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.
Limited records exist; we have however managed to get a photocopy of the original handwritten burial register covering the period from 1856 to the mid 1950s (now stored in Hampshire Archives) which we have carefully transcribed and captured in a database. Additionally we have captured all the details from extant memorials in the chapelyard, and cross referenced this against a survey by the Hampshire Genealogical Society completed in 2009.
This database is then further augmented by information from relatives, family, locals and that which can be discovered from public records such as old Census records.
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.