Reighton Burials, 1850-1921

REIGHTON:
Reighton Burials, 1850-1921

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1850

January 1	A man unknown found on the beach, age perhaps 20
January 5	Two male bodies found drowned on the beach sands aged about 20 years and 60 years.
March 8	Poskit Colley, 54
June 18	Charles Welburn, 21
August 21	Thomas Welburn, 64
September 29	Ann Austen, infant
December 5	Mark Wood, 63, of Nafferton

1851

July 1	Robert Noble, infant
November 15	Jane Scrivener, 63
November 19	A sailor, name unknown, found in Speeton Beck

1852

January 28	Sarah Ann Stubbs, 7
April 1	A sailor, name unknown, found in Speeton Beck, age nearly 40.
June 24	Elizabeth Robinson, 24
July 2	Mary Jane Robinson, infant
July 15	Mercy Myers, 23
October 18	Mary Ezard, 69, of Speeton
November 15	George Dobson, infant

1853

May 24	John Scrivener, 72
July 19	Elizabeth Mayman, 68
December 31	Roseanna Claxton, infant

1854

January 1	Body of a man unknown, found on the beach, aged.
January 4	Two bodies, names unknown, found on the beach, perhaps 40 and 25.
April 14	Mary Noble, 1
May 26	Elizabeth Woodsworth, 79
October 5	George Pudsey, 25, of Grindale
December 15	William Pudsey, 47, of Buckton
December 21	Welborn Hanler (Hawlor?), 17

1855

January 13	Thomas Coops, infant, of Speeton
January 25	Martha Watson, 64
February 4	John Claxton, 66, of Grindell
May 3	Mary Colley, 53, of Winteringham
May 19	Wilson Staveley, 17
May 20	Samuel Staveley, 44
August 19	John Phoenix (?), 21
September 18	James Jemmeson, Hewett, 2
December 20	Robinson Sellars, 24, of Buckton
December 22	Frances Dunning, 24

1856

January 23	Hannah Wilson, 6
March 5	Ann Holtby, 78
September 26	Richard Edmond, 27
October 29	Maria Austen, 30
December 25	William Smith Austen, 6 months

1857

March 18	Harriet Clubley, 54, of Bridlington Quay
April 12	Hannah Fox, 40
September 10	Joseph Smith, 5 months
September 13	John Henry Claxton, 5 weeks
December 9	John Marshall, 13
December 22	Charles Parker, 10 months

1858

January 11	Emma Strickland, 7 months, (Dated 1857, but in at this point in the register, so surely 1858)
August 31	John Thomas Claxton, 24 weeks

1859

January 17	Mary Baker, 15 weeks, of Buckton
May 4	Martha Baker, 7 months, of Buckton
	(The above two entries having brackets at the end and marked 'twins')
May 28	Henry Cranswick, 25, of Cayton
July 4	Richard Baker, 1 year and 8 months, of Buckton
October 25	Jane Brown, 25
November 6	George Ezard, 80, of Filey
November 9	Ann Wood, 64, of Hunmanby

1860

January 9	Staveley Piercy, 13 weeks
January 25	Ann Wilson, 84, of Argham
July 10	Jane Whiting, 4
October 25	Andrew Clark, 53, of Carnaby
November 16	John Richard Petch, 5 months

1861

June 27	Sarah Pickering, 6
June 30	Robinson Pickering, 11
September 6	George Phillips, 48
September 6	Fanny Woodhead, 18 weeks
September 8	Henry Garton, 5 weeks
September 9	William Mount Blissinden McPherson, 8
October 6	Mary Elizabeth Wilson, 13 months
October 13	Thomison Raper, 1 year 9 months
October 27	Robert Wilson, 6 weeks
November 26	Emma Petch, 32, of Flamborough
December 10	Thorp Stubbs, 54
December 10	John Jackson, infant
December 22	Ann Elizabeth Bilton, 3 years 8 months, of Speeton

1862

February 14	Edward Henry Bowser, 56
March 20	Edward Hovington Smith, 14 days, of Speeton
April 2	Robert Watson Wilson, 18 weeks
October 31	Daniel Bilton Piercy, 5 months
December 28	Edward Smith, 57, of Speeton

1863

February 2	John Robert Baker, 17 weeks, of Kelk
March 22	Mary Pickering, 6
April 22	Mary Noble, 76
October 4	John William Bloomfield, 1 year 7 months
October 14	Rachel Jennings, 65
October 17	Henry Watson, 57
October 30	Fanny Garton, 1 year 10 months

1864

June 14	Marion Bowser, 8
November 11	John Pudsey, 86, of Grindell
December 23	Ann Smith, 24, of Speeton
December 28	Mary Jane Baker, 6 months, of Kelk

1865

February 27	Body of a man unknown, found on the beach in Speeton parish, aged about 30 years
March 24	Mary Jane Bilton, 6
April 14	Elizabeth Moody, infant, of Speeton
June 10	Lucy Ann Sellers, 14
August 27	Mary Ann Pudsey, 77, of Langtoft
October 8	Richard Knaggs, 4 months
October 20	Elizabeth Cranswick, 68

1866

September 20	Emily Bilton, 1 year 5 months
October 15	George Woodhead, 32
December 2	Samuel Staveley, 5 months

1867

January 11	Elizabeth Cranswick, 37, of Grindell
January 15	Maria Cranswick, 5 months, of Grindell
April 22	John Claxton, 7 days
November 27	Joseph Hewett, 38, of Clifton near York
December 25	Charlotte Emma Smales, 5 months

1868

April 12	Ann Myers, 80
June 11	Thomas Cranswick, 85, of Bridlington
July 1	Lucy Ann Staveley, 17 days
July 10	Julia Sellars, 1 year 7 months
July 13	Alice Atkinson, 7 weeks, of Speeton
July 29	James Anderson, 15 weeks
December 14	Hannah Scales, 34

1869

January 31	Betsy Ann Baker, 3, of Kelk
January 31	Rosanna Welburn, 85
March 14	Mary Claxton, 84, of Grindale
March 26	Ann Claxton, 9 months, of Grindale
April 17	Mary Ellen Proctor, 4
May 4	Alice Jane Myers, 18 months
July 22	William Edmond, 17 months
July 27	Francis Thompson, 91, of Bridlington
August 1	James Robson Ringrose, 7 weeks
August 1	Thorp Stubbs, 2 years 4 months
October 24	George Edward Atkinson, 3 years 7 months, of Speeton

1870

June 17	Elizabeth Pinder, 62, of Bridlington
July 29	Andrew Fleck, 85, of Bridlington
August 23	Richard Claxton, 15, of Boynton

1871

February 27	George Clifford, 75
May 1	Robert Whites, 1 day
October 18	David Raylor, 26

1872

May 19	Agnes Fanny Sellar, 17
June 2	Mary Southerby, 1 day
June 22	Mary Wilson, 46, of Beverley
July 22	James Watson, 84
July 30	Thomas White, 61
November 8	Major Boyes, 28, of Bridlington

1873

March 19	Martha Appleby, 49
May 2	James Burt, 8 weeks
May 23	John Jefferson, 1 day
June 10	George Welburn, 52, of Hunmanby
October 17	Edward Jackson, 57
October 25	George William Claxton, 7 weeks

1874

May 12	Frederick Cranswick, 10 months
May 27	Emily White, 11 months
June 3	Agnes Fanny Sellers, 2
June 7	Mary Noble, 2 years 6 months

1875

February 17	Thomas Shenley (Spenley?) 19
April 15	George William Moorhouse, 41, of Hull
April 28	Elizabeth Dobson, 57
March 9 (sic, perhaps he meant May?)	Arthur Speck Reed, 1 year 7 Months
August 30	William Smith, (no age given), of Speeton, harvester

1876

March 9	John William Waites, 1
March 30	Benjamin Sellar, 70

1877

March 14	Anthony White, 39
June 23	Lucy Hoggarth, 56, of Hunmanby
June 24	Elizabeth Holtby, 62
September 4	Richard Austin, 78
November 30	George Dobson, 59
December 3	William Joseph Holtby, 29

1878

January 26	Thomas Sanderson, 46
April 21	David Taylor, 78
April 24	William Farthing, 93
April 24	Charlotte Anderson, 2
June 11	Elizabeth Cowton, 103
	(The oldest Reightonian on record. She was baptised on September 22 1776 and never married. She is buried between the church tower and the road. Her headstone is worth seeing. LB)
July 8	A man unknown found on the beach at Speeton.
September 14	Elizabeth Smith, 63, of Bridlington

1879

April 30	Annie Eliza Piercy, 29, of Scarborough
June 14	Edward Hogg, 19
August 21	Elizabeth Stork, 32
October 9	Annie Elizabeth Ellbeck, 5
September (?) 28	Frederick William Dowkin(?), 1. (Nathaniel Strickland's handwriting becomes increasingly difficult to read with age. This was the last burial he conducted. He died in early 1886 at the age of 84, the death being registered in Pancras. LB)
November 20	Henrietta Summersgill, 4 months

1880

August 31	George Robert Mayes, 4 months, of Speeton
(No burials in 1881.)

1882

March 13	Joseph Anderson, 13 weeks
May 30	Annie Marshall, 24
September 28	Ellen Hoggarth, 3, of Hunmanby Moor
November 20	Moses Thompson, 69, of Hilderthorpe, Bridlington

1883

January 29	Danby Jimmeson, 73, of Speeton
March 14	A stranger unknown
July 27	Jane Ellen Cockerill, 17 months, of Speeton
August 14	Mary Jackson, 70
December 5	Easter Jemmeson, 74

1884

March 25	Jane Sellars, 83, of Bridlington
May 18	William Hoggard, 78
September 5	Vivian Beal, 8 months
October 26	Ralph Stubbs, 47
November 23	Fanny Taylor, 85
November 26	Mary Marshall, 7 months
December 3	Ann (Nicholson) (sic) Jarratt, 67
December 31	Charles William Sellars, 5

1885

January 8	William Bilton Piercy, 3
November 30	Thomas Ward, 81, of Speeton

1886

January 6	Caroline Piercy, 7 months
June 18	Charles Henry Reed, 14, of Speeton
August 17	Ursula Crow, 63, of Huntow
October 20	Caroline Langton, 6 weeks
December 20	Mary Marshall, 63

1887

January 15	Elizabeth Bowser, 70
January 15	Charles Young, 4 months, of Speeton
May 22	Ann Wilson, 72
May 26	James Pickering, 67, of Bridlington
May 26	Mary Elizabeth Ogle, 9 weeks, of Speeton
November 20	Edith Birch (March?), 5
November 27	Thomas Wilson, 65

1888

March 14	Michael Schiffer, 33, found dead on the beach at Speeton
May 5	Harry Crawford, 10 months
June 15	Samuel Bilton, 24 hours
July 3	Thompson Stubbs, 57

1889

June 26	Richard Wood, 74, of Hunmanby
June 17	Julia Sellars, 74
August 26	Hardy Hall, 6 months
November 5	Mary Mattinson, 84

1890

January 15	Frank Appleby, 26
March 25	Chessman Walker, 52, of Speeton
June 16	Sarah Holtby, 64
	(The second wife of Joseph Holtby, the village joiner. His first wife, Elizabeth, died in 1877. He married Sarah (formerly Walker) in 1879 when he was 61 and she was 53. LB)

1891

April 6	Sarah Jane Bowser, 52
May 10	Mary Woodhead, 5 months

1892

January 14	Henry Corr, 21, found drowned on the beach. Residence: 90 Bradley(?) Street, Bethnal Green, Whitechapel, London.
February 18	Mary Jane Stubbs, 41
April 8	Matthew Cranswick, 60
June 5	Alice Pudsey, 12
June 19	Edith Annie Woodhead, 7 weeks
June 24	Ellen Woodhead, 7 weeks
July 14	Hannah Pudsey, 11 weeks
October 23	Hannah Stubbs, 82
December 3	William Hoggarth, 75, of Hunmanby Moor
December 18	John Claxton, 77
December 20	Louisa Crawford, 3 days
December 28	May Rowley, 32
	(Nee Strickland, she was the daughter of one vicar of Reighton and the wife of another. Robert Fisher, the rural dean, conducted the service.)

1893

March 21	Jane Stubbs, 57
August 9	James Marshall, 73
September 3	William Piercy, 86, of Scarborough. (Formerly landlord of the Dotterell inn. His son, William Bilton Piercy, later succeeded him to this post.)
November 29	A man unknown, aged about 30 - 35 years, found on the beach at Speeton.
November 29	A man unknown, aged about 20 - 25 years, found on the beach at Speeton.
December 26	A child of John Artley, 48 hours, of Speeton

1894

February 17	Charlotte Clements, 38
February 22	Alice Marshall, 8
February 28	Sarah Sellars, 42
April 11	Jane Mayman, 23
October 10	William Walton Trowell, 8 months
October 28	George Hoggarth, 3, of Hunmanby
December 5	Harold Leak, 4 months
December 13	Samuel Bilton, 69
December 23	Kate Crawford, 7 months

1895

January 10	John Appleby, 75, of Filey
January 26	A man unknown, age unknown, found in the sea near Speeton.
April 12	Reuben Bilton, 1
December 28	Emma Austin, 89, of Bridlington

1896

March 27	John Whiting, 80
July 8	Sydney Hoggarth, 2, of Hunmanby
October 25	Jane Crawford, 68

1897

January 20	Lucy Simpkin, 8 months
March 21	James Noble, 28, of Rudston
May 2	Richard Mayman, 79
July 11	Joseph Holtby, 79
September 16	Harry Pudsey, 5 days
September 16	George Pudsey, 5 days
October 15	Mary Ann Atkinson, 58, of Speeton
November 17	Watson Jemmeson Nelson, 6 months, of Speeton
December 12	George Crowe, 73, of Huntow Farm, Bridlington
December 27	Earnest Stubbs, 3 weeks

1898

January 20	Louisa Cranswick, 36, of Bridlington Quay
February 20	John Thomas Adamson, 15 months
March 20	Jane Elizabeth Ellbeck, 14, of Speeton
April 15	Mary Hogg, 67
April 16	John Speck, 79, of Speeton
August 8	Charles William Shelton (Skelton?), 4 hours
August 9	Matthew Crawford, 68

1899

March 29	Thomas Sellers, 87, fees returned
May 11	Mary Matilda Cook, 7months
July 2	Agnes Ellbeck, 21, of Speeton (assumed this name in lieu of Jonas)
July 25	- Crawford, ½ an hour
September 11	- Stubbs, 2 ½ months
September 23	John Park Smith, about 56, the body picked up at Reighton Sands
December 15	Ann Burton, 70, of Rudston

1900

January 21	Mary Mayman, of Bridlington, 78 (73, 76?)
February 6	Ernest Nelson, of Speeton, 9 months
April 4	Robert Henry Jackson, of Speeton, 7
May 26	Arthur Botterill Skelton, 8 months
September 25	William Botterill, 66
(No burials recorded for 1901)

1902

January 3	Stephen Anderson, 16 months
June 19	Harry Skelton, of Hunmanby, 27
August 6	Walter Clubley, 3 months
November 14	Thomas Appleby, 73

1903

January 7	Walter George Temple, 2
January 31	Annie Jefferson, 76

1904

January 5	Robert Chadwick, 12 hours
April 20	Henry Whiting, 10 months
August 21	John Arthur Moore, of Scarborough, 7 days
September 14	George Pudsey, 53
December 2	Alice Piercy, 53

1905

February 27	Ann Piercy, of Scarborough, 88
March 19	Ernest William Artley, of Speeton Grange, 5 weeks
June 21	Gwendoline Anderson, 18 months
December 5	Catherine Pudsey, 11 months
December 27	Alfred Sellers, 3 days
December 27	Wilfrid Sellers, 12 hours

1906

April 7	Mary Gullen, 83
December 7	Ivy Anderson, 12 months

1907

January 12	Thomas Hogg, 76
January 19	Jane Whiting, of the Union Workhouse, 87

1908

October 3	George Temple, of Bridlington, 2 months
November 24	George Gullen, 70

1909

April 6

Francis McKenna, of no fixed abode, about 40 years

1910

November 11	Elizabeth Chapman, of North Dale, Grindale, 53
November 25	Sarah Trowell, 47

1911

February 3	Sidney Pudsey, 11 months
April 20	Alice May Pudsey, 7
October 22	Fanny Crawford, 46

1912

April 2	John Anderson, 73 (Sexton for many years)
August 15	Harry Horseman Piercy, 27 (Dotterel Inn)
November 13	A man, name unknown, found on the beach at Speeton, about 40

1913

March 24

Smith Atkinson, of Speeton, 77

1914

March 30	Martha Jane Lazenby, 52
September 14	Harry Pudsey, 22
December 3	Ann Finney, 13 (Dotterel Inn)
(No burials recorded for 1915)

1916

May 26	Katherine Elizabeth Wynn, 68 (The vicar's wife. The funeral was conducted by Charles Booty, vicar of Rudston. LB)
October 18	Samuel Yates, of Speeton, 76

1917

April 13	John Chapman, 40
May 15	Anne Crowe, 61, Reighton Manor
June 26	Henry Noble, of Grindale, 52
November 14	Kathleen Robson, 2
December 6	A man, name unknown, found on the beach at Reighton, age unknown
December 26	Charles Goldthorpe Sugden, of Scalby, 47
December 29	A man, name unknown, found on the beach at Reighton, age unknown

1918

January 16	A man, name unknown, found on the beach at Speeton, age unknown
January 16	A man, name unknown, found on the beach at Speeton, age unknown
February 16	Hannah Reed, of Speeton, 70
March 22	John Clubley, 62
August 6	A man unknown, found on Speeton beach, age unknown
September 9	A man unknown, found on Speeton beach, age unknown
November 5	- Temple of Speeton, 27 hours (An unbaptised child)
November 23	Herbert Thornton, of Speeton, 24

1919

July 26

Eva Mary Wallis, 4 ½

1920

January 19	Ann Eliza Cranswick, of 7 Oxford Street, Bridlington, 78
February 18	Kathleen Barmby Jackson, of Speeton, 10 weeks
October 21	George Pudsey, 30

1921

January 14	George Reed, of Speeton, 86
January 23	John Henry Davison, 4 months
January 25	Ann Waites, 78
April 6	Elizabeth Marshall, 73
September 26	William Waites, of Lowthorpe, 77
October 18	James Kelly, of Speeton, 56
October 19	Mary Elizabeth Anderson, 74
December 6	A man, name unknown, found on Speeton beach, age unknown

Selected further burials

(Mainly long-lived members of old Reighton families whose baptisms, marriages and children's baptisms are recorded earlier, and other records which may be of interest for various reasons.)
February 3 1923	Pashby Scrivener, 80
January 12 1924	Robert Crowe, of St Helen's Lane, 71 (Churchwarden for many years)
April 26 1924	William Jesse Maplesden, 62
October 25 1924	Brenda Rotherham Hayward, of the schoolhouse, Speeton, 1¼ months. 'This was the first burial in the new ground. W Noel Hill, vicar'
May 18 1926	Henry Milson, 86
February 19 1926	William Leadley Marshall, 78
March 11 1928	William Moon, of Speeton, 78
July 10 1928	Elizabeth Moon, of Speeton, 76
September 22 1931	Part of a body of a male person claimed and buried as Geoffry Brooke, of Morley, 19, drowned in the bay August 2, body found September 20.
March 2 1933	Hannah Elizabeth Evison, 77
June 3 1934	Jane Pudsey, 77 (Coffin towels used again)
August 6 1934	Fanny Evison, 77
February 5 1935	George Atkinson Evison, 73
September 11 1937	Thomas Robson Ringrose, 80
December 24 1937	Herbert Moon, of Speeton, 'The village blacksmith'
January 25 1939	Eliza sellers, 74
June 8 1940	Annie Elizabeth Robson Ringrose, 75
February 25 1939	Walter Marshall, 58
13 April 1943	Henrietta Clubley, 82
March 14 1947	Mary Marshall, 85
June 22 1949	Thomas Sellers, of Speeton, 91
March 30 1950	Emma Mary Maplesden, of Filey, 84
February 19 1951	John Thomas Tennison, 79
January 30 1952	Alice Marshall, 69
March 22 1952	Saran Ann Tennison, 73
April 19 1954	Archie Crawford, 82
January 30 1956	Sarah Jane Crawford, 80
February 6 1960	Henry Chew Marshall, 84
November 2 1962	Ann Moon, of Speeton, 70
May 3 1966	Maurice Mainprize, of Meadow Cottage, Reighton, 87
August 18 1966	Fanny Mainprize, of 2 Holtby Terrace, Reighton, 82
March 10 1973	Hannah Mainprize, of 2 Holtby Terrace, Reighton, 89
February 1 1975	George Mainprize, of Bridlington, 90
December 24 1976	John Tennison, of Springfield, Watsons Lane, Reighton, 74
August 6 1985	Ada Mary Clubley, 89
February 17 1992	Annie Elizabeth Tennison, 93 (I knew her, and her husband, John Tennison. LB.)

AFTERWORD

And so I come to an end, having copied the registers from the days of quill pens to those of the steel dip pen, from the dip pen to the fountain pen and from the fountain pen to the ballpoint, from parchment to paper and from paper to the era of the internet. The registers transcribed start at the time of the Civil War and end in the Thatcher years. They start before the European discovery of Australia and end after the lunar landings. They cover the years from an age of patches and periwigs to one of power dressing.

But just what are Parish Registers? A list of names, dates and occasional personal details, a profession, a cause of death, sometimes not even that, the bare bones of past lives, a chain of interlocking lives linking the past to the present, from time out of mind to personal acquaintance. I feel that it is in a way appropriate that the last entry copied from the full records should be that of an anonymous sailor buried in an unmarked grave. For what can the records tell us of a person beyond the fact that they existed: perhaps when they were born, married, had children, were buried. What do the records tell us beyond the simple facts of lives that were lived as fully, if perhaps more simply, than those of you or I? And what of those people who lived in Reighton between the building of the original church and the start of the parish records? Or those who lived in the village before Christianity even came to England? They too are part of the chain, just as we are who live in a time which will, in its turn, come to be regarded as primitive, when paper is regarded as antiquated and parish records will be no more than an image on a screen.

Yet it is equally appropriate to finish with the record of a lady who I actually knew and whose daughter still lives in the village, a very dear and long standing friend of mine, for she would have known those of the past as they would have known those who came before them, and so on back to the beginning in an unbroken chain.
LB 2009

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