Nye family headstones at Borough Green Baptist Church

Janice Nye Lutz with graves (L to R) of sisters Sophia and
Ann Nye, their brother Thomas Cotton Nye,
and their parents John and Ann Nye.
Borough Green Baptist Church, Kent - August 2010

Through a happy chain of circumstances, we were advised by Pastor Tim Fields at the Zion Baptist Church in Tonbridge that the founders of the church, Ann and Sophia Nye, were buried at a place called Borough Green.

On our last day in Kent, we travelled to Borough Green and found the Baptist Church. What a thrill when we came across the gravestones of not only Ann and Sophia, but their brother Thomas Cotton Nye and their parents John and Ann Nye.

Their headstones are for the most part still readable and we were delighted to photograph them and transcribe them in August 2010.

The headstone of John Nye who was christened 26 January 1784 at Leigh, Kent, England and his wife Ann Randall who was christened 1 August 1784 at Penshurst, Kent, England is inscribed as follows:

PEACE

JOHN NYE

WHO DIED MAY 1______

ALSO ANN NYE

WHO DIED MAY 31 1858

AGE 75

The head stone of Thomas Cotton Nye who was christened 4 August 1811 at Penshurst reads as follows:

IN MEMORY OF 

THOMAS COTTON NYE 

OF MAIDSTONE KENT 

YOUNGEST SON OF JOHN AND ANN NYE 

WHO DIED _________(unreadable date)

Ann Nye was Christened 3 October 1813 at Hadlow, Kent and her sister Sophia Nye who was Christened 6 April 1817 have the following inscription on their headstone:

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF

SOPHIA NYE

OF WINCHESTER FARM HADLOW KENT

YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF 

JOHN AND ANN NYE

WHO DIED MARCH 20 1876

AGED 59 YEARS

ALSO OF ANN

SISTER OF THE ABOVE SOPHIA NYE

WHO DIED DECEMBER 3 1882

AGED 69 YEARS

SWEETLY SLEEP DEAR SAINT IN JESUS

THOU WITH US SHALT WAKE IN DEATH

HOLD HE CANNOT THOUGH HE SIEZE US

WE HIS POWER DENY BY FAITH

Michael Bouy with the gravestones of his 5th great grandparents and 3 of their children 

Borough Green Baptist Church cemetery