31 Days of Graves 21 Memento Mori

In reality, there were a number of headstones which contained the wording ‘Memento Mori’, the translation of which seems to be something like ‘remember you must die’.

The memorial stone which I’m focussing on here is that to Caroline Harley, which I found in the parish churchyard of All Saints with Holy Trinity.

Memento Mori

In Memory of

CAROLINE,

the Daughter of

Francis HARLEY

by Susanna his Wife

she died on the 21st of January

1810

Aged 5 Months

The parents of Caroline were Francis Harley and Susannah Lacey who had married in the parish church on 3rd June 1791. Another daughter, Susannah, had been born in 1796, and a son, Francis in 1794, and another daughter, Sarah Anne, who died at the age of 14 months. Another daughter, also called Caroline was baptised on 27th October 1810. 

There are several memorial stones commemorating members of the Harley family, who were brewers in the town, at one time based on Derby Road, and run firstly by William and Francis Harley, before changing to Edward and Joseph around 1823, after the death of Francis around 1821.

Here’s the inscription to the little Sarah:

Beneath

rest the earthly remains of

SARAH, the Daughter of Frans & Susa HARLEY

She clos'd this uncertain

Life

the 25th of March 1805

Aged 14 Months

Jesus said, Suffer little children to

come unto me, and forbid them not, for of

such is the kingdom of heaven - And he took

them up in his arms - and blessed them

St. Mark

 

Such sad revelations memorial headstones can reveal. 

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31 Days of Graves Day 20 1800-1899

The following three slate memorial stones can be found in the churchyar of All Saint with Holy Trinity.

I’ve been unable to find much information about Ruth Staveley who died on 21 January 1742, and whose memorial stone stands close to the bell tower of All Saints with Holy Trinity. What I do know is that she married Christopher Satveley on 27th May 1793, and bore him seven children, three sons and four daughters.

Christopher was the eldest son of Christopher Staveley, architect and sculptor of Melton Mowbray, and was baptised on 16 April 1759. Christopher started his career in Melton, and classed himself as an architect, surveyor, and engineer. In 1872 Christopher was involved in the Melton Navigation works. During his middle years Christopher was based in Loughborough, possibly in Church Gate, but definitely as tenant of the Bull’s Head on High Street, from 1797-1808, then Market Street until 1819 when he moved to Leicester. Christopher was in partnership with Samuel Waters in Leicester, trading as timber merchants on Humberstone Gate, until Staveley’s death on 23 July 1827. He was buried in Loughborough cemetery.

His wife, Ruth, outlived him. In 1835 and 1841 she was listed in Pigot’s Directory under the heading “Clergy and Gentry” as living on Sparrow Hill in Loughborough, and on 1841 census as living on Sparrow Hill, with Mary Staveley aged 30 her youngest daughter, and Fanny Lewis. This is a transcription of her memorial stone:

To the memory of

Ruth

Relict of Christpher

Staveley architect

Late of Leicester

In this county

Who departed this life

On 21 st day of January

…

The memorial on the second headstone I’ve chosen is very difficult to read, as a layer of slate surrounding the inscription appears to have peeled away - a disadvantage of Welsh slate. An added complication could be the day of the month, and the year being in Roman numerals. This stone was:

Erected

In affectionate

Remembrance of

Ann, wife of Samuel Lee

And daughter of

John and Ann Rollings

Of Ticknall Derbyshire

Who departed this life

September VII MDCCCXLII

The final memorial stone today commemorates husband and wife, William and Mary Hull, and is another made from Welsh slate. Mary died in 1823 aged 73, and William in 1834, also aged 75. Interesting here is that there were clearly two different masons who worked on this stone as the inscriptions appear in a slightly different lettering style.  

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31 Days of Graves Day 19 Masonic

The majority of headstones that remain in Emmanuel Church on Forest Road are laid flat, close to the low wall facing Forest Road.

William Simpkin was born around 1780, and married a lady called Mary Ann. This was a rather popular pairing of forenames at the time, which means I haven’t been able to establish Mary Ann’s surname, nor the date of their marriage. 

William and Mary's first child was named Mary Ann after her mother. The children that followed included Harriet born November 2nd 1814; Caroline born 22nd March 1818; Eliza born 23rd November 1821; Charlotte born 20th September 1823, and Edwin born 17th November 1825. The five younger children were all baptised at All Saints, the parish church, on 11 July 1837, some three months before Emmanuel church was consecrated and opened. 

Here's the memorial stone:

Despite the stone being broken, the inscription is readable: 

Sacred

to the Memory of

William Simpkin

who died Nov'r. 7th 1846,

Aged 66 Years.

He was formerly auctioneer in this town

and was much respected by a large circle

of friends.

 

And of Mary Ann, his beloved wife

 who died Nov'r. 18th 1857, Aged 70.

She lies interred in Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol.

 

Also of

Harriett their daughter

who died Dec'r 22nd 1854; Aged 40.

She lies interred in Sr. Peter's church yard, Derby.

It was reported in the 'Leicester Chronicle' in November 1857, that Mary Ann had died at the home of her son, which was the Britannia Hotel in Bristol, which might explain why she was buried at Arnos Vale Cemetery, which is a Grade II* listed historic Victorian park and garden of about 45 acres. It contains many important monuments, and a wildlife sanctuary. It doesn’t seem to be open 24 hours a day, but does have a café in a glass pavilion, and a shop. Harriett was buried in St Peter’s churchyard, St Peter’s church being Grade II listed, and is on St Peter’s Street, right in the centre of Derby.

The top of the memorial stone bears the insignia of the Freemasons, although I haven’t been able to establish which lodge he was with. A beautiful rose creates a tasteful corner on the border of the stone.

 

 Thank you for coming along on this journey through our cemeteries.

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31 Days of Graves Day 18 Metalwork

When I read the theme for Day 18 of 31 Days of Graves, I did think to myself, well, I’ll never find anything metal in our cemeteries, as I was thinking particularly about the memorial stones themselves, knowing that many of ours are Swithland slate, or Welsh slate, marble, or granite, to mention but a few. I have seen metal memorials in several places, including somewhere near Ironbridge – no big surprise there!!

So, wandering around our local cemeteries, I did spot holes where metal uprights had once been, and a few other oddments of metalwork. Of course, there are still iron railings surrounding the old cemetery on Leicester Road, and a lovely entrance gate, too. 

So, here are some of the other things I found. In the churchyard of All Saints with Holy Trinity, the monument to Richard Crosher was partly surrounded by iron railings.

In the old cemetery on Leicester Road there were also railings, one forming a complete rectangle around the grave of Agnes Ewart McGunnel, and remnants in front of the grave of John Walter Greenwood.

Meanwhile, standing upright next to the memorial to John Jones, local ironfounder, is a metal plot marker.

 

Over in the grounds of the Old Rectory there are memorial stones to people who worshipped at the old Baptist chapel on Wood Gate (demolished c.1976). At the top of the one which remembers John Angrave is a metal plaque, which is badly worn, but it appears to bear the following inscription:

THANKS TO THE GENEROSITY OF

SOWDEN & CO. LTD.,

BUILDERS, ENGINEERS & CONTRACTORS,

TUDOR ROAD,

LEICESTER.

THE WOODGATE CHAPEL

STONES HAVE BEEN SAVED.

These are just a few of the examples of metalwork I found in our cemeteries.

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31 Days of Graves Day 17 Unknown

I am very sorry to be cheating with this theme. I know I should be posting a photograph of a headstone in memory of someone unknown, like maybe a mass grave for those who died of infectious diseases, or in military conflicts, but I have been unable to find any. Please accept this sole photograph of a gravestone in the old cemetery on Leicester Road, that is so weathered that virtually none of the inscription is legible to the naked eye.

I'm also sharing this photograph of a displaced gravestone in the churchyard of All Saints with Holy Trinity, which is along the wall facing Steeple Row. The stone is clearly broken such that all that is left is  the date Feb 13 1777

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31 Days of Graves Day 16 Animal

So, today I’m going on a bear hunt!!! Well, maybe not, but an animal hunt at least! Another tricky challenge!! The majority of animals I found in our local cemeteries were birds, and mostly doves at that. But, let’s begin with a real animal …

 

I have spent quite some time trying to work out exactly who James Ball was, but having identified several possible candidates, I have convinced myself that I really don’t know. From the inscription on the headstone, we know that James died aged 63, on 5th January 1899. I have managed to establish that his widow, Ellen Thirza, who was born around 1848 in Devon, lived on Beacon Road, certainly between 1901 and 1911, in a house with 8 rooms, some of which she let out. Again, we know from the headstone that Ellen died on 8th October 1921.

Military graves feature as a theme on a later day in this challenge, but since the Leicestershire Regiment have as their insignia a tiger, I thought it was relevant to include one military grave under the theme of animals. This particular gravestone commemorates Serjeant William Kilgour Miller, who was originally from Edinburgh. You can find a more complete biography of William on the Loughborough Roll of Honour.

The badge of the Leicestershire Regiment is a tiger. Apparently, this was awarded to the regiment in 1825 as a result of the role they had played in India, from about 1804. The inscribed tiger on the headstone has the word ‘Hindoostan’ in an arc from his head to the start of his tail, and the word ‘Leicestershire’ in a scroll underneath the body. I believe this earned the regiment the nickname ‘The Tigers’, and it is this name that connects to the Leicester rugby team. There’s plenty of information about all this out on the internet – see notes below.

 

I promised you doves, so the next few photographs include doves, bearing olive branches

 

Finally, had it been daytime, I would have spotted plenty of squirrels, but here's a photograph from the new part of the cemetery on Leicester Road, where one evening, on my walk back from Charnwood Water, I spotted a couple of woodpeckers.

 See you tomorrow! 

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Notes

Some links to websites regarding the Leicestershire Regiment:

The Imperial War Museum

History of the Regiment by the Regiment themselves

The National Army Museum

The long, long trail

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31 Days of Graves Day 15 Saint

I’ve spent quite a lot of time over the past few weeks having a really good look around our local cemeteries, on the hunt for graves that fit a specific theme. Now, you’d think, wouldn’t you, that there might be mentions of saints, or perhaps statues representing saints? I found angels, I found women, and I found things that could well have been saints, but I was unable to work out which particular saint was represented.

I was struggling a bit with this theme, until I decided to branch out from our Anglican cemeteries, and headed off down Ashby Road to St Mary’s Catholic church. I wasn’t feeling particularly hopeful, as having spent a good deal of time walking up and down Ashby Road [1], I’d never spotted a graveyard at the church. However, I was not disappointed with my visit!

No, there wasn’t a graveyard, but, along the perimeter of the church facing Hastings Street stood three memorial stones. 

The stone to the right commemorated Thomas and Francis Reaney, while the one on the right was the one that really caught my attention.

The inscription reads:

Of your Charity

Pray forth Repose of the Soul of

Francis Heap,

who departed this life,

on the feast of Saint Mary Magdalen,

July 22nd 1852:

being the 26th Year of his Age

We have loved him let us not forsake him until by

our prayers we have introduced him into Eternal

tabernacles. 

Requiescant in pace.

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[1] One of my earliest posts to this blog was about Ashby Road, and I've revisited the street and written about its houses (odd numbered, and even numbered), and its shops. 

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31 Days of Graves Day 14 pre-1700

There are probably only about five gravestones in the churchyard of All Saints with Holy Trinity that are earlier than 1700. As such, they take a bit of finding! I have only one example to share with you today. The stone is laid flat, forming part of the path around the perimeter of the church, thus it is very badly worn.

The first line of the epitaph is unreadable:

…

body of WILLIAM

HUBBARD Iron-

monger who

died the 4th day

of September 1690

Aged 59 

Please pop back to the blog tomorrow for another instalment of 31 Days of Graves!

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31 Days of Graves Day 13 Famous

Famous? So what really is the definition of famous? How do I select memorial stones to share with you? We could mean people who are nationally well-know, or people who are well-known in their field, or people who are well-known locally. Here’s my selection.

Let’s start with James Logan, a footballer from Scotland, who played for Notts County, scoring a hat-trick for them in 1894. Jimmie, as he was known, died of pneumonia probably as a result of playing in the pouring rain in Loughborough in the 1896 season. He was buried in a pauper’s grave in the old cemetery on Leicester Road. In 2024, after a lengthy campaign and period of research, an engraved stone was erected in his memory. You can read more about this on the BBC Sport webpages.

In the same cemetery is the grave of Herbert Schofield, and his wife, Clara. Schofield was Principal of the Loughborough Technical Institute and awarded an MBE in 1917 for his services to education (in the main, the training of people in the manufacture of munitions) the First World War. That is a huge simplification of a long and busy life, which I promise I will do more justice to in some form or other at a later date. Here is his memorial

 

My third choice of memorial stone can be found in the churchyard of All Saints with Holy Trinity, and was erected in memory of William Woty, born in Hampshire circa 1730, moved to work in London, and then found himself in Loughborough. Woty was a legal clerk, but also wrote poetry. He was a companion and legal advisor to the 5th Earl Ferrers, Washington Shirley, of Staunton Harold. The incised picture at the top of the gravestone is a couple of books, one being open, a quill pen, and an ink vessel.

My final choice comes from further afield, from the derelict All Saints church at Dishley. Lying flat on the ground in the area which would have been the siting for the altar, the dry memorial stone to Robert Bakewell, died 1778 is probably the father of the Robert Bakewell, the well-known agriculturalist. The equally unreadable wet stone is, I believe, the memorial to the latter. Both were taken in 2024. The modern plaque is wall-mounted, and was taken in 2025.

 

There are a couple of earlier blogposts related to Robert Bakewell - the 300th anniversary of Bakewell's birth; photographs of his home, and a little bit about the man.  

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With apologies for typos which are all mine!

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