Old Stuckton chapel is surrounded by a Burial Ground that was used between 1856 and 2015, for both full burials and cremated ashes – collectively called ‘interments’. Whilst sparsely populated with Memorials, there were more interments than are simply captured in the text on these stones.
There is a single Commonwealth War Grave at the rear of the chapelyard for Lance Corporal William Sevier, WR/254732 of the Royal Engineers. Mike Richardson (Chair of the Western Download branch of the Royal British Legion) has kindly researched his history and written this dedicated document about him and his service.
Limited records exist; we have however managed to get to access to a number data sets, transcribed the information, and constructed a database. Each record is linked and validated across multiple sources wherever possible, with the ‘source’ column on the results page stating where the information for that record came from. The sources include:
- Burial Register covering 1856-1955 (‘Volume 1’) – Held at Hampshire Archives.
- Burial Register covering 1957-79 (‘Volume 2’) – Held at Hampshire Archives.
- Burial Register covering 1990-2014 (‘Volume 3’) – Held at Hampshire Archives.
- Certificates of Burial or Cremation – Found In front pouch of the volume 3 register at Hampshire Archives.
- Hampshire Geological Society Survey 2009 – Details of monumental inscriptions for purchase.
- Additional Information from Other Public Records – such as on Census records via ancestry.co.uk
- Physical Memorial Inspections of the extant memorials on-site
- Information from family, relatives and locals
This page includes the latest information derived from the database, and you can search the database directly to explore the records that exist. We are very keen to continue to improve this information, so if you have any details which we can add we would be hugely grateful if you can Contact us.
The chapelyard is open for visiting graves and memorials during daylight hours. No dogs please.
Burial Records Summary
Most Common Surnames
The size/scale of the surname indicates the relative number of interments. If you slide your mouse or put your finger (on a mobile phone) over a surname, you can see the number of recorded interments and click through to see the associated records in the database.
Distribution of Age at Death
As can be clearly seen from the data, many interments were of the very young, often stillborn, as was sadly common particularly in the Victorian period in such an industrial and relatively poor area. The later graph shows the distribution related to the number of interments that year.
Distribution of Interments over Time
The majority of interments occurred in the later part of the 19th century, likely also reflecting the peak size of the congregation during the history of the chapel. There was a decreasing number of interments during the first half of the last century, after which the records are also not as comprehensive.
Feel free to search the database for more detailed information, and we are really keen to gather any more information you can help us with via the Contact page.
We are working to augment the database with links to photographs and a chapelyard map, over time.