Churchyard: Malins

The Malins family are buried immediately northeast of the chancel. 

William Malins is the first recorded teacher in the parish. He was master of a school at Finmere from 1779 or earlier and taught seventy children. This seems a large number for a parish of about three hundred people, but Malins had ten children himself. He had married Elizabeth Porter of Leckhamstead, Buckinghamshire, at Finmere on 10 July 1777. The family moved to Tingewick after March 1800. William also died at Tingewick and was buried at Finmere on 6 January 1813, aged 61. His wife died at Chackmore in 1825. The burial register states she was 69 years of age, the gravestone 70.

• William, and his wife Elizabeth, had ten children baptised at Finmere between 1779 and 1800:
• Elizabeth baptised 24 July 1779
• William, 6 May 1781
• Robert Porter privately baptised 9 April 1784: presented in church, 11 November 1784
• George Wallington, 17 January 1787
• Richard, 5 September 1788
• John, 13 Mar 1790
• Martha, 30 April 1792
• Thomas Porter, 30 May 1794
• Ellinor was baptised on 15 July 1798; the register notes she was born on 18 October 1796
• James, 6 March 1800; died Chackmore 1823; buried Finmere.

On 17 July 1806, an Elizabeth Malins, widow, died at Tingewick and was buried at Finmere; her relationship to William and Elizabeth is not known. 

To The Memory of WILLIAM MALINS Son of Daniel And Eliz Malins Late of this parish Who departed this Life Dec 31 1812  Aged 61 years	To The Memory of ELIZABETH Wife of William Malins Who died Sep 4 1825 In the 70th year of her life Also near this stone lieth JAMES son of William And Eliz Malins Who died Aug 5 1823 Aged 23 years