Leicestershire General Baptist
Memorial Inscriptions

Mountsorrell

Quorn

Woodhouse Eaves

Rothley

Mountsorrell

Quorn

Woodhouse Eaves

Note: The Baptist Church in the main street was built in 1796 and a restoration, incorporating the old structure, was carried out in 1885. A Register of Births 1799 - 1837 at Somerset House. These stones are in front of the building

Name	Died	Age	Details
Edward JOHNSON	22 Jan 1807	84
Elizabeth JOHNSON	14 May 1799	70	w/o Edward
William JOHNSON	24 Feb 1833	61	Slate Merchant
Elizabeth JOHNSON	18 Dec 1831	62	w/o William
John POLLARD	4 Mar 1832	68	of Swithland
Sarah POLLARD	2 Feb 1836	66	relict of John
Sarah POLLARD	3 Apr 1818	27	d/o John & Sarah, b 8 Oct 1791
Catherine PRESTON	16 Oct 1828	62	w/o John
Elizabeth PRESTON	6 May 1797	27	w/o Joseph
Elizabeth PRESTON		inf	d/o Joseph & Elizabeth
Joseph SLEE	25 May 1848	78
Elizabeth SLEE	18 Aug 1819	42	w/o Joseph
Martha JOHNSON	23 Apr 1833	41	relict of Edward
Edward JOHNSON	22 Jan 1828	33
Betsy FOULDS	27 Jul 1848	30	w/o Joseph
Mary CHAMBERS	18 Dec 1798	81	relict of Benjamin, Quorndon
William HALL	24 Jan 1828	71	of Ulverscroft
Thomas STORER	9 Feb 1797
Margaret HALL	27 Dec 1815	57	w/o William, Ulverscroft; relict of Thos WESLEY
Thomas WESLEY	21 Jan 1825	40	of Newton Linford
BRAMLEY	approx 1828		Children of Wm & Elizabeth
Nathaniel SIMPSON	18 Apr 1806	71	Mountsorrell
Richard BAYLEY	9 Feb 1825	76
Mary BAYLEY	19 Feb 1813	62	w/o Richard
Richard BAYLEY	2 Oct 1816	32	s/o Richard & Mary
Ann BAYLEY	15 Jun 1802	28	w/o Thomas
Sarah BESTON	14 Apr 1827	34	w/o William
Mary BESTON	12 Feb 1802	2y9m	d/o Matthew & Mary
Joseph BESTON		inf	s/o Matthew & Mary
Joseph HINMAN	16 Feb 1845	71
Ann HINMAN	30 Nov 1846	66	w/o Joseph
Stephen FOULDS	27 Oct 1838	51
Sarah FOULDS	19 Jun 1874	85	w/o Stephen
John NORTH	23 Jan 1842	64
Hannah NORTH	23 Sep 1832	54	w/o John
Thomas NORTH	23 Sep 1841	37
Joseph SQUIRE	illegible		s/o Isaac & Sarah
William HUTCHINSON	6 Dec 1835	46
Mary HUTCHINSON	25 Dec 1859	71	relict of William

Presumably now deposited at The National Archives (formerly Public Record Office), Kew

Further information: "many years a useful member of the General Baptists at the church at Quorn and in this place"

Further information: "For several years laboured in the work of the Ministry of this place, he died leaving a widow and three children"

A soft sandstone. Stone now perished

Rothley

Note: A meeting house was built here in 1800 and the present chapelon the site appears to bear the date 1885. The following among some twenty stones are in the burial ground at the rear.

Name	Died	Age	Details
Elizabeth DRAYCOTT	19 Oct 1827	8	d/o Thos & Hannah, Cossington
Dinah HAWKINS	17 Mar 1807	36	w/o John; d/o Wm & Mary GAMBLE
Edward HAWKINS	21 Feb 1801	11m	s/o John & Dinah
Sarah BOULTER	25 Oct 1841	35	w/o John
Ann BOULTER		inf	d/o John & Sarah
William ARNOLD	8 Jul 1838	66
Elizabeth ARNOLD	8 Sep 1821	67	w/o William
William PARKINSON	4 Feb 1807	3	s/o William & Ann
Richard WARD	24 Jan 1829	73	Warrener, Rothley Plain
Sarah WARD	21 Oct 1825	60	w/o Richard
Sarah COLLINS	21 Sep 1819	68	w/o Daniel
Elizabeth HORNBUCKLE	14 Jan 1805	43	d/o Samuel & Sarah; w/o Thos WALKER, Cossington
Joseph HORNBUCKLE		inf	s/o above
John PRYOR	2 Sep 1817	85
Ann PRYOR			w/o John
David FREER	16 Oct 1839	6	s/o Thomas & Sarah
Sarah FREER	16 Dec 1856	63	w/o Thomas
William FREER	4 May 1855	35
Thomas HEMSLEY	22 Jul 1847	85	of Melbourne, Derbyshire
Mary LAGO	9 Dec 1866	73	w/o John, Thurcaston; 2nd d/o Thos HEMSLEY
William SEWELL	9 Jan 1867	81
Elizabeth SEWELL	11 Jun 1855	69	w/o William; d/o Wm & Mary NORTH

He was the first corpse buried in this ground