Saint Andrews, Thringstone - From the Parish Registers

(Compiled by R Goacher)

(i) Notable Baptisms

Nov 11 1862. Amelia, d. of James and Elizabeth Kirby (first baptism)
Apr 05 1863. Charity, d. of Edward and Ann Gough
Jan 25 1874. Edwin St.John, s. of Edwin Samuel and Frances Emily Elizabeth Crane
Nov 28 1875. Mary Brilliana*, d. of Edwin Samuel and Frances Emily Elizabeth Crane
Apr 7th 1878. Arthur Newell, s. of Edwin Samuel and Mary Henrietta Crane
Aug 31 1879. Bertie James, s. of Edwin Samuel and Mary Henrietta Crane
May 10 1881. Allen Robert, s. of Edwin Samuel and Mary Henrietta Crane
Apr 22 1883. Charles Edmund, s. of Edwin Samuel and Mary Henrietta Crane
Jun 28 1885. Mary Brilliana*, d. of Edwin Samuel and Mary Henrietta Crane
Oct 25 1885. John Albert, s. of James and Ellen Gee (John Albert was the youngest victim of the Whitwick Colliery Disaster on 18.09.1898)
Jan 1st 1888. Edwin Whiting Johnson, s. of Edwin Samuel and Mary Henrietta Crane
Jun 22 1890. Florence Catherine, d. of Edwin Samuel and Mary Henrietta Crane
Feb 16 1896. Sarah Frances Louisa Crane, d. of Edwin Samuel and Mary Henrietta Crane
Dec 20 1900. Samuel, s. of Edwin Samuel and Mary Henrietta Crane
May 21 1907. Patrick Arthur, s. of Thomas and Alice Booth (Captain in the Gordon Highlanders)
Jan 30 1909. Colin Macaulay, s. of Thomas Macaulay and Elizabeth Alice Booth of Gracedieu Warren
Dec 11 1910. Gladys Edna, d. of Alfred and Jesse Sykes (churchwarden, 1982 - 2000)
Apr 09 1911. Aubrey Webb, s. of William James Gough and Minnie Rosetta Waldrum (well-known coal merchant)
May 04 1919. Francis Henry Cheverton Shrewsbury, s. of Cheverton and Mary Brilliana Shrewsbury
Nov 06 1920. Charles Farrer, s. of Cheverton and Mary Brilliana Shrewsbury
Sep 03 1922. Gertrude Mabel, d. of John William and Gertrude May Brooks
(later to keep the "Top Shop", Thringstone cross-roads, with husband Jack Tugby)

*The Reverend E.S.Crane had two daughters named 'Mary Brilliana', there being an old tradition in the Crane family that the eldest daughters should be so-named. The family are able to trace their direct lineage back to Edward, Viscount Conway, who was knighted by the Earl of Essex at the Sacking of Cadiz in 1596. He later becamr Govenor of the British Colony of the Brill in Holand, and the custom of naming eldest daughters, 'Brilliana' then arose, to perpetuate the memory of this ancestral achievement.The first child named above died aged just three months in February 1876. Her sister, the second Mary Brilliana was born nine years later and in 1918 married the second Vicar of Thringstone, Cheverton Shrewsbury.

(ii) Notable Burials

Nov 27 1862. John Hall, 10yrs (first burial)
May 27 1869. Charlotte Bates, approx 35 yrs (a stranger in the village)
Feb 06 1881. Thomas Hopkinson, 28 yrs (found in a ditch at Thringstone)
Dec 28 1882. Charles Henry Boye, 9 yrs (Death from smallpox)
Feb 12 1883. Rowland Howe, 30 yrs (Death from smallpox)
Aug 13 1884. Emma Bailey, 19 yrs (Death from typhoid)
Jan 16 1885. Elizabeth Toon, 13 yrs (accident with pony and cart near "Dumps Hill")
Apr 14 1891. Annie Henry, aged 17 yrs (accidentally shot)
May 07 1898. An unknown man found hanging in a hovel at Talbot Farm. Approx 35 yrs old.
Jan 11 1889. John Richards, 30 yrs (Killed in the Whitwick Colliery Disaster)
Jan 13 1899. John Albert Gee, 14 yrs* (Killed in the Whitwick Colliery Disaster)
Feb 22 1899. Samuel Stacey, 26 yrs (Killed in the Whitwick Colliery Disaster)
Aug 29 1900. George Pratt, 65 yrs (Gamekeeper who committed suicide by shooting himself)
Jun 13 1905. Charles Gough (Landlord of The Bulls Head)
Oct 18 1905. Samuel Philips May, 49 yrs (Headmaster of Thringstone School)
Feb 17 1907. Samuel Towle (the village grocer)
Jan 01 1908. Edwin Samuel Crane, 62 yrs (Vicar of Thringstone)
Jan 13 1909. Mary Elizabeth Knight, 38 yrs (murdered by Iliffe Knight, aged 44 yrs)
Jun 11 1910. Daniel Amos Webb, 66 yrs (Parish Warden, Chairman of the Parish Council)
Feb 01 1911. John Abell, 58 yrs (former landlord of the George and Dragon)
Feb 08 1914. Jabez Henson, 85 yrs (village blacksmith)
Jul 08 1915. William Jesson Gough, 41 yrs (Secretary to the Thringstone House Club)
Jul 28 1916. Mary Ann Wilson, 65 yrs (landlady of The Three Tuns)
Aug 08 1916. Mary Shrewsbury, 49 yrs (wife of the Revd Cheverton Shrewsbury)
Nov 26 1916. Charles Booth, 76 yrs (Shipowner)
Nov 14 1920. Mary Ann Jarvis, 86 yrs (The Fox Hotel)
Dec 02 1922. Faith Gough, 77 yrs
Aug 15 1925. James White, 67 yrs (former landlord of The Talbot Arms)
Nov 22 1928. Hope Hallam (Nee Gough), 73 yrs
Feb 10 1930. Mary Henrietta Crane, 78 yrs (wife of Edwin Samuel Crane)
May 25 1930. Esther Gough, 79 yrs (former landlady of The Bulls Head)
Aug 06 1930. Sarah Ann Gough, 79 yrs (kept the village post office)
Jan 01 1931. Mary Brilliana Shrewsbury, 45 yrs (wife of the Revd C Shrewsbury)
Jul 28 1932. Elias William Darby, 43 yrs (His body was recovered from Stablefords "Stabs" pond)
Feb 18 1933. James Roland Murfin, 3 yrs (knocked down by a car)
May 19 1934. Bertha Leonora Pollard, 4 yrs (knocked down by a lorry)
Oct 11 1934. Sidney Holland, 20 yrs (Organist at Thringstone Methodist Church)
Apr 06 1935. Alice Lovett, 36 yrs (food poisoning)
May 16 1937. George Harry Upton**, 65 yrs
May 16 1937. Harriett Upton**, 61 yrs
Jan 03 1939. Albert Gough, 74 yrs (kept the post office, Main Street)
Aug 26 1939. Shirley King, 3 yrs (killed by a lorry near the George and Dragon)
Sep 28 1939. Mary Catherine Booth (widow of the Rt Hon Charles Booth)
Mar 01 1940. Hannah Maria Towle, 90 yrs (The Gables, Main Street)
Jan 04 1945. Charity Gough, 81 yrs
May 13 1949. Amy Gee (Stewardess of Thringstone Club House)
Mar 15 1951. Henrietta Cheverton Shrewsbury, 94 yrs (sister of the vicar)
Jan 12 1952. Edward Robinson, 70 yrs(local firewood merchant)
Jul 30 1952. Florence Agnes Shrewsbury, 74 yrs (flown from Aukland, New Zealand)
Jul 25 1953. Albert Edward Waterfield, 60 yrs (Landlord of the Queens Head)
Jun 23 1954. John Henry Webb, 81 yrs (Parish Warden for 38 yrs)
Apr 12 1955. Keziah Peters, 84 yrs (kept the Star Inn, Main Street)
May 08 1958. Cheverton Shrewsbury, 85 yrs (vicar of Thringstone, 1908 - 1954)
Aug 30 1961. Jessie Sykes (Kept the Rose and Crown)
Jan 02 1962. Alfred Sykes (Kept the Rose and Crown)
Apr 12 1973. Revd Edwin Whiting Johnson Crane (son of the first vicar)
Oct 17 2000. Germaine Widowson, 102 yrs (this French-born lady has the distinction of having lived in three centuries : 1898-2000 !)

*John Albert Gee's age was in fact thirteen years. According to a member of the Gee family, his headstone is said to have been removed when the church porch was built in 1911.
** George Harry Upton and his wife, Harriett, were buried in the same grave. They had been returning home from their daughter's house in the Barrack Yard, Main Street, Thringstone after celebrating Coronation Day. They were killed in Talbot Street, one hundred yards from their house, by a motor car, apparently having both lost balance whilst walking near the kerb.

(iii) Notable Marriages

Jun 05 1876. Rowland Howe to Mary Ann Darby (first marriage)
Jan 29 1891. Thomas Ashford, VC to Betsy Ann Sisson*
Aug 08 1906. William Thackeray Denis Ritchie to Margaret Pauline Booth
Aug 08 1912. Eric Gore Brown to Mary Imogen Booth
Sep 07 1915. Arthur Newell Crane to Valerie Evelyn Leake (A.N.Crane, Vicar of Bardon Hill, 1927 - 52)
Apr 06 1931. Joseph Webster to Lois Gough
Feb 22 1933. Maurice Brownsword Maloney to Audrey Edith Kidger
Oct 28 1940. Reginald William Lathbury to Queenie Norah Benistone
Jul 12 1941. Frank Edward to Elsie Hilda Domoney (Kept the Queens Head, Thringstone)

*Thomas Elsdon Ashford, VC was for many years the local postman and lived for some time on Brook Lane, Thringstone before moving to Skinners Lane at Whitwick. On 16th August 1880 at Deh Khoja, during the Afghan war, Private Ashford assisted a lieutenant in rescuing and carrying for a distance of over 200 yards under the fire of the enemy, a wounded soldier who had taken shelter in a block-house. Several times they were compelled to take cover, but they persevered and finally brought the man to a place of safety. Thomas Ashford died in 1913 and is buried in Whitwick Cemetery , off Church Lane. The funeral service was conducted by Cheverton Shrewsbury, Vicar of Thringstone.

Three Whitwick street names have recently been named in his honour - Thomas Road, Elsdon Close and Ashford Road and his Victoria Cross is now publically displayed at the Royal Fusiliers Museum, in the Tower of London.

Interestingly, Ron Goacher has noted that Mr Ashford's young son was buried at Whitwick some years previously and was named Victor Charles - surely the initials "V.C" given intentionally by his proud father.

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