Churchyard Graves – Section 2

A survey of the surviving grave markers in the Churchyard of All Saints’, Ruskington, resulted in 156 sites and locations, which for the purposes of this analysis have been numbered accordingly and divided into SIX easily identifiable sections of the Churchyard. (See: aerial view below)

Section 2:

This area is in a Northward extension of Section 1, towards the South-west corner of the Church and its Porch.

In this Section there are 19 Grave Markers remaining, the locations of which are shown on the Sketch Plan below.

Graves 32 – 37 form a line on the other side of the path, immediately to the West of the Church Porch

Although numbered in this Section, for clarity, the locations of Graves 29, 30 and 31 are also shown on Map 5, Section 5.

They are actually on a small ‘island’, bordered by paths, outside the Church Porch.

Most notable of these “island” graves is Grave 31, that of 2 year old Hugh Martindale Myers, one of the last internments before the Churchyard was closed.

Hugh was the infant son of Rev. Arthur and Edith Paulina (née Pickering) Myers, who married in New Brighton on 5 October 1871. From 1870 until 1892 Arthur was the Rector of Ruskington.

Originally the child was buried in a magnificent marble grave with cross and surrounding marble kerbstones – as shown in the photograph – right. Since then, however, it has fallen into a very sad state of disrepair.

A list of the person(s) interred in these graves follows the Plan below (N.B. Some Graves contain more than one burial). Burials in this Section date from 1821 to 1883. The latter date is Hugh Martindale Myers, [Grave 31] the infant son of the Rev. Myers – see above.

The person(s) buried in each of these graves are:

Burial	Name	Dates	Age
Grave 19	WAINER, Annie Mary	1875 – 1879	3
Grave 19	WAINER, Elizabeth	1879 – 1879	15 wks
Grave 20	WAIN(N)ER, William	1815 – 1875	60
Grave 21	PRINCE, Elizabeth	1819 – 1877	58
Grave 22	CHRISTIAN, Jane	1803 – 1874	70
Grave 23	CHRISTIAN, Anne	1831 – 1852	21
Grave 24	CHRISTIAN, Mary	1846 – 1850	4
Grave 24	CHRISTIAN, Betsey	1838 – 1852	15
Grave 25	CHRISTIAN, Thomas	1799 – 1818	19
Grave 26	CHRISTIAN, Sarah	1836 – 1842	6
Grave 27	PACEY, William	1833 – 1863	30
Grave 27	PACEY, Mary	1841 – 1859	18
Grave 28	MILLNER, Joseph	1806 – 1854	48
Grave 28	MILLNER, Ann	1800 – 1868	68
Grave 28	MILLNER, (Infant)	n/k	n/k
Grave 28	MILLNER, (Infant)	n/k	n/k
Grave 28	MILLNER, (Infant)	n/k	n/k
Grave 29	TUXFORD, William	1752 – 1839	86
Grave 29	TUXFORD, Sarah	1776 – 1842	65
Grave 30	Reclining figure – illegible
Grave 31	MYERS, Hugh Martindale	1880 – 1883	2½
Grave 32	BANKS, Jonathan	1759 – 1821	62
Grave 33	BYE, Elizabeth	1776 – 1852	76
Grave 34	illegible inscription
Grave 35	BYE, George	1775 – 1824	59
Grave 36	PARKES, William	1759 – 1857	88
Grave 36	PARKES, Mary	1773 – 1828	55
Grave 37 Grave 37	COCK, Francis COCK, Mary	1771 – 1836 1796 – 1869	65 75

…. a .pdf file containing all the above details, including a copy of the plan of Section 2.

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