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MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS JAMAICA

PARISH OF ST. ANDREWS.

ST. ANDREW'S PARISH CHURCH.*

INTRAMURAL.

1.

HERE LYETH THE BODY OF CAPT. ROBERT PHILLIPS, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, THE 29th OF SEPTEMBER, ANNO DOMINI, 1702.

HERE RESTS YE BODY OF THE SOUL NOW BLEST, WHO, WHILST ON EARTH, WITH VARIOUS CARES OPPREST, TO GOD HIS KING AND COUNTRY STEDFAST TRUE, JUST TO'S NEIGHBOUR, RENDERING ALL THEIR DUES, MAUGRE DETRACTION OF HIS FOES, THO' FEW.

VADE, ET TU FAC SIMILITER.

St. Luke ye 10th, vr. ye 37.

Black Marble Slab; Arms, No tinctures; a lion rampant. Crest, Over an esquire's helmet, a lion rampant.

2.

HERE LYETH TH .............THOMAS HARRIS............THIS LIFE THE 28 ............DOM., 1718, IN THE ................

HERE ALSO LY .................ELIZA HARRIS ...................HARRISON AND ..................WHO DEPARTED ...............OF FEBRUARY, 17 .............MONTHS .....................

Black Marble Slab, with Arms, partly concealed by a pew.

PROBABLY members of the same family as Thomas Harrison, Chief justice of Jamaica, who died in 1792. There were several families of this name in Jamaica, and notably one, said to be descended from the regicide.

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*Commonly called Half-Way-Tree Church.


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3.

I KNOW THAT MY .........HE SHALL STAND ............THE EARTH & THE ...........DESTROY THIS .............I SEE GOD WHO ........AND MINE EYES .............IN HOPES OF ............RECTION RES ........LEAH THE W ...........ZACHARIA ...........

DYED THE 29 ..................1706/7 AGED 8 ............

HERE ALSO .............THE BODY ..........WHO DEPART ..........19th OF JULY ............

HERE ALSO LYETH ...........WIFE OF DANIEL ...........1714/5, AGED 49 ........

Black Marble Slab, partly concealed by a pew.

ZACHARIAH BAYLY is the name now covered by the pew flooring.

4.

HERE LYETH THE BODY OF CHARLES HOLMES, ESQ., REAR ADMIRAL OF THE WHITE, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, THE 21st OF MARCH, 1761, AGED 50 YEARS.

Slab.

SEE " Naval Biographical Dictionary."

5.

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. HERE RESTETH THE BODY OF EDWARD HARRISON, ESQ.,WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 29th DAY OF AUGUST, IN THE, YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1695, AND IN THE 41st YEAR OF HIS AGE. HERE ALSO RESTETH THE BODY OF EDWARD, SON TO THE SAID EDWARD, & DOROTHY, HIS WIFE, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 23d DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1696, AGED 7 YEARS, AND 6 MONTHS.

Black Marble Slab, partly covered.


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6.

......LIES THE BODY OF THE .........................RABLE MAJOR JAMES GARTH .............. DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 18th ........OF OCTOBER 1734,...........AGED 37 YEARS ...........WAS MAJOR TO THE RIGHT...............RABLE LORD SHANNON'S ............ OOP OF HORSE GUARDS

Slab, partly covered.

7.

.............. OF PHILIP BECKET, ESQ.; SHE DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE VI. DAY OF JULY, MDCCXXII, IN THE XIVth YEAR OF HER AGE. SOLA VERTUS (sic) SERVIRA DEO. IN HOPES OF A BLESSED RESURRECTION TO ETERNAL LIFE HERE LYETH INTERRED AMONG THIE (sic) ANCESTORS, THE BODY'S OF MRS. ELIZA PHIPPS, LATE WIFE OF MR. JOSEPH PHIPPS, OF THE PARISH OF KINGSTON, MERCHANT, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JUNE 30th, 1764, AGED 31 YRS. ALSO, YE BODY OF HER BROTHER, MR JOHN BLAIR, LATE OF THIS PARISH, PLANTER, WHO DIED JULY 3 1764, IN THE 30th YEAR OF HIS AGE.

Slab.

8.

............OF OUR LORD, 1719 BEING 24 YEARS & EIGHT MONTHS OLD ..........HERE ALSO LYES THE BODY OF JAMES PINNOCK, SON OF JAMES AND MARY PINNOCK ; WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 20th DAY OF JUNE, IN THE 23d YEAR OF HIS AGE, 1736.

Black Marble Slab, partly covered by pews.

1. James Pinnock,*=Anne Powell. Pinnock, Quaker, of Reading ; emigrated to Barbados, married in Barbados. and thence to Jamaica.

......2. James Pinnock, b. July 6, 1660, d. 1733 m. (1) Anne Becket September 29, 1690

........3. James (see epitaph) ob. 1736.

......married (2) Mary Seaward, born August 9, 1694; m. October 30, 1711 ; d. 1719.

........3. A Son, d. unmarried.

........3. Thomas, b. March 26, 1714; d. 1758 = Mary Lawrence 1736; d. 1780.

..........4. James, b. 1740, d. 1811, m. Elizabeth, dau. of George Dehany, m. 1772

............5. Daughters.

..........4. George, Pres. of Council; b. 1749, d. 1834; m. Grace, dau. of Philip Pinnock (his cousin)

..........4. Dau. = Lewis Cuthbert.

..........4. Dau. = Geo. Cuthbert.

.............5. George, d. 1789

......married (3) Elizabeth Traxton, dau. of Col. Wm. T.; b. August 27,1705; m. .December 10, 1719.

........3. Philip, Chief Justice of Jamaica; b. October 20, 1720; m. and had issue.

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N. B. This is a different family from that mentioned in Kent's "Banner Display'd," London, 1728, p. 780.

See also Notes and Queries, 3, s. vii. 419.


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9.

TO THE .......MARY ELIZAB.......DAUGHTER OF............AND MANY........DYED ......ALSO THEIR ........BORN NOVR. ...........AND SWAINE .......BORN SEP. 2,.......

Two lines in rhyme..

LIKEWISE, THOMAS CROASDAILE, THEIR NEPHEW, DIED OCTOBER 10th, 1752, AGED 23 YEARS.

Black Marble Slab, partly covered.

10.

HIC, JUXTA RELIQUE, POSITAE SUNT, HONORABILIS VIRI, JACOBI LAWES, HUNC PRIMOGENITUM, HABUIT ET UXORE SUA SUSANNA TEMPLE, NICOLAUS LAWES, EQUES, ET INSULAE PREFECTUS: ELIZABETHAM, UNICAM, GULIELMI GIBBONS, ARMIGERI, FILIAM ET HAEREDEM, DUXIT UXOREM, TUM JUVENIS, ADIMODUM, VIX ANNOS QUATER NOVENOS ETAIENSUS, SUMMUM PENE FASTIGIUM HONORIS, APUD SUOS ASSECUTUS EST: NEMPE VICARIAM, EX REGIS MANDATO PRAEFECTURAM: SED PRIUSQUAM INGRESSUS, EST, IN IPSO FLORE AETATIS, PROH DOLOR! INTERIIT 4CAL: JAN: A. AE. C. 1733.

IN EO DESIDERATUR CIVIS PROBUS ET EXIMIUS, AMICUS FIDUS,ET STRENUUS. CONJUX AMANTISSIMUS, IN, OMNES EQUUS ET BENEVOLUS, IN M HAUD FUCATA PIETATE RELUCENS, IN PERPETUAM CONJUGIS DILECTI MEMORIAM, HOCCE MONUMENTUM UXOR SUPERSTES, XTRUENDUM CURAVIT.

Mural Monument of Gray and White Marble; richly gilt, and bearing on a bracket a fine marble bust by John Sheere ; Arms, Or, on a chief azure, three estoiles, of eight points, of the first; on an escutcheon of pretence, or, a lion rampant, sable, debruised of a bend gules, charged with three escallops of the first.

SIR N. LAWES was appointed Governor of Jamaica, and received the honour of Knighthood in 1717. He was succeeded by the Duke of Portland in 1722, and died in 173 1. He was an enterprising planter. Of his parentage little is known, and, like many self-made men, he is somewhat reserved on the subject. In his will (1 Aug., 1730), he styles himself, " late of Isleworth, in Middlesex," and states that he "was born in the year of our Lord, 1632, of honest and loyal parents, who suffered considerably for their loyalty."


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Amongst his estates in Jamaica, may be enumerated Snowhill, Mount James, Swallowfield, and Temple Hall.*

He was five times married :1. To Elizabeth Potter (St. Andrew's Register, May 20, 1680) ; 2. To Frances, daughter of Paul Godwyn Carter, son of Francis, Bishop of Hereford (May 23, 1685) ; 3. To Elizabeth, daughter of Sir T. Modyford, and widow of Col. S. Barry (July 2nd, 1693); 4. To Susanna Temple, by whom he had two sons:(1) James (above), baptized 1697, Mem. of A. in 1721. (2). Temple, baptized Feb. 26, 1699; 5. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thos. Lawley (3d Bart.), by his wife, Catherine, daughter and coheiress of Sir H. Winch, Bart., and widow of Thos. Cotton, greatgrandson of Paul Beilby, Lord Wenlock.By this wife Sir N. Lawes had a daughter, Maria, married in 1737, to Simon Luttrell, created Baron Irnham, and, in 1785, Earl of Carhampton.

The following epitaph, on a slab in the church of Isleworth, further explains these family connections:

In the name of God, Amen.Here lieth the body of Susanna, late wife of Nicholas Lawes, Esq. She was 5th daur. of Thomas Temple, of Franckton, in the county of Warwick, Esq. She was first married to Samuel Bernard, to whom she left one son, Thomas Bernard, now of the Inner Temple, Esquire; to the said Nicholas Lawes, two sons, James and Temple, whom God preserve. She departed this life for a better the 20th day of April, in the year of the Lord, 1707, in the 47th year of her age."

From MSS. of the late C. E. Long.

11.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE HONBLE. THOMAS DANVERS, ESQRE., VICE-ADMIRAL OF THE RED; SECOND SON TO SIR ROBERT DANVERS, BART., & OF DAME MARY, ELDEST DAUGHTER & CO-HEIRESS OF THOMAS JERMYN, BARON OF BURY, SEATED AT RUSHBROOK PARK, IN THE COUNTY OF SUFFOLK. SHE WAS, LIKEWISE, CO--HEIRESS TO HER UNCLES, HENRY JERMYN, EARL OF ST. ALBANS, & HENRY JERMYN, EARL OF DOVER.

THE SAID THOMAS DANVERS DYED OF YE YELLOW FEVER, IN THIS ISLAND OF JAMAICA, YE 16th DAY OF SEPTR., IN THE YEAR 1746, WHEN COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF HIS MAJESTY'S SQUADRONS IN THE WEST INDIES THEN AT' WAR WITH FRANCE AND SPAIN AFTER 40 YEARS' FAITHFULL & ESSENTIALL SERVICE TO HIS COUNTRY, HAVING PERFORMD ALL TRUST PLACED IN HIM, WITH GREAT HONOUR, ALACRITY, & COURAGE, Wch GAIN'D HIM THE

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*In St. Andrew's Church there is a brass chandelier, inscribed:" Anno, 1706 . The Gift of Nicholas Lawes, Esq., For St. Andrew's Church."


FAVOUR OF HIS ROYAL MASTER, AS WELL AS THE JUST APPLAUSE AND ESTEEM OF ALL GOOD AND GENEROUS MINDS, THEY BEING CONVINCED THAT WHAT APPEAR'D MOST CONDUSIVE TO THE INTEREST OF HIS KING, AND THE GOOD OF HIS COUNTRY, WOULD BE THE SOLE GUIDE OF HIS CONDUCT.

HE MARRIED KATHARINE, THE ONLY DAUGHTER OF WM. SMITHSON, OF YORKSHIRE, AN HEIRESS, NIECE TO LORD JERMYN, AND LORD DOVER, BY WHOM HE HAD THREE SONS & TWELVE DAUGHTERS, WHEREOF ONLY ONE SON & THREE DAUGHTERS SURVIVED HIM. IN THE 58th YEAR OF HIS AGE, HE YIELDED UP HIS SOUL INTO THE MERCIFULL HAND OF HIM WHO GAVE IT.

"THOUGH HE SLAY ME, YET WILL I TRUST IN HIM." Job 13th & 15th.

THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY HIS TRULY AFFECTIONATE WIDOW, OUT OF A JUST & FAITHFULL REGARD TO HIS MEMORY. ANO. 1748.

Mural Monument of White and Coloured Marble, .Arms, Quarterly; 1 & 4, Or, on a bend gules, three martlets(?) of the f; 2 & 3, azure, between a mullet in chief and in base, a crescent, or; on an escutcheon of pretence : Gr. quarterly, 1 & 4, Or, a chev. engrailed between three leaves slipped; 2 & 3 ... ; 2d Gr. quarter, 1& 4, Or, on a bend ; azure, cotised gules, three lions passant of the field; 2d & 3d, Or, on a fesse sable, between two chevronels, sable, three crosses patee, of the field ; a canton gules, thereon a lion passant guardant of the first. 3d Gr. quarter, chequyor and gules, a bend sable.

SEE Burke's Extinct and Dormant Peerage.

12.

GRACE PlNNOCK, LAST SURVIVING DAUGHTER OF HONBLE. GEO. PINNOCK, & TWIN SISTER TO ELIZABETH, OB. 2 FEB., 1818, AET 32.

Mural, White Marble.

13.

ELIZABETH PINNOCK, DIED OCTOBER 5th, 1804, AGED 18 YEARS.

Mural, White Marble.

Lines follow.

14.

IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN ..............HERE RESTETH THE BODY OF...................DOROTHY, THE WIFE OF EDWARD HARRISON, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, YE 5th DAY OF NOVEMBER, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1696, & IN THE 28th OF HER AGE .HERE ALSO RESTETH THE BODY OF LANCELOT, 2d SON OF THE SAID DOROTHY & EDWARD HARRISON, WHO WAS BORN THE 14th OF SEPTEMBER, 1694, AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE, YE 10th DAY OF APRILL, 1697.

Black Marble Slab, partly covered.

15.

(Ab.) MARGARET, WIFE OF LOVELL PENNELL, DEPUTY COMMISSARY GENERAL, OB. 7th JANY., 1851, AET. 47.

Mural, White Marble.


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16.

(Ab.) THE HONBLE. JAMES STEWART, CUSTOS OF THIS PARISH, & MEMBER OF ASSEMBLY, OB. 25 MARCH, 1824, AET. 74.

Mural, White Marble.

17.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN HOLLAND, ESQR., JUDGE OF THE VICE-ADMIRALTY COURT IN JAMAICA. HE DIED ON THE 12th OF JANUARY, 1804, IN THE 47th YEAR OF HIS AGE.

Mural, White Marble; Sculpture.

18.

(Ab.) THE HONBLE. ZACHARY BAYLY, ESQRE., CUSTOS & CHIEF MAGISTRATE OF THE PRECINCT OF ST. MARY, & ST. GEORGE, OB. 18 DEC. 1769, AET. 48. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL OF JAMAICA. ALSO, NATHANIEL BAYLY EDWARDS, OB. 28th JANY., 1771, IN THE 21st YEAR OF HIS AGE. ERECTED BY BRYAN EDWARDS, HIS SURVIVING BROTHER.

Very Handsome Mural Monument of Coloured Marbles.

This family was distinguished through the literary merits of the historian of the West Indies, Bryan Edwards.

19.

HERE LIETH THE BODY OF MASTER HENRY BUSHMAN SON OF JAMES BUSHMAN, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 21st JUNE, 1810, AGED 6 MONTHS.

Plain Stone Slab, in Vestry.

20.

(Ab.) RICHARD SPEAR, ESQ., SECRETARY TO REAR-ADMIRAL DOUGLAS, OB. 14 NOVR., 1815, AET. 27.

Mural, Black Marble, and gold letters (indistinct).

21.

(Ab.) CHRISTIAN AND MARY ANNE DA SILVA, THE BELOVED WIVES OF SHELLAMONT DA SILVA, OB. 12 SEP., 1827, & 27 MARCH, 1854.

Mural, White Marble (indistinct).

22.

(Ab.) CATHERINE, JEMIMA, & EMMA, THE CHILDREN OF WM. BROOKES KING, ESQ., & CHRISTIAN, HIS WIFE.

Mural, White Marble (indistinct).

23.

(Ab.) THE REVD. ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, M.A., FOR 45 YEARS RECTOR OF THIS PARISH, OB. 8 DEC., 1858, AET. 81.

Mural, W. Marble on Gray.

SEE Pedigree.


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24.

(Ab.) CHARLES MACKGLASHAN, ESQ., FORMERLY A SURGEON IN THE ROYAL NAVY, OB. 27 JUNE, 1834, AET. 74.

White Marble Mural, small Mosaic of arms (indistinct).

25.

MAJOR GENERAL LAMBERT, COMMR. OF H. M.'S FORCES, OB. JANY. 4, 1848, AET. 62.

Mural, White Marble.

26.

(Ab.) JOHN NICHOLLS, OF THE WAR DEPARTMENT, DIED AT BALACLAVA, 3d NOV., 1855, AET 35.

White Marble, Mural.

27.

(Ab.) HONORA WATSON POPHAM, DAU. OF SIR HOME & LADY POPHAM, OB. ON BOARD H.M.S. "SYBILLE," AT PORT ROYAL, MARCH 30, 1820, AET. 22.

White Marble, Mural.

SEE " Naval Biographical Dictionary."

28.

(Ab.) ELEANOR, WIFE OF DAVID DUNCOMB, & DAU. OF JOHN & ELIZABETH WINTER, OF WATCHET, CO. SOMERSET, IN THE U. K. OF G. B., OB. 7 SEP., 1786, AET. 37.

White Marble, Mural.

29.

(Ab.) MRS. CHARLOTTE AIKMAN, WIFE OF ALEXR. AIKMAN, ESQ., JUNR., PRINTER TO H.M., &C., & 2d DAU. OF ROBT. CORY, ESQ., ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, OF GT. YARMOUTH, CO. NORFOLK, ENGLAND, OB. 8 NOV., 1810, AET. 29.

White Marble, Mural;

Arms, Argent, issuing from clouds, at sinister base, a hand proper, holding a rod upright sable, bearing at the top two sprigs of leavesen surtout, a baton sinister engrailed gules. Impaling, sable, on a chevron or, between three griffins' heads erased, of the second, three estoiles gules.

30.

(Ab.) CHARLES HOPE KERR, 2d SON OF THE RIGHT. HONBLE. LORD ROBERT KERR, AND MARY, HIS WIFE,LIEUT. 61st REGT., & A.D.C. TO M. GENL. SIR WM. MAYNARD GOMM, K.C.B.,* COMMANDER OF THE FORCES IN THIS ISLAND, OB. 31 DEC., 1840, AET. 23.

White Marble, Mural.

SEE Burke's "Peerage," voce "Lothian."

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* Now Field-Marshal & G.C.B.


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31.

(Ab.) SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLOTTE MARY, THE BELOVED WIFE OF JOHN CAMPBELL, ESQUIRE', OF THIS PARISH, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 7th SEPTR., 1817, AT THE DECOY IN ST. MARY'S, WHERE SHE WAS INTERRED, IN THE 51st YEAR OF HER AGE, &C.

JOHN CAMPBELL was a merchant of Kingston, and Colonel-in-Chief of its Militia. He was also a Member of Assembly.

32.

(Ab.) THE HONBLE. EDWARD FOORD, ESQR,, MERCHANT OF KINGSTON, OB. 13th MARCH, 1777.

White Marble, Mural.

33.

Ab.) JOHN FALCONER, M.D., NATIVE OF THIS ISLAND, & LATE MASTER OF THE ST. ANDREW'S KILWINNING LODGE, OF THIS PARISH, OB. 24 th AUGT., 1857, AET. 59.

KILWlNNING, in Ayrshire, gives its name to several Masonic Lodges.

34.

(Ab.) JOHN WALLACE HARRIS, ESQ., CLERK OF THE PEACE, &C., OF THIS PARISH, FOR 25 YEARS, OB. 15th OCT., 1857, AET. 53.

35.

IN MEMORY OF LUCAS BARRETT, ESQ., F.G.S., F.L.S., DIRECTOR OF THE WEST INDIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, WHO WAS DROWNED* NEAR PORT ROYAL, DECR. 19, 1862.

SEE notes on " Barrett."

36.

(Ab.) EDWARD WARWICK HARVEY, YOUNGEST SON OF LIEUT-GENERAL SIR JOHN, & THE HONBLE. LADY ELIZABETH HARVEY, OB. 15 FEB., 1846, AT SEA, NEAR KINGSTON.

LT-GENERAL SIR JOHN HARVEY, K.C.B., A.D.C. to the King married, in 1806, Elizabeth, daughter of the first Baron Lake.

37.

(Ab.) CAROLINE BROUGHTON, WIFE OF THE REVD. GEO. D. BROOKS, OB. 14th DECR., 1857, AET. 23.

38.

(Ab.) CHARLES MITCHELL JOPP, OB. SEP. 8, 1861, AET. 56.

39.

(Ab.) JOHN GARDINER CLARKE, ESQ., H.M. CUSTOMS, OB. 26 JUNE, 1850, AET. 23.

White Marble, Mural Tablet.

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*While in a diving-bell, through the negroes in the boat neglecting the breathing apparatus.


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40.

(Ab.) AT STONY HILL, ......REPOSE THE REMAINS OF THE FOLLOWING OFFICERS ..... OF THE 36th RECT. :

LIEUT. TUCK, OB. 15th DECR., 1855, AET. 23 YRS. & 10 MONTHS.

LIEUT. MAHON, OB. 16th JUNE, 1856, ALT. 26 YRS. & 5 MONTHS.

LIEUT. SCARLETT, OB. 29th JUNE, 1856, AET. 23 YRS. & 2 MONTHS.

White Marble, Mural Tablet.

41.

(Ab.) EDWARD STAINES HARRISON, LIEUT. 1 W. .I. REGT, & OF SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE, OB. 13th SEP, 1856.

White Marble, Mural tablet

42.

(Ab.) GENL. WM. ANNL VILLETTES, 2d SON OF ARTHUR VILLETTES, ESQR,., MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY AT THE COURT OF TURIN, &C., COLONEL OF THE 64th REGT. OF INFANTRY,LIEUT-GOVERNOR & COMMR. OF THE FORCES IN THIS ISLAND, OB. 13th JULY, 1808, AET. 54.

Underneath:

CAPTAIN ALBERT TURRETTINI, 2d SON OF ALBERT TURRETTINI, ESQR., & MARY, HIS WIFE, SISTER OF GENERAL VILLETTES, OB. 15th JULY, 1808, AET. 24. AT FORT ANTONIO.

Mural Monument, White Marble.

43.

(Ab.) THE HONBLE. RICHARD GUSSEN, MEMBER OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL OF JAMAICA, ... CUSTOS OF METCALFE, ... OB. 8th AUGT., 1860, AET. 58. HE WAS 39 YEARS & 11 MONTHS RESIDENT IN JAMAICA.

44.

(Ab.) THE HONBLE. GEO. PINNOCK, PRESDT. OF P. C. OF JAMAICA, OB. 1 DEC., 1834, AET. 87. GRACE, HIS WIFE, OB. 11th MAY, 18..., AET. 58. MRS. MARY STEVENSON, THEIR NIECE, ERECTED THE MONUMENT.

Indistinct.

45.

M.S.

HEN. CROASDAILE .

ARMIG. QUI

VIRI MARITI ,

PARENTIS, CIVIS

INNOCUE, FIDELITER

JUSTE ET HONESTE

MUNIA. ... PLEBAT


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OBIIT AN. DOM, LXX.,

AETAT. L

MAERENS CONJUX, HOC POSUIT ......

MDCCLXXII .

White Marble, Mural, partly obliterated; Arms, Argent, a chevron sable, between three cocks, gules on an escutcheon of pretence, azure, a fesse, or, fretty gules between three deer trippt. Crest, Over an esquire's helmet, a cock, gules.

46.

DORMITORIU'M MITE* HUMANIS EXUTAE, LAPORIBUS FRANSCISCAE NUPER.AE UXORIS CLARISSIMAE PIETATIS, ET CONSUETUDINIS HONIS, NICHOLAI LAW[ES], ARMIGERI. VIRGINIS NOMEN FUIT GODWYN,* ARMIGERO RELIGIONIS, ET REGIAE CAUSAE, FORTITER STUDIOSO, OBTINUIT [?] QUI PATERNIS FRANSCISCI GODWYNI, HEREFORDIENSISEPISCOPI, THOMAE GODWYNI BATHONENSIS, ET JOHANNIS WOOTTON, EXONIENSIS EXEMPLIS ET INSTITUTIS DOCTUS, FIDE ET CONSTANTIA CLARUIT HAE ETIAM RUINAE MEMORIAM DANT SEMPIT ERNATAM OBIIT DIE 7 MO., MARTIJ, ANN0 169 2/3 FILIUS HORUM, VIX NATUS EITA DISCEDENS CUM MATRE CONTUMULATUS JACET.

Slab, Black Marble.

47.

"WITH THE PURE THOU SHALT SHOW THYSELF PURE."

TO THE MEMORY OF ELIZABETH DALLING, AN INVALUABLE WIFE; AND HER LOVELY INFANT DAUGHTER, NAMED AFTER HER. THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY THEIR AFFLICTED & AFFECTIONATE, HUSBAND, & FATHER, LIEUT.-COLL JOHN DALLING, IN 1763.

ELIZABETH DALLING, DEPARTED THIS LIFE, JULY THE 6, 1763, IN THE 22 YEAR OF HER AGE. SHE WAS THE ELDER DAUGHTER OF PHILLIP AND GRACE PINNOCK, OF THIS ISLAND, AND HEIRESS OF HER UNCLE, COLL. HENRY DAWKINS. THE INFANT DAUGHTER DIED MAY 1, 1768, IN THE THIRD YEAR OF HER AGE.

White Marble. Mural, elegantly Sculptured.

SIR JOHN DALLING, created a Baronet in 1783, was son of John Dalling, of Bungay, Suffolk, and Governor of Jamaica. By Louisa Lawford, his second wife, he had surviving issue. See the " Baronetage," and also the " Peerage," and " Extinct and Dormant Peerage," voce " Pernrhyn."

48.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ANN DELAPIERRE LITTLEJOHN, THE WIFE OF ALEXR. LITTLEJOHN, AND DAUGHTER OF GEORGE BENNETT, ESQR., BY HIS WIFE, ANN DELAPIERRE. SHE WAS AN UNPARALLELLED EXAMPLE OF FILIAL DUTY, AND CONJUGAL AFFECTION. SHE DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 10th SEP, 1771, 15 DAYS AFTER THE DELIVERY OF TWIN MALE INFANTS, WHO FOLLOWED HER.ON THE 3d SEP. & 5th OCTR, 1771 THEY WERE BAPTIZED

White Marble, Mural.

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*Qy. morte?

* *Qy. [Quod patre nata Joanne Godwyn]


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AT THE FUNERAL OF THEIR MOTHER, BY THE NAMES OF ALEXANDER AND DAVID DELAPIERRE BENNETT, AND THEIR REMAINS ARE HERE INTER'D WITH THOSE OF THEIR MOTHER.

"BLESSED ARE THEY WHO DIE IN THE LORD."

Monument, elegantly Sculptured; Arms, Argent, three arrows, two in saltire, and one in pale, crossed, between six trefoils sable. Crest, A bow bent, and stringed, with arrow drawn to the head, point upwards. Olim sic erat," 6 Nov., 1771.

THE Bennetts (of Dorsetshire origin) were settled, soon after the capture of Jamaica, at Barbican, in Liguanea. The founders of the family appear to have been Henry Bennet (will, 1666) and the Honble. George Bennett (will, 1678). The latter was Member of Assembly for Kingston, and colonel of militia, as were also his son and grandson, of the same name.

An interesting narrative, concerning the assassination of a member of this family, is given in the " Gentleman's Magazine," for May, 1751. [See also Notes and Queries 5th ser. ii. 349.]

BENNETTS OF JAMAICA.

... Bennett

..2. George Bennett, will 1678 = .......

.....3. John.

.........4. George

.....3. William

.....3. Elizabeth

..2. Henry Bennet, will, 1666. = .........

....3. Philip Bennett, see will of Sir H. Morgan, 1688.

.....3. George Bennett, m. 1693 or 4, Ob. 9 Oct., 1741.=Sarah, d. of John Rosewell, of a Somersetshire family, ob. 8 Oct, 1733, aet. 58.

.......4. George, Col. of M. 1746. = Ann.

...........5. Thomas.=

............6. William, a lawyer. = Martha.

..............7. A Son killed, unm.

..............7. Lucy, poisoned circa 1820, = .....Jones of Shaw Park. [S.P.]

............6. Sarah, will 1815 = John Francklin, will 1803

............6. Anne, 1st wife = John Hodges [His 2d wife was sister of Mrs. Barrett.]

..............7. Alexander Blake

..............7. Robert Francklin = Daughter of Honbl. Hugh Lewis, C. J. [S.P.]

..............7. Anne = G. Archer

............6. Daur. drowned in Manchioneal.

........4. Mary Rosewell.

.......4. William

.......4. John

.......4. Ann

.......4. Elizab.

.......4. Thomas

.......4. Rebecca

49.

THIS STONE IS PLACED NEAR THE REMAINS OF CAPT. JAMES RENTON, TO PRESERVE TO POSTERITY, THE MEMORY OF THAT GALLANT OFFICER, WHO WAS BORN IN SCOTLAND OCT., 1702. HE WENT EARLY TO SEA, AND BY HIS EXPERIENCE IN MARITIME AFFAIRS, WAS SIGNALLY USEFULL TO THE BRAVE VERNON, AT THE TAKING OF PORTO BELLO, WHERE HE SERVED AS A VOLUNTEER, & WAS REWARDED Wth THE COMMAND OF A FRIGATE, ADDED TO THE BRITISH


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NAVY, BY THAT GLORIOUS CONQUEST. HE WAS CAPTAIN OF THE " STRAFFORD," WHEN PORT LOUIS WAS TAKEN BY REAR-ADMIRAL KNOWLES, MARCH 8, 187/8* & MORTALLY WOUNDED IN THE ATTACK, DYING WITHOUT REGRET, IN THE SERVICE OF HIS COUNTRY, AND IN THE ARMS OF VICTORY. ELIZABETH RENTON, HIS WIDOW, FROM DUTY AND AFFECTION, INSCRIBED THIS, TO TESTIFY A JUST SENCE (Sic) OF HER LOSS, AND HIS MERIT.

Mural, White Marble Bas relief of a naval engagement; Arms, Argent, within an orle ingrailed, a lion rampant sable: impaling, argent, between two lions rampant, combatant, sable, a tower gules.

50.

H. S. E. ANTONIUS LANGLEY SWYMMER, ARMR., VIR SI QUIS ALIUS AD AMICORUM UTILITATEM ATQUE COMMODA PROMOVENDA, ALACER, ET FIDELIS AD PATRIAE JURA ATQUE PRIVILIGIA TUENDA ET VINDICANDA, VIGIL. ACER STRENUUS. HISCE ACCEDEBAT OPTIMA INDOLES MIRA MORUM ELEGANTIA,COMITAS, SUAVISSIMA. UXOREM DUXIT ARABELLAM FILIAM NATA QUINTAM Dni JOANs. ASTLEY, BARTI. DE PATSHULL IN AGRO STAFFORD. OBIIT PRID. NON. MENSIS JANUARIJ ANN. DOM. MD.CCXL. AETAT XXXIV., AMICIS PATRIAE VIDUAE DESIDERATISSIMUS.

SEE " Baronetage."

Mural Monument of hand some Coloured Marbles; Arms, Gules, three bells, or: impaling, az., a cinque-foil, argt.

51.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REVD. J0HN CAMPBELL WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN LONDON 13th OCTOBER, 1813, AGED 64 YEARS. THE JUSTICES AND VESTRY HAVE CAUSED THIS MONUMENT TO BE ERECTED AS A TRIBUTE TO HIS MERIT AND EXEMPLARY GOOD C0NDUCT DURING A RESIDENCE OF THIRTY THREE YEARS AS RECTOR OF THIS PARISH ST. ANDREW, 1814.

W. M. on Gray Mural Tablet.

His son became Chaplain-General to the Forces, and had with. other issue 1. John, Rector of St. Thomas ye Vale, married Anne, only child of J. F. Archer; 2. Duncan, Rector of Kingston, married Emily P., daughter of Dr. A. G. Spencer, Bishop of Jamaica; 3. Charles, M.D., married Isabel M., daughter of Edwards, Receiver-General.

52.

MARY ANNE ISABELLA, DAUR. OF MARY ANNE, AND DR. WILLIAM GORDON, OB. 27 MAY, 1858, AET. 21 YRS. & 5 MTHS.

IN THE CHURCHYARD

Nearly all abridged.

53.

ANN EUPHEMIA DARRELL, INF. DR. OF W. G. ASHWOOD, & EUPHEMIA FRANCES, HIS WIFE, BORN IN BERMUDA JANY. 1, 1854; DIED IN JAMAICA 21 JANY., 1855.

___________________________

Mauritius was taken from the French in 1810.


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54.

ROBT. FRANCIS JOHN EDEN, INF. SON OF LOUISA, & LT. COL,. C. M. EDEN, WHO WAS BORN AT DINAN, BRITTANY, AUGT. 4 th, 1836; & DIED AT VILLA MEDICI, 6th JUNE, 1837.

55.

WILLIAM MATTCOCKS, ESQ,, A NATIVE OF LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND, OB. 20th FEB. 1835, AET. 74.

56.

NICOL CUNNINGHAM GRAHAM, OB. 22d JULY, 1860, AET. 9,MTHS.

57.

JAMES FALCONER, ESQ., OB. 5th MARCH, 1828, AE.T. 69.

58.

HUGH MC LACHLAN, ESQ., OB. 22d AUGT. 1823, AET. 37 YRS. 2 MTHS.

59.

JOHN ARNETT CATOR, OB. 10th JUNE, 1862, AET. 52.

60.

CHARLES ISAACS, SON OF GEO. & ELIZA ISAACS, OB. 8 AUGT. 1838, AET. 7 MTHS.

61.

FRANCES HARRIS, OB. 5 NOV. 1820, AET. 42 Y. 2 MTHS., & JOHN. TOWNSHEND HARRIS, HER HUSBAND, OB, 16th FEB. 1836, ALT. 66 YRS. 7 MTHS JANE, THEIR DAUR., OB. 19th APL, 1836, AET, 22 YRS. 23 DAYS, & JAMES TURNER HARRIS, INF. SON OF GEO. HARRIS, OB. 11 NOV. 183 1, FRANCES HARRIS, WIFE OF JNO. T. HARRIS, ESQ. OB. 5 NOV. 1820, AET. 42.

62.

CHARLOTTE AIKMAN, OB. 8th NOV. 1810, AET. 29.

63.

ALEXR. AIKMAN, SENR., ESQ., OB. 6th JULY, 1838, AET 83.

64.

ESTHER ELIZAB. DAVIS, OB. 17th DEC. 1834, AET. 59.

65.

LUCY WIFE OF REVD. DR. MAGRATH, RECTOR OF TRELAWNEY, OB. 30th MAY, 1852, AET. 44.

66.

FRANCIS HARRIS, DIED OF MALIGNANT CHOLERA, DECR. 3, 1850, AET. 42.

67.

ISAAC MC CORKELL, OB. 12 FEB. 1842. ANN LONGMAN HARRIS, OB. 14th DEC. 1849, AET 16 MTHS.


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