Lythe

LYTHE:

• In the church yard are some unique and original memorials of the dead. Many of them are very old eg:
  • Christopher Ripley 1674
  • Christopher Moone 1695
  • Robert Corner 1714
  • Mary Corner 1726
  • John Williamson 1737
  • Elizabeth Galalee 1761
  • Elizabeth Todd 1746

• "One very noticeable feature to be observed among the tombstones is the great number of people who lived to be a good old age, thus proving the salubrity of the climate and the abstemiousness of the people. We append the names of a few:
  • Joseph Thomson 103 years
  • Isaac Dobson 100
  • Margaret Robinson 100
  • John Sedman 100
  • Wm Cass 96
  • Nanny Thompson 95
  • Nancy Shaw 93
  • Mary Rudsdale 94
  • Wm Garbutt 93
  • Sarah Tinley 93
  • Jane Hill 92
  • Ann Cass 91
  • John Moor 90
  • Elizabeth Robinson 90
  • Hannah Backhouse 89
  • Ann Garbutt 89
  • Ed Corner 89
  • Eliz English 89
  • Sarah Ellerby 88
  • Mary Storm 87
  • Thos Knaggs 86
  • Eliz Laverick 86
  • Margaret Haig 86
  • John Linton 85
  • Francis Laverick 84
  • Wm Robinson 83
  • Susannah Linton 81.

• "The following are a few of the most noticeable inscriptions:-
  • William Johnson was accidently killed in the jet mines 1859
  • John Harrison, a promising youth, was unfortunately killed by a threshing machine 1824
  • Robert Rosamund, a constable for this township, has 3 wives laid here. He afterwards married a fourth.
  • Robert Booth, John Booth and George Booth, brothers, were drowned, the former two off Whitby out of the brig "Felicity" and the last off Greenwich.
  • John White was drowned near Cape Horn
  • John Rodgers was 41 years in the employment of the Mulgrave family
  • John Moffit head gamekeeper to the Marquis of Normanby, was murdered in Mulgrave Woods 1844
  • John Chapman drowned at Dunkirk 1838
  • Alice Stokes died at Port Royal, Jamaica, 1826
  • Geo Chapman was chief boatswain of HMS Wasp and died at Beyrout in Syria 1841
  • Robert Garbutt was lost in the barque "Ion" which sailed from Quebec 1868
  • Thomas Garbutt, his son, was drowned at Ibrail 1860
  • John William Garbutt, another son, was lost in the barque "Argosy" 1874
  • Thomas Pearson drowned at West Hartlepool 1863
  • John Pearson was registrar 1875
  • John Taylorson died on board the barque "Ann Stephenson" on the Indian Ocean on a voyage from Java to Falmouth 1876
  • Thos Pearson of East Row was a solicitor 1868
  • John Shaw Jackson was an MRCVS and Registrar of Births and Deaths for the Lythe district
  • Thos Lynass was accidently killed at Goldsbro' 1879
  • Ann Scarr Langstaff was for many years school-mistress at Sandsend 1869
  • Thos Harland was drowned at Pillau while bathing 1871
  • Isaac Peacock was an officer of Inland Revenue 1877
  • Wm Cook was drowned at sea 1820
  • Ed Corney was an Excise officer
  • John Stephenson died at sea and was buried at Miramichi in America
  • Lieutenant Geo Ellerby was of His Majesty's Royal Navy 1831
  • Mary Thompson of Pinner Middlesex came on a visit to her friends at Whitby and died there
  • John Oxley died at Carthagena 1812
  • Christopher Swales died at the Island of Guadaloupe
  • John Knaggs and Robert Booth were drowned at Sandsend from a pleasure boat. "Firm friends in life, in death they were not divided" 1819
  • John Kerr, land agent died 1871
  • John Kerr his son, land agent, died 1884