Cleveland Family History Society

Lythe Churchyard - North Yorkshire

The following are a few of the most noticeable inscriptions:

For a copy of the full transcripts please see Publications listing and order from Cleveland FHS

 

  • William JOHNSON, was accidentally killed in the jet mines 1859.

  • John HARRISON, a promising youth, was unfortunately killed by a threshing machine 1824.

  • Robert ROSAMUND, a constable for this township, has 3 wives laid here. He afterwards married a fourth.

  • Robert BOOTH, John BOOTH and George BOOTH, brothers, were drowned, the former two off Whitby out of the brig “Felicity” and the last off Greenwich.

  • John WHITE was drowned near Cape Horn.

  • John RODGERS, was 41 years in the employment of the MULGRAVE family.

  • John MOFFIT head gamekeeper to the Marquis of Normanby, was murdered in Mulgrave Woods 1844.

  • John CHAPMAN drowned at DUNKIRK 1838.

  • Alice STOKES died at Port Royal, Jamaica, 1826.

  • Geo CHAPMAN was chief boatswain of HMS Wasp and died at Beyrout (sic) in Syria 1841.

  • Robert GARBUTT was lost in the barque “Ion” which sailed from Quebec 1868.

  • Thomas GARBUTT, his son, was drowned at Ibrail 1860.

  • John William GARBUTT, another son, was lost in the barque “Argosy” 1874.

  • Thomas PEARSON drowned at West Hartlepool 1863.

  • John PEARSON was registrar 1875.

  • John TAYLORSON died on board the barque “Ann Stephenson” on the Indian Ocean on a voyage from Java to Falmouth 1876.

  • Thos PEARSON of East Row was a solicitor 1868.

  • John Shaw JACKSON was an MRCVS and Registrar of Births and Deaths for Lythe district.

  • Thos LYNASS was accidently killed at Goldsbro’ 1879

  • Ann Scarr LANGSTAFF was for many years school-mistress at Sandsend 1869.

  • Thos HARLAND was drowned at Pillau while bathing 1871.

  • Isaac PEACOCK was an officer of Inland Revenue 1877.

  • Wm COOK was drowned at sea 1820.

  • Ed CORNEY was an Excise officer.

  • John STEPHENSON died at sea and was buried at Miramichi in America.

  • Lieutenant Geo ELLERBY was of His Majesty’s Royal Navy 1831.

  • Mary THOMPSON OF Pinner Middlesex came on a visit to her friends at Whitby and died.

  • John OXLEY died at Carthagena 1812.

  • Christopher SWALES died at the Island of Guadaloupe.

  • John KNAGGS and Robert BOOTH were drowned at Sandsend from a pleasure boat. “Firm friends in life, in death they were not divided” 1819.

  • John KERR land agent died 1871.

  • John KERR his son, land agent, died 1884.