Scaleby Church

Transcriptions of Tombstones

Scaleby Hall and Brightonflatt Grahams

Third row from church

ERECTED IN MEMORY OF GEORGE GRAHAM OF SCALEBY WHO DIED DEC.24th 1772 AGED 68 YEARS ALSO RICHARD GRAHAM DIED JULY 22nd 1779 AGED 70 YEARS ALSO ELLENOR HIS WIFE WHO DIED MARCH 19th 1799, AGED 89 YEARS ALSO GEORGE THEIR SON OF SCALEBY HALL DIED JUNE 19th 1802 AGED 62 YEARS ALSO JOHN SON OF WILLIAM GRAHAM BRIGHTONFLATT DIED JUNE 20th 1807 AGED 9 YEARS ALSO MARGARET HIS DAUGHTER DIED JUNE 24th 1807 AGED 5 YEARS ALSO WILLIAM OF SCALEBY HALL, SON OF RICHARD GRAHAM OF BRIGHTONFLATT WHO DIED NOV 23rd 1831 AGED 84 YEARS ALSO ANN WIFE OF THE ABOVE WILLIAM GRAHAM WHO DIED SEPT (?) 1839 AGED 79 YEARS

On back of this stone

ALSO OF JOHN GRANDSON OF WILLIAM GRAHAM, SON OF JOHN MURRAY OF RIGGHEAD KIRKLINTON, DIED APRIL 9th 1819, AGED 9 YEARS ALSO MARGARET, DAUGHTER OF RICHARD GRAHAM OF BRIGHTONFLATT DIED JUNE 11th 1827 AGED 82 YEARS

Back row nearest church

IN MEMORY OF GEORGE THE SON OF WILLIAM & ANN GRAHAM OF SCALEBY HALL WHO DIED AT BRIGHTONFLATT JUNE 8th 1847 AGED SIXTY YEARS ALSO OF JOSEPH THEIR SON WHO WHO DIED JANUARY 13th 1851 AGED 50 YEARS ALSO OF RICHARD THEIR SON WHO DIED AT CARLISLE AUGUST 25th 1854 AGED 70 YEARS ALSO OF ELLENOR MURRAY THEIR DAUGHTER WHO DIED APRIL 11th 1860 AGED 78 YEARS ALSO OF WILLIAM THEIR SON WHO DIED AT BRIGHTONFLATT JUNE 22nd 1874 IN HIS 83rd YEAR

FORDSIKE GRAHAMS

Tablet inside church

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ANN GRAHAM DIED APRIL 18th 1788 AGED 80 YEARS, WIFE OF JOHN GRAHAM WHO DIED MARCH 18th 1805 AGED 87 YEARS AGNES GRAHAM, WHO DIED OCTOBER 16th 1813 AGED 53 YEARS, WIFE OF JAMES GRAHAM WHO DIED MARCH 1st 1836 AGED 73 YEARS JOHN GRAHAM WHO DIED AUGUST 12th 1840 AGED 62 YEARS HUSBAND OF ELIZABETH GRAHAM WHO DIED JULY 1st 1851 AGED 72 YEARS
All of Fordsyke in the Parish of Scaleby

Sixth row from church

TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN GRAHAM OF FORDSIKE WHO DIED MARCH 13th 1805 AGED 87 YEARS ALSO ANN HIS WIFE DIED APRIL 18th 1788 AGED 80 YEARS ALSO HENRY GRANDSON OF JAMES GRAHAM DIED IN IN HIS INFANCY, MARCH 28th (1757)?

Fifth row from church

TO THE MEMORY OF JAMES SON OF JOHN GRAHAM OF FORDSIKE WHO DIED JUNE 22nd 1741 AGED 2 YEARS ALSO JOHN HIS SON DIED FEBRUARY 23rd 1763 AGED 20 YEARS

["GRAHAM, of Ford-sike, James, son of John Graham, of Ford-sike, died 1741, aged 2, and John, his 2nd son, died 1763, aged 20. Ann dau. of John Graham of Ford-sike, was baptised at Kirklinton. 1765. Arms ...on a chief ...three escallops....Crest. A hand cuffed at the wrist, and holding a sword (Gravestone. Scaleby churchyard"]

Hudleston, C. Roy. Cumberland Families and Heraldry.p.134.

Fourth row from church

ERECTED IN MEMORY OF JAMES GRAHAM OF FORDSIKE WHO DIED MARCH 1st 1826 AGED 79 YEARS ALSO JOHN HIS SON WHO DIED AT FORDSIKE AUGUST 12th 1840 AGED 62 years ALSO OF ELIZABETH GRAHAM WIFE OF THE ABOVE NAMED JOHN GRAHAM WHO DIED JULY 1st 1851 AGED 76 YEARS

Front row

IN MEMORY OF MARY THE WIFE OF THOMAS GRAHAM AND ELDEST DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM AND ANN ROBLEY CASTLE CARROCK, WHO DIED AT SCALEBY HALL, JANUARY 31st 1852 AGED (?) YEARS

IN LOVING MEMORY OF JOHN STANWIX OF FORDSIKE WHO DIED JANUARY 4th 1845 AGED 81 YEARS

There is also a Vault alongside this stone, but so perished I cannot read any inscription. (Note by transcriber)

Transcribed, about 1950, by Clara Scott, daughter of Ellen Graham