Burial Details
Please see below for the details on CLIFTON, Henry.
Buried Date
1620
Age
57
GRO Record
Before GRO Records
Ref
Before References
Other People Buried in this Grave
Inscription
Halt, living one, because you are about to die, and think of those who are already dead - HENRY CLIFTON, esquire and his wife Mary, daughter of Thomas Crofts of Felmingham, esquire, who lately lived relying on faith in and fear of the three-in-one God and who, having been set free by his will have now departed in peace. He, A.D. 1620 age 57; she A.D. 1603 age 36 Their names, of pious and kind and dutiful memory, do not deserve ingratitude, nor to be too quickly passed over, and lest you go away in ignorance, their son took care to place this memorial to them'.
In the verse which follows the unnamed son, doubly forsaken', elaborates on the same themes; morning; preserving the names of the dead or helping them to go beneath the gentle shades. The last line, in Greek, could be translated as Death is not shameful; only to die shamefully'.
Grave Details
Location
Located inside the church, on the wall.
Headstone Condition
Clear, readable condition.
FootStone
No
Type of Grave
upright
Additional Information
The Translation of the inscription text is depicted in Greek, Latin & Spanish.
Understanding Our Records
GRO refers to the General Records Office records of deaths. So Q is the quarter of the year when the death occurred, followed by the year of birth. Then comes the local government area where the death was registered, followed by the volume number, and sometimes the letter of an additional volume, of their records, and finally the page where it is recorded.
REF refers to the parish Burial Register. First there is the year of the death, then the page number, and finally the entry number.
Deaths after 1999 may not yet have a GRO or Parish Register entry recorded on the website.
A portion of the interactive churchyard map is shown for context, although you can also view the whole churchyard by clicking on the Map button at the top of the page. This is especially useful if you find that there are more than one person buried in our churchyard with the name you are searching for.
We are always mindful that there are many people buried in our churchyard that do not have a memorial, and so are not included in this list. We remember all of them in our prayers.
There has been a church on this site since Saxon times. Shortly after the Norman invasion the church was rebuilt, incorporating both materials from an earlier church and also some Roman tiles no doubt picked up from the field opposite, where there had been a building in the days when a Roman road went past the church site.
