Badsey: Monumental Inscriptions

If you have found the information on this website useful, you may like to know about two books produced by Peter Stewart about the people buried at Badsey. These are full of information for the family historian including obituaries, notes and press cuttings.

The books are made available as pdf files on a CD-ROM published in April 2009. To order this, please send a cheque for £10.99 (£9.99 plus £1 carriage) payable to 'P. Stewart' to:
Peter Stewart
10 Digby Road
Evesham
Worcestershire
WR11 1BW
England

This CD contains a copy of the latest book on Badsey Church, its Registers & Monumental Inscriptions and a copy of the Badsey Burial Index 1538-2008.

The Book
The book covers the period 1538 to August 2008 and contains details of the Burial Registers and all monumental inscriptions inside the church and in the graveyard along with maps showing locations for monuments. For the family historian, included in the book, and where known, are marriage dates and additional notes and news cuttings regarding individuals. Also obituaries from the Parish Magazines and local newspapers. For servicemen who died in both World Wars and commemorated on plaques inside the church details of the burial sites abroad are given. The appendices includes one for Badsey residents who are known to be interred elsewhere in local cemeteries, along with their monumental inscriptions. The book is illustrated throughout with colour and black & white plates.

The Burial Index
The index covers the whole period 1538 - 2008 and fully referenced with plot numbers (where know), and Burial Date, or Death Date where there are only ashes involved. Also included in this index are all the entries from the Book of Remembrance.

The book, one hand printed copy only, which has taken over 3 years to produce will only be available for sale on disc. This also applies to the Burial Index. 10% of the profit from the sales of these CDs will be given to Badsey Church Funds. The remainder to finance further books, including the Registers and Churchyards of Bretforton and Offenham and the cemeteries at Bengeworth & Hampton in Evesham. Waterside cemetery, in Evesham has already been published in book form and soon to appear on a CD disc.

Here we present the results of a major survey which involved recording and photographing almost every monumental inscription at St. James’ Church, Badsey. Peter Stewart carried out the survey in 2001 and 2002.

Background to the Survey

Surname Index

A Short Tour of the Church and Churchyard

Church Interior (I)

Section A - south of the footpath

Section B - north of the footpath

Section C - the NE corner

Section D - the SE corner

Garden of Remembrance (G)

The Inscriptions

Where possible, I have presented each inscription as written on the monument, using bold lettering only for names. Stonemasons names are also included in the inscriptions, but not in bold lettering. In the B&MSGH surveys, surnames and forenames are displayed in BLOCK CAPITALS, and the rest of the inscription in lower case. Square brackets are used to enclose eroded and unreadable parts of the inscriptions. And where appropriate the missing information has been added after reference to the burial registers.

Where burials are commemorated, all inscription are followed, in square brackets, by a reference line, given the following details:

Pre-1813 [Individual initials (if more than one burial)/ Burial Register No./ Burial date]
Post 1813 (when the first printed registers were introduced) [Initials/ Burial Register No./ Page No./ Entry No./ B or Cr. (date of burial or interment of ashes)/ Age (if not shown on monument)]
Book of Remembrance: Where there are inscriptions for those commemorated in the Book of Remembrance only, the reference line will contain the following [Initials/ BoR/ D. (date of death)]

Additional notes for reference line:

Individuals not commemorated in the monumental inscription, but known to be interred in the same plot are also included.
'Omitted from PR' is used where an individual is known to be interred in a plot, but not recorded in the burial registers, and 'Not in PR' for those individuals who are only commemorated and interred elsewhere. However, some of these latter individuals may be interred in the plot, but the evidence is lacking.
Where the information shown in the inscription differ from that given in the registers, the differences are marked with an asterisk (*) in both the inscription and reference line.
Where there are differences in the spelling of names, or additional forenames, names are given in full.

Peter F. Stewart
10 Digby Road
Evesham
Worcestershire
WR11 1BW
England

e-mail: peter.stewart2@talktalk.net

See also the 'Here Lyeth in Badsey Churchyard' chapter in Aldington and Badsey: Villages in the Vale.

Updated 6 April 2009.