Current Graveyard Plan

Croft Unitarian Chapel Grave Map
Current Plan of Croft Unitarian Chapel with graves labelled. Not to Scale.

Statistics and Information

Of the 163 people that we have an age for, the average age of death is 48. This is above the UK average age of death from 1839 until 1905 which varies from 39 to 46.
(Source: Statista)
There are 35 different surnames altogether.
​The surname Monks appears most often, 42 times. Next is Yates, 24 times and then Whittle, 13 times.
Ellen Yates and her husband Samuel are buried in Grave C4

War Heroes
​at
Croft Unitarian Chapel

​C1 - Rifleman Harold Houghton, son, died of wounds Battle of Neuve Chapelle. He died for his Country's Honour. 24/03/1915 aged 24.

Private George Daintith. In memory of Harold's comrade of the Liverpool regiment. Killed in France 25/06/1916.
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E4 - Lance Corporal William Whittle, 1st Battalion Royal Fusiliers in Aubergue Hospital, Buried Serlington Military Cemetery, Nr. Boulogne. Duty Nobly Done.

Burial Records

The burial records available for the chapel are certainly incomplete and at times confusing. When the Unitarians were ejected from Risley in 1838, they took with them the current register book. I have a transcribed copy of this, made by John Bulmer in 1979. 
The burials listed at Croft start in 1840 and go up to 1899, there are 149 in total. He does state that the original book contains another 18 burials from the years 1936 to 1958 which were not copied by him. 
This leaves the years 1900 to 1935 with no recorded burials at all. There are also graves which have no burial listing and burials with no apparent grave.
​I am still working on providing a full list which will be available for download. Hopefully I can locate further information from the archives before then.