God's Acre

Resurrectionists Great Yarmouth - 1827

"Great excitement was caused in Yarmouth by the discovery that upwards of twenty recently interred bodies had been removed from the churchyard by resurrection men. “The churchyard was quickly crowded by the population. Wives were searching for the remains of their deceased husbands, husbands for those of their wives, and parents for their children.” Three men, Thomas Smith, alias Vaughan, William Barber, and Robert Barber, were apprehended, and committed for trial at Yarmouth Quarter Sessions, whence, on April 1st, 1828, the indictment was removed by writ of certiorari to the Court of King’s Bench. The case was tried at Norwich Assizes, before Lord Chief Baron Alexander, on August 11th, 1828, when only Vaughan (or Smith) was proceeded against. Robert Barker turned King’s evidence, and described the method by which the graves were robbed, and how the bodies were sent to London by the wain. A verdict of guilty was returned, and on November 14th, 1828, the prisoner was brought up for sentence in the Court of King’s Bench. He urged that he was driven by poverty to the commission of the offence, and was sentenced by Mr. Justice Bayley to six months’ imprisonment in the house of correction at Norwich."

Title: Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 1 Author: Charles Mackie

William Chilvers Butters d. 2 October 1894

For research on Butters see this link

Elizabeth Boyce d. 3 June 1870

“PURSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of Chancery,made in a cause Oldfield v. Boyce, the creditors of Elizabeth Boyce, late of Ashill, in the county of Norfolk, Widow (who died in or about the month of June, 1870), are, on or before the 18th day of May, 1872, to send by post, prepaid, to Henry Baxter Branwhite Mason, of Wereham (Dereham?) , in the county of Norfolk, Solicitor for the plaintiffs, Edmund Oldfield and Henry Oldfield, the executors of the said Elizabeth Boyce, deceased, their Christian and surnames, addresses and descriptions, the full particulars of their claims, a statement of their accounts, and the nature of the securities (if any) held by them, or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Decree. Every creditor holding any security is to produce the same before the Master of the Rolls, at his chamber?, situate in the Rolls-yard, Chancery- lane, in the county of Middlesex, on Wednesday, the 31st day of May next, at half-past eleven o'clock in the forenoon, being the time appointed for adjudicating on the claims.—Dated this 12th day of April, 1872.”

War dead - Private George Butters

Private George Butters M2/200614, M.T., Army Service Corps who died age 37 on 9 November 1918. Son of Richard and Mary Ann Butters, of Hale Rd., Ashill. ASHILL (ST NICHOLAS) CHURCHYARD

War dead - Corporal Frederick Cater

Corporal Fredeick Cater 5940, 2nd/6th Bn., Gloucestershire Regiment who died age 23 on 19 July 1916. Son of James and Maria Cater, of 13, Ashill. LAVENTIE MILITARY CEMETERY, LA GORGUE The date of death is different on the cross and in the official record.