Monument record 1389/1/2 - Baptist Burial Ground in Mottram St Andrew

Baptist Burial Ground, the land of which was bought in 1689, was placed in trust in 1691 for the use of the Church now meeting in Great Warford [CSMR 1389/1/0]. It is described as a close called 'The Sandfield, 32 yards long and 20 yards wide at one end and two and a half yards wide at the other end besides the ditch'. A stone near the entrance erected 1933nis inscribed 'GREAT WARFORD PARISH BAPTIST CHURCH BURIAL GROUND FOUNDED 1689'.
Monuments include -
[1] Joseph Burges, 1745, headstone;
[2] Thomas Faulkner, Elizabeth his Wife and their sons Samuel and John, all 1757;
[3] Thomas Eaton, 1710;
[4] Margret (sic), wife of Thomas Eaton, 1709;
[5] Mary Haywood, 1706;
[6] Dorothy Preston, 1701.
This burial ground presumably fell out of use when the burial ground around the church [CSMR 1389/1/1] came into use (1).

<1> Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (RCHME), 1994, An Inventory of Non-Conformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in the North of England, Cheshire Number 100 (Book). SCH4548.