Guiting Chapel History (6)
20th Century Burial Records


In 1927 a Guiting Chapel Burial Board book was commenced, including a statement of "no previous records apart from Plan". The locations of burials is recorded in a plan.

The book opens as follows:

Lower Guiting B Church : Burial Board 1927

A meeting of the Naunton and Guiting Burial Board was held in the Lower Guiting Schoolroom on May the 11th 1927, presided over by the Rev F.G. Savage to arrange for the extension of burial ground at Guiting, and to appoint new members.

The names of the existing members were:
Mr W G Hanks
Mr M Hanks
Mr W Worvell
Mr W Merrell
New members appointed were
Mr F Perry
Mr Roy Comely
Mr R Worvell
Mr M Mills

It was then decided to take in more ground by putting back the wall. Mr M Hanks kindly supplying stones. It was also proposed and carried that Mr R Worvell be appointed to superintend the affairs of the graveyard and to present an account of same at the Finance Meeting. [Mr Worell resigned the position in 1944, "owing to failing eyesight" and Mr M Mills was elected in his place. At the same meeting it was decided that the Burial Board would therefater consist of the Deacons of both churches, rather than being separately constituted.]

Mr William Worvell asked permission that a portion of ground next his late wife's grae be reserved for his two daughters, which was granted.

The book records the following burials:

Year Interment Name Age Notes
1928 March 23 Thomas Smith 76  
1930 Feb 7 Sarah Emma Morten 77  
  June 11 Jane Haslum 68  
  July 14 Ellen Hart 73  
1931 Aug 15 Emma Lane 71  
1933 ? John Henry Phillips 67 recorded only in 2nd copy of main book
1933 Jan 7 Edmund Wheeler 88  
1934 Jan 11 Elizabeth Hopkins 72  
  April 13 Georgina Eliza Hart 44  
  Aug 28 Harry Andrews 60  
1936 Nov 20 William Hart 51  
1937 Nov 27 George Wixey 52  
1938 Feb 7 Ernest Haslum 67  
1939 March 21 Hannah Smith 81  
  April 29 Mary Jane Hobbs 72  
1941 April 17 Mary Jane Hall 81  
  July 30 Edith Ann Mills 60  
  Dec 29 Leonard Mansfield Hall 81  
1944 Jan 22 John Gammond 16  
  July 13 William Hobbs 84  
1945 April 23 William Worvell 81  
  Nov 27 Annie Evans 74  
1946 Mar 12 Michael Mills 66  
  July 3 Nellie Bissell

84

 
1947 Jan 31 Edith Jane Fergusson 57  
  May 6 Ellen Elizabeth Cook 73  
  Dec 30 William Thomas Wixey 75  
1948 Jan 1 Jane Hunt 69  
1949 Feb 4 Emma Gill Forster 88  
  Apr 11 Ernest Edward Cook 77  
  Nov 10 Sarah Anne Wixey 75  
1950 Feb 26 Carolin East 75  
  Sept 13 George East 78  
1951 May 18 Ellen Burt 75  
1956 July 4 Frederick James 80  
  July 20 Alice James 73  
1958 Sept 5 Martha Jane Hart 66  
  Dec 23 Fiona Jane Haggerty 1 day  
1961 June 8 George Henry Hunt 85  
1962 Aug 9 Reginald John Baldwin 61  
1963 Oct 1 Grace Jessica Hobbs 60  
1968 Feb 1 Robert Charles Worvell 90  
1969 Sept 4 Barbara Elizabeth Cook 64  
1970 Oct 24 Frederick Charles Burt 99  
1971 Dec 10 William George Gammond 81  
1972 Dec 28 James Elizabeth Hobbs 65  
1973 Jan 22 Lydia Bartlett 82  
1975 June 17 Alice Florence Hart 73 Burial of ashes (funeral on 20/05/75)
1978 Mar 20 Reginald Harry Hart 75 Burial of ashes (funeral on 13/02/78)
1979 May 15 Kate Worvell 97  
  Nov 27 Dorothy May Gammond 80 Burial of ashes
1982 Mar 13 Elsie Emma Worvell 91 Burial of ashes
1985 May 4 Geoffrey Evan Mills 78 Burial of ashes (died 04/04/85)
1988 July 25 Edward George Webb 86  
1994 June 22 Constance Baldwin 94  


Burials following the records in the Burial Board Book:

2004 Jan 17 Norman Harbage Wood    
2007 Sept 21 Eileen Gwenneth Haggerty 82  
2011 Jan 13 Sylvia Wood 76