Ruston Parva Churchyard gravestones etc.

Ruston Parva:
Ruston Parva Churchyard gravestones etc..

PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE RUSTON PARVA CHURCHYARD GRAVESTONES ETC..

Introduction

These photographs were taken in September 2013 by Doreen Laycock and Lisa Blosfelds. Although they were taken in conjunction with the East Yorkshire Family History Society's Burton Agnes and Ruston Parva Memorial Inscription book, this is not necessary to make full use of these photographs. Our aim was to create a virtual tour of both the church and churchyard, photographing everything of significance in both of them, and also to photograph every monument that we could find.

The order of pictures is as follows: the approach to the church, including a picture of the ancient market cross stump on the village green, an anticlockwise tour of the churchyard and clockwise series of views of the exterior of the church. These are followed by a virtual tour of the inside of the church. Lighting conditions in the church made some things difficult to photograph but we did our best. Finally we move back out of the church for photographs of every monument in the churchyard. When taking pictures of these we followed, as far as possible, the order taken in the MI book. In the list of photographs those monuments which are recorded in the MI book have been given a suffix MI and the number which corresponds to that in the book, where a complete transcription of the inscription will be found. With more recent monuments not included in the book the names and dates on the stones are given but not a full transcription. Where a monument or extra wording has been added to a pre-existing one the MI number is given and the additional material appears after it.

In the years since the MI book was compiled some changes have taken place, the greatest being that burials continue to take place in the churchyard and, consequently, that some new monuments have been erected. Rather than group these new monuments together at the end we have inserted them where they stand among those which already existed when the original MI book was compiled. Many of the new monuments form parts of family groupings.

In captioning the inscriptions of married couples I have in most cases followed the order in which the names appear without repeating the surname, eg John and Mary Smith. However, the East Riding custom of giving a boy the maiden name of either his mother or one of his grandmothers as one of his forenames can lead to some confusion. In these cases I have repeated the surname (see in particular, RP108, the grave of Tom Talbot Constable and his wife Phoebe). Where relatives other than a man and his wife occupy a single grave I have specified this as far as can be told.

Ruston Parva church is small and plain but is, nevertheless, worth a visit. The church stands on a hilltop just off the main Bridlington to Driffield road and has fine views over the village and the Wolds. It is approached via a private driveway which gives access to a narrow lane leading uphill through fields. There has been a church in Ruston Parva since time immemorial but the old one was demolished and a new one built in 1832 using, where possible, material salvaged from the old one. Consequently some of the monuments are older than the church

Finally I would like to thank the kind gentleman whose driveway gives access to the church for the information he gave us particularly regarding the bell which had to be moved to the shelf over the chancel arch inside the church to avoid its weight damaging the steeple, and also Doreen's husband Colin Laycock for his kindness in chauffeuring us and his patience in waiting while the photographs were taken. Anyone curious to see what Doreen and I look like may spot us in the pictures. Doreen is the one with short hair.

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These photos of the Ruston Parva Churchyard gravestones etc. were taken in 2017 and consequently no graves after this date appear here.

The links given below take you to the first photo of the grave of the relevant name.

The number for the photograph is given in the caption below the photograph.

There are three sizes of photos: the thumbnail images which link to a page containing a larger image (640 by 480 pixels), and then a full size image which is linked from the previously mentioned larger image. The full size image can of course be saved for your own personal use.

The list of photographs

The photographs:

• General views
• Graves:

Asquith		Atkinson		Baker		Banister		Bannister		Barker
Boldock		Booth		Borton		Browne		Burdass		Constable
Cowton		Crowe		Emmerson		Farthing		Field		Garner
Garton		Germaine		Goodhand		Hancock		Hornby		Ibbotson
Jackson		Jefferson		Kelly		Leeson		Lowson		Marson
Morris		Noble		Oliver		Rose		Sellars		Sellers
Shipley		Thompson		Walsh		Watson		Whitfield		Wilkes
Wilkinson		Wilson

Happy hunting!

Doreen Laycock and Lisa Blosfelds