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Reference:: D/P 292/1/94/1
Title:: 'Wanstead. The burial ground plan and reference'
Level: Category: Parish Records
Level: Fonds: WANSTEAD, St. Mary the Virgin with Christ Church
Level: Sub-Fonds: INCUMBENT
Level: Series: Service of Church
Level: Sub-Series: Grave registers
Scope and Content:: Transcript of burial registers by Robert S. Stable of Wanstead, 1871 (continued in other hands to 1965), marked where appropriate with numbers of plots in the original churchyard: the transcript opens in 1678, the earliest identified plot dating from 1684. Many entries have no corresponding plot number. The transcript becomes selective from 1889 with the opening of the first churchyard extension [for which see D/P 292/1/94/2 ('1889 chart')].

Shows 'when buried', 'name', 'site' and 'remarks'. Remarks are usually limited to information about the place of burial, including from 1896 notes that graves are full; with the exception of the note 'I.O.A.' [Infant Orphan Asylum], found from 1849, the transcript omits details of the deceased's abode. From the late eighteenth century includes age of deceased. From 1813 includes 'no. on register', but the entry numbers in this volume (omitted entirely 1919-1942) match those in the burial registers themselves only for the periods 1813-1880 and 1942-1965.

At front: folded coloured plan of church and churchyard by Robert S. Stable (ink and watercolour on paper, scale of one inch to 20 feet [1:240]). Shows paths, trees, fuel shed and w.c. [water closet], pew numbers in church. Churchyard covered by a grid marked with alphanumerical references, from which the locations of graves can be identified. Graves are marked in green and blue, the latter perhaps indicating ledger stones; some also carry symbols of unknown meaning.

Includes entry for burial of Thomas Turpin, 1719, annotated in pencil 'Said to be the father of Dick Turpin'; transcript of report of re-discovery of vault of Sir John Huntercombe in chancel, 1727; burial in 1884 of 'grandson of R.S. Stable who presented the plan & register of the church yard'.
Dates of Creation:: 1871-1965
Extent:: 1 volume
Existence of Copies:: Image 101A was added on 15 September 2021, having been omitted in error.
Related Unit of Description:: For graves in the churchyard extensions of 1889 and 1908 see D/P 292/1/94/2; for the extension of 1924 see D/P 292/1/94/3.