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Link to gravepix site. Follow the links to Hampshire and then Southampton, and you will find well over a hundred excellent photographs taken in our Cemetery.
Anyone interested in British War Graves and memorials may find that web site of considerable interest.
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================================================================================================= The Superintendent's Lodge
================================================================================================= The Anglican Chapel
Anglican Chapel with War Memorial in front.
Now in use as an artwork design studio, Chapel Design
================================================================================================= The Nonconformist Chapel
Nonconformist Chapel, now used as a store.
================================================================================================== The Pearce memorial - Faith Hope and Charity
When Robert Pearce 1792-1861, a private banker, died his family spared no expense and commissioned a local sculptor Richard Cockle Lucas to design three angels, Faith, Hope and Charity holding an urn with a drape and from the top a butterfly emerging [symbol of the soul]. Other occupants of the grave are: Robert's son Henry Stanley Robert Pearce 1821-1868, and Henry's widow Emily (later Waterhouse) 1837-1876, and Robert's unmarried daughter Hannah 1803-1891
This is the only monument in the cemetery that is Grade II Listed.
The ROSAS monument
The dictator from Argentina who fled to England.In 1852 General Manuel Rosas was overthrown and with his family sought political asylum in England.
He
arrived in a British frigate at Devonport and
then moved to the Windsor Hotel in Southampton. He took up residence in
Carlton Place and later
rented a farm in Burgess Road [near the
junction with Langhorn Road].
================================================================================================== Belgian War Memorial
Commemorates the Belgian soldiers who died in hospitals in and around Southampton during the First World War. The memorial was a gift from the people of Southampton and was made by Garret and Haysom. The Crucifix and Column are in Hopton Wood stone; base is Cornish granite.
The Rhone and The Wye
The Rhone and the Wye were Royal Mail steamships which were lost in a great hurricane near the British Virgin Islands in 1867.
================================================================================================== The Douro Monument
The Douro was lost in 1882 after a collision with a Spanish ship off Finisterre.
================================================================================================== Graves with Titanic Associations
When
the Titanic sank on her maiden voyage in April 1912, there was a tragic
loss of 1,523 people, of whom nearly 550 were from
None of the dead were buried in Southampton however. Those whose bodies were recovered were mostly buried in Halifax Nova Scotia. A number of local families added the names of the dead to family gravestones; there are 44 graves in our cemetery either directly or indirectly connected to the Titanic disaster. ================================================================================================== Charles BARR
In 1899 Columbia beat Shamrock In 1901 Columbia beat Shamrock II, and In 1903 Reliance beat Shamrock III
================================================================================================= Edwin Rowland MOON
First man in the South of England to achieve powered flight. Served in the RNAS in WW1. Whilst flying a flying boat from Felixstowe, it crashed into the sea, killing the crew and Moon. He was buried with full Military Honours. The unusual wooden marker on his grave, is part of the flying boat in which he died.
================================================================================================= General Roderick MACNEIL
He was in the Napoleonic wars at Corunna, and at Waterloo. Inscription reads "Last Chieftan of the Macneils of Barra", an island off the coast of Scotland.
================================================================================================= Charles Ewans DEACON
Town Clerk of Southampton for about 30 years, and secretary of the Cemetery Committee.
================================================================================================= Joseph STEBBING
Owned an instrument and chart shop in Southampton, supplying the Admiralty and shipping lines with compasses, charts and accessories. Mayor in 1867, and founder member of Southampton Chamber of Commerce.
================================================================================================== Thomas WALTON and the Manchester Oddfellows
================================================================================================ Lt Col. William HEWETT When he died aged 95 on 25th October 1891 he was reputedly "last survivor of the English Officers who took part in the great Battle of Waterloo".
================================================================================================= Walter HANSLIP
================================================================================================ HURDIS memorial
A most beautifully carved monument, in memory of the son and grandson of James Henry Hurdis, professor of poetry at Oxford University, namely John Lewis Hurdis 1801-1889, and John Henry Hurdis 1844-1890. Mary Jane, wife of John Lewis Hurdis is also buried here.
================================================================================================ Economy gravestones
Early in the 20th century there was a short vogue for cast iron gravestones, two of which are shown here. Unfortunately time and rust has completely eliminated any inscriptions. A look at the back of such a memorial is suggestive of those tin toys that we used to have as children. Another way of economising was to use a wooden 'stone' or cross, but these have also deteriorated over the years. ================================================================================================
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