History

Monk Fryston Cemetery is a private cemetery serving the Parish of Monk Fryston and adjoining Parish's of Hillam and Burton Salmon.  It was gifted to Monk Fryston Parish in 1874 by Benjamin Hemsworth Esq of Monk Fryston Hall and is the private burial place and the site of a walled memorial chapel ground for the Hemsworth Family, and for the burials and interments for residents within the three Parish's.

A MEMORIAL to be registered of an Indenture bearing date the Second day of March One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four and made between BENJAMIN HEMSWORTH of The Hall in the Parish of Monk Frystone in the West Riding of the County of York Esquire of the first part and THE BURIAL BOARD for the said Parish of Monk Frystone in the County of York (established incorporated and empowered under and by the Burial Acts 1852 and 1871) of the second part 

OF AND CONCERNING ALL THAT piece or parcel of land or ground containing by recent survey five thousand and forty square yards be the same more or less lying on the East side of a certain orchard or piece or parcel of ground containing in the whole by estimation one acre two roods and eighteen perches more or less which said piece or parcel of land or ground intended to be thereby conveyed is situate at Monk Frystone in the County of York and is bounded on or towards the East and South by land of William James Bentley on or towards the West by land of the said Benjamin Hemsworth being other part of the said orchard and on or towards the North by the turnpike road from Leeds to Selby TOGETHER WITH the chapel now in course of erection thereon by and at the expense of the said Benjamin Hemsworth which said piece or parcel of land or ground intended to be thereby conveyed is delineated and shown on the map or plan drawn in the margin of the now memorializing Indenture and therein coloured green and red the site of the said chapel and of the parcel of ground adjoining thereto on the South (also forming part of the said five thousand and forty square yards) and intended hereafter to be appropriated and used as the private burial place of the said Benjamin Hemsworth and his family being distinguished in the said map or plan and therein coloured red TOGETHER WITH the appurtenances WHICH said Indenture as the due execution thereof by the said Benjamin Hemsworth is witnessed by Joseph Dobson Weddall of Selby in the County of York Solicitor and Joseph Mitchell of Selby aforesaid his clerk 

SIGNED AND SEALED in the 

presence of :- BENJAMIN HEMSWORTH (LS) 

J DOBSON WEDDALL 

JOSEPH MITCHELL (sworn) 

The Register of Graves provides a record of all graves dating back to May 1874.  Within the Register, each record details;

• Plot number of the grave
• Location the grave (Consecrated or Unconsecrated side of the cemetery)
• Entry Number in the Register of Purchased Graves
• Name(s) of the person buried
• Age of the deceased 
• Date of Interment
• Amounts paid
• Folio in the Register of Burials