iron Acton
and eldest daughter of the late John ALLPASS of Yate in this County,
died 11 Dec 1836 age 76;
Sarah LEONARD,
wife of William LEONARD and sister of above,
died 20 Jan 1836 age 75,
[stone erected by their nephew John ALLPASS of the City of Bath];
John ALLPASS, abovenamed, died ___
[stone broken].

AMOS	1] John AMOS of this parish
died 22 March 1850 age 76;
		wife Grace AMOS died 14 April 1849 age 81.

		2] Charles AMOS of this parish
			died 31 Oct 1848 age 83;
		wife Elizabeth AMOS died 5 Jan 1853 age 77.

		3] Barbara Grace AMOS,
			killed by enemy action 27 Feb 1941 age 18;
		father Frederick William George AMOS
			died 6 Jan 1950 age 65;
		Elizabeth AMOS, wife of FWG AMOS,
			died 19 Dec 1955 age 68.

ANSTEY	Annie Clara ANSTIE died 29 Nov 1951 age 67;
	Gordon ANSTEY died 13 April 1922 age 1 month;
	Frederick Thomas ANSTEY died 7 Oct 1960 age 80;
	Frederick Robert ANSTEY
killed in action 6 July 1940 age 30.
		
BAGGERIDGE	see ALLPASS

BARRETT	Benjamin PLAYER died 20 May 1928 age 52;
		wife Clara PLAYER [no dates];
	Kathleen May BARRETT died 17 Oct 1941 age 27.

BISP		Graham Edgar BISP 1884 – 1953;
		wife Rosina Mary BISP 1888 – 1976.

BRITTON	Francis H BRITTON died 23 April 1967 age 69.

BURDETT	Isaac BURDETT Esq of Winterbourne Lodge
			died 8 Sep 1857 age 68;
		widow Clara BURDETT
born 18 Oct 1797 died 17 Dec 1879.

CAMERON	Michael John CAMERON
died 20 Sep 1949 age 1 year 6 months.

COOK		Fanny COOK, mother, died 10 May 1940 age 77;
		son Albert COOK died 22 Feb 1909 Age 19.

CORDY	Emma CORDY died 17 Aug 1900 age 35;
		Mark CORDY, husband of Amy CORDY
			died 27 Oct 1939 age 74.

CREW	John S DRAISEY died 18 June 1917 age 62;
	wife Hannah DRAISEY died 9 March 1935 age 76;
	Raymond FW CREW 1904 – 1981;
	wife Gertrude Beatrice CREW,
daughter of  John & Hannah DRAISEY above,
died 15 Jan 1983 age 78.

CURRY	William James CURRY died 8 Jan 1949 age 88;
		Mary Ann CURRY, wife of James Curry,
died 4 Feb 1927 age 67.

CURTIS	1] Aaron CURTIS died 20 Sep 1880 age 61;

		2] Sarah CURTIS,
daughter of Edmund & Sarah CURTIS,
died 10 May 1840 age 1 year 11 months;
	aforesaid Sarah CURTIS died 19 Aug 1841 age 43;
	their daughter Harriett Susan CURTIS
died 17 Nov 1841 age 18 weeks;
	their son Richmund CURTIS died 27 Aug 1842 age 10.

		3] Edwin CURTIS died 19 April 1875 age 63;
		wife Agnes CURTIS died 19 April 1885 age 84
		(Checked dates)
		[Salem burial records give Edwin’s age as 62;
		and Agnes’ age as 77, buried 19 April 1885].

DANDO	James DANDO, husband,
died 28 Feb 1976 age 62.

DRAISEY	see CREW

ELLIOTT	1] Hilda Mary,
third daughter of Daniel & Sarah Ann ELLIOTT,
died 25 May 1910;
	Agnes MANN , wife of George MANN
and second daughter of above,
died 26 April 1913 age 25;
abovenamed Sarah Ann ELLIOTT
died 15 March 1945 age 88;
abovenamed Daniel ELLIOTT died 17 Jan 1930 age 71.

		2] Mary ELLIOTT died 23 Nov 1881 age 46;
		her husband Charles ELLIOTT
died  23 April 1910 age 77;
Emma ELLIOTT died 26 Nov 1886 age 77.

ELLIOTT	3] Joseph HOWELL of this parish
died 8 May 1869 age 58;
	daughter Charlotte died 30 June 1869 age 25;
	Ellen HOWELL died 14 Jan 1884 age 69;
	Eliza ELLIOTT ……..

FLLOK	1] Abraham FLOOK died 23 Dec 1864 age 54;
	wife Phoebe Maria FLOOK died 2 June 1884 age 63;
	his daughter Emma FLOOK died 21 April 1898 age 52;
	their daughter Isabel FLOOK died 13 Sep 1884 age 25;
	Alice FLOOK died 4 May 1949 age 89.

	2] Maria HOWES, wife of Jason HOWES of this parish,
died 28 May 1836 age 54;
	their son Robert HOWES died 21 Nov 1830 age 20;
	their daughter Mary FLOOK,
wife of Abraham FLOOK, died 16 Aug 1853 age 35;
abovenamed Jason HOWES died 4 June 1869 age 85;
	William HOWES died 26 May 1901 age 76.

GARLICK	George GARLICK died 25 May 1860;
		widow Ann GARLICK died 13 Jan 1874 age 89.

GIFFORD	Eliza HISCOX died 26 Dec 1885 age 33;
	husband George HISCOX died 21 Aug 1896 age 34;
	Harriett GIFFORD died 28 Nov 1898 age 44;
	husband Edward GIFFORD died 22 Oct 1923 age 68.

GOODING	Cecil John GOODING, husband & father,
			died 1 Nov 1982 age 61.

GWATKIN	Velters Francis Seth GWATKIN, husband,
died 1 April 1972 age 62.

HALE		Luke HALE of this parish
died 8 April 1861 age 55.

HISCOX	see GIFFORD

HOLLISTER		Henry HOLLISTER, father,
died 23 June 1916 age 59;
Fanny HOLLISTER, mother,
	Died 22 Oct 1935 age 79;
Alice HOLLISTER died 6 Jan 1986 age 82.

HOWELL	1] Ernest HOWELL,
eldest son of Frank & Annie HOWELL,
died 3 April 1906 age 14;
	abovenamed Frank HOWELL died 1 June 1942 age 76;
	son Victor Paul HOWELL died 10 Feb 1946 age 46;
	abovenamed Annie HOWELL died 25 April 1954 age 88;
	daughter Elsie died 31 May 1971 age 70.

	2] see ELLIOTT 3]

HOWES	1] George HOWES of this parish
died 26 Jan 1890 age 82;
		wife Elizabeth HOWES died 3 Feb 1895 age 88;
their son Henry HOWES died 18 Feb age 25;
		George …..

		2] George HOWES died 4 Dec 1923 age 53;
		Bertha E HOWES died 9 May 1941 age 72.

	3] James MANN died 20 May 1926 age 88;
	wife Mary MANN died 27 Sep 1917 age 74;
Clara Emily HOWES died 20 Jan 1954 age 76;
Husband William HOWES died 1 July 1940 age 59.

	4] Robert William HOWES died 11 June 1913 age 56;
	Florence daughter of Emma Jane MAPSTONE
died 20 May 1928 age 56;
Ethel May HOWES wife of Francis J HOWES
died 27 Dec 1936 age 31.

5] James HOWES, husband of Clara HOWES,
died 18 Jan 1944 age 79;
wife Clara HOWES died 25 Dec 1949 age 83.

	6] Ernest HOWES, husband & father,
died 6 Oct 1971 age 73;
	wife Lilian Mabel HOWES died 21 Feb 1978 age 68.

	7] Frank HOWES died 24 March 1936 age 76;
	wife Sabina HOWES died 25 March 1936 age 75;
	their daughter Celia Ann HOWES
died 30 June 1978 age 85;
Rose Sabina HOWES 1892 – 1983.

8] see FLOOK 2]

ILES	Clara ILES, wife of Allen ILES,
died 7 March 1965 age 74;
husband Allen ILES died 22 May 1970 age 80;
(Memory of father & mother from George, Ella & May, Sydney Australia).

ISAAC	Mary Jane ISAAC died 5 April 1941 age 80;
	husband Jeremiah ISAAC died 26 Dec 1938 age 80;
	daughter Ethel Annie died 11 Aug 1958 age 66.

KENDALL	Florence Ellen KENDALL
died 7 March 1940 age 52;
	husband Albert KENDALL died 8 Jan 1958 age 66.

LEONARD		see ALLPASS

LEWIS	1] Phoebe LEWIS, wife of Haydn LEWIS,
mother of John, died 23 Oct 1977 age 64;
	husband Haydn LEWIS died 18 Nov 1979 age 69;
	see LEWIS 2]

	2] (Memories of Mum, Dad & Bill,
from Haydn, Frank & Phoebe)	see LEWIS 1]

	3] Ellen (Nellie) LEWIS, wife of Herbert LEWIS,
died 7 Feb 1936 age 49.

	4] Frank LEWIS, husband & dad,
died 23 Nov 1969 age 54;
	wife Josephine LEWIS died 7 Feb 1983 age 65.

LONG		Maud Mary LONG died 12 March 1959 age 79.

LOWE	1] Edgar LOWE, father of Donald LOWE,
died 8 June 1956 age 55;
		wife Olive LOWE died 6 June 1968 age 68.

LOWE	2] Florence LOWE,
daughter of Jabez & Elizabeth LOWE,
died 1 Sep 1898 age 21;
		Jabez LOWE died 14 July 1911 age 65;
		wife Elizabeth LOWE died 30 Nov 1943 age 96.

		3] Tom LOWE, husband of Elizabeth LOWE,
died 17 Dec 1940 age 65;
	his daughter Hilda LOWE died 21 Nov 1927 age 20;
	Elizabeth LOWE died 10 Dec 1954 age 72.

		4] Gilbert LOWE, husband of Marion LOWE
died 24 May 1923 age 29;
		Sabina LOWE, wife of Edwin LOWE,
died 13 Aug 1923 age 55;
		husband Edwin LOWE died 26 Aug 1950 age 83.

LUTON	1] Herbert George LUTON, husband,
died 25 Nov 1974 age 87;
	wife Clara Lavinia LUTON died 11 April 1981 age 92;

	2] Elizabeth LUTON died 7 March 1932 age 68;
	husband George LUTON died 11 Dec 1948 age 84.

MAGGS	1] Alfred MAGGS,
son of Gilbert & Mary MAGGS,
born 6 April 1893, died 11 Feb 1937;
	abovenamed Gilbert MAGGS
born 25 July 1870, died 29 Sep 1943;
abovenamed Mary MAGGS, died 18 Nov 1952 age 83;
	Doris Elizabeth MAGGS died 11 July 1974 age 74.

	2] Sam MAGGS, husband of Mary MAGGS,
		died 18 Dec 1932 age 58;
	wife Mary MAGGS died 6 Aug 1952 age 78;
	Joseph C THOMPSON died 13 Feb 1975 age 72;
	Millicent THOMPSON died 28 July 1984 age 80.

MANN	1] Ivy Olive MANN,
wife of Philip Leonard MANN, died 2 Nov 1941.

		2] Robert SHERMER died 9 March 1890 age 67;
		Ellen Mary MANN died 28 Dec 1951 age 66.

		3] Ernest James MANN,
		youngest son of Philip & Emma MANN,
			died 24 Feb 1935 age 28;
		abovenamed Philip MANN
died suddenly 1 May 1939 age 71;
	abovenamed Emma MANN died 22 Sep 1960 age 85;
	son Herbert Reginald MANN died 20 Dec 1944 age 41,
		(interred at Canford Cemetary).

		4] see ELLIOTT 1].

		5] see HOWES 3].

MAPSTONE		see HOWES 4]

MILLMAN	Elenor MILLMAN died 12 Sep 1873 age 55.

NICHOLLS	Albert NICHOLLS,
husband of Sabina NICHOLLS,
died 26 Sep 1948 (no age given);
	wife Sabina NICHOLLS died 12 June 1956 age 66.

NOAD	Hilda NOAD, wife of Reginald NOAD,
	mother of Angela & Caroline,
died 30 March 1956 age 48;
daughter Angela NOAD died 6 March 1960 age 20;
Reginald NOAD 1912 – 1986.

ORCHARD	Florence ORCHARD 1875 – 1927;
	Robert John ORCHARD 1881 – 1957;
	Elizabeth May ORCHARD,wife of Robert ORCHARD,
		1895 – 1976.

PALMER	Elizabeth PALMER,
wife of John PALMER of this parish,
died 6 Feb 1868 age 63;
abovenamed John PALMER died 18 May 1878 age 73.

PEARCE	William PEARCE of this parish
died 2 Oct 1850 age 79.

PINNEGAR	Susanna PINNEGAR died 4 Feb 1850 age 66;
	husband John PINNEGAR died 17 Oct 1857 age 73.

PLAYER	see BARRETT

PRITCHARD		Charlotte PRITCHARD,
	wife of James PRITCHARD, died 2 Feb 1837 age 57.

RAY		Kessie A RAY, wife & mother,
died 28 Feb 1967 age 61.

RICKETTS	John Charles RICKETTS,
husband of Jane RICKETTS,
died 8 April 1941 age 72;
wife Jane RICKETTS died 16 Nov 1953 age 83;
their daughter Bertha died 14 March 1957 age 56.

ROGERS	1] Harry ROGERS, husband & father,
	died 27 Dec 1973 age 57;

	2] Amy Ada ROGERS, wife of James ROGERS,
		died 14 Sep 1941 age 55;
	husband James ROGERS died 6 March 1958 age 71.

SHERMER	see MANN 2]

SHIPTON	Richard SHIPTON died 14 March 1888.

SKUSE	Mary Elizabeth SKUSE, wife of Robert SKUSE,
	died 14 May 1939 age 71 [burial register reads 1938];
	husband Robert SKUSE died 25 March 1948 age 72.

SMART	1] Dennis SMART, husband,
died 3 May 1966 age 62.

	2] Frank SMART died 16 July 1966 age 71;
	wife Lilian SMART died 1 July 1975 age 81.

SMART	3] Bertha SMART died 8 Oct 1954;
sister Ada died 14 Jan 1982.

TEAGLE	Cyril TEAGLE, husband & father,
			died 7 Dec 1963 age 60.

THOMPSON		see MAGGS 2]

THYNNE	Kathleen Isabel THYNNE,
died 16 Jan 1960 age 45;
		Sabina THYNNE died 19 April 1972 age 85;
		Edgar THYNNE, husband of Sabina THYNNE,
died 20 Oct 1975 age 88.

TILLETT	Edmund TILLETT died 15 March 1833 age 42;
		wife Betty TILLETT died 19 Nov 1867 age 77.

TOVEY	Percy TOVEY
(‘My husband, and father of Christine’)
		died 31 ??? ???? age 51.

TURNER	Ernest TURNER died 12 March 1932 age 27;
		Ethelbert TURNER died 2 April 1932 age 50;
		Alice TURNER died 7 Oct 1956 age 75.

Addendum…
Christian name ? or surname ? ...
Sometimes people are given family names or surnames as forenames; these may be a clue to other family relationships. The following may be examples…?

Allen		see ILES

Clark		see CURTIS 4]

Richmund	see CURTIS 2]

Velters	see GWATKIN