So now you know when the old cemetery was opened.

An order-in-council 1856 prohibited burials in the church with effect from 5th July 1856, and in the churchyard-exept in existing family vaults and brick graves-with effect from 1857 after this all burials to be in the new cemetery.
Essex records office.
 Wivenhoe Old Cemetery started in 1855 with tree planting, landscaping and building of perimeter brick walls, this took 3 years. The first person to be buried was Ann Barker, aged 76 of West Street on 5 January 1858. In total 33 persons were buried in the first year, 14 of whom were infants. Antoinette Stinson Town Clerk.
Thanks Toni.

like the Ladies hats!

Wivenhoe church choir 1928]
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         Men's row. left to right.   Ernie Govan, Roger Sparling (landlord of the Station Hotel), Arthur Beckwith (brother of Reg Beckwith who ran a small dairy and shop in BelleVue Road opposite the Opticians), Mr.? Sparling (father of Roger Sparling, lived in Rowhedge and came across to both morning and evening services each Sunday), Bill Cracknell (my uncle, and ran the East Essex Bakery with his father, my grandfather), Jim Gould (Father of Iris Diggens nee Gould),  Dick Paul ( I know that he lived in one of the Gooch houses directly opposite to Boundary Road,and was, I believe, employed by the first Mr. Charles Gooch as butler, coachman etc.).

         The next row - I do not know the first lady, I believe that the second lady is Miss Thelma Wright, who became Mrs. Worsp, mother of John. Harry Hook (Churchwarden), Reverend ? (I will have to look at the display board in church as he was before my days). Mr. Jimmy Moore (Churchwarden), Mr. Green (Choirmaster and organist),  Mrs. Wadley ( as she became on marriage), last lady not known.Vicar is the reverend Carolin.

           Hope that this is of use to you.

Many thanks Tony Forsgate. 
 Reverend not reverent John, in the choir photo. I also believe that Miss Grasby's christian name was Betsy not Betty in the Council photo.
Thanks Tony.

From Wivenhoe to our friends in Stockton, Durham.

For anybody researching their Family History in the Stockton,Durham area this grave stone in Wivenhoe, Essex. Church yard may be of some help.

John Burniele bn. 1792, Captain of the ship Friends Adventure of Stockton, Durham.found drowned in the river Colne 8th July 1830.  He was aged 38. This memorial was erected by his friends having been a constant trader from Sunderland to this port of Wivenhoe for a period of 24 years.

If I am right John was actually John Burnicle baptised on 31/7/1792 in Marske in Clevelend in what is now North Yorkshire. This is just down the coast from Stockton. He was the son of Robert and Sarah.

 

I’ve attached two cuttings for you. The first one says Robert which was actually his father’s name. The second has John and shows him in a different light from the mention on the gravestone! I found two other references tying Friend Adventure to Captain Burnicle, both in the Durham Advertiser. 5/5/1827 they had arrived in Sunderland from Colchester, and 1/11/1828 arrived in Sunderland carrying ships materials.

 

In the first attached article it says he had just received a letter about his mother’s death. She was buried in Marske in Cleveland on 4/7/1830 so I think I have found the right family. There are a lot of register entries for ‘Burnicle’ in Marske in Cleveland and at least one refers to a mariner so I suspect that John had brothers. Certainly the newspaper archives has mentions of several vessels with a ‘Burnicle’ as captain from 1800 onwards. All seem to be basic traders not colliers. Cargos vary but include timber and wheat. When the papers note vessels arriving and leaving port they seem to lump all the colliers together without naming them. I found one reference to the Friends Adventure arriving in Stockton in 1775 with a Captain Burnicle but didn’t note the reference. Perhaps his father was a mariner as well and it was a family boat? This could tie in with John trading in Wivenhoe for 24 years, making him 14 when he first came – presumably as a boy or apprentice.  Confusingly there was another Friends Adventure carrying general cargoes up and down the East Coast at about the same time. The Captains name was Copeland.

 

I have not found John’s marriage but am fairly certain his wife was called Ann as there are a series of baptisms of children to John and Ann in Bishop Wearmouth Durham. The dates of the children’s births suggest a marriage around 1814/15. The article says there were eight children but I have found ten suggesting that one had died as the tenth child, Elizabeth Cooke, was baptised on 20/4/1831, listed with both parents names. Assuming the baptism was at least a month after her birth this could fit.

Dates are baptism dates.

Ann     29/12/1815

John Carter     1/6/1817

Sarah     17/1/1819

Robert Lawson    22/11/1820

William Carter    16/6/1822

Thomas    16/6/1824

Hannah    31/1/1827

James    28/9/1828

Lawson    1/4/1830 (probably christened just before dad left on his next trip!)

Elizabeth Cooke    20/4/1831(Mum’s address was Sunderland Street and she was still there in 1841.)

 

There was nothing on the merchant seaman’s records that I have.

 

All information supplied by Mary Norris, West Sussex. Many thanks , John.

War Memorial.

The unveiling of the war memorial Wivenhoe 1921.The Rev. Sinclair Carolin can be seen left of the memorial.

Wivenhoe Memories collection.

We have saved a heroe's resting place in Wivenhoe

This anonymous little headstone in Wivenhoe Churchyard relates to B.C.S, Benjamin Clover Snood who died in 1837.  Benjamin served aboard H.M.S. Swiftsure at the battle of Trafalgar With Admiral Lord nelson, he was an able seaman. The other initials on the headstone are his Wife's Elizabeth Snood.
This headstone has now been moved with the help of the Church Council and Wivenhoe Council to the Falcon wall side of the Churchyard, which i now call the Mariners wall. This was a project that myself and Brian Sinclair took on to save it from destruction,as it was laying flat near the chip shop.

Excellent! It's good to see him being recognised.Chris Goddard (webrarian)
Wivenhoe Memories collection.

William was not a "Dandy" like his Brother George

This brick tomb on the east side of the churchyard is dedicated to William Brummell of Wivenhoe Park House, which was situated on the corner of Belle Vue Road and Park road.Probably on the site of the Nook.

William was the Brother of Beau Brummell the regency dandy, his real name was George Bryan Brummell (1778-1840), it is said he sometimes visited his Brother William at Wivenhoe.

Wivenhoe Memories collection.

The De vere's of the Manor of Wivenhoe.

Thomas Westeley, Chaplin to the Countess of Oxford who died in 1535. i took this photo in Wivenhoe church, it is located in the sanctuary. The Countess is buried in Wivenhoe church, Essex, England.

Photo. John Stewart.
Wivenhoe Memories collection.