Old Christ Church Graveyard, 1719-Present<br>Shrewsbury, New Jersey

Old Christ Church Graveyard, 1719-Present
Shrewsbury, New Jersey

Date of Photographs: May 18, 2023
Date of Gallery Update: Tue May 23 22:15 EDT 2023
Photographs by John H. Yates

Not knowing where to park on my first visit to Old Christ Church Shrewsbury, I ended up parking behind Wisdom Tree Yoga & Healing Arts east of the graveyard on Sycamore Ave. There was a drive into the back of the Christ Church Cemetery from there, but I decided to walk in. As I discovered, that road does lead to a parking lot in the cemetery. The "best" entrance would have been on Broad Street (Route 35) just south of the graveyard. 20-20 hindsight.
The Allen House is diagonally across the street intersection (Broad & Sycamore) from Christ Church.
The Shrewsbury Quaker Meeting House is across the street from Christ Church. It can be seen in the background of several of the photographs below. Shrewsbury is the oldest Quaker Meeting in New Jersey.
As I now know, the back portion of the cemetery (the first part I walked through) is actually the Presbyterian Church Cemetery.
As you will see below, many of the Throckmorton wives were buried under their Throckmorton maiden name, as the wife of their husband. They were likely very proud of their Throckmorton lineage.
Some dates and names in captions below are from FindAGrave or other sources.

Walking in from the east back entrance

Walking in

A look north

A look back where I entered

A look north

A look north
Brown building center left is the Shrewsbury Quaker Meeting House

A look north
The Christ Church Parish House is the white building at the center
The Presbyterian Church is the white building on the right hand side

A look north (Quaker Meeting House also visible in background)

Behind Christ Church - Throckmorton graves are in 2 rows up and to the right from the obelisk in the center

Three graves, rightmost a Throckmorton

A Throckmorton Grave

Throckmorton Graves

James Forman Throckmorton d. 1852

John Throckmorton d. 1749

Job Throckmorton d. 1748
(1714-1748))

Catherine Throckmorton (1795-1852) wife of William Van Hook

Jane Frances Roach - Jane Roach

Jane Roach

Thomas Throckmorton d. 1764

Jane Throckmorton d. 1749
< 1 yr., do Joseph (1724-1800)
& Mary (Forman) Throckmorton (1725-1766)

Joseph Throckmorton (dates unreadable)

Margaret (Williams) Throckmorton (1765-1817) wife/widow of Joseph F. Throckmorton (1751-1800) [dates from other sources]

Samuel Throckmorton d. 1804

William Throckmorton (1761-1830)

Sarah (Throckmorton) Forman d. 1787
(1727 -1787)
wife of Jonathan Forman (1721-1758)
do John Throckmorton (1688-1741) and Mary Stillwell (1609-1739))

Growth makes it unreadable

Sarah (Leonard) Throckmorton (1660-1743)
Here lies the body of Sarah [wife of] Job Throckmorton who Departed this life February the fifth Day Annoq Domini one Thousand seven hundred forty three

Eliza Throckmorton d. 1855

Here lyes the Body of
John Throckmorton who
Departed this life the
thirty First Day of october
Anno Domini 1741 Aged
[below ground] but is (1688-1741)