Identified Graves in Belchamp Walter PC Cemetery

Due to poor record keeping and lack of up-keep of the earlier graves in the Parish Council Cemetery many of the graves have become almost impossible to identify. The burials are recorded in the Burial Register and that forms the primary historic record of deaths from the 1920's to the present day.

The graves from the 1920's up to 1950 are located in the Northern end of the cemetery and have become over-grown.

Below ia an original plan of the Northern part of the cemetery:

There is also another plan the covers the whole cemetery. This plan is also flawed and shows plots that are actually in the farmers field at one end and Hall road at the other.

The original plan showing the Northern section of the cemetery:

This original plan, drawn as a formal document, shows the plots to the North of the gap between the main grouping of graves and the section to the North fence. It also has a note made by Walter Deal, Church Warden, saying that plot 121 had been lost due to the gravedigger taking too much room for the other graves in the row.

The plan shown at the top of this page is truncated at plot 28 on the first row (close to the Esat hedge/fence).

The identified graves

This project was started in a quest to locate the grave of George Eldridge, former resident of 3 Cottage Row. Burial #87.

The graves located are in the 3rd and 4th rows from the East Fence. As a datum the first grave in the 4th row has a tree growwing in its middle. This grave is Ellen Eliza Costar (d. 1934 - burial 54)

4 th Row:

• Charles Twitchett (d. 1932 - burial 51)
• Bouffler James William (d. 1929 burial 37)
• The Major

3rd Row:

• Caroline Jane Pearsons (d. 1950 - burial 126) and Oliver Ruggles Pearsons (d. 1961)
• Constance Winifred Pearsons (d. 1947 - burial 122)
• Three empty plots - possibly the location of George Eldridge (d. 1941)
• a small grave? (burial 121) possibly Theobald (still-born) 1942
• Walter Whymark (d. 1940 - burial 84)
• Susan Fothergill (d. 1939 - burial 77)
• Reginald Wright (d. 1934
• another Wright next to fence - Samuel and Mary Wright (d. 1939 d.1940)

2nd Row:

• Kate Smith (d. 1934 burial 60) - Charles William Smith (d. 1942 burial 98)

Between the war memorial and the gap

These graves are more easily identified but the plot numbers still do not appear in the burial register.

• Catterwell
• Barleyman
• Alice and Walter Whymark
• Clara Sayer
• Smith Basil Lawrence
• Maynard
• E.R. Chatters
• Willy Jolly
• Graham Ernest Garibaldi

• Robert Arthur Arbon
• Pearsons Morgan James and Pearsons Emily Gertrude - probably in the same grave (d.1934 d.1937)
• Ratcliff
• Taylor
• Deal - there are many???? Walter G Deal (d. 1887 burial 214 church warden) - Walter Deal (d. 1928 burial 36)