On the back of the stone is the following artless rhyme. Lament him not it is in vain for why God has appointed once for all to die And tho the Worm his Body Will decay same another day. On a small stone reared against the wall of the vicar's garden. Here lieth ye Body of Mary ye Daughter of elijah White who Departed this life February 26 An'o Domini, 1722. Richard Aselby Died May ye 1 1734 Aged 65. Mary ye wife of Richard Aselby Died Oct. 29 1736 Aged 67. On the north side of the church Here lies expecting the Resurrection which she hoped for with a faith beyond her Age, Sarah, the daughter of Marmaduke Cradock Esquire, and Dorothy his wife, of Gainford: She lived to the Age of 20 years, and deceased the 17th day of February, 1790. Also Sarah, the wife of Samuel Waddington Esquire and Daughter of Sir John De la Fountaine Tyrwhitt of Stanfield in Lincolnshire, Baronet. She lived to the Age of 77 years and deceased the 15th day of March, 1794. Near the school To the Memory of the Revd Philip Airey, late of this place, minister of Whorlton and forty two years master of this school who departed this life July 14, 1793, aged 63. Mary wife of the above Philip Airey, departed this life Feb. 14, 1798, aged 68. On an altar tomb at the south side Thomas son of Ralph Hodghson of Alwent, departed this life Jan. 24 Anno Dom 1719. Elizabeth wife of Ralph Hodghson of Alwent. Feb. 6, 1720. Mary daughter of Ralph Hodghson, April 17, 1724, aged 15 years. Ralph Hodghson, the husband of the above Elizabeth died, at Alwent, May 8, 1756, aged 75 years. On a similar tomb on the north side Here lieth the body of George Hodghson of Alwent, who departed this life June 13th 1778 aged 65 years. Also his daughter Margaret, who died the 3d of March 1777, aged 15 years. Elizabeth his wife, who departed this life, Jan. 8, 1784, aged 60 years, Elizabeth his daughter who departed June 3rd 1786, aged 32 years. Here lieth the body of Sarah Lipscomb, who died the 2d of April 1794, aged 81 years. Matri dilecti posuit filius. To the memory of his much beloved and much lamented wife, Jane Elliot, who exchanged this life for a better, the 25th day of Aug. 1798, aged 51 years, this monument is erected by her affectionate husband, John Walton Elliot, Esq. A D 1799. Sacred to the memory of Captain William Richardson, many years commander of a ship in the East Indies, who died 21st August 1799, aged 61 years. On a tablet placed against the south wall of the nave ELIZABETH WALTON formerly of Staindrop departed this life on the 15th Jany in the 68th year of her age. A. D. 1818. To the Revered memory of a woman who spent her life so far as our imperfect condition will admit in the conscientious Discharge of her duty to her God, her friends and her fellow Creatures, they who best knew her worth dedicate this humble memorial. On an altar tomb in the south-west corner of the burial ground— Beneath this stone repose the mortal remains of JANE wife of GEORGE EDWARD WATTS ESQ Captain in the Royal Navy and youngest daughter of GEORGE WALDIE ESQR of HENDERSYDE PARK N. B. Born 2nd March 1790 died the 6th July 1826. Genius, talents and worth adorned her blameless life, Gentleness Piety and resignation her early death she lived admired and beloved She died honoured and lamented of all who knew her high moral worth and valuable acquirements. Near the north door of the nave Sacred to the memory of CONSTANTIA COOPER Aged 74, departed this life the 12th of July 1818: widow of the late Wm Cooper D D Archdeacon of York. This faint tribute of Duty and Affection to the best of Christians who in life possessed every virtue meekness Peace; Beloved by all, now gone to reap the reward of a well spent life is offered by her truly afflicted daughter Constantia Cooper. Here also are deposited the Remains of Constantia Daughter of the late Willm Cooper D D Archdeacon of York and of the above named Constantia Cooper. She departed this life on the 4th day of August 1833 Aged 71 years. Within a space, at the west end of the north aisle, surrounded by iron rails In memory of Jane Lynn, Relict of Robert Newton Lynn Esqre she died March 1st 1835 in the 83rd year of her Age. On an adjoining stone In memory of Jacob Maude Esqre of Sunniside Bishop Wearmouth who died at Selaby Hall 15th September 1839 Aged 83 years. On a headstone near vicar Blackburn's monument In Memory of John, the Son of George and Mary Wade, of Headlam, who died the 20th of June, 1795, in the 12th year of his age. Also Mary Wade, Mother of John, died the 17th of June, 1819, aged 73 years. George Wade, husband of the above Mary Wade, departed this life April 11th, 1834, aged 83. Sweet is the Sleep of them, who bore good will to all. Near the last is a stone commemorating a person of the name of Thompson. It was dug up in the church yard, and, before it was appropriated to its present use, had a foliated cross and some other object carved on it. A bubbling spring, in the grove by the side of the church yard, still retains the name of St. Mary's Well. In the following extracts from the PARISH REGISTER, such entries are presented as illustrate the genealogies of respectable families, and are curious, either from the occurrences they record, or the manner in which they are recorded. The substance of those numerous entries relating to the families of Garth, Mowbray, Birkbeck, Draper, Mossock, Clarke, Brockett, Hilton, and Burrell, are disposed in their several pedigrees, or placed, for the convenience of reference, together with them. Those also, that have been embodied by Mr. Surtees in different pedigrees, are only repeated when additional information is presented. The casualties, and recorded deaths by drowning in the adjacent river, are numerous; but, the number of illegitimate children is not so many as I have seen from a similar dis trict. To the eyes of many, a duller and more uninteresting volume could not be presented; but for him who loves to linger on the diversified changes and chances of this evanescent state, and on the ever-changing history of man, there are lessons of deep wisdom, and matter for wholesome meditation, inscribed on its dusky pages. As we peruse the thousand varying records, the impression gathers on us, how little we know of what they are the memorials-how little divine the scenes of wretchedness-the deeds of guilt-the tragic stories—the wild romances-the host of intense feelings-that are there briefly comprehended, but lost and veiled for ever! Still -when we see how the dark stream of time has swept away all to the ocean of oblivion, and that these are the only chronicles of many successive generations, who, without them, had "perished as though they had never been, and become as though they had never been born; beings who have had the same ends and aims of existence, and hopes of remembrance, as ourselves; but are now in a state of which we know nothing more, but that thence we must follow them -they will teach humility to our ambition, moderation to our expectations, calmness to our disappointments, and induce us to expect and prepare for that day-when, like them we shall be thus briefly recorded, and like them be thus equally forgot. Well did he, who had perused many, feign one of these ancient chronicles to say: What can might, power, or auncyent blode avayle, Or els ryches, that men cownt felicitee ; What can they helpe, ferful dethe to assayll ? Mr. Surtees says, "the first register contains several curious notices by Dr. Cradock; a memorandum of the recovery of the small tithes of Whorlton, in the Consistory Court of Durham, 10th June, 1594; the definite allowance of the vicar's right to the advowson, glebe, and tithes of Denton, before bishop Matthew, 1st September, 1595; and some account of a successful contest for the same advowson, against George Tonge, esq., by Henry Greswold, vicar, in 1659: who says, he collected as many of the scattered leaves of Cradock's old register, as had escaped the talons of Sanderson, the intruder's children, taught by their father's example to plunder -harpy like. "Sequentes paginæ vetusti hujus matricis Ecclesiæ St. Cuthberti de Gainford Registri, sub tempore Vicariæ D'ni Cradocke (qui et Prebendar' Dunelm' et Archidiaconi Northumbria) consumpti, quotquot Sandersoni liberorum ungues evaserunt, a patre nimirum doctorum sive a natura seu ab exemplo omnia quæcunque discerpere, et in omnia digitos rapaces injicere, a nobis vero haud minori cura et sollicita pietate quam Sibillina folia collecta consarcinata et compacta.' The earliest register that is preserved with the rest in the church, is a densely-written folio, thus inscribed on the first page: A Register booke conteininge the BAPTISMS. In 1560 there are ten entries of baptisms, in the next year twenty, in 1562 twenty-four, and in 1563 twenty-three. 1563. Mr. George Pudsey* bapt. .... Maij. There is an hiatus from November 14, 1563, to May 8, 1569. 1569. Georg Brakenbury + bapt. the xith day Sept. 1570. Florence Maddison bap. the xxvth day 1570. June.-Dorothy Fetherston bap. the xxijnd. 1571. Sep.-Cuthbt Pudsey (alia fawell, added above in another ink) bap. the xvith day. 1571. Feb.-Anne Huton bap. the xxviijth day. 1572. June.-Barbarie Cardinall bap. the 3rd day. The families of Stevenstone, Morton, Maddison, Cockfield, Fowler, Lawson, and others which have been of respectability, appear about this period. 1573. Decemb.-Agnes Brakenbury bap. the xxj daye. * There is no mention of this person in Dr. Whitaker's or Thoresby's pedigree of the family. He, and the other persons of the name, recorded in this Register, and that of Staindrop, may-if not members of the Barford family unknown to genealogists-be of the family settled at Stapleton on Tees, not far from Gainford, but on the Yorkshire side of the river; and descended from George Pudsey, third son of Thomas Pudsey of Barford, (by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of John Lord Scroope of Bolton) and Julian, daughter of ...... Girlington. + The whole of the entries relating to the Brakenburies have been re-traced in modern ink; and are printed here entire, since several of them are not noticed in the published pedigrees. Probably a daughter of Lyonell Maddison, of Unthank, by his second wife.-Vid. Hutchinson, in Frosterley, vol. iii., p. 358. ? A descendant, perhaps, of the Nevilles of Weardale. |