Grave Matters - Who is buried where in Derbyshire?

Due to the huge increase in the number of people now researching their family history, it has become a familiar sight to find lone figures wandering around graveyards in search of the final resting place of someone they are interested in.

One of the sidelines of this (some would say slightly macabre!) hobby is that interesting graves are coming to light with more regularity.

It is with that in mind that the GRAVE MATTERS project is brought to this site, the aim being to record either 'celebrity' or particularly unusual and interesting graves that exist in Derbyshire.

So if you know where someone 'famous' is buried in the county why not share the information here? Just add the name to the list on this page, stating the grave's location, and then create a short new page for the subject in the famous residents section.

If you have a photo of the grave and subject, then so much the better - just upload them to the picture gallery and add a brief caption.

Here is the list to date: To add to it click on the 'edit' link on this page and share the details of your grave discovery!

C. B. FRY - Perhaps the best all-round sportsman England ever had - buried in St. Wystan's Churchyard at Repton.

EDITH MAUDE HULL - One-time blockbusting author who shocked polite society - buried in St. John's, Hazelwood.

Bess of Hardwick - Buried at Derby Catherdral.

FRANK RICHARD ALLSOP - Commemorated in St. Mary's churchyard Tissington - drowned in the Titanic disaster.

William Cropper - Derbyshire cricketer and Derby County footballer - tragic death - buried in Brimington Cemetery.

SAMUEL SLACK - Celebrated singer - the 'Tideswell Vocalist' (1757-1822) - buried in Tideswell churchyard.

KATHERINE AGNES CAVENDISH - second daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and a sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is buried in Edensor churchyard.

LITTLE JOHN - One of Robin Hood's merry men is said to have been buried in Hathersage churchyard.

JIMMY METHVEN - The Derby County player and manager lived 1868-1953 and is buried in Normanton Cemetery.

George Stephenson - Railway engineer, inventor of the 'Rocket' locomotive, is buried inside Holy Trinity Church, Newbold Road, Chesterfield.

HARRY BAGSHAW - Derbyshire cricketer and famous umpire - his celebrated grave is at St. Lawrence's Church in Eyam

Frederick Henry Wyld - Double Olympic medallist and Derby policeman buried in St. Peter's at Littleover

JOHN KANE - Eighteenth century actor and comedian 'ate himself to death' - buried in St. Anne's at Buxton.

STEVE BLOOMER - Derby County and England footballer buried in Nottingham Road Cemetery, Derby.

HARRY STORER snr. - Arsenal and Liverpool goalkeeper, Derbyshire cricketer - gravestone is in Ripley Cemetery.

UNWIN SOWTER - Mayor of Derby and Derbyshire cricketer - gravestone in Nottingham Road Cemetery, Derby.

ASGHAR ALI - Indian-born Muslim soldier died in a tragic accident - buried in the main cemetery at Ashbourne.

ARTHUR FORMAN - Derbyshire cricketer and Repton schoolmaster - buried in St. Wystan's, Repton.

ARTHUR KINGSCOTT - Football Association administrator twice refereed the FA Cup Final - buried in All Saints, Sawley, and a commemorative plaque to his life (1864-1937) is inside the church.

LEVI WRIGHT - Lived 1862-1953 - Derbyshire cricket captain and Derbyshire footballer buried at Normanton Cemetery, Stenson Road, Derby.

HENRY 'HARRY' VASSALL 1885-1925 England rugby international and Repton schoolmaster buried at St. Wystan's Repton

ST. WYSTAN - Mercian prince murdered in AD 849. His bones were kept in the crypt at St. Wystan's Repton, and in 1019 removed to Evesham Abbey, Shropshire

WYNFORD DEWHURST - Renowned British impressionist painter (1864-1941) buried in St. Wystan's, Repton

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