sexton

A church official who looks after a church building and its graveyard and may act as a gravedigger and bell ringer.

• The whole village poured out to gaze on these Asiatic princes, for such the old sexton, who had in his youth been at Moscow and Constantinople, said they were.
• on that same night, Mr Haredale, having strongly bound his prisoner, with the assistance of the sexton, and forced him to mount his horse, conducted him to Chigwell

A sexton beetle.