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Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff, Wales

Memorial in Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff commemorating Charles Jenkins d. 1901

Location

Cathays Cemetery, Cardiff, Wales

Transcript

'In loving memory of / Charles / son of Edward & Ann Jenkins / Who died Feb 12th 1901 / on board S.S. Shakespeare / Aged 19 years / and was buried at sea off Cape Finisterre / S W Bay of Biscay / In perfect health he left his home / Not thinking that his time had come / But sudden death from God was sent / To bring him to His judgement seat / Also of ANN / beloved wife of the above / Edward Jenkins / who died May 1st 1903, Aged 58 years / I was weary and He gave me rest / Also the above / Edward Jenkins / who died May 25th 1919/ Aged 77 years.'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Vessel: SS Shakespeare

People

jenkins, Charles
Age: 19
Date of Death: 12/2/1901
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation:

Extra

Recorder: David J. Wickham

JSON

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St Clement's Church, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England

Memorial in St Clement’s Church, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, commemorating Captain John Price RN d. 1709

Location

St Clement's Church, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England

Transcript

'Here rest in hopes of a Glorious Resurrection / to everlasting life the Bodies of Captaine IOHN / PRICE and of MARTHA his first wife. / She was ye Daighter of THOMAS GODMAN / of ye City of Bristol Esq and departed this life / the 22nd Day of October Anno Dom. 1696. / He was borne in Cardiffe in Glamorganshire. Was / Commander of several Ships of Warr during ye Reign of / King William of Glorious Memory who honoured him / with his particuler Favour & Esteeme & Continued / in ye Service of his Countrey under her present Majty / with great Fidelity Bravery & Success He departed this / life the 1st Day of Aprill Anno Dom. 1709'

Details

Description: Arms above the inscription. Three chevrons for Price impalin a lion rampant for Godman of Bristol.

Position: Chancel

People

Price, John
Age:
Date of Death: 1/4/1709
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Bibliography: P. Benton 'History of Rochford Hundred' p. 357

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  "transcript": "'Here rest in hopes of a Glorious Resurrection / to everlasting life the Bodies of Captaine IOHN / PRICE and of MARTHA his first wife. / She was ye Daighter of THOMAS GODMAN / of ye City of Bristol Esq and departed this life / the 22nd Day of October Anno Dom. 1696. / He was borne in Cardiffe in Glamorganshire. Was / Commander of several Ships of Warr during ye Reign of / King William of Glorious Memory who honoured him / with his particuler Favour & Esteeme & Continued / in ye Service of his Countrey under her present Majty / with great Fidelity Bravery & Success He departed this / life the 1st Day of Aprill Anno Dom. 1709'",
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Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground (nurses home), Greenwich, London, England

Wall tablet at the Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground, Greenwich commemorating Captain Joseph Ellison RN d. 1816

Location

Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground (nurses home), Greenwich, London, England

Transcript

'Sacred to the Memory of / Dorothea Elizabeth, daughter of / Captain Joseph Ellison Royal Hospital of Greenwich / who departed this life March 21st 1810 aged 21 years / The piety and resignation with which / she endured a long and painful / illness was truly exemplary / and the comfort she expressed / of the assurance of enjoying a / Blessed immortality alone consoled / her afflicted parents for the irreparable / loss they have sustained / Also Captain Joseph Ellison RN / who departed this life Oct the first 1816 / in the 64th year of his age.'

Details

Type: Wall tablet
Position: Mausoleum (east wall)

People

Ellison, Joseph
Age: 64
Date of Death: 1/10/1816
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: PRO Greenwich Hospital Memorial Inscription 99618.

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  "transcript": "'Sacred to the Memory of / Dorothea Elizabeth, daughter of / Captain Joseph Ellison Royal Hospital of Greenwich / who departed this life March 21st 1810 aged 21 years / The piety and resignation with which / she endured a long and painful / illness was truly exemplary / and the comfort she expressed / of the assurance of enjoying a / Blessed immortality alone consoled / her afflicted parents for the irreparable / loss they have sustained / Also Captain Joseph Ellison RN / who departed this life Oct the first 1816 / in the 64th year of his age.'",
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St James's Cemetery, Liverpool, England

Memorial at St James’s Cemetery, Liverpool commemorating Joseph Potts d. 1855

Location

St James's Cemetery, Liverpool, England

Transcript

'Joseph Potts of Workington, master mariner, died 25 July 1855 age 57'

Details

People

Potts, Joseph
Age: 57
Date of Death: 25/7/1855
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master mariner
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: From a MS in Liverpool Record Office. Compiled by James Gibson d. 1886, vol.7, p.139.
Recorder: Captain J. P. Brand

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St Nicholas's Church, Combe Raleigh, Devon, England

Memorial wall tablet in St Nicholas’s Church, Combe Raleigh, Devon commemorating Admiral Thomas Graves, RN d. 1814

Location

St Nicholas's Church, Combe Raleigh, Devon, England

Transcript

'UNDERNEATH ARE INTERRED ALL THAT WAS MORTAL / OF SIR THOMAS GRAVES, / KNIGHT OF THE MOST HONORABLE [sic] ORDER OF THE BATH, / AND ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE, / WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MARCH 28th 1814. / ALSO OF HIS WIFE, BRIDGET, DAUGHTER OF PHILIP BACON ESQre / OF BISHOP'S HALL. / IN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, / WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE DECEMBER 24th 1795. "But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which / are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope." 1 Thess. IV. 13. / "For GOD hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, whether we wake or sleep, we / should live together with him.'" 1 Thess. IV. 9,10 / ALSO OF MARY GRAVES / THEIR ONLY CHILD, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE / 4th MARCH 1860 AGED 87 YEARS'

Details

Type: Wall tablet
Materials: White marble, slate

People

Graves, Thomas
Age: c. 67
Date of Death: 28/3/1814
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Admiral of the Blue
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: DOSSIER. Portrait in the Royal Maritime Museum Greenwich Collection (BHC2722)
Recorder: The Arts Society (NADFAS)

JSON

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  "transcript": "'UNDERNEATH ARE INTERRED ALL THAT WAS MORTAL / OF SIR THOMAS GRAVES, / KNIGHT OF THE MOST HONORABLE [sic] ORDER OF THE BATH, / AND ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE, / WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MARCH 28th 1814. / ALSO OF HIS WIFE, BRIDGET, DAUGHTER OF PHILIP BACON ESQre / OF BISHOP'S HALL. / IN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK, / WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE DECEMBER 24th 1795. \"But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which / are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.\" 1 Thess. IV. 13. / \"For GOD hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, whether we wake or sleep, we / should live together with him.'\" 1 Thess. IV. 9,10 / ALSO OF MARY GRAVES / THEIR ONLY CHILD, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE / 4th MARCH 1860 AGED 87 YEARS'",
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Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground (nurses home), Greenwich, London, England

Tablet at the Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground, Greenwich commemorating Commander John Undrell RN d. 1826

Location

Royal Naval Hospital Old Burial Ground (nurses home), Greenwich, London, England

Details

Position: Mausoleum (interior south wall)

People

Undrell, John
Age:
Date of Death: 17/1/1826
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Commander RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: On a tablet listing the monuments destroyed in the 1939-45 war.

JSON

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Christie Place, Newcastle, Australia, Rest of the World

Fountain in Christie Place, Newcastle, Australia commemorating Captain John Shortland RN d. 1810

Location

Christie Place, Newcastle, Australia, Rest of the World

Transcript

'SHORTLAND CENTENARY FOUNTAIN 1797. FOUNDATION STONE LAID BY THE HON. J.N. BUNKER M.P. COLONIAL SECRETARY 18TH SEPTEMBER 1897', 'LIEUTENANT JOHN SHORTLAND R.N. ARRIVED FIRST FLEET 26-01-1788 DIED 20-01-1810. FELLOWSHIP OF FIRST FLEETERS 1997. R. GAITES', 'ERECTED 1897 DAVID MILLER, MAYOR'

Details

Description: Stone drinking fountain with four lion's heads and basins.
Type: Drinking fountain
Materials: Stone
Date Erected: 1897

Event

Guadaloupe 1810

Event Category

1803-1815 Napoleonic War

People

Shortland, John
Age: 40
Date of Death: 21/1/1810
Cause of Death: War casualty
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Born 1769. Officer in First Fleet to Australia. Killed in action to capture Guadaloupe Jan-Feb 1810. Buried Basse Terre Cemetery, Guadaloupe. Lt RN John Shortland Snr 1737-1810, buried at Lille, France. The fountain was erected to commemorate the centenary of Shorland's landing on the site of Newcastle, and was late moved from Newcastle beach.
Recorder: J. Shortland 1997

JSON

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St Mary's Church, Maulden, Bedfordshire, England

Tomb at St Mary’s Church, Maulden, Bedfordshire of Captain Charles Moore RN d. 1870

Location

St Mary's Church, Maulden, Bedfordshire, England

Transcript

'To the memory of / Elizabeth Anne / second daughter of the late / Rev/ RICHARD PALMER / and Grand Daughter of the late / Sir GILLIES PAYNE Baronet / of Tompsford Hall in this County / and wife of / Capt. CHARLES MOORE Royal Navy / of Maulden Cottage. Born November 9th 1797 / Died March 20 1857 / Aged 59 Years / I will raise them up from the power of the grave' Hosea XIII, 4 / Also of / Capt. CHARLES MOORE Royal Navy / Husband of the above and youngest son of / The Revd. ROBERT MOORE D.D. / Late Vicar of Thurley in this County / Born June 20th 1792 / Died November 10th 1870 / Aged 78 Years / Looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus / Christ unto eternal life' Jude 21'

Details

Description: Table tomb over vault.
Type: Table tomb
Position: Churchyard
Materials: Stone
Artists: Hinton

People

Moore, Charles
Age: 78
Date of Death: 10/11/1870
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

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St Margaret's Church, Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England

Chest tomb at St Margaret’s Church, Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk commemorating Captain James Greeve RN d. 1686

Location

St Margaret's Church, Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk, England

Transcript

Here lyeth the Body of / JAMES GREEVE who was an / Assistant of Sr CLOUDISLEY / SHOVEL in burning ye ships / in ye port of Tripoly in Barbary / Jan.ry 14th 1675/6, and for his good / service Pform'd was made / Capt. of the Ship called the / Orange Tree of Algeir in / 1677 and presented with A Medal / of Gold by King CHARLES / ye 2nd he Died April 14th 1686 / Aged 48 years / Also MARTHA his wife died / Feb 19th 1722 Aged 71 Years / And JAMES their Son Died Sept 26th 1728 Aged 45 Years / Also ELIZABETH their daughter / Died July 28th 1743 Aged 57 Years

Details

Description:
Type: Chest-tomb
Position: c. 20 metres south outside transept window
Vessel: HMS 'Orange Tree'

People

Greeve, James
Age: 48
Date of Death: 14/4/1686
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Captain
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell was born in Cockthorpe Norfolk and joined the Navy in 1664. In 1676, Cloudesley launched several successful attacks against Barbary pirates at Tripoli, North Africa, sinking several of their ships and was rewarded with a gold metal by King Charles II.

Monument was listed as Grade II by Historic England in 1987.

HMS 'Orange Tree' was a 30-gun warship captured from the Algerians in 1677.
Photographer: Pippa Lacey

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St John's Church, Old Haymarket, Liverpool, England

Memorial at St John’s Church, Old Haymarket, Liverpool commemorating Lawrence Howard d. 1811

Location

St John's Church, Old Haymarket, Liverpool, England

Transcript

'Lawrence Howard, Shipwright, died 21st February 1811 aged 56. Henry son of Lawrence Howard, Pilot died 21st June 1828 age 44'

Details

People

Howard, Lawrence
Age: 56
Date of Death: 21/2/1811
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Shipwright
Organisation:
Howard, Henry
Age: 44
Date of Death: 21/6/1828
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Pilot
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: From a MS in Liverpool Record Office compiled by James Gibson d. 1886, vol. 1, p. 599. Church demolished in 1898.
Recorder: Captain J. P. Brand

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  "id": "M3291",
  "location": "St John's Church, Old Haymarket, Liverpool, England",
  "transcript": "'Lawrence Howard, Shipwright, died 21st February 1811 aged 56. Henry son of Lawrence Howard, Pilot died 21st June 1828 age 44'",
  "content": "<p>Memorial at St John’s Church, Old Haymarket, Liverpool commemorating Lawrence Howard d. 1811</p>",
  "images": [],
  "categories": ["Uncategorised"],
  "details": {
    "description": "",
    "type": "",
    "position": "",
    "materials": "",
    "dateErected": "",
    "artists": "",
    "vessel": ""  },
  "event": {
    "event":"",
    "date": "",
    "category": ""  },
  "people": [{"name":"Howard, Lawrence","age":"56","dateofdeath":"21/2/1811","causeofdeath":"Unknown/None","rankOccupation":"Shipwright","organisation":""},{"name":"Howard, Henry","age":"44","dateofdeath":"21/6/1828","causeofdeath":"Unknown/None","rankOccupation":"Pilot","organisation":""}],
  "extra": {
    "notes": "From a MS in Liverpool Record Office compiled by James Gibson d. 1886, vol. 1, p. 599. Church demolished in 1898.",
    "bibliography": "",
    "recorder": "Captain J. P. Brand",
    "photographer": ""  }
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters