Names in Thurcaston churchyard

A survey of the memorials in both the graveyard and the civil cemetery has been carried out by members of the Thurcaston and Cropston Local History Society. Please contact Brenda Hooper (0116 220 3046), if you would like details of the precise location of a particular grave.

For those of you who are searching for particular names, below is a list of all the surnames still legible on the gravestones in the graveyard at the Church:

• Allen
• Archers
• Armstrong
• Astill
• Atkinson
• Ayres
• Bailey
• Ballard
• Balls
• Barwell
• Bell
• Billings
• Billson
• Bowes
• Bowler
• Bradley
• Branson
• Burchnall
• Burdon
• Buttery
• Callis
• Carr
• Clarke
• Cooke
• Cragg
• Cramp
• Dale
• Daykin
• Dexter
• Emms
• Fox
• Fuller
• Garner
• Glover
• Goddard
• Godwin
• Graves
• Griffin
• Hackett
• Hamilton
• Harrison
• Heich
• Hilton
• Hind
• Hughes
• Hulse
• Johnson
• Kellem
• Kirby
• Laidler
• Lakin
• Lane
• Leake
• Leeson
• Linley
• Lowe
• Malon
• Marshall
• McConnell
• Neale
• Newbold
• Nichols
• O’arton
• Ormer
• Padimore
• Peet
• Pickard
• Pickering
• Porter
• Potterton
• Potts
• Preston
• Raddle
• Reeves
• Reynolds
• Rollet
• Seal
• Seell
• Sharpe
• Sibson
• Sills
• Simpkin
• Skertchley
• Slater
• Smith
• Sourthernwood
• Sparks
• Spencer
• Stanyon
• Stibbe
• Stone
• Sykes
• Taylor
• Thornton
• Thurston
• Tilly
• Tippler
• Tolley
• Tompkins
• Toone
• Tyers
• Varnam
• Verity
• Wade
• Walker
• Wallace
• Warburton
• Ward
• Watts
• Webster
• Weight
• Weston
• Whattass
• Wigston
• Willby
• Wilson
• Wood
• Wright
• Yeomans