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Matlock & Matlock Bath's Memorial Inscriptions
Selected transcripts of Matlock and Matlock Bath's MIs. Surnames Index for all the memorials
 
St. Giles' Church, Matlock : in the Churchyard, areas N - R*
 
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Inscriptions of just a few of the many headstones
Area letters are provided for ease of transcribing
and cannot be found within the churchyard

St. Giles' Church was
Matlock's only church
for several centuries
About St. Giles' Church


Area N
n063
RFC / PER ARDUA AD ASTRA / IN UNFADING MEMORY OF GILBERT SUDBURY HALL, / AGED 25 YEARS. / SON OF ROBERT AND ELIZABETH HALL, SEC. LIEUTENANT AND FLYING OFFICER / IN THE ROYAL FLYING CORPS. / HIS BIPLANE WAS SHOT DOWN ON NOVEMBER / THE 20TH 1916, AND ON THE 30TH. HE DIED / FROM THE INJURIES HE HAD RECEIVED. / HE WAS INTERRED BY THE ENEMY, WITH / MILITARY HONOURS, IN THE CEMETERY / OF NOTRE DAME, CAMBRAI, FRANCE. OH DEAR AND BRAVE HEART GOD BLESS THEE. / ALSO OF ROBERT ARNOLD, / INFANT SON OF THE ABOVE R. AND E. HALL, / WHO DIED JANUARY 24TH. 1890, / AGED 5 MONTHS (0608 065)
n080
In Loving Memory of / MARY ANN / WIFE OF JOHN BODEN, CONFECTIONER, / MATLOCK BATH, / BORN SEPTEMBER 1, 1830, / A TRUE WIFE AND AFFECTIONATE MOTHER. / ALSO JOHN BODEN. WHO DIED APRIL 27TH 1902. / AGED 70 YEARS. ALSO OF / FRANK WIGLEY BODEN / GRANDSON. / KILLED AT OONNEBEKE OCTOBER 18 1917. / AGED 19 YEARS. (0608 064)
Area O
o068a
IN | REMEMBRANCE | OF | ROBERT SMITH | WHO DIED DECEMBER 16, 1886 | AGED 77 YEARS. | ALSO OF SARAH HIS WIFE | WHO DIED OCTOBER 19, 1879. | AGED 72 YEARS. | [Text] (0608 067)
o068b
SACRED | TO THE MEMORY OF | HENRY SMITH | OF MANCHESTER | ----- NOVEMBER 1 MDCCCLVIII (1858) | AGED 51 YEARS | ---- SON OF | THE LATE | WILLIAM AND ELIZABETH SMITH | OF TADCASTER, YORKSHIRE.
S. FOX WIRKSWORTH & MATLOCK (0608 068)
o103
JANE SMITH | WHO DIED MARCH 8TH 1850 | AGED 21 YEARS. | [Text] ALSO OF ELIZABETH KNOWLES | WHO DIED JANUARY - 1883 | AGED 43 YEARS (0608 069)
o154
---- IN MEMORY OF | JOHN SMITH | OF CROMFORD | WHO DIED MARCH -- 1869 | AGED 76 YEARS. | ALSO OF ELEANOR WIFE OF THE ABOVE | WHO DIED MARCH 4? 1866 | AGED 76 YEARS. | ALSO JOHN THEIR SON WHO DIED FEBRUARY 23RD 1869 | AGED 53. | ALSO OF ELIZABETH SMITH | THEIR DAUGHTER | WHO DIED JANUARY 3- ---- | AGED 2 YEARS ---.
[Verse] (0608 070 &71)
Area R
r008
INSCRIBED | To the Memory of SARAH | the Wife of | GEORGE SMITH, | who departed from this Life | Octob. 25th 1831 | in the 57th Year of her Age. | [Verse] | Also of SIDNEY | Son of the above | who departed from this Life | May 2nd 1852 | AGED 19 YEARS | ALSO THE ABOVE NAMED | GEORGE SMITH | WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE MAY [-- 1842 obscured by grass] (0608 076)
r067
ERECTED | TO THE MEMORY OF | GEORGE SMITH | WHO DIED AUGUST 4TH 1816, AGED 81 YEARS. | ALSO OF JOHN, SON OF | THE ABOVE, | WHO DIED JANUARY 9TH 1820, | AGED 39 YEARS. | ALSO OF MARY, WIFE OF | THE ABOVE JOHN SMITH : WHO DIED NOVEMBER 2ND 1853, | AGED 69 YEARS (0608 073)
r089
ERECTED | IN REMEBRANCE OF | GEORGE SMITH, | Who died October 18th 1848, | aged 65 Years. | Also of SARAH, his wife. | Who died May 26th 1855. | Aged 65 Years. | Also JOSEPH AND HENRY | THEIR SONS. | JOSEPH | died September 8th 1845 | HENRY died December 28th 1850 | Aged 34 (0608 074)
r090
E [upturned heart] B / 7 / 6 (0608 074)
r094
In | Remembrance | OF | AGNES BUCKLEY | BORN OCTOBER 5, 1851 | DIED JANUARY 13, 1854. [Verse] (0608 074)
r095
SACRED | TO | THE MEMORY OF | SARAH SMITH, | OF MATLOCK BATH | WHO WAS BURIED | THE 17TH MARCH 1817, | AGED 31 YEARS. | ALSO OF HER HUSBAND | JOSHUA SMITH | WHO DIED | 27TH SEPTEMBER 1849 | AGED 75 YEARS. | AND OF | MARY SMITH | WIFE OF | JOSHUA SMITH, WHO DIED 8TH JANUARY 1865 | AGED 59 YEARS [Verse] (0608 072)
r096
IN | Memory of Martha Knowles | who departed this Life May 22 | 1793 | Aged 30 Years | [Verse] Also in Memory of | Adam Knowles, husband of | the above named | who departed this life May 25th in 1827, Aged 67 (0608 075)

*Matlock St Giles' MIs have been transcribed by the Derbyshire Ancestral Research Group and I am extremely grateful to them for allowing me to use their indexes. The MIs on this page have been transcribed by Ann Andrews from photographs very kindly provided by Charles Beresford. Verses and other texts are not transcribed here