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Kitty Hunter's grave

The burial ground of St.George's Hanover Square, London.
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See findagrave.

Burial place of Jacomina Bellenden (wife of Thomas Orby Hunter). She was buried here 8 Feb 1795.
Burial place of her step-daughter Kitty Hunter (Elizabeth Catherine Hunter, wife of Alured Clarke).
Kitty died 18 Aug 1795 at Buxton, Derbyshire. She was buried here 31 Aug 1795.
Presumably Kitty was buried in same grave as her stepmother.

The burial ground from 1765 to 1854 was not at the church but rather some distance away at the NE side of Hyde Park.
An 1822 survey shows Kitty had a coffin plate with an inscription.
Vaults were bricked in and covered over in 1860.
The burial ground was cleared in 1969.
Coffins with their attached coffin plates would all have been destroyed.

Burial of Jacomina Hunter, St.George's Hanover Square, 8 Feb 1795.
"W" = Widow.
From here.

Burial of Kitty Hunter, incorrectly written as "Mr. Clarke" not "Mrs. Clarke", St.George's Hanover Square, 31 Aug 1795.
"M" = Married.
From here.

1822 survey of coffin plates

This is [WA C830].
From findmypast.

1822 survey of coffin plates.
It says the burial ground was at "St. George's Row". Maps show this is the road on the S side of the burial ground.

From the survey.
A coffin plate once existed for Kitty Hunter, saying:
"Mrs Elizabeth Catherine Clarke. Died 18th August 1795. Aged 52 Years."
From findmypast.

A note on Findagrave thinks coffin plate inscriptions were taken in 1969.
This is not correct.
The coffin plate inscriptions were taken in 1822.
Apparently some gravestone inscriptions were taken in 1969. And then the coffins and coffin plates, and most of the gravestones, were destroyed.

Maps

St George's church, Hanover Square, London (black building, E side of George St).
From section of 1827 map.
This was in a built-up area and the burial ground was elsewhere.
The church is still there. See modern street view.

The burial ground (from 1765 to 1854) of St George's church, Hanover Square.
At the NE side of Hyde Park.
From 1792-1799 map.

The burial ground of St George's church, Hanover Square.
From section of 1827 map.

A photo around 1910 of the grave of the novelist Laurence Sterne (died 1768) in the burial ground, before it was cleared.
From here.

The disused burial ground on 1938 map.

The burial ground has since been cleared.
The site is now St. George's Fields apartments.
3D view from here.
See street view of W entrance and S entrance.
Some of the old wall remains. Some (very few) tombstones survive.

References

Items in [WA]
- C: Archives Of The Parish Of St George Hanover Square.
- C828: Reference book of the burial ground, Bayswater Road. Microfilm Box 555. Indexed records. Kitty not found.
- C829: Inscriptions in the burial ground in Bayswater Road. Microfilm Box 555. In geographic order so hard to search. (todo) Search it all.
- C830: Inscriptions affixed to the coffins in the vaults at the burying ground in Bayswater Road. Microfilm Box 2343. Online at findmypast.
Brief History of St George's Chapel and burial ground, Bayswater Road. Cecil Moore, 1883. [WA] 942.135.
- Includes monumental inscriptions. Kitty not found.

Burial records seem to indicate that Kitty Hunter had a coffin plate but no gravestone. So she would not be among the few gravestones that survive at St. George's Fields.