Title:
Monumental inscriptions
Level: Category
Miscellaneous
Level: Fonds
MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS RECORDED BY ESSEX SOCIETY FOR FAMILY HISTORY
Scope and Content:
Monumental inscriptions at the parish church of St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, including war memorial. Survey completed 1996.
Includes indexes of persons, places in Essex, places out of Essex, and occupations, with maps of churchyard and church interior. Pen and ink drawing of St. Andrew, Great Yeldham taken from 'The Parish Churches of North West Essex' by Charles Grigg Tait.
Memorials in the churchyard include Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstone for Gunner W. Argent, Royal Field Artillery, 1916.
Memorials in the churchyard also include those for Flight Lieutenant Campbell Mackenzie-Richards, Royal Air Force, 'Killed whilst night flying on duty', 1927; William Albert Ellis, 1st Essex Regiment, 'who laid down his life for his country on the Gallipoli Peninsula [Turkey]', 1915; John William Fleming Sandwith, 'Colonel in the Indian Army', 1903; Albert Gilder, 'who died in France', 1917; Charles John Way, M.A., Vicar of Boreham, 1873; Benjamin Mattingley, 'Citizen of London who was for several years Wax and Tallow Chandler to His Royal Highness The Prince Regent at Kensington Middlesex', 1815; Rev. Sir Peile Thompson, 2nd Baronet of Guiseley, 1918, and his wife Dame Jessie Clare Thompson, 1927; Captain Hugh Bruce Mathews Duncan, Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1937; Sergeant George William Louth, Green Howards, 'killed in action', 1940; war memorial.
Memorials in the church include those for George James Goodchild, Royal Bucks Yeomanry Royal Artillery, Burma, 1944; Joseph William Goodchild, Royal Air Force, 1941; John Mowbray Goodchild, 5th Battalion Suffolk Regiment, 'Prisoner of War: Siam [now Thailand]', 1943; Daniel Abbott Green, 1st Kings Liverpool Regiment, 1916; Ann, Dowager Viscountess Bateman, 1769; Elizabeth Tripp, Spinster, 'Her body was deposited at her own request as near as possible to the remains of the Right Honble Viscountess Bateman with whom she lived in an uninterrupted course of friendship upwards of forty years', 1785; Augustine Courtauld, Arctic explorer, 'In thankful remembrance of God's power and providence in the preservation of Augustine from the Arctic snow in...1931...this panelling is placed here'; Lieutenant William Way, Royal Navy, 'who died on board H.M.S. Sapphire', 1814; First World War memorial; Second World War memorial; list of Rectors 1178-1985.
Dates of Creation:
1999
Extent:
1 volume

Key terms

TypeKey termsDescription
Subjects Clergy List of Rectors at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, 1178-1985
Subjects Exploration Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, for Augustine Courtauld, Arctic explorer, 1931
Subjects First World War Monumental inscriptions on war memorial at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham
Subjects First World War Monumental inscriptions on war memorial at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham
Subjects Occupations Index of occupations taken from monumental inscriptions at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham
Subjects Prisoners Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, for John Mowbray Goodchild, prisoner of war, 1943
Subjects Second World War Monumental inscriptions on war memorial at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham
Subjects Tallowchandlers Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, for Benjamin Mattingley, tallowchandler to the Prince Regent, 1815
Personal Names George IV Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, for Benjamin Mattingley, tallowchandler to the Prince Regent, 1815
Personal Names Albert
Gilder 		Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, 1917
Personal Names Ann
Bateman 		Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, 1769
Personal Names Augustine
Courtauld 		Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, 1931
Personal Names Benjamin
Mattingley 		Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, 1815
Personal Names Charles Grigg
Tait 		Pen and ink drawing of St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, by
Personal Names Charles John
Way 		Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, 1873
Personal Names Daniel Abbott
Green 		Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, 1916
Personal Names Elizabeth
Tripp 		Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, 1785
Personal Names George James
Goodchild 		Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, 1944
Personal Names John Mowbray
Goodchild 		Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, 1943
Personal Names John William Fleming
Sandwith 		Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, 1903
Personal Names Joseph William
Goodchild 		Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, 1941
Personal Names William Albert
Ellis 		Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, 1915
Personal Names Captain
Hugh Bruce Mathews
Duncan 		Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, 1937
Personal Names Dame
Jessie Clare
Thompson 		Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, 1927
Personal Names Flight Lieutenant
Campbell
Mackenzie-Richards 		Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, 1927
Personal Names Gunner
W.
Argent 		Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, 1916
Personal Names Lieutenant
William
Way 		Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, 1814
Personal Names Sergeant
George William
Louth 		Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, 1940
Personal Names Sir
Peile
Thompson 		Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, 1918
Place Names Arctic Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, for Augustine Courtauld, Arctic explorer, 1931
Place Names Asia, Thailand Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, for John Mowbray Goodchild, prisoner of war in, 1943
Place Names Boreham Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, for Charles John Way, Vicar of Boreham, 1873
Place Names Europe, France Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, for Albert Gilder, died in, 1917
Place Names Europe, Turkey, Gallipoli Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, for William Albert Ellis, killed at, 1915
Place Names Middlesex, Kensington Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, for Benjamin Mattingley, tallowchandler to the Prince Regent at, 1815
Place Names Yorkshire, Guiseley Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, for Sir Peile Thompson, 2nd Baronet of, 1918
Place Names Church Road
Church of St Andrew
Great Yeldham 		Monumental inscriptions
Document Types Drawing Pen and ink drawing of St. Andrew, Great Yeldham by Charles Grigg Tait
Document Types Drawing Pen and ink drawing of St. Andrew, Great Yeldham by Charles Grigg Tait
Document Types Monumental inscriptions St. Andrew, Great Yeldham
Institutions Church of England Monumental inscriptions at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham
Institutions Commonwealth War Graves Commission Monumental inscriptions on war grave at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham
Institutions Essex Regiment Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, for William Albert Ellis of, 1915
Institutions Essex Society for Family History Monumental inscriptions at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, recorded by
Institutions Great Britain and Ireland, Army, King's Regiment (Liverpool) Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, for Daniel Abbott Green of, 1916
Institutions Great Britain and Ireland, Army, Royal Artillery Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, for George James Goodchild of, 1944
Institutions Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Navy Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, for Lieutenant William Way of, 1814
Institutions Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Army, Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment) Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, for Sergeant George William Louth of, 1940
Institutions Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Army, Royal Bucks Yeomanry Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, for George James Goodchild of, 1944
Institutions Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Royal Air Force Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, for Flight Lieutenant Campbell Mackenzie-Richards of, 1927
Institutions Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Royal Air Force Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, for Joseph William Goodchild of, 1941
Institutions HMS Sapphire Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, for Lieutenant William Way, Royal Navy, died on board, 1814
Institutions Royal Field Artillery Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, for Gunner W. Argent of, 1916
Institutions Royal Scots Fusiliers Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, for Captain Hugh Bruce Mathews Duncan of, 1937
Institutions Suffolk Regiment Monumental inscription at St. Andrew, Great Yeldham, for John Mowbray Goodchild of, 1943