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The Graveyard and Burials

Graveyard Extension
Charney Manor was sold to Mr Philip Pusey in 1833, his tenant was Thomas Dewe. In 1845 a plot of land was purchased from Thomas, for £7, to extend the churchyard by some seventeen yards to the east. The churchwardens spent £24 13s 8½d on building a wall round it.

In November 1875, when the Rev C A Joy was curate of Charney, the additional piece of land in the churchyard was consecrated by a Bishop who was one of three attending the reopening of Lyford Church after its refurbishment.

Reading Mercury – Saturday 06 November 1875 Consecration Charney

Burial Vault in the church
During the C19th restoration work to the Church a forgotten vault was found under the nave. It had belonged to the Dunn family, who in the eighteenth century inherited Lyford Grange, the house in which the courageous Jesuit priest, Edmund Campion (now Saint Edmund Campion) was captured after administering an illegal Mass during the reign of Elizabeth I. Over the centuries there were other burials under the floor, for it was reported that “the church under the seats was full of bones”. The vault and a large part of the floor of the nave were concreted over.

War Grave
There is one war grave, that of 9028 Private William George Franklin, maintained by the Church on behalf of the War Graves Commission.

Graveyard Plan
(download here Graveyard Plan Issue 4.):-

Below is a table of known burial sites (the full list of burials is given in the Parish Records). The grave number refers to the graveyard plan above. You can change the number of burials displayed per page and sort them by year using the up or down arrow for that column. You can also use the ‘Search’ box to interactively search for a particular item using part or full search terms.

Charney List of Burials. (Issue 5: March 2024)

Grave Number.Person Buried.Year.Age.Issue update
A10Roberts. Caroline.197271
A11Wheeler. Lizzie.197073
A11Wheeler. Sidney.199193
A12Head. Sidney.196984
A13Peverill. Melvin.196819
A14Ody. Josiah.196752
A14Ody. Maud.199076
A15Haines. Louisa.196780
A16Hartwell. Dorothy.197785
A16Hartwell. Thomas.196573
A17Taylor. Alice.196582
A18Ballard. David.196356
A19Miles. Rose.196377
A20Cripps. Florence.198495
A20Cripps. William.196380
A21Alder. Emma.196292
A22Sears. Albert.198382
A22Sears. Edith.196273
A23Cox. Elizabeth.196084
A23Cox. Fred.196983
A24Douglas. James.196074
A24Douglas. Mary.196678
B11Belcher. Ellen.197271
B12Dowling. Joseph.197470
B13Peverill. Clarice.197755
B14Belcher. Adrian.197879
B14Belcher. Minnie.198080
B15Barlow. Emma.197897
B16Carter. Alan.198038
B17Ballard. Alfreda.198275
B18Bungay. George.198293
B18Bungay. Lily.199190
B18Titcome. Charles.198572
B19Davis. Margaret.198476
B20Williams. Angus.199660
B20Williams. Dorothy.198469
B21Hyett. Nora Kathleen.198578
B21Hyett. Wilfred Gerald.198476
B22Joyce. Clara.198999
B23Cox. Bid.198976
B24Cox. Ellen.198973
B24Cox. John.199482
B25Beany. John.198953
B26Armstrong. Cyril.199082
B26Armstrong. Sybil200996
C11Cripps. Roger.199159
C12Ferguson. Edna.199197
C12Ferguson. Joyce.201385
C13Axford. Cicely.199170
C13Axford. Richard.199778
C14Cox. Mary.199371
C14Cox. Ronald Bernard.199372
C15Chubb. Kathleen.199494
C15Hammond. Margery.199395
C16Puckett. Beryl.200886
C16Puckett. Ray.199473
C17Powell. Elizabeth.199585
C17Powell. Pereval199480
C18Bennett. Dorothy.199566
C18Bennett. Ray.201486
C19Grave Empty
C20Clarke. Ernest John.20211014
C20Clarke. Violet Mary.199573
C21Laws. Arthur.199682
C22Cox. Henry.199683
C22Cox. Irene.200890
C23Walker. Nell199881
C24Mills. George.200177
C24Mills. Phyllis.201285
C25Cowell. Peter.199861
C26Burson. Albert.200181
C26Burson. Jessie.199187
C27Hobbs. Richard.200259
C27Hobbs. Yvonne.201470
C28Woodbridge. Elizabeth.194077
C30Woodbridge. William.189981
D11Ackland. Dot.200887
D11Ackland. Ken.200582
D12Venn. Doris.201393
D12Venn. Jim200985
D13Lindsey. Bill.200976
D14Davies. Eunice.201375
D14Davies. Peter.201075
D15Sharpus. Basil.200487
D15Sharpus. Nancy.201094
D16Williams. Les.201163
D17Doig. June.201386
D18McGregor. Elizabeth.201358
D19Smith. Edwin.201586
D19Smith. Winifred.201481
D20Cox. Michael.201772
D21Gunn. Andrew Livingston.2021904
D22Gibbons. Andrew Sidney George.2022745
D23Harper. William James (Jim)2023815
D29Douglas. Emma.189448
D29Douglas. Giles.192877
G20Partridge. Thomas Edward190866
G21Loder. Emily Jane.187836
G22Loder. John.187339
G23Loder. Mary Ann.186323
G23Loder.Clara185620
G24Loder. Harriet.187776
G24Loder. John.185549
G26Dewe. Mary.187190
G26Dewe. Thomas.185474
H19Bath. William Henry.189956
H20
H21Beesley. James.187466
H22
H23
H24Beesley. Ann.187060
H24Beesley. Charles.187275
H25
H26Beesley. Thomas.185843
H27
J11Simmonds. Charles.187237
J19Midwinter. Henry.191681
J20
J21
J22
J23
J24
J25Hayden. Emily.1983103
J25Hayden. George,195274
J26
J27Hobson. Richard.199776
J27Hobson.(Burtt). Nora.199878
J28Hobson. Robert.195464
J28Hobson.(Griffith). Maud.196172
K10Belcher. Edith.196857
K10Belcher. Gilbert.198076
K11Belcher. Beatrice.196972
K11Belcher. Ethel.197378
K12
K13
K14
K15
K16Pay. Ann.195168
K17
K18
K19
K20Clarke. William.193550
K21Pay. Reginald.193440
K22
K23
K24Woodbridge. Charles.193256
K25
K26Miles. William.195368
K27Ody. Timothy.19523 months
K28Bright. Alice.197187
K28Bright. William.195375
K29Bright. John.198665
K29Bright-Butler. Edith (Margorie).201788
L11Clarke. Miriam.195869
L12Belcher. Maurice.195575
L13
L14
L15
L16
L17
L18Belcher. Walter.195058
L19Herbert. Stella.194423
L20Belcher. Henry Charles.194075
L21Belcher. Charlotte.194973
L22Belcher. Fred.193959
L22Belcher. Sarah.196385
L23
L24
L25
L26Brant. Fred.193830
L27
L28
M11
M12
M13
M14
M15
M16Soper. Edith Lily.199986
M17
M18
M19
M20
M21
M22Sheppard. Alfred.194274
M23
M24
M25
M26Brant. Charles.194079
M27Brant. Emily Ann (Rose).195077
M28
N12Thompson. Fanny.196982
N12Thompson. Joseph.195869
N27Atkinson. Eric.190413
N27Atkinson. Harold.190726
N28
N29Dore. Dorothy.198773
N29Dore. Richard.200185
P13
P18Roby. Martha.181965
P22Stamp. Lottie.194972
Q10Hodgkins. Pamela.2006775
Q11Hodgkins. Victor.2005865
Q12Hodgkins. Gordon.1957425
Q13Hodgkins. Alfred.1955655
Q13Hodgkins. Laura.(May)1977865
Q14Whitehorn. Charles.179817
Q14Whitehorn. John.179860
Q15Whitehorn. William.(WW)178512
Q16Whitehorn. Ann.177261
Q17Thatcher. Charles.183149
Q17Thatcher. Sophia.182752
Q18Pullin. Susanna.182244
R10Moss. James.187272
R11Whiting. Arthur.196873
R11Whiting. Mary.197386
R12
R13Belcher. Margaret Elizabeth192776
R13Belcher. Stanley Arthur.192326
R14
R15Fuller. Albert.191724
R15Fuller. Elizabeth.193374
R15Fuller. George.191618
R15Fuller. Philip.192162
R15Fuller. Sidney Frank.196372
R16Franklin. William G.191729
R17Miles. William.200276
R18Paske. Heather.201375
R19Anderson. Helen Elizabeth.2021914
R19Anderson. John Richard.198170
R20Douglas. Barbara Elizabeth.2019873
R20Douglas. David.2020854
R21Harris. Keith Edward.2023815
Unknown (Crem)Walker. Norman.198674
Unknown (Crem)Wheeler. William.198481
Unknown.Anderson. Gertrude M.197894
Unknown.Carter. Eileen.
Unknown.Nicholson. John.197981