and restored to its position in the church. It is to Rachel, wife of William Gee Esq. of the Bishop Burton Estate. Rachel was the daughter of Thomas Parker of Ratton, and she died in 1649 aged 33. William Gee Esq. (d 1683) was the grandson of Sir William Gee of Bishop Burton (d.1611), secretary to James I (r.1603–25). Sir William, then of Beverley, bought the estate after it was surrendered to the crown in 1543, being part of the Archbishop of York's estate. The memorial now consists of the shrouded figure of Rachel, full length with her face, one arm and hand exposed, and the small figure of a child which kneels at her head. These two items are thought to have been part of a larger monument, which has probably been destroyed. The Gee family archives in the Brynmor Jones Library of the University of Hull ( contain: estate papers dating from 1194 relating to land at Bishop Burton and the immediate surrounds of Cherry Burton and Walkington a few papers of the Watt family relating to their land at Speke in Lancashire and Georges Plain in Jamaica (1849–1861) manorial records for the manor of Bishop Burton a seventeenth-century volume of surveys and assessments for sewers at Ottringham papers for Walkington of John Lockwood and family. References External links Bishop Burton Village Website Bishop Burton College Bishop Burton United Football Club Family archives Villages in the East Riding of Yorkshire Civil parishes in the East Riding of Yorkshire