Graves at St Giles' churchyard, Wrexham
Use the map below to find the interesting graves we’ve selected outside St Giles’ Parish Church. Click on the person’s name to read their story.
When you go to look at the graves, please take care and remember that the ground at churchyards can be uneven.
Many of the graves here date from the 18th century, including that of Yale University benefactor Elihu Yale. He wasn’t famed for his university connection when the antiquarian Thomas Pennant visited St Giles’ Church in the 1770s, but the epitaph on his tombstone was noteworthy to Thomas for expressing “an uncommon variety of fortune”. Thomas also recorded some older epitaphs, including:
Here lies interr’d beneath these stones,
The beard, the flesh, and eke the bones,
Of Wrexham clerk, old Daniel Jones. 1668.
With thanks to Dr Hazel Pierce, of The History House, and Garry Blewitt
Postcode: LL13 8LY
1, Thomas Lloyd, d.1734 - tutor at Chirk Castle and chaplain to Mary Myddelton. Latterly lived at Plas Power
2, Thomas Humphreys, d.1837 - governor of Wrexham's workhouse, where he was succeeded by his wife Fanny
3, Elizabeth Munslow, d.1843 – kept the Hand Inn, niece married servant of Archbishop of Canterbury (details coming soon)
4, Robert Ankers, d.1856 - wine merchant who owned a successful race horse and once fended off highway robbers
5, Gilbert Gilpin, d.1827 - ironmaster and innovator in the Industrial Revolution, starting as John Wilkinson's chief clerk aged 20
6, Marguerita Blewitt, d.2021 - joined the TA, married an Army officer, and supported Army wives and children and welfare cases
7, Elihu Yale, d.1721 - Yale University benefactor who benefited from slavery and a shady period in colonial India
