All Saints Longhope

Bigland transcriptions of Inscriptions to about 1775 Also - means this name is on the same stone as the previous one

Hi, The dating of the transept is confused by the presence of the effigy, which is 13th century. However, Bigland shows the chancel and transepts were in use in 1699 when Mary Welsh was buried there. Longhope in 1522 had as Steward Sir Christopher Baynham, and John Bird had the Vicarage. 55 are listed in the Military Survey dated 1522, 12 surnamed Dobbys, 5 are Wyntyll or Awyntyll. The list is here Year Incumbants Patrons 1561 Henry Deyce Richard Turner 1577 James Mutloe John Baker   Thomas Rudge The same 1618 John Adamson John Cadle 1663 George Dutton Bishop of Gloucester 1700 Charles Hoskins Nourse Yate 1703 George Venn Joseph Venn 1717 Thomas Mantle B.A. Francis Yate, Walter Yate and W Hodges 1742 Yate Bromich M.A. Mary Yate, Lancelot Bromich and Priscilla his wife, Henrietta Arabella Yate and Frances Yate, Spinsters 1774 David Jones William Matthews and Priscilla Bromich 1786 William Probyn Edmund Probyn Register totals for the 10 years between 1781 and 1790 are 33 marriages, 155 baptisms and 120 burials, suggesting about 30 families with children. Benefactions include Thomas Nourse, whose Will provided annually on St Andrews Day, 10 coats for needy persons choosen by the Churchwardens, and two Apprenticeships for children in receipt of Alms, to be appointed in London, Bristol, Gloucester, or some Market-town, to a Trade there. Land left by Will of Thomas Hodges now vested in William Edwards who pays 20s per annum Likewise other Parish lands and Tenements which provide money for the Relief of needy persons belonging to the Parish, held in 1780 by Edmund Probyn 3-10-0, Thomas Parry 10s, William Edwards 2-5-0, Cornelius Blewett 18s, Thomas Dobbs 5-0-0, Elizabeth Hodges 2-10-0, William Watkins 19s, John Phelps 4-10-0, Joseph Acton 9-0-0, Thomas Constance 2-10-0, William Reece 15s, Mary Blewett 1-0-0, Thomas Rudge 2-0-0, Nathaniel Vaughan 12-0-0, total of 47-7-0. The families recorded as Inscriptions In the South Transept Thomas Nourse died (16 Jul 1675) XVI Julij MDCLXXV Flat stones in Chancel on flat stones of the Church are:- Thomas Master died 13 July 1682 and his wife Bridget died 24 Feb 1697 Priscilla widow of Nourse Yate and daughter of Henry Glover of Oldswinford in Worcester died 4 Jan 1719-20 aged 61 yrs Frances youngest dau of Nourse Yate died 28 June 1747 aged 47 Charles, son of Nourse Yate died 14 Feb 1729 aged 32 Henrietta 4th dau of Nourse Yate died 9 March 1725 aged 60 Mary Yate, eldest dau of Nourse Yate Esq, died 26 June 161 aged 78 Arethusa Yate, 5th dau of Nourse Yate died 10 April 1752 aged 60 Lancelot Bromwich died 17 March 1752 aged 72 Priscilla 2nd dau of Nourse Yate died 20 Dec 1763 aged 79 Yate Bromwich Clerk, Vicar by rights of his grandfather Nourse Yate, died 28 Apr 1774 aged 60 Ann, wife of Thomas Leigh, daughter of Gulielmo Cecill, died 1677. Bridget, widow of Roger Andrews died 6 Jan 1683 William Read died 3 June 1671 Humphry Baskerville died 3 Jan 1689 aged 72 Thomas Mantle died 29 July 1742 aged 58 Ann wife of Thomas Mantle died 15 Feb 1735 aged 33 Thomas Hartland died 9 July 1753 aged 90 On one stone - Joan Bullock died 1689 also William Dobbs died 1 Nov 1689 also Jane, wife of William Dobbs died 26 May 1715 also Joan wife of above Thomas Hartland died 17 Jan 1727 aged 57 also Joanna wife of Thomas Sansom and dau of Thomas Hartland, died 8 March 1744 aged 43 Flat stones in the Nave Thomas Bright died 31 Aug 1753 aged 73 also Jone, wife of Thomas Bright, died 26 Aug 1751 aged 67 also Jonathan Bright died 3 April 1758 aged 29 years Sarah, wife of Josiah Bright of the Parish of Taynton and dau of James and Mary Mottley of the Parish of Ruardeane, died 16 Feb 1773 aged 37 also Josiah Bright, her husband, died 16 March 1775 aged 52 ....Wealch who died 31 Aug 1662 also Mary wife of John Welch died 14 Sep 16... 58 also John Welch senior died 10 Nov 16.. aged 75 Thomas Hodge died 20 May 1736 aged 90 Robert Dawes senior also Joan Morwent who died 5 Sep 1744 aged 74 Flat stones in the South Transept Thomas Nourse as listed above, William Bright died 9 Nov 1729 Henry Batson died 31 Jan 1668 also Avis the wife of William Wingood who died 16 Sep 1686 Flat stones in the North Transept Samuel Wintle of Blaysdon, and Mary his mother. He died 12 Aug 1749 aged 57, she died 21 Jan 1699, the wife of Mr Robert Wintle of Blaysdon and afterwards of Mr John Welch of this parish. Ephraim Sansom died 16 May 1741 aged 39 also Mary wife of Ephraim Sansom died 31 March 1774 aged 70 In the Churchyard

This tablet high on the south wall, outside the Chancel, mourns the death of 'Judith 7th daughter of John Arrowsmith DD by Mary Percival his second wife who lived truly pious and died March ye 13 1710 the much lamented wife of George Ven MA Vicar aged 52'. At first I thought the stone was for a baby, now I see that husband Rev George is proud of his wife's ancestry. This monument is not listed by Bigland, and has been restored recently.

On Tombs I have kept the order in which they are listed, it may be significant in locating these inscriptions One (see Grave 5) Edmund Fowle who died Sep 1685 aged 80, also Mary, wife of John Fowle died 4 July 1778 aged 56, also Josiah Fowle died 21 July aged 53 Two (Grave 6) Elizabeth wife of John Powell died 3 Jan 1746 aged 53, also John Powell died 6 Dec 1769 aged 70 Three Susannah wife of Jonathan Wintle and dau of John Bullock by Jane his wife, died 2 March 1766 aged 43, Four (Grave 83) Ann, wife of Thomas Dobbs died 2 July 1737 aged 80, also Jone wife of William Charles and dau of the above Thomas and Ann Dobbs, died 6 Mar 1772 aged 78, also William Charles died 22 Dec 1777 aged 82 Five Robert Hooper died 2 Feb 17-6, aged 88, also Mary his wife died 27 Mar 1718 aged 33 Six Robert Hooper died 21 Jan 1785 aged 68, also Thomas the son of Robert Hooper by Mary his wife died 1 March 1715 aged 2 years Seven (see Grave 7) Susannah Fowle died 22 Nov 1705 aged 59, also Elizabeth the daughter of John Fowle by Mary his wife died 12 May 1700, aged 5 years. Seven William Browne died 3 Dec 1757 aged 84, also Sarah his wife died 7 Jan 1747 aged 80 Eight (Grave 95) Arms Colman = Argent on a Pale Rayonee, a Lion rampant on the first Josiah Colman Junior died 19 Nov 1776 aged 59, also John Colman died 1 July 1753 aged 70, also Joan his wife died 9 Oct 1728 aged 48 Nine John Colman died 3 Dec 1732 aged 78, also Elizabeth wife of John Colman died 9 May 1726 aged 72 Ten Joseph Colman died 29 June 1768 aged 75, also John Colman a son of above, who died 31 Dec 1770 aged 35, also Grace the wife of John Colman died 30 Jan 1770 Eleven In memory of Gardner, son of Zachariah and Elizabeth Pittman, who died 11 April 1758 aged 20 On Headstones Bright Thomas Bright, of this Parish, 1708 Pitman (Grave 116) Martha, wife of Richard Pittman died 31 Aug 1745 aged 46 Priscilla, daughter of William and Elizabeth Pittman died 17 Aug 1723 aged 22 William, their son, died 12 Jan 1726 aged 21 Hannah, wife of Thomas Pitman died 27 Sep 1764 aged 38 Price Elizabeth, wife of Richard Price died 26 Apr 1721 aged 43 Lodge (Grave 115) Mary, wife of George Lodge died 7 July 1757 aged 58 Jane their daughter died 18 April 1763 aged 29 Baylis (grave 114) James, son of James and Sarah Baylis died 18 June 1758 aged 18 Wintle (Grave 84) Rowland Wintle died 18 July 1751 aged 67 Joyce his wife died 19 Nov 1758 aged 76 John their son died 5 Feb 1732 aged 23 Thomas their son died 8 May 1754 aged 35

Surviver records

The people of Longhope have made a list of the existing tombstones, and mapped the location. Click the small map to see larger areas of the map and the list

Betty, wife of Edward Ballinger died 25 Oct 1785 aged 28, has position Number 1 on the map. The two stones are between the Tower and the porch.   The Constance tomb is on the east side of the porch, with these two older tombstones propped on the porch wall, to Martha wife of Richard Constance 24 July 1791 aged 65 and Richard died 16 Sep 1796. James son of Richard and Martha died April 1785 ?? The tomb has inscriptions on all 4 sides.

The tombstone on the left is to Thomas Lodge died 7 Oct 1785 aged 52, and to Ann his daughter by Jane his wife died 7 Ap 1763 - rest is lost The pair of stones - left appears to have been a portrait, and right may have been a coat of arms. Both images show the climate is hard on inscriptions.

Two more not yet identified tombs. This dilemna led to my big project - identifying the first 300 gravestones, and recording the images. It begins at the Index page

Modern Monuments

This tablet in the Sanctuary is for the Very Revd John Probyn of Manor House Longhope, Dean and Archdeacon of Llandaff, a son of Edmond Probyn Esquire with ancestors buried within Newland Church, Forest of Dean. He is buried in the family vault under the Chancel In the early 1700s the patronage of All Saints' Church was in the hands of the Yate family who lived in The Manor House, and they are buried benearth the choir stalls on the north side of the chancel. The Manor was then sold to Sir Edmund Robyn, a distinguished lawyer and inherited by John Probyn who, as a Clerk in Holy Orders, became Vicar of Abenhall, then of Longhope. We have memorials to him, his wife and grandson over the pulpit.

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