Tracey Bennett Posted August 14, 2012 Report Share Posted August 14, 2012 Does anyone know if a list of Monumental Inscriptions for St Elphin's is available anywhere? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted August 14, 2012 Report Share Posted August 14, 2012 Have you asked the Church? Only reason I ask is that I could never find any online records for St Thomas' Church (Stockton Heath) and a lot of gravestones are hard to read now and it was only by chance when I'd been wandering around the church yard one day that I found out they actually had copies of disks for sale with ALL the old church records on. Inscription records were compiled by local Family History societies years ago and I should have known that as my mum used to help do it so I would have thought that they would have given each church a copy along with depositing or publishing them somewhere. St Elphins is on this site although they charge a small fee to retrieve all records of a Surname. http://www.dnr.me.uk/ncfhs2/index.php/Table/Monumental-Inscriptions-search-service/ and the Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society have these RMI L 0941 - WARRINGTON PARISH CHURCH OF ST ELPHIN: SCHEDULE OF TOMBSTONES WITH INDEX. (PRINT) RMI L 0942 - WARRINGTON PARISH CHURCH MEMORIALS (MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS) (PRINT) http://www.mlfhs.org.uk/data/libcatbrowse.php?type=Memorial%20Inscriptions&typeabb=RMI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracey Bennett Posted August 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2012 Thanks Dizzy, that's useful. I was hoping there might be an old list from years ago kicking around somewhere, especially as the St Elphin's headstone have been moved about over the years. I'll try contacting the church. I did see those MLFHS records online but they seem to be in the library rather than the shop. I may contact them and see how to get access to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry hayes Posted August 14, 2012 Report Share Posted August 14, 2012 Pretty certain there is such a book in the reference library. Blue book I believe, although it is a year or two since I looked at it. Happy days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracey Bennett Posted August 15, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 The problem Harry is that I live in Norfolk which makes visiting the library a bit tricky! That's why I want to buy my own copy or a CD or something. Thanks for the info though - I keep threatening to send my parents to the library on my behalf but it never works! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted August 15, 2012 Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 If all else fails Tracey let me know and I'll be happy to go to the library and have a look through the book for you. I might find some of mine in it too as some lived around that way. I've not done anymore on my tree as I'm still stuck. I might start again from scratch as I fear I've got some kids with the wrong parents and siblings having based a lot on cencus records Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracey Bennett Posted August 15, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2012 That's kind of you Dizzy. I have got dozens upon dozens of ancestors in St Elphin's though, think it's built on my family's bones - you'd spend days in the library! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reader Posted August 16, 2012 Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 Was it St Thomas's Church that were selling the discs Dizzy ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted August 16, 2012 Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 Yes it was Reader. The church is usually open every morning for coffee and you can just pop in BUT they are completely closed from 20th August to 7 Sept due to roof repairs. Just found this on their website which shows what the disc contains and who to contact etc. http://www.stsmm.com/2012/05/stockton-heath-ancestors-2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reader Posted August 16, 2012 Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 Thanks for that Dizzy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted August 16, 2012 Report Share Posted August 16, 2012 You're welcome All this talk has frustrated me slightly though as I decided to have another look at the disc this afternoon and I can't find it Where on earth did I put it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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