Coates, Cambridgeshire, Holy Trinity Churchyard.

This new document adds to the plot maps I drew in 2015, having surveyed the churchyard from

2012 to 2014. My aim has always been to discover where my relatives are buried since fewer

than I would wish actually have grave markers. This has caused me to ‘fill in the blanks’.

I was lucky enough to see the church plot maps some years ago and so I have eventually been able to identify

which persons many of the unmarked plots hold. I have marked the positions of the graves I have discovered ‘on

top’ of my previous plot maps. This has taken a considerable amount of time and, by working out the years when

each portion of the churchyard was being used, I have done my best to allocate graves to the departed. Whilst

some errors are likely to have been made, I have not used any guesswork. However, even with the greatest care

no guarantees can be made as to accuracy.

Plot numbers

As I explained in my original booklet of Memorial Inscriptions, the plot numbering

system is my own and reflects the route I took when originally photographing all

the headstones. Short of renumbering everything, I had to make the best of a bad

job and find solutions to the problems caused by my initial inexperience. As a result I have needed to use decimals to label

plots which occur between whole numbers. Sometimes these are those such as 147, 147.1 and 148. At other times I have had

to use 694, 694.01, 694.02 etc. I also thought it best to omit some numbers and start from a fresh point, especially those from

900 onwards.

A full listing of all the burials at Coates up to 1950 is available in .pdf form at https://www.cfhs.org.uk/. It is known that many

children were buried in unmarked graves and a memorial has been erected to them (see left). I have been able to discover

where some of these children are, but clearly not all. No handwritten plot map was available for one area of the churchyard (it

may turn up at some stage) and the early maps are incomplete or scantily labelled with just surnames.

Completed during the Covid-19 lockdown of 2020, I am unlikely to revise this again but do contact me if you discover a major

problem. I hope this proves useful to you.

Colin Ashworth - June 2020

A portion of a church plot map

Memorial to Children at Coates

Revised plot maps with additional details.

Contents

Page 2 Map & Contents

Page 3 Area 1

Page 4 Area 2

Page 5 Area 3

Page 6 Area 4

Page 7 Area 5

Page 8 Area 6

Page 9 Area 7

Page 10 Area 8

Page 11 Area 9

Page 12 Area 4 & 6

Child Burials (South)

Page 13 Area 4

Child Burials (West)

Key

Plot marked on church map

with at least a surname.

Plot marked on church map

with no details.

Burial of child

Headstone

Other shapes give an

indication of what was seen

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Children are buried here, in unmarked graves. See detailed plot list.

More children buried in this general area.

South Section

West Section

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Area 6

No handwritten plot map was located for this section of the churchyard but it may turn up at a later date.

The section of child burials extends from Area 4 but it is not

clear how far.

My details are lost:

to reinvestigate.

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779 ~ Oddly, there are two

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Child burials ~ Areas 4 & 6 South (On plot listings see 4cs)

The table is orientated so that SOUTH is at the top

980 977 974 971 968 965 962 959 956 953 949

979 976 973 970 967 964 961 958 955 952 948

978 975 972 969 966 963 960 957 954 951 947

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Plot BuY BuM BuD First name(s) Surname

945 1884 8 25 Mary Emma Hudson

946 1884 9 22 John William Bedford

947 1884 9 19 Mary Elizabeth Wheatley

948 1884 9 6 Hannah Garner

949 1884 9 12 Thomas Burgandy

950 1884 4 21 Jesse Lindsey

951 1884 5 16 George James Blunt

952 1884 5 19 John Edward Denton

953 1884 5 20 Rose Read

954 1884 2 11 Mathew Copeman

955 1884 2 21 Ruth Beaton

956 1884 3 26 Robert Watford

957 1882 9 14 Rebecca Lockins

958 1882 12 23 Florence Alice Blunt

959 1883 9 15 Joseph Mottram

960 1882 8 17 Eliza Dolby

961 1882 8 29 William Christopher Nicholls

962 1882 8 17 Jonathan Charles Ashling

963 1882 8 2 John William Pratt

964 1882 8 7 [H]Anna Fletcher

965 1882 8 15 Louisa Ashling

966 1882 7 12 George Hall

967 1882 7 21 John Grimwood

968 1882 8 1 William Catling

969 1881 12 31 Ernest Fountain

970 1882 2 3 John Fitzjohn

971 1882 7 8 Sarah Jane Catling

972 1881 10 24 James Barrett Owen

973 1881 10 26 James Hart Nicholls

974 1881 12 28 Joseph Allen Easom

975 1881 1 22 George Hollis

976 1881 4 20 Sarah Ann Papworth

977 1881 5 27 Ann Ward

978 1880 8 9 Emma Jane Bates

979 1880 8 10 Florence Elizabeth Merchant

980 1880 9 15 Elizabeth Garner

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Plot BuY BuM BuD First name(s) Surname

896 1892 4 29 Minnie Willimott

896.1 1893 8 18 Albert Setchfield

897 1893 12 14 Harry Wheatley

898 1894 1 27 William Willimot

899 1894 2 20 Annie Gibbs

900 1894 2 21 Evelyn Rebecca Bedford

901 1894 3 21 Harry Lane

901.1 1894 3 John Bigg

902 1894 3 27 Mary Ellen Lutkin

902.1 1894 4 5 Isaac Laud

903 1894 8 16 Thomas Rust

904 1894 12 22 Bertie Moore

904.1 1895 1 23 Charles Bedford

905 1895 1 23 Herbert Freeman

905.1 1895 4 1 Florence Holmes

906 1895 4 9 Alice Coulson

906.1 1895 9 17 Thomas Bedford

907 1895 11 25 Elsie Mallpress

907.1 1895 9 19 Ann Clifton

908 1895 12 16 Lydia Vialls

908.1 1896 1 29 Alfred Bedford

909 1896 3 7 George Coulson

909.1 1896 3 31 John William Holmes

910 1896 5 26 George Henry Hughes

910.1 1896 6 8 Eliza Owen

911 1896 6 9 Alice Hurry

911.1 1896 9 28 Annie Moat

912 1896 11 13 Tom Chapman

912.1 1896 11 23 Emma Dolby

913 1897 3 3 Alice Ann Read

914 1897 4 19 May Owen

914.1 1897 5 22 George Allen

918 1892 2 2 George Hunt

919 1891 12 24 Cyrus Hurry

919.1 1892 1 23 Elizabeth Cross

920 1891 6 23 Alexander Robinson

920.1 1891 4 20 Richard William Langford

921 1890 12 23 Edward Fitzjohn

921.1 1890 12 22 Maude Eliza Rawlings

922 1890 12 6 Charles Drewery

922.1 1890 11 14 Amelia Bowers

923 1890 6 14 Harriet Butt

923.1 1890 5 5 Emma Redhead

924 1890 4 5 Lily Mallpress

925 1890 3 13 Herbert Wilson

925.1 1890 2 8 George Bigg

926 1889 10 18 Alice Davis

927 1889 9 18 Martha Fincham

927.1 1889 7 9 William Frederick Ashworth

928 1889 4 18 Alice Ann Wilkinson

928.1 1889 3 6 Florence Elizabeth Holmes

929 1889 2 16 William Woodcock

929.1 1888 7 5 Alfred George Davis

930 1888 3 16 Thomas Rust

930.1 1888 1 30 Thomas Burgandy

931 1887 9 26 Charlotte Mary Handcock

932 1887 4 12 Joseph Raby

932.1 1887 6 20 Alfred Yardy

933 1887 4 2 Sarah Ann Hollis

933.1 1887 3 26 George Pratt

934 1887 3 23 Fred Coulson

934.1 1887 3 15 Elijah Hollis

935 1887 3 2 George Gilbert

935.1 1887 2 28 Rose Louisa Lindsey

936 1886 9 15 Percy Edmund Rowe

937 1886 4 15 William Jackson

937.1 1886 4 13 Herbert Lilley

938 1886 3 29 Frederick Copeman

938.1 1886 3 4 George William Ashworth

939 1886 2 22 Eliza Bennett

940 1886 1 8 George William Hall

941 1885 8 24 Daisy Cowling

942 1885 8 3 George William Bishop

943 1885 6 29 Albert Denton

943.1 1885 3 16 William Bishop

944 1884 12 31 Ernest Lindsey

944.1 1844 12 15 Emily Searle

In the table above, each box represents a ‘box’ on the hand-written church plot map: some of these contain two names. It is not suggested that two children rest in the same plot. Also, the diagram is only meant to show relative, not exact, positions of interments. These occurred in date order.

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