Monument list for St Catherine Church burial ground

Monument list

no.	family surname	full name	birth year	age	burial year	image name	GPR ref.	view no.	request no.	notes

26	Finch	James Finch	1775	86	1861	id: 24	161955	122	1
		John Finch	1803	34	1837
		Susannah Finch	1773	77	1850

27	Finlay	Kenneth Finlay	1914	70	1984	id: 2	161936	172	1
		Mary Elizabeth Finlay	1919	73	1992

28	Freeman	William Charles Freeman	1920	86	2006	id: 83	162012	183	1
		Audrey Elizabeth Freeman	1923	83	2006

29	Garware	R D Garware	1920	25	1945	id: 91	162020	344	1	WO Ramo Digamber Garware 1190419 RAFVR was an Indian Hindu who had connections with Mrs Wilson, an elderly lady who lived at Old Well Cottage in The Leigh through the Second World War. Our only memories of him are of him walking down in uniform to visit her. The Palfrey family tell how he would stunt and wave to her over her house and Wellcroft farm buildings, so giving her concern. Little is known of Mrs Wilson but she organised knitting groups there with school children making items for servicemen and left around the end of the war. WO Garware�s grave is marked with a headstone placed in The Leigh churchyard in the 1950s and is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Church records show that Mrs Wilson died some three months afterwards but has an unmarked grave which is probably alongside his. However, more information has been found from the internet which confirms that he was forced to crash land in Spitfire P8547 after engine failure in Scotland and died in hospital the following day � 23 December 1943 aged 25. He was at the time attached to RAF 58 Operational Training Unit at RAF Kinross, Sheerdale, Clackmannon and is named on the memorial panel amongst those lost there. Other postings show that he was in the UK for studying and joined the RAF on the outbreak of the war. Also that he had UK nationality and that he was the son of Digamber Chantanan Garware and Mathubia Garware and husband of Margaret Garware of Coombe Hill. His marriage was not known of in the village but we find that he married a Margaret Mary McLaren in the Calderhead District of Lanarkshire, Scotland, sometime in 1943. This means that he was only married for a few months before his death and, as nothing can be traced for a link at Coombe Hill, it seems possible that it comes from Mrs Wilson�s address that would have been �The Leigh, Coombe Hill� in those days. It would be expected that they lived in married quarters in Scotland. Another interesting postingappears to come from the USA and refers to someone�s father�s wartime diary which reads :- Sunday 9th November 1941 Ternhill. Poor old Garware told us his woes. His father is Indian, made a lot of money and owns a car factory. G�s father has given two Spitfires to the British Government, sent G to England to join the RAF (which cost �1000) and yet G cannot get a commission although he has a degree from Bombay University. Research of the Garware name shows that Bhalchandra Diginbar G was the pioneering industrialist not Diginbar Chatanam buit Ramo may have been closely related to the famous Bhalchandra who became Sheriff of Bombay in 1959 and founded many charitable trusts, schools and colleges. The Garware group of companies can be found thriving today around the Mumbai area. Another interesting link comes from the fact that Spitfire P8547 was a presentation aircraft known as �Indian Posts�. Ternhill is still an airfield in Shropshire.

30	Gilder	Hazel Louise Gilder	1982	13	1995	id: 59	161988	177	1

31	Green	Beryl Green	1922	55	1977	id: 60	161989	186	1
		Derek Haddon Green	1922	65	1987

32	H	R H			1664	id: 108	162032	131	1
		E H			1649

33	Hackforth	Jane Diane Hackforth	1948	52	2000	id: 98	162026	106	1

34	Hampton	Ann Hampton	1768	62	1830	id: 22	161953	167	1
		John Vernon	1806	41	1847

35	Hancock	James Hancock	1760	68	1828	id: 12	161945	162	1
		Elizabeth Hancock		72

36	Harris	Joan Harris	1938	54	1992	id: 79	162008	126	1

37	Hawkins	Jane Hawkins	1952	50	2002	id: 82	162011	177	1

38	Higgs	Harris Higgs	1725	76	1801	id: 10	161943	154	1

39	Higgs	Mary Higgs	1723	75	1798	id: 9	161942	108	1

40	Holloway	A A L Holloway	1921	77	1998	id: 89	162018	217	1

41	Hopkins	Eliza Hopkins	1824	70	1894	id: 101	162029	164	1
		George Hopkins	1825	78	1903

42	Howe	Henry Thomas Howe				id: 7	161940	88	1	died 186? Aged 4mths

43	Howe	William Howe	1800	66	1866	id: 5	161938	91	1

44	Hunter	Alan Baird Hunter	1921	88	2009	id: 77	162006	254	1

45	Jeffries	Ted Jeffries	1922	64	1986	id: 80	162009	124	1

46	Jones	Tabitha Dorcas Jones	1819	28	1847	id: 32	161963	179	1

47	Lait	Harry Lait	1891	70	1961	id: 61	161990	249	1

48	Lake	William John Lake	1880	31	1911	id: 95	162024	257	1
		Mary Ann Lake	1855	75	1930

49	Leach	Richard Leach	1770	67	1837	id: 8	161941	138	1
		Elizabeth Leach			1831

50	Mills	Colin Henry Mills			1955	id: 63	161992	158	1
		Vera Lilian Hayward			1995
		Florence Virginia Mills			1965

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