Early inscriptions in Oxford
Here is a small selection of early inscriptions from churches in the city of Oxford. Some of them pre-date the surviving burial registers.
| Name | Age if given |
Date of death | Church | Burial registers date from |
| Oliver Eborn | 1st half 17th C | St Nicholas’s Church, Old Marston |
1653 | |
| Elizabeth Franklin | 23 | 31 July 1622 | Holywell (St Cross) |
1653 |
| William & Anne Merryman | 60 (Anne) | 1628 and 1619 | Holywell (St Cross) |
1653 |
| Elizabeth Parrent & Simon Parret |
1572 & 1584 | St Peter-in-the-East | 1559 | |
| William Tylcock | 74 | 1578 | St Thomas-the-Martyr | 1667 |
| John Wallis, gentleman |
1678 | St Andrew’s Church, Headington |
1698 |