Winwick

St. Oswald’s Church, Winwick: Monumental inscriptions of the church, the churchyard and the new burial ground

Recorded by P. J. Andrews and published by J. R. Bulmer, 1984.

 

I have transcribed all the entries for Houghtons in the above volume and on a recent visit to the church I took photographs of the only Houghton gravestones remaining (or at least, the only ones that I could find) and they are included at the end of this section.

Author’s abbreviations:

(s.) son
(w.) wife
(d.) daughter
(m.) mother? (not consistent with the author’s abbreviation list where mother is mo. and m. is month)
Bur. Buried (date obtained from The Burial Register up to 1837)
rev. Reverse

 

Page	GraveNo (Plot)	Name(s)	Born	Died	Age	Comments (my notes in italics)
4	32 (5-A)	SWINTON				Box with railings
	a	John (s.) of Jos and Annie ARBURY		1 Aug 1869	5yr 5m
	b	Joseph HOUGHTON (s.) of Jos and Annie		30 Jul 1869	3yr 5m
6	45 (5-A)	HOUGHTON
	a	John		22 Jan 1844	50	Of N. (see note 1 below)
	b	Ann (w.)		–	–
	c	Mary (d.)		19 Jul 1844	8
	d	John (s.)		27 Jul 1865	34
	e	Elizabeth (d.)		3 Apr 1866	–	Too deep
	f (rev.)	Hamblet (s.) (Jn &) Ann		5 Apr 1848	15	One of the Unfortunate Persons who lost his life on Board of the Ship Watkins on his Passage from Matansas to Liverpool
16	36 (5-E)	HOUGHTON
	a	John		19 Aug 1835	50	Bur. 21 Aug 1835; of Winwick
	b	Ann (w.)		14 Sep 1867	82
	c	James		6 May 1880	67
	d (rev.)	Mary		16 Feb 1905	90
22	20 (5-G)	HOUGHTON				Stone buried & broken in 3 pieces
	a	Thomas		26 Feb 1826	62	Bur. 1 Mar; Of N. (see note 1 below)
	b	Ellen (w.)		9 Jan 1858	87
	c	Ellen (d.)		30 Jun 1835	19	Bur. 3 Jul aged 20
	d	?	9 Sep 1811	9 Feb 1885	73
		FITZSIMMONS
	e	Alice Robert (d.)		Dec 1882	–	Interred at Castlemain, Australia
		HOUGHTON
	f	Robert (s.)		26 Mar 1889	80	J.P.; L Hse (see note 2 below)
44	4 (5-N)	HOUGHTON
		George & (w.) Margaret		–	–
55	18 (5-P)	HOUGHTON
		William		1782	–	Of Haydock (see photo 2 below)
71	5 (5-T)	HOUGHTON
		John & Robert		1782	–	Of Lowton (see photo 3 below)
73	23 (5-V)	HOUGHTON
		H & J		1787	–	Of Croft
75	3 (5-W)	HOUGHTON
		John		–	–
77	29 (5-W)	HOUGHTON
	a	James		15 May 1874	74	Of Croft
	b	Ann (w.)		23 Sep 1867	68
94	4 (5-Zb)	HOUGHTON
	a	John		–	–	t..ner; Of N. (see note 1 below)
	b	James		14 Apr 1873	.4	e…..; of Haydock
	c	Mary		14 Mar 1876	59
104	41 (1)	HOUGHTON
	a & b	Henry & Betty		1785	–	Of Haydock
	c	Ellen		–	–
118	210 (1)	HOUGHTON
	a	Thomas		–	–	Of Lowton
	b	Sarah (d.)		8 Sep 1840	28
120	226b (1)	HOUGHTON
		John		–	–	Of N. (see note 1 below)
126	288 (3)	HOUGHTON
	a	John		–	–
	b	Ellen (w.)		11 Sep 1851	55
	c	James (s.)		25 Jul 1850	21
126	292 (3)	HOUGHTON				Table tomb
	a	Ann		17 Aug 1810*	63	Of N. (see note 1 and photo 1 below)
	b	Margaret		8 Dec 1847	78
	c	Elizabeth		31 Jul 1853	70
161	Interior, south wall of nave and left of entrance to tower – a white marble tablet.’TO THE GLORY OF GOD THIS SCREEN (entrance to tower) WAS ERECTED IN MEMORY OF THOSE FROM THE PARISH AND CONGREGATION WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 TO 1919’FRANCIS HOUGHTON (one of nine names listed)
162	Interior, North Aisle, Gerard Chapel – on the underside of the Celtic Cross, lying on the second window sill, are the names of those for whom it was used, before it was dug up by gravediggers in 1843, as a gravestone: Roger Lowe HOUGHTON 1721 (Bur. 14 Sep)Thomas & Alice HOLCROFT 1793
169	Winwick New Burial Ground, north of the churchyard
	Plot	Name	Born	Died	Age
	A 30/ 35	HOUGHTON
	a	Dorothea May	May 1886	Jan 1928	–
		JONES
	b	Harriet (m.)		24 Nov 1928	65
	C 20/ 114	HOUGHTON
	a	Ernest		19 Feb 1942	62
	b	Mary Jane		13 Aug 1964	79

My notes in italics:

Note 1: Author’s list of place name abbreviations does not have an entry for N. so is probably Newton. (Also, photo below states ‘of Newton’).

Note 2: No abbreviation given. (Lowton House?)

* The photo of the gravestone (see below) clearly shows that the year is 1840, not 1810 as printed in the above publication.

 

 

 

 

In memory of
Ann HOUGHTON of Newton
who died on the 17th August 1840
aged 63 years.
In full Assurance of Eternal Bliss,
thro’ the merits of our saviour
Jesus Christ
Also of Margaret HOUGHTON,
who died December 8th 1847
aged 78 years
Having Endured A Long and
Lingering Illness with Patience
and Resignation
Worthy the Lamb Omnipotent
to save who died who Lives
Triumphant o’er the Grave
Also of Elizabeth HOUGHTON
Their Loving and Affectionate
sister. who died Jul 31th/st 1853 Aged 70 years

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William HOUG \ HTON (second half of surname is inscribed above the first part)
of Haydock his
Two Breadths 1782

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John and Robert
HOUGHTON of Lowton
1782
Two Breadths