Exhumations from St George’s Burial Ground, Paddington Street, St Marylebone

More than a thousand exhumations took place from the northern portion of St George’s Burial Ground, Paddington Street, St Marylebone during 2014/2015. The remains were exhumed under a Pastoral Scheme after due notice and publication and were reburied in the East London Cemetery, Plaistow, 2015.

The burial ground was consecrated in 1733 and between then and the early 1850s more than 110,000 burials took place there.

Westminster City Council sold land adjoining the burial ground (the old Chiltern Street Multi-Storey Car Park) to Galliard to build fashionable apartments.

Westminster CC had not realised that part of the site remained consecrated and full of burials. Some 1200 sets of remains were carefully removed and reinterred, after recording and re-boxing, in the East London Cemetery at Plaistow.

The place of reburial is marked with a Portland stone marker, which takes as its inspiration the Portland stone and granite marker in the southern part of the Paddington Street Gardens.

A list of those whose names are known as a result of the exhumations follows:

Day of Month of Year of First name Surname Title death death death Age Sarah ?H… Mi(ss) 179… Eliz… …an..ll …be 1793 …nd (Ma)rch

John Alldis Mr 2 9 1796 54 Sarah Aste Mrs 26 6 1837 65 John Aste Mr 9 2 1837 62 James Baillie Mr 3 4 1823 84 Henry Barrell Mr 10 5 1790 60 Jane Barrell Mrs 2 12 1797 James Bradley Esq. 1? 1 1797 54 4 months 7 Fanny Beatrice Broughton Miss 18 2 1817 days W…? Callr. C…es ?D… ???...ly 70?? Rosetta Caroline Cadney Miss 13 5 1836 8 yrs, 7 Mos. Diana Louisa Cadney 7 1830 8M, …D Valentine Joseph Cadney None 11 5 1824 2 yrs, 1 month Elizabeth Cafe Mrs 31 3 1791 43 George Cates Mr 20 9 1828 67 Sarah Chamberlain Mrs 29 10 1817 77 Charles Fletcher Champion Captn. 22 6 1822 39 Philadelphia Channer Miss 21 12 1810 17 William Cooper None 6 8 1807 3.? Mary Duggins Mrs 13 10 1832 66 Joseph Duggins 1818 William Duggins <1832 James (Jonathan) Durnford Master 28 10 1795 Sarah Eastlake Mrs 24 10 1836 84 Thomas Eastup Esq. 28 7 1821 84 Elizabeth Eastup 1790 Mary Edwards Mrs 5 9 1808 56 Abigail Farmer Mrs 26 3 1803 81 Elizabeth Foster Mrs 17 8 1791 79 Sarah Garratt Mrs 6 1 1789 81 Benjamin Gooden Mr 1 1779 Katherine Hall Mrs 24 2 1820 80 Charlotte Hankin Mrs 12 2 1798 25 Honour Harnage None 27 5 1790 47 William Harris Esq. 16 6 1831 72 William Henshaw Mr *7 11 1820 63 Ann Horn Mrs 8 2 1795 47 Elizabeth Kebling Mrs 18 9 1816 53 Henry Kipling Rev 18 1 1821 74 Louisa LaRose Mrs 1 5 1803 87 David Aguiton LaRose Esq 1786 Judith Leland Mrs 22 3 1788 Ezra Livermore None 25 2 1836 60 James M… Mast(er) William Martin General 12 7 1799 78 An… Martin Mrs? 25 2 1793 58 Ann Olivia Matthews Mrs 25 1 1813 62 Sarah Elizabeth Metcalf Mrs 4 4 1855 71 Joseph Metcalf 1839 Charlotte Needham Mrs 6 4 1810 89 James Newey Esq. ?1 2 1811

Mary Newey 1794 Oakla… …7 3 (1)82. Elizabeth Parsons 1788 Leonora Rush Lady 1 3 1785 85 Elizabeth Rutland Mrs 27 2 1846 44 Andrew Dunbar Sandom Mr 11 2 1789 70 Sarah Scotland Mrs 24 11 1803 53 George William Frederick Stewart Master 2 2 1790 5 Henry Sutton Master 9 12 1782 4y, 1m, 21 days Thomas Thompson Esq. 11 1 1811 65 John Duke Thompson Master 13? 4 1788 6 yrs, 1 month William Thornton M… 5 9 1822 72 Ellen Thynne Mrs 28 11 1805 ?.0 Joseph Tullie Esqr 20 11 1774 68 Henry Turner Mr 8 8 1806 43 Frances Turner Mrs 11 11 1801 37 Elizabeth Upstone Mrs 7 9 1833 36 Jane Vick Miss? 31 7 1818 38 Charlotte Wentworth Lady 26 3 1810 78 9 Months 22 William Augustus White Master 10 9 1823 Days Isaac Massey White None 12 4 1825 Amelia White Miss 4 7 1822 8 Months Stanley White Master 4 3 1817 William White Esq. 19 6 1822 John White Esq. 27? 11 1813 67 2 years 3 Ann White Miss 24 6 1782 Months Elizabeth Wombersley Mrs 22 7 1790 75 James …st? O(ctober) 17.. 2.? 10 J… 1833 ?1 7 183(4?) John Master?

Some of these about whom more is known:

The Revd Henry Kipling, died 1821.

Plumstead Church, Kent, 1775 by Captain Francis Grose F.S.A. (1731 - 1791)

The Revd Henry Kipling, 1772 -1821, Vicar of Plumstead

Henry Kipling was a son of Henry Kipling of Furnival’s Inn. He was educated at Harrow School “under the late Rev. Dr. Thackeray, and Dr. Sumner (the late Bisbop of Cloyne, Sir William Jones, Dr. Parr, and other eminent scholars being his contemporaries” and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Ordained deacon (Ely) 1770 and priest (Ely, by Letters Dimissory for Chichester) 1771. He became Curate of Swavesey, Cambirdgeshire, 1770 and Vicar of Plumstead in Kent, succeeding the Revd Jukes Egerton in 1772, Plumstead is in the diocese of Rochester and in the deanery of Dartford.

The advowson of the vicarage at Plumstead was purchased in 1763 from Mrs. Abbott, daughter and heir of Mr. Farr, by Henry Kipling, Esq. (one of the Six Clerks of the Rolls), Henry’s father.

Henry married Elizabeth Davis at St Georges, Queen Square on 24th July 1790 and a daughter, Elizabeth, was buried at St Nicholas, Plumstead on 30th November 1793.

Henry died in 1821 and was buried in St Marylebone (the northern part of St George’s Burial Ground, Paddington Street). In his will, proved 6th February 1821, the Revd Henry Kipling bequeathed money (£1,000.00) “to provide Sunday School facilities at the parish church of St Mark with St Margaret, Plumstead”

A street “Kipling Road” in Bexley was named after Henry.

Captain Charles Fletcher Champion, died 22nd June 1822, aged 39. Captain on Half Pay in His Majesty's 8th West India Regiment of Swaffham, Norfolk.

David Aguiton La Rose, died 1786. of Saint George Hanover Square , Middlesex.

Louisa LaRose widow of David Aguiton La Rose, died 1st May 1813.

Lady Leonora Rush, died 1st March 1785, aged 85. 2nd wife and widow of Sir John Rush of 45 Poland St. Daughter of Brigadier General Richard Sutton 1674- 1737 and his wife Catherine Tolmer. Daughters: Lydia, Elizabeth, Ann & Leonora; sons: Samuel, Montague & Robert. Sir John Rush was knighted 1722. Leonora’s will mentioned brother the Revd Dr Sutton, nieces Kitty Mary, Julia Margaretta & Augusta Sutton, the Revd Montague Rush (son) & her godson his son John.

Lady Charlotte Wentworth, died 26th March 1810, aged 78. Baptised 5th Mar 1732 of Upper Wimpole Street, St. Marylebone, Middlesex, spinster. 10th child of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Marquis of Rockingham and Lady Mary Finch, 5th daughter of Daniel, Earl of Winchelsea and Nottingham.