Wall tablet at St George’s Church, Beckenham commemorating members of the Dennis family who died in the wreck of the emigrant ship ‘Northfleet’ in 1873
Location
St George's Church, Beckenham, London, England
Transcript
'CATHERINE ANN, daughter of James Dennis, / Sexton of Beckenham, and Catherine his wife; / Thomas Webb, her husband, and their three / infant children, Henry, Thomas Frederick, and / Mary Elizabeth, were all drowned, together / with nearly three hundred more, on the night, / of January 22ND, 1873, in the emigrant ship / Northfleet, wrecked off Dungeness when / outward bound for Australia. / Their neighbours / have erected this tablet to their memory. / 'It is I; be not afraid'. / Matthew. xiv-27'
Details
Description: Plain rectangular tablet in mottled marble. Type: Wall tablet Position: South aisle lower Materials: Marble Vessel: Northfleet
People
Webb, Catherine Ann Age: Date of Death: 22/1/1873 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Webb, Thomas Age: Date of Death: 22/1/1873 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Webb, Henry Age: Date of Death: 22/1/1873 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Webb, Mary Elizabeth Age: Date of Death: 22/1/1873 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation: Webb, Thomas Frederick Age: Date of Death: 22/1/1873 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Passenger Organisation:
Memorial at St Augustine’s Church, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, dedicated to members of the Farington family who died between 1791-1868
Location
St Augustine's Church, Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, England
Transcript
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF / MRS ESTHER FARINGTON, WIDOW OF THE REVD. WILLIAM FARINGTON B.D. / RECTOR OF WARINGTON AND VICAR OF LEIGH IN THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER / THE SECOND SON OF WILLIAM FARINGTON OF SHAW HALL IN LANCASHIRE / DESCENDED FROM AND THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ANCIENT FAMILIES OF / FARINGTON OF WERDEN AND FARINGTON IN THAT COUNTY, / HE DIED AT LEIGH IN SEPTEMBER 1767, AGED 63 / SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF JOSEPH GILBODY ESQR. OF MANCHESTER / SHE DIED AT HODDESDON ON THE 2nd. OF DECEMBER 1794, AGED 78, / AND WAS INTERRED NEAR THIS PLACE. THEY HAS ISSUE,VIZ. / WILLIAM FARINGTON, HE COMMANDED A SHIP IN THE SERVICE OF THE HONOURABLE / EAST INDIA COMPANY AND RESIDED AT HODDESDEN / JOSEPH FARINGTON, ACADEMICIAN OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS LONDON / DIED DECR. 30th. 1821, AGED 75. AND WAS BURIED IN THE OLD CHURCH AT MANCHESTER / HENRY FARINGTON, OF MANCHESTER, DIED MAY 20th. 1827, AGED 77 / GEORGE FARINGTON, HISTORY AND PORTRAIT PAINTER, DIED AT MOORSHEDABAD / IN THE EAST INDIES 1788, AGED 36. / RICHARD ATHERTON FARINGTON OF PARRS WOOD NEAR MANCHESTER / A MAGISTRATE FOR LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE, HE COMMANDED A SHIP IN THE / SERVICE OF THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPANY DIED DECEMBER 25th. 1822, AGED 67 / JAMES FARINGTON DIED AN INFANT IN 1757 / EDWARD FARINGTON LOST IN THE FOULIES EAST INDIAMAN IN 1790, AGED 32 YEARS. / ROBERT FARINGTON DD RECTOR OF ST GEORGES IN THE EAST, LONDON. / FOR 38 YEARS, HE DIED SEPT 18th 1841, AGED 81. AND WAS HERE INTERRED / SACRED ALSO TO THE MEMORY OF / MRS SUSAN MARY FARINGTON, WIFE OF JOSEPH FARINGTON RA / SECOND SON OF THE ABOVE WILLIAM AND ESTHER / SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE REVD HORACE HAMOND / RECORD[ER] OF HARPLY AND BRIERHAM IN NORFOLK AND PREBEND OF NORWICH / SHE DIED WITHOUT ISSUE ON THE 21st FEBRUARY 1800 AGED 50 AND WAS HERE INTERRED / ALSO OF / WILLIAM ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM AND ESTHER FARINGTON / HE DIED ON THE 31st JULY 1803 AT HODDESDON AND IS HERE INTERRED / ALSO OF /MRS. ANNE FRANCES FARINGTON WIDOW OF THE ABOVE WILLIAM FARINGTON / SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM NASH ESQ. OF HODDESDON / SHE DIED THE FIRST DAY OF OCTOBER 1816 AGED 56 AND IS HERE INTERRED / THEY HAD ISSUE, VIZ WILLIAM FARINGTON, A POST CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL NAVY (d. 1868) / MARRIED FRANCES ANNE DAUGHTER OF EDMOND GREEN. HE DIED... / ESTHER FRANCES FARINGTON, MARRIED TO LEONARD STREETE COXE ESQ / HENRY GEORGE FARINGTON DIED AT GIBRALTAR / ON BOARD HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP TRIUMPH JANUARY 23rd. 1802 AGED 19 YEARS/ GEORGE FARINGTON, DIED ON BOARD HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP TOPAZ / IN THE WEST INDIES AUGUST 23rd. 1801 AGED 16 YEARS / EDWARD FRASER FARINGTON / AN OFFICER IN THE MILITARY SERVICE OF THE HONOURABLE EAST INDIA COMPNY / DIED AT JAVA IN 1811 OR 1812, AGED 20 YEARS / RICHARD EDWARD / JOSEPH / ROBERT / DIED IN INFANCY'
Details
Vessel: HEIC ‘Foulis', HMS ‘Topaz', HMS ‘Triumph'
People
Farington, Edward Age: 32 Date of Death: 1791 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Unknown Organisation: Honourable East India Company Farington, George Age: 16 Date of Death: 23/8/1801 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Unknown Organisation: Royal Navy Farington, Henry George Age: 19 Date of Death: 23/1/1802 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Unknown Organisation: Royal Navy Farington, William Age: Unknown Date of Death: 31/7/1803 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Master HEIC Organisation: Honourable East India Company Farington, Richard Atherton Age: 67 Date of Death: 25/12/1822 Cause of Death: Unknown/None Rank / Occupation: Master HEIC Organisation: Honourable East India Company Farington, William Age: Unknown Date of Death: 1868 Cause of Death: Unknown Rank / Occupation: Post Captain RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: 3 March 1791 'Foulis' sailed from Madras for Bencoolen, not heard of since.
Bibliography: Rowen Hackman 'Ships of the East India Company' (Gravesend, 1998) p.110. Recorder: Colin Harris 1992
Wall tablet in St Mary’s Church, Wolborough, Devon commemorating Lieutenant Samuel Babb RN and others lost in the brig ‘Brothers’ 1817
Location
St Mary's Church, Wolborough, Devon, England
Transcript
'SACRED / To the Memory of / SAMUEL BABB, LIEUT. RN Aet 30 / and also of / JOHN BABB Merchant Aet 25. / Who, together with the whole crew of thirteen / souls were shipwrecked and drowned in the / brig Brothers off Castiglioncello near / Leghorn, March 6 1817 / "They were lovely and pleasant in their lives and in their death they were not divided" 2 Saml. 23'
Details
Description: A large flaming urn with scrolled shoulders set on a larger rectangular background. It rests on a concave bracket. Type: Wall tablet Position: South wall Materials: Marble Artists: Coulman Vessel: Brothers
People
Babb, Samuel Age: 30 Date of Death: 6/3/1817 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy Babb, John Age: 25 Date of Death: 6/3/1817 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Merchant Organisation: Unknown
Wall tablet in St Helen’s Church, Cornhill-on-Tweed commemorating Thomas Haggerston Collingwood d. 1859 in the loss of HMS ‘Heron’
Location
St Helen's Church, Cornhill-on-Tweed, Northumberland, England
Transcript
'SACRED / TO THE MEMORY OF / HENRY COLLINGWOOD / OF LILBURN TOWER / AND CORNHILL HOUSE ESQUIRE / WHO DIED JULY 26TH 1827 AGED 70 YEARS. / MARY ANNE WIDOW OF THE ABOVE / DIED 17TH FEBRUARY 1852 AGED 74 YEARS. / H.J.W. COLLINGWOOD ESQUIRE / HIS ELDEST SON DIED APRIL 14TH 1840 AGED 37 YEARS. / HENRY ELDEST SON OF THE ABOVE H.J.W. COLLINGWOOD / DIED AT CORNHILL 22ND AUGUST 1836. / AGED 11 YEARS. / THOMAS HAGGERSTON / FOURTH SON OF H.J.W. COLLINGWOOD / LOST AT SEA MAY 9TH 1859 AGED 28 YEARS. / FREDERICK, SIXTH SON OF / H.J.W. COLLINGWOOD DIED AT TORQUAY FEBRUARY 10TH 1867 / AGED 29 YEARS. / FRANCES THE BELOVED WIFE OF / GEORGE CALDWELL DICKINS / LATE OF THE 21ST R.N.B. FUSILIERS AND 46TH REGIMENT / ELDEST DAUGHTER OF H.J.W. COLLINGWOOD, DIED AT PORTOBELLO N.B. SEPTEMBER 14TH 1867 / AGED 39 YEARS /
Details
Description: Gothic style inscription tablet with a cross in relief at the top and a black base. Type: Wall Tablet Materials: Marble Vessel: HMS Heron
People
Collingwood, Thomas Haggerston Age: 28 Date of Death: 9/5/1859 Cause of Death: Vessel loss Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Lost in HMS 'Heron' which foundered in a tornado of the West Coast of Africa. Bibliography: David Saunders 'Maritime Memorials & Mementoes' (Yeovil, 1996) p. 38.
Memorial window in St Margaret of Antioch, St Margaret-at-Cliffe, dedicated to Robert Crone, Bryan Eades and Graham Evans who died in the ‘Herald of Free Enterprise’, 6th March 1987
Location
Church of St Margaret of Antioch, St Margaret-at-Cliffe, Kent, England
Transcript
'TO THE MEMORY OF / ROBERT CRONE / BRYAN EADES / GRAHAM EVANS / MEN OF THIS VILLAGE / WHO DIED IN THE HERALD OF FREE ENTERPRISE / DISASTER 6TH MARCH 1987'
Details
Description: Three light window depicting Christ walking on the water, the ferry in Townsend Thoresen livery in the background, with the white cliffs with a lighthouse on the summit to the right. Type: Window Materials: Glass, lead Artists: Goddard & Gibbs Vessel: Herald of Free Enterprise
People
Crone, Robert Age: 48 Date of Death: 6/3/1987 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Senior chief engineer Organisation: Townsend Thoresen Eades, Bryan Age: 47 Date of Death: 6/3/1987 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Senior purser Organisation: Townsend Thoresen Evans, Graham Age: 43 Date of Death: 6/3/1987 Cause of Death: Vessel Loss Rank / Occupation: Electrician Organisation: Townsend Thoresen
Extra
Bibliography: David Saunders 'Britain's maritime memorials & mementoes' (Yeovil, 1996). Recorder: B. Tomlinson Photographer: B. Tomlinson
Memorial at St Mary’s Church, Shotley, Suffolk commemorating Lieutenant-Commander Julian Tenison, RN d.1916
Location
St Mary's Church, Shotley, Suffolk, England
Transcript
'Lt Cmdr Julian TENISON RN Captain of submarine E4 KIA 15 Aug 1916 after two years service in the Great War aged 31 only son of Charles and Isabel Tenison'
Details
Position: Naval cemetery Vessel: E 4
Event Category
1914-1918 First World War
People
Tenison, Julian Tenison Age: 31 Date of Death: 15/8/1916 Cause of Death: Maritime accident Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant Commander RN Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: Died in a collision between submarines 'E4' and 'E41' during a training exercise. Recorder: Reverend William Henry Donnan 1967
Memorial in the Anglican Cathedral Church of St George, Jerusalem commemorating Lieutenant Martin Keith-Roach RN d. 1940
Location
Anglican Cathedral Church of St George, Jerusalem, Israel, Rest of the World
Transcript
'To the Glory of God and in gratitude for the life of Lieutenant Martin Keith-Roach D.S.C., Royal Navy. Officer of St. John of Jerusalem. First Lieutenant H.M. Submarine 'Triad'. Killed in action 1940 aged 27 years. "He only lived but till he was a man, the which no sooner had his prowess confirmed in the unshrinking station where he fought, but like a man he died"'
Details
Position: Nave Vessel: HMS Triad
Event Category
1939-1945 Second World War
People
Keith-Roach, Martin Age: 27 Date of Death: 15/10/1940 Cause of Death: War casualty Rank / Occupation: Organisation: Royal Navy
Extra
Notes: HM submarine 'Triad' lost in action with the Italian submarine ''Enrico Toti' 15 October 1940. The Commonwealth War Graves Commision gives Keith-Roach's date of death as the 20 October. Recorder: Alex Chatwin 1982
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