Monumental inscriptions connected to the Holt families are gathered here, preserving the stories carved into stone across generations. These memorials offer a glimpse into the lives, relationships, and histories of the Holts of Rochdale, Gristlehurst, Ashworth, and beyond. To search wider a field and find a grave of other Holt ancestors this website may help you find your own connections.
Holt Burials and Monumental Inscriptions
and Sophia Holt
James Holt
and William Holt
Monumental Inscriptions
Rochdale Parish Church St. Chad's Memorial with the Latin inscription Jacobi Holte de Castleton. A translation is here.
Sir John Holt, Lord Chief Justice of England, descendant of the Holts of Gristlehurst, was born at Thame, Oxfordshire on 30th December 1642. He entered Oriel College, Oxford to study law at the age of sixteen years. He returned to study law at Gray's Inn in London and was appointed to the bar in 1663. He became King's sergeant and was knighted in 1685. In 1688 he took a prominent role in arranging the constitutional change by which William III was called to the throne of England, and after his accession he was appointed Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. Sir John Holt of Bedford Row, London died 5 March 1710 aged 68 and was buried in the chancel of St Mary's Church, Redgrave, Suffolk. A marble monument to Sir John Holt, by Thomas Green, stands in the Redgrave church.
A plaque is placed on the wall in Biddulph church in Staffordshire for George Holt, Esquire of Rochdale, Lancashire, a lineal descendant of the Holts of Ashworth and Gristlehurst. His remains are deposited in the vault of his brother, the vicar William Henry Holt of this parish. George Holt departed his life whilst on a visit at Knypersley, in the 60th year of his age, 26 Aug 1815.
