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1854. Location. Norwich, Norfolk. Country. England. Find a Grave. Gildencroft Quaker Cemetery. The Gildencroft Quaker Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Chatham Street, Norwich, Norfolk, England, where many of the city's Quakers, including the writer Amelia Opie, were buried.
Joseph John Gurney's grave (right) in the Gurney family burial plot at Gildencroft Quaker Cemetery, Norwich. As a boy George Borrow used to fish the River Yare near Earlham Hall and on one occasion was caught by Joseph John Gurney. Gurney later invited the boy into the hall to see his books.
The Gildencroft Quaker Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Chatham Street, Norwich, Norfolk, England, where many of the city's Quakers were buried including the writer Amelia Opie. Many members of the Gurney family - who had a major influence on the development of Norwich - are buried here.
Many of the Gurney family are buried in the Gildencroft Quaker Cemetery, Norwich, some in Keswick All Saints churchyard and some in Intwood churchyard, both near Norwich. [citation needed] Genealogy
19th-century engraving of the Gildencroft Quaker Burial Ground looking towards the houses that then stood on the west side of Pitt Street. The post-World War 2, rebuilt Gildencroft Meeting House on Chatham Street, now used as a kindergarten.
This opened in 1699 and for many years the Quakers who met here were regularly persecuted by those who objected to their Non-conformist religious obsevances. In 1813 Norwich's small Jewish congregation leased a plot of land in the Gildencroft for use as a cemetery. (Click here for more information)
A year later on 2 December 1853, she died at Norwich and was said to have retained her vivacity to the last. She was buried at the Gildencroft Quaker Cemetery, Norwich. A somewhat sanitised biography of Opie, entitled A Life, by Cecilia Lucy Brightwell, was published in 1854.
