Burial Registers

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Melplash, Christ Church

The Christ Church register records the burials of 749 people between 1846 and 1994.

Different clergymen recorded different levels of detail with the period from 1864-1880, when the Rev. Lewis Tomlinson was officiating, being particularly informative about the residence of the deceased. Usually this was simply recorded as Melplash (or Melplaish) unless they were from outside the area but Tomlinson frequently named the hamlet, farm or house. He uses the unusual name "Redhove" for the part of Melplash around the church and pub which is sometimes called "Melplash Green" in other records.

Tomlinson's period seems to have coincided with the change in spelling from the old "Melplaish" to the modern "Melplash". The last time he recorded someone's residence as "Melplaish" was on 27 Jan 1867. The first time he wrote "Melplash" was 7 Jan 1869 and he never reverted to the old spelling.

Netherbury, St Mary

The register of Burials for Netherbury, St Mary span 205 years (1585-1896) recording the interment of 6182 people. We are enormously indebted to Maureen Stollery who has transcribed the register allowing us to view and search it here.

The details recorded vary over the years. Initially it's just the date of the burial and name of the deceased with some of the details being very hard to decipher. Occasionally the residence of the deceased was included, seemingly if they were from outside the parish. The age of the deceased began to be included in the 1760s and the residence was routinely recorded from 1813.

As well as the formal register details various other bits of information were occasionally recorded in the margins and elsewhere - these have been included in the Notes column where they've been transcribed.

Where dates are missing or indecipherable they have been recorded with as much precision as possible. Sometimes only the month or year are legible and occasionally the dates of the preceding and subsequent records have been used to give a period in which the burial occurred.

Where it has been impossible to make out a name or part of a name a question mark (?) has been used to indicate this.

Date	Surname	Forenames	Age	Residence	Church	Notes	Monument