Here you can download five monumental inscription transcripts – one for the public area of Christ Church graveyard, one for the private area, one for the Garden of Rest, one for the graves under the school extension, and a list of burials between 1825 and October 1857 (because Ancestry’s software struggles to identify burial register entries formatted as “X, child of Y and Z Surname”). Here is where we will also add other MI transcripts undertaken as part of cooperation with other churches and chapels or as additional exercises.
The public area transcript PDF includes information about those in unmarked graves, where known, as well as maps of that area – yellow graves are those with stones, grey are unmarked plots.
Graves in the private area were retranscribed thanks to the kind permission and assistance of the church’s owners, and we’d ask researchers to respect their privacy and make do with this instead. Any photo requests for gravestones in this area should be directed to us at friendsofchristchurchtod@outlook.com – we will endeavour to accommodate you.
Please also remember that not every burial has a corresponding gravestone, and just because a burial appears on websites such as FindAGrave does not mean that we can find a stone, or even a burial plot. The surviving burials book was not complete.
Other MI transcripts
Our transcript for Blackshaw Head Methodist Chapel also incorporates information from their burial registers and binders full of death, burial and cremation certficates, as well as coroner’s orders and handwritten letters.