Chinley Ind Chapel Burials - Notes
1. Note placed on a new page before the burial of James Clegg. `An Account of the Burials at Chinley Chappel since the Death of James CLEGG M.D. who died Aug 5th 1755 and was buried at Chinley Chappel August the 7th following (Wm HARRISON the new Minister)
2. Buried by Mr Saml Evatt Minister at Ashford
3. `Her funeral sermon preached that same day by me`
4. `He hanged himself in his Barn at Melcoff and had Xh burial he being of insane mind and brought in by the Coroners Inquest as a Lunetic`
5. `-- was buried at Chinley Chappel by Mr Evatt Minister at Ashford when I was not at home and was not acquainted with her death`
6. `died at her sisters in Miltown`
7. `a child of about 5 years was buried at Chinley Chappel he came from Bugsworth and was a poor child his name I have forgot`
8. `died at John WATERHOUSES house in Chinley`
9. `buried at Chinley Chappel opposite to the great Door`
10. `and who was but lately baptised`
11. `He was dampd in going to down into a coal pit`
12. `a child of about a year old belonging to a woman at Overford fold`
13. `a poor woman out of Chinley workhouse`
14. `an aged woman and infirm for many years before her Death, died in Chinley Liberty`
15. `an old man formerly a soldier in Queen Anne`s Wars with the French`
16. `son of Atkin of Wash aged about 1 1/2years which said Atkin a son of Eli of Malcoff, Chapel p.
17. `a poor young man belonging to Chinley`
19. `she died in child bed of a bastard child`
20. `child of John commonly called John DERBY of Miltown, Chinley`
21. `a child about 6 years old supported by the Liberty of Chinley`
22. `Note: his death was occasioned by the fall of a Large Quantity of Lime Stone Rock falling on him at Grin near Buxton. Note also deceased called William McQUIN is also wrote Willm McQUIRE - see baptism of his children` (sic)
23. `widow of Thomas - the eldest son of John MOULT of Chinley`
24. `she was interred by my son Ralph HARRISON she was bapt. 10 Nov 1733`
25. `widow of Joseph late mercer of Tideswel she was buried in the forenoon aged 84 years`
26. `an infant the son of Hezekiah LINGARD`s daughter who was baptised Feb 13 1781`
27. [Buried] `by John Whitehead, minister at Charlesworth`
28. `Minister of Chinley Chapel for about 27 years`
29. `He was killed by his cart wheel running over his head when leading corn on the 18th last`
30. `aged I know not what supposed about 60`
31. `who died at her sisters Mis MIDDLETONS at Chappel in Frith. She was daughter to Mr. CLEGG, Minister at Chinley Chapel and relict of the Revd Saml WATERHOUSE Dissenting Minister of Risely in Lancashire`
32. `who hanged himself or brought in lunacy`
33. `who has been a pauper for many years`
34. `a bastard child born on the body of Melly Meller at Bugsworth`
35. `A child of -- GODFORY, pauper. LINGARD at Milton was Grandfather to`
36. `a widow from near Bradford, Yks`
37. Note in reg. in 1797 `1794 Nicholas GODDARD at Milton some time in December aged about 76 years "he was forgot to be put in the proper place"`
38. `He had officiated for a many years as Dissenting Minister at Burton upon Trent`
39. `she lived and died at Godfrey LINGARDS, Milton`
40. `he droped down and died without a word on the coal pit hill`
41. `these two had been companions but not good ones`
42. `she was a chance child of Betty LINGARD`
42a. `It was a bastard the layin at Brackfield`
43. `He was lunatic and hanged himself on the 27th, on a tree at the top of the Clough above his house`
44. `a child do not know its name - Raph DEAN, schoolmaster at Rainey, Chs was its Grandfather`
45. `who died at Charles KIRK`s, New Smithy`
46. `he was killed by falling into a coal pit near Disley where he lived. He married a daughter of Obediah PORRIT`s in Chinley whom he has left with a many small children`
47. `who generally lived at Slack Hall`
48. `a woman in years killed out of a cart`
49. `died February 23rd` `she was a real pious Saint of Christ for 63 years`
50. `a son of Orpheter a Scotchman, at Chapel en le Frith who w`d have been 20 years of age had he lived to the 27 of this month`
51. `She was well and dead in a few hours`
52. `died June 11th at his daughters, Mrs SHEPPARD near Sheffield, was interred in his family burying place at Chinley Chapel`
53. `Pastor of the Congregation at Chinley Chapel for more than 23 years` `in the 56th year of his age by Mr Whitehead of Charlesworth`
54. `from the house of Matthew BARNES of Wycken, Chinley`
55. `who was accidentally killed in a Coal pit`
56. `who was many years the Clerk at Chinley Chapel`
57. `who accidently drowned in a trough near his father`s house`
58. `first child` `born 17th day of Sept & died on the 18th day of Sept`
59. `died about noon on Sept 21st (having completed her 28th year on Aug 28th last) interred by the Rev. S Ashton of Stockport`
60. Some of the 1813 & 1814 burials are in both the old & new registers with the old giving more detail which has been added.
62. `Matthew & son John killed in a slate mine`
63. `Born Jul 30 1818 and died Oct 2 1819`
64. `He was at the funeral of W Ford & in good health`
65. Note in register `The two foregoing with another boy not baptized were interred together being the sons of John Waterhouse of Hayfield at one birth`
66. `granddau of the above Robert COLLIER`
67. `Killed by a railway waggon`