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Source=h:/!Genuki/RecordTranscriptions/NRY/CarolineGaden.txt Some of the Monumental Inscriptions from the Churchyard (1888)
- In the church yard are some unique and original memorials of the dead. Many of them are very old eg:
- Christopher Ripley 1674
- Christopher Moone 1695
- Robert Corner 1714
- Mary Corner 1726
- John Williamson 1737
- Elizabeth Galalee 1761
- Elizabeth Todd 1746
- "One very noticeable feature to be observed among the tombstones is the great number of people who lived to be a good old age, thus proving the salubrity of the climate and the abstemiousness of the people. We append the names of a few:
- Joseph Thomson 103 years
- Isaac Dobson 100
- Margaret Robinson 100
- John Sedman 100
- Wm Cass 96
- Nanny Thompson 95
- Nancy Shaw 93
- Mary Rudsdale 94
- Wm Garbutt 93
- Sarah Tinley 93
- Jane Hill 92
- Ann Cass 91
- John Moor 90
- Elizabeth Robinson 90
- Hannah Backhouse 89
- Ann Garbutt 89
- Ed Corner 89
- Eliz English 89
- Sarah Ellerby 88
- Mary Storm 87
- Thos Knaggs 86
- Eliz Laverick 86
- Margaret Haig 86
- John Linton 85
- Francis Laverick 84
- Wm Robinson 83
- Susannah Linton 81.
- "The following are a few of the most noticeable inscriptions:-
- William Johnson was accidently killed in the jet mines 1859
- John Harrison, a promising youth, was unfortunately killed by a threshing machine 1824
- Robert Rosamund, a constable for this township, has 3 wives laid here. He afterwards married a fourth.
- Robert Booth, John Booth and George Booth, brothers, were drowned, the former two off Whitby out of the brig "Felicity" and the last off Greenwich.
- John White was drowned near Cape Horn
- John Rodgers was 41 years in the employment of the Mulgrave family
- John Moffit head gamekeeper to the Marquis of Normanby, was murdered in Mulgrave Woods 1844
- John Chapman drowned at Dunkirk 1838
- Alice Stokes died at Port Royal, Jamaica, 1826
- Geo Chapman was chief boatswain of HMS Wasp and died at Beyrout in Syria 1841
- Robert Garbutt was lost in the barque "Ion" which sailed from Quebec 1868
- Thomas Garbutt, his son, was drowned at Ibrail 1860
- John William Garbutt, another son, was lost in the barque "Argosy" 1874
- Thomas Pearson drowned at West Hartlepool 1863
- John Pearson was registrar 1875
- John Taylorson died on board the barque "Ann Stephenson" on the Indian Ocean on a voyage from Java to Falmouth 1876
- Thos Pearson of East Row was a solicitor 1868
- John Shaw Jackson was an MRCVS and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the Lythe district
- Thos Lynass was accidently killed at Goldsbro' 1879
- Ann Scarr Langstaff was for many years school-mistress at Sandsend 1869
- Thos Harland was drowned at Pillau while bathing 1871
- Isaac Peacock was an officer of Inland Revenue 1877
- Wm Cook was drowned at sea 1820
- Ed Corney was an Excise officer
- John Stephenson died at sea and was buried at Miramichi in America
- Lieutenant Geo Ellerby was of His Majesty's Royal Navy 1831
- Mary Thompson of Pinner Middlesex came on a visit to her friends at Whitby and died there
- John Oxley died at Carthagena 1812
- Christopher Swales died at the Island of Guadaloupe
- John Knaggs and Robert Booth were drowned at Sandsend from a pleasure boat. "Firm friends in life, in death they were not divided" 1819
- John Kerr, land agent died 1871
- John Kerr his son, land agent, died 1884
Data transcribed from:
"A history of the ancient parish of Lythe including Sandsend,
East Row, Mulgrave Castle, Mulgrave Woods and grounds,
The Hermitage, Foss Mill" by John Crowther (dated 1888).
By Caroline Gaden
"A history of the ancient parish of Lythe including Sandsend,
East Row, Mulgrave Castle, Mulgrave Woods and grounds,
The Hermitage, Foss Mill" by John Crowther (dated 1888).
By Caroline Gaden