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Anwoth Old Kirkyard, Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

Headstone at Anwoth Old Kirkyard, Gatehouse of Fleet  to David Broadfoot d. 1813 customs official and his sons Robert d. 1843, David d. 1853 and Grandson John d. 1867

Location

Anwoth Old Kirkyard, Gatehouse of Fleet, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland

Transcript

'ERECTED BY / AGNES LOGIE TO THE MEMORY OF / her husband / John Broadfoot / Tidesman [Gothic letters] / who died 18th Decr. 1813. Aged 47 years / Also Robert, their Son / who died 23rd Septr.1809, Aged 4 years / Also Robert, their Son / COMMANDER OF THE SHIP DAVENPORT OF LIVERPOOL / who died at Macoe in China 5th August 1843 / Aged 30 years / Also Eliza, their Daughter / wife of Ebenezer Gladstone, Wine Merchant / of Liverpool who died 3rd January 1845 / Aged 33 years / DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN MANCHESTER, ON THE 23RD / JAN. 1861, IN THE 42ND YEAR OF HER AGE. ELIZABETH / WIFE OF CAPT. JOHN BROADFOOT AND THIRD / DAUGHTER OF JOHN GLADSTONE, ESQ,. ENGINEER' [Back of Headstone] 'ALSO OF / CAPN. DAVID BROADFOOT / SECOND SON OF THE SAID JOHN BROADFOOT / WHO DIED IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA / 11TH OCTOBER 1853 AGED 46 YEARS / ALSO OF / AGNES BROADFOOT / RELICT OF THE ABOVE NAMED JOHN BROADFOOT / WHO DIED AT MANCHESTER 21 MARCH 1858 / AGED 78 YEARS / CAPTAIN JOHN BROADFOOT / THEIR SON WHO DIED AT LAUREL BANK GATEHOUSE / 11TH APRIL 1867, AGED 57 YEARS / EUPHENIA ROSE BROADFOOT / RELICT OF THE ABOVE NAMED CAPT. JOHN BROADFOOT / DIED THERE 11TH JUNE 1898 AGED 76 YEARS / JOHN FRASER BROADFOOT ONLY SON OF THE SAID / CAPTAIN JOHN BROADFOOT, DIED AT GATEHOUSE / 30TH APRIL 1913 AGED 48 YEARS'

Details

Description: The surround and headstone are of red sandstone. The surround used to have metal railings all around, but have since disappeared.
Type: Gravestone
Vessel: Davenport

People

Broadfoot, John
Age: 47
Date of Death: 18/12/1813
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Tidesman
Organisation:
Broadfoot, Robert
Age: 30
Date of Death: 5/8/1843
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation:
Broadfoot, David
Age: 46
Date of Death: 11/10/1853
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation:
Broadfoot, John
Age: 57
Date of Death: 11/4/1867
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: DOSSIER.
Recorder: M T Martin, 1988
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St James's Cemetery, Liverpool, England

Headstone at St James’s Cemetery, Liverpool commemorating William Hill d. 1891

Location

St James's Cemetery, Liverpool, England

Transcript

'IN LOVING MEMORY OF / MY DEAR HUSBAND / WILLIAM HILL / MASTER MARINER OF THIS CITY / WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 28 AUGT 1891 / AGED 71 / FOR MANY YEARS A FAITHFUL SERVENT TO / THE LIVERPOOL SALVAGE ASSOCIATION / THE TOILSOME VOYAGES NOW ARE PAST / THE WEARIED MARINER RESTS AT LAST / AND WHEN THE LAST TRUMPETS CALL SHALL SOUND / MAY HE AMONG THE BLEST BE FOUND / ALSO EMMA WIFE OF THE ABOVE / WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 11TH JULY 1897 / AGED 89 / NOTHING IN MY HAND I BRING / SIMPLY TO THY CROSS I CLING / ELLEN HILL DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE / DEPARTED THIS LIFE 18TH MARCH 1936 / AGED 72 / ROCK OF AGES CLEFT FOR ME / LET ME HIDE MYSELF IN THEE.'

Details

Description: Headstone carved with an anchor on a rock above inscription..
Type: Gravestone
Materials: Slate

People

Hill, William
Age: 71
Date of Death: 28/8/1891
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master Mariner
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: The cemetery, in an old quarry behand the Anglican Cathedral, is now St James's Park.
Photographer: B. Tomlinson
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St Ann's Church, Naval Dockyard, Portsmouth, England

Wall Tablet in St Ann’s Church, Portsmouth Dockyard commemorating Lieutenant Charles Brownlow MacDonald RN d. 1887

Location

St Ann's Church, Naval Dockyard, Portsmouth, England

Transcript

'Sacred / TO THE MEMORY OF / LIEUT. CHARLES BROWNLOW MACDONALD R.N. / H.M.S. RANGER / KILLED IN ACTION BURMA / JANUARY 9TH 1887 / AND TO THE OFFICR, SEAMEN AND / MARINES H.M.S RANGER / WHO DIED DURING HER COMMISSION / IN THE EAST INDIES 1884-1887 / ERECTED / BY THEIR SHIPMATES.'

Details

Description: Oval white marble tablet with a rope twist border on a black marble base. A foul anchor in white marble is applied to the upper part of the base. There is a cross in relief above the inscription.
Type: Wall tablet
Materials: Marble
Artists: Baker
Vessel: HMS Ranger

Event

Third Anglo-Burmese War

Event Category

19th century conflicts in Asia

People

MacDonald, Charles Brownlow
Age:
Date of Death: 9/1/1887
Cause of Death: War casualty
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: B. Tomlinson
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St Margaret's Church, Westminster, London, England

Place of burial in St Margaret’s Church, Westminster, London of Rear-Admiral John Willett Payne RN d. 1803

Location

St Margaret's Church, Westminster, London, England

Details

Vessel: HMS 'Impetueux'

Event Category

American Revolutionary War; French Revolutionary Wars

People

Payne, John Willett
Age: 51
Date of Death: 17/11/1803
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Rear Admiral
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Place of burial.

Bibliography: 'Monthly Register of Naval Events', 'Naval Chronicle' vol. 10, pp. 429-440, (London, 1803).
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Stoke sub Hamdon, Somerset, England

Memorial at Stoke sub Hamdon, Somerset commemorating Thomas Chaffrey d. 1768, mason Royal Dockyards

Location

Stoke sub Hamdon, Somerset, England

Transcript

'IN MEMORY OF / ROBERT CHAFFREY OF WEST STOKE / AND SUSANNA HIS WIFE / THE FORMER DIED IN THE YEAR 1728 / AGED 60 THE LATTER IN 1767 AGED 64 / LEAVING TO SURVIVE THEM 4 CHILDREN/ROBT. THOS. SUSANNA AND ANN / THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY / THEIR SON THOMAS / WHO WAS MAST. MASON TO HIS MAJESTY / FIRST IN PORT ANTHONY IN JAMAICA / AFTERWARDS IN PORTSMOUTH DOCKYARD / AND DIED IN 1768 AGED 65 / MARY THE WIFE OF THOS CHAFFREY / DIED IN 17...AGED...'

Details

People

Chaffrey, Thomas
Age: 65
Date of Death: 1768
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master mason
Organisation: HM Dockyard, Portsmouth

Extra

Recorder: Colin Harris 1992
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Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London, England

Memorial at Kensal Green Cemetery commemorating Lieutenant Arthur Charles Fellows RN d. 1905

Location

Kensal Green Cemetery, Kensal Green, London, England

Transcript

'ARTHUR CHARLES / FELLOWES...LIEUTENANT OF THE R.N. / YOUNGEST SON OF HORACE AND LOUISA FELLOWES / BORN 19TH JUNE 1878 DIED 2 MAY 1905.'

Details

Type: Cross on pedestal (broken) and curbed grave.
Position: Section 106
Materials: Stone

People

Fellowes, Arthur Charles
Age: 26
Date of Death: 02/05/1905
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: North of North Avenue
Recorder: Lucy Saint, Eleanor Baugh
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St James's Cemetery, Liverpool, England

Memorial at St James’s Cemetery, Liverpool commemorating Alfred Smith d. 1833

Location

St James's Cemetery, Liverpool, England

Transcript

'Sacred to the Memory / of / Alfred Smith, Master Mariner of this Port / who died off Tampico, in the Gulph of Mexico / 9th June 1833 aged 35 years. / Leaving a wife and five children to lament his loss / also / Thomas Gibson, youngest son of the above. / Who died 29th October 1834, aged 2 years. / Also / William Sidney, Eldest son of the above and late H.B.M. Consul at / Trinidad de Cuba, who died 8th January 1865 / aged 40 years: / By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed / By foreign hands thy manly limbs composed / By strangers loved / By strangers mourned. / Also of Agnes, only daughter of / Alfred and Thomason Smith / who died 14th March 1868 aged 41 years / Also of Thomason S. Smith / wife and mother of the above / who died 16th October 1868 aged 71 years.'

Details

People

Smith, Alfred
Age: 35
Date of Death: 9/6/1833
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. 6, p. 899. This cemetery was sited in an old quarry. It has now largely been cleared.
Recorder: Captain J. P. Brand
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Naval and Military cemetery, Portland, Dorset, England

Gravestone in Portland, Dorset, commemorating Paolo Vincenzo d. 1895

Location

Naval and Military cemetery, Portland, Dorset, England

Transcript

'A/DE PAOLO VINCENZO / Marina Ro della Nave Italiana / Ruggiero di Lauria' / Nato a Rocca Valdina il 9 Maggio 1872 / Morto a Portland L' 8 Guigno 1895 / RIP' [Translation] 'To DE PAOLO VINCENZO seaman of the Italian vessel Ruggiero Di Lauria born in Rocco Valdina on 9th May 1872 died in Portland on the 8th June 1895. RIP'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Position: Roman Catholic (old) 511
Vessel: Ruggiero di Lauria

People

Vincenzo, Paolo
Age:
Date of Death: 8/6/1895
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Seaman
Organisation: Italian Navy

Extra

Recorder: R. & J.H. Perry 1987
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Stratton, Cornwall, England

Memorial in Stratton, Cornwall commemorating John Panchen RN d. 1824

Location

Stratton, Cornwall, England

Transcript

'Sacred to the memory of John PANCHEN, Master in the RN who died March 19 1824 aged 44 years. He came a stranger ... county but by his upright conduct and amiable manners made everyone his friend. He was equally esteemed by his commanding officers afloat and by his neighbours ashore. A good seaman and an honest man'

Details

People

Panchen, John
Age: 44
Date of Death: 19/3/1824
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: E.R. Stage
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St George's Church, Benenden, Kent, England

Memorial at St George’s Church, Benenden, Kent commemorating Sir John Norris, RN, Admiral of the Fleet & Vice Admiral of England d. 1749

Location

St George's Church, Benenden, Kent, England

Transcript

'Near this place are deposited the Remains of / the Rt Honble Sir JOHN NORRIS of HEMPSTEAD / who after fifty years faithful service in / the Royal-Navy, attained the supreme Command, / with the rank of Admiral of the Fleet & / Vice Admiral of ENGLAND. / It is but bare justice to his memory to say, / since so much at least may be said / with the strictest truth / that there never breathed a better Seaman, / a greater Officer, a braver Man, / a more zealous Well wisher / to the present Establishment, / nor consequently a truer Englishman / than this SIR JOHN NORRIS'

Details

Description: A portrait bust with cropped hair, open shirt and draperies above the inscription tablet, the Norris arms and crest below.
Type: Wall monument
Position: South Wall
Materials: White marble
Date Erected: 1750
Artists: Peter Scheemakers

People

Norris, John
Age:
Date of Death: 13/6/1749
Cause of Death: Unknown / None
Rank / Occupation: Admiral of the Fleet; Master of Trinity House
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Signed 'P. SCHEEMAKER Sculp Anno Domini 1750'.
Bibliography: Ingrid Roscoe, 'Peter Scheemakers' 'The sixty-first volume of the Walpole Society' p. 226 (1999). Reverend Francis Hazlewood 'The Parish of Benenden, Kent: its monuments, vicars (1323-1877) & persons of note' (Ipswich, 1889) pp. 7-8.
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