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From various published and unpublished sources, 6331 people are commemorated on the gravestones included from these graveyards - Folkestone St Mary & St Eanswithe; Folkestone Baptist Church; Cheriton St Martin’s; Hawkinge St Michael’s both parts; Lympne St Stephen’s; and Newington next Hythe St Nicholas. The detail for names, relationships, dates and ages varies. Where necessary inscriptions have been checked against the burial registers, death and probate indexes.
This ancient church is in Horn Street at the western edge of the town. This set of 5,039 records covers June 1842 to May 1851, October 1871 to December 1884, and December 1907 to January 1958. Although Church of England, the burials include many other denominations. The burials include 8 of the civilians killed in the German bombing on 25 May 1917 and 24 Commonwealth War Graves Commission graves from both wars. Burials include many for those who died elsewhere and were returned to their home town for burial; and also many for visitors to the army camp, hotels and convalescent homes. Information usually includes surname, forenames, age, abode or place of death [occasionally both], date of burial and notes.
Waylett lived from 1729 to 1815 and between 1757 and 1815 he delivered 2495 babies in Lydd and the surrounding parishes on Romney Marsh. The data was transcribed from a manuscript in the Wellcome Library, London, by David Burgess. Unfortunately, the majority of the records are recorded without the first names of either the mother or child. Mothers in the original were recorded with their husbands’ names (e.g. Mrs John Smith). Each result will provide you with a transcript. The amount of available information varies, but will include Last name, Birth date, Gender, Place, details of the pregnancy, delivery, number of births to the mother, and payment for services.
This is a name index only to the Cheriton Road Cemetery memorials compiled from recently discovered details recorded in 1980s and subsequently lost. Since then some memorials have been vandalised or otherwise rendered illegible, making this a valuable resource.
Cheriton Road Cemetery is a Victorian cemetery, dating back to the mid-1850s. The first burial took place in 1856, and there are approximately 15,000 graves in the cemetery. Among these are 43 war graves, dating from 1914 to 1921, and a memorial to members of the Machine Gun Corps and one for the 284 sailors on the German ship Grosser Kurfurst that sunk in 1878. In some instances, the individual may only be commemorated on a memorial and not, in fact, buried there. Each result will offer you a transcript with all or some of the following details: First name(s), Last name, Death date, area within the cemetery: consecrated (Anglican) or unconsecrated, and section number and grave number.
If you have found details on FMP, in most cases we have images of the original notebooks used to record the details off the gravestone, which may include ages, places and others commemorated on the grave. Send an e-mail with the details from FMP to Cheriton@folkfhs.org.uk and we will provide the image where possible.