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A booklet 'Churchyard Records 1864 - 2000' was completed in February 2001. It contains complete listings of all burials and interments since the foundation of the church. There are plans of all recognisable graves. The record may be consulted by relatives and friends of the deceased who wish to find details of the burial, and if listed, the location of the grave itself. It may also be useful for those interested in the history of the churchyard and the Hampton Hill area, and possibly for other research.

The record identifies the position of individual graves by maps and an alphanumeric reference. A copy is kept in the church office and an online searchable database can be accessed from this website. There is a plan of each individual grave in the churchyard with the name and number. For area G there exists a separate plan with names only but it is not entirely accurate and we are unsure of its origin.

To assist searches for individual graves, the plans are divided into areas A to G. This division is shown on the plan Churchyard Areas. The plans of each area, eg 'Plan of Graves in Area A', show the numbering of the graves. The numbering of rows is not the conventional left to right, but instead follows a right to left order which conforms with the original listing. The page, (or pages), following each plan, eg 'Names in Area A' list the graves in order with the names of those interred or commemorated in it. Special graves are marked with the letter S in the notes column in the List of Names. Brief notes on these special graves are in the section 'Special Notes. . . '

The Garden of Rest, Area H, is used solely for the interment of uncontained ashes, with no individual markers in it. Area H is a special area within Area B, as the plan of area B shows. It is well marked and tended, with a small garden at either end. The Garden of Rest was created in 1969. The first ashes to be interred there were those of Jessie Straw, mother of Doris Childs, on 8 June 1969.

The earliest burial in this record is that of Walter Richard Daines, aged 11 months, in 1864. This is in Area A near the noticeboard on the corner of Park Road and St. James's Road.

In the early Registers there are records of a considerable number of children who died due to bad housing and insanitary conditions at that time. In the earliest Burial Register the area is known as New Hampton and only changes to Hampton Hill in 1881.

The War Memorial in the centre of the churchyard was unveiled on 26 May 1920 and features the Roll of Honour of those who died in the two World Wars.

Another special area is within Area D, grave numbers 1D3, 4D7, 4D8, 5D5 to 5D14 inclusive, and 6D6. These commemorate Canadian soldiers who died of their war wounds in a local hospital during or shortly after the First World War. These graves were lovingly tended for very many years by Ron Metcalfe whose ashes are now buried near the graves. There is a fine Canadian maple tree near these graves.

Only the current Burial Register, March 1948 onwards, is kept in the church. The other four Registers are deposited in the London Metropolitan Archives, 40 Northampton Road, Clerkenwell, London EC 1R 0MB, Tel No 020 7332 3820.

Historical Background to the Churchyard Records
A booklet 'Churchyard Records 1864 - 2000' was completed in February 2001. The original plan of the churchyard was drawn up in the 1960s when there were appointed Guardians of the Churchyard. In 1988 a Working Party set out in earnest to try and correlate the information in the five Burial Registers with the actual graves and give each grave a number. An alphabetical card index system was set up, the details of each grave were recorded on separate sheets and an alphabetical list was started with the intention of producing a typed copy for easy reference. This task was taken up again in 1998, computerised plans of the churchyard produced and an alphabetical list of the 4000 plus people recorded in the Burial Register prepared. There are about 1000 graves identifiable in the churchyard commemorating the lives of over 4000 people. In the early millenium these records were put into an online searchable database, accessible from our church website.