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PARISH OF KINGSTON.

KINGSTON CATHEDRAL CHURCH.

INTRA MURAL MONUMENTS.

NEAR THIS SPOT, IN THE ADJOINING CEMETERY, ARE DEPOSITED THE REMAINS OF EDWARD BAKER, MIDSHIPMAN IN THE ROYAL NAVY OF GREAT BRITAIN, SECOND SON OF WILLIAM BAKER OF BAYFORDBURY, IN THE COUNTY OF HERTFORD, BY SOPHIA, THIRD DAUGHTER OF JOHN CONYERS, LATE OF COPPED HALL IN THE COUNTY OF ESSEX. A YOUTH WHOSE RARE ENDOWMENTS BY NATURE, IMPROVED BY EDUCATION, AND CONFIRMED BY THE EXAMPLE AND INSTRUCTION OF HIS COMMANDER, COMMODORE JOHN THOMAS DUCKWORTH, GAVE THE FAIREST PROMISE TO HIS COUNTRY (HAD IT PLEASED THE ALMIGHTY TO SPARE HIS LIFE), OF A DISTINGUISHED CHRISTIAN HERO, AND TRUELY VALUABLE MAN, INITIATED IN THE PROFESSION OF HIS CHOICE. WITH THESE ADVANTAGES, HE SERVED ON BOARD THE ORION, IN THE MEMORABLE ACTION OF THE 3d OF JUNE 1794, AND SHARED, WITH SINGULAR MERIT, IN THE GLORIES OF THAT IMPORTANT DAY. WITH EQUAL GALLANTRY, BUT LESS PROPITIOUS FORTUNE, UNDER THE SAME RESPECTABLE OFFICER, ON THE 21st OF MARCH 1796, HE WAS ENGAGED IN THE ATTACK MADE BY THE LEVIATHAN, AND AFRICA, ON THE FORTS OF LEOGANE, IN THE ISLAND OF ST DOMINGO, BUT YIELDING ALAS! TO THE FATIGUES OF THAT DISASTROUS SERVICE, SUCCEEDED BY THE PREVAILING MALADY OF THE CLIMATE, HE CLOSED A BRILLIANT CAREER OF HONOUR AND VIRTUE, IN THE 17th YEAR OF HIS AGE.

IF HARD INDEED HIS LOT, AND PREMATURE HIS FALL, DEPRIVED IN THAT AWEFUL MOMENT OF THE CONSOLING CARE OF HIS DEAREST RELATIVES, YET HAPPY AT LEAST IN THIS, THAT WITH FACULTIES UNIMPAIRED, AND HOPEFUL OF THE BLISS WHICH AWAITED HIM, HE BREATHED HIS LAST IN THE ARMS OF HIS PROTECTOR AND FRIEND, AND WAS ATTENDED TO THE GRAVE, BY THE UNFEIGNED TEARS, AND HEARTFELT SIGHS OF THE COMPANIONS OF HIS NAVAL FORTUNES THE ZEALOUS ADMIRERS OF HIS EXCELLENCE AND CHARACTER.

NAT. V DIE SEPTEMBRIS MDCCLXXlX OB. XXI DIE APRILIS MDCCXCVI. OSTENDENT TERRIS HUNC TANTUM FATA NEQ. ULTRA ESSE SINENT. SI QUA FATA ASPERA RUMPAS TU MARCELLUS ERIS!


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2.

IN MEMORY OF MRS. FRANCES INCLIS WHO DIED THE 9th OF JANY 1791 AGED 66 YEARS ALSO OF JOHN SUTHERLAND ESQRE WHO DIED THE 12th OF FEBY. 1796 AGED 62 YEARS AND OF MRS. ANN SUTHERLAND WHO DIED THE 1st OF DECR 1797; AGED 51 YEARS.

Mural, Gray Marble, gilding and blazonry ; Arms, Or, within a tressure flory counter flory gules, three mullets or. Impaling, or, a lion rampant (facing to the sinister side) azure, on a chief of the first, three mullets of the last.

N.B. It is clear that in transferring these coats to the marble, the sculptor reversed them. A remarkable instance of the same error is to be seen on the tombs of the O'Shee family, in Kilkenny.

3.

(Ab.) ELIZABETH CRICHTON, WIFE OF WILLIAM LAMBIE ESQR. OF THIS ISLAND; DAUGHTER OF PATRICK CRICHTON ESQ. OF THE CITY OF EDINBURGH; WHO DIED IN KINGSTON, ON THE 20th DECR 1821, AGED 23 YEARS.

Mural, W. Marble; Arms, Per fess, argent and azure ; in chief three spears,...and in base a saltire.... Impaling, argent, a lion rampant, within a border engrailed, azure.

SIXTEEN eulogistic lines follow, in which she is described as a daughter, wife, sister, and mother.

4.

(Ab.) JOSEPH FITCH ESQR OF THIS TOWN MERCHANT, WHO DIED ON THE 21st OCTOBER 1778 AET 43 (ERECTED BY HIS BROTHER.)

Mural, W. & G. Marble, &c., gilding and blazonry; Arms, Vert, three leopards' heads affronté or. Crest, A leopard's head affronté, or.

5.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF BARTHOLOMEW SAMUEL ROWLEY ESQRE ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF HIS MAJESTY'S FLEET AT JAMAICA WHO DIED ON THE 7th OF OCTOBER A.D. 1811 AGED 47 YEARS. THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED AS A TRIBUTE OF AFFECTION BY HIS WIDOW ARABELLA.

Mural, G. & W. Marble; Arms, Argent, on a fess azure, between two Cornish choughs, three escallops. Impaling, argent, two bars gules. Crest, A rowel pierced.


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HE was second son of Sir Joshua Rowley, cr. Bart., in 1786.

6.

HENRY ROBARTS HIBBERT, YOUNGEST SON OF GEORGE HIBBERT ESQ., OF LONDON, AGENT FOR THIS ISLAND, DIED ON THE 14th DAY OF JULY 1825.

Mural, W. M., plain.

7.

(Ab.) MARK O'SULLIVAN ESQR. OB 3d NOV: 1825, AET 74; & 47 YEARS A RESIDENT

Mural, W. M., plain.

8.

IN MEMORY OF THOMAS T. GITTINGS, OF BALTIMORE, M. D. U.S.A. WHO DIED HERE, JUNE 6th 1857, AGED 21 YEARS & 5 MONTHS.

Mural, very mean appearance, though W. M.

9.

TO THE MEMORY OF GEORGE HINDE ESQR WHOSE FAITHFUL SERVICES ENDEARED HIM TO HIS COUNTRY AND HIS SOCIAL VIRTUES TO HIS FRIENDS. HE DIED A REAL LOSS TO BOTH JULY 21. 1756 AGED 46 YEARS.

Mural, a sumptuous Monument of white and coloured marbles, with gilding and blazonry; Arms, Gules, a chev. between three hinds or. Impaling, barry of eight, or and gules.

10.

(Ab.) JOHN DANIEL ORRETT ESQ., A NATIVE OF THIS CITY, WHO DIED AT NEW YORK, DEC 6. 1858. AET 59.

(Six verses follow.)

11.

(Ab.) VIRGINIA FAIRFAX, WIFE OF PETER ALEXR. ESPEUT ESQR, OF THIS CITY, AND DAUGHTER OF COLONEL ROBERT MUNROE HARRISON, CONSUL GENERAL OF THE U.S. OF AMERICA, FOR THIS ISLAND. BORN 28th AUGT 1821 : DIED 5th NOVR 1841, AGED 20 YEARS & 2 MONTHS &C. ALSO VIRGINIA MARGARET GROSETT, 2d DAUR, OF THE ABOVE, BORN 28th OCT 1839, DIED 7 JANY. 1841, AGED 14 MTHS & 11 DAYS. ALSO CHARLES ALLEN BANCROFT, 2d SON OF P.A. ESPEUT ESQ., BY HIS 2 WIFE MARIANNE AUGUSTA, THIRD DAUGHTER OF THE LATE EDWARD NATHANIEL BANCROFT, ESQ. M. D. DEPY. INSP. GENL: OF ARMY HOSPITALS IN THIS ISLAND DIED OF CHOLERA, 12 NOV 1850, AET. 5 YRS, & 6 MTHS.

Mural, G. M., surmounted by a cross, &c.

THE Espeuts were a French refugee family, from St. Domingo.


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12.

(Ab.) HENRY RODON, OF FRANKFIELD, & CRAWLE RIVER ESTATES, PAR: CLARENDON. OB. 6 FEB. 1835, AET 33.

Mural, W. & G. Marble.

13.

(Ab.) ELIZABETH WIFE OF ANDREW DUNN, M. D. & 2d DAU. OF W. S. TONGE, BARRISTER AT LAW. OB. OCT. 26 1852. AET 44 YRS. 5 MTHS, & 10 DAYS.

Mural, W. & G. Marble.

IN the lines that follow, she is described as wife and mother. It is unnecessary to give them, as they are poetically discreditable.

14.

(Ab.) MRS ANNE SMITH WIFE OF MR. W SMITH OF THIS CITY, MERCHANT, AND SECOND DAUGHTER OF JOHN LUNAN ESQ. OF SPANISH TOWN OB. 11 DEC. 1825. AET 21. ERECTED BY HER AFFLICTED HUSBAND. Mural, B. & W. Marble ; curious sculpture of Death drawing her bed-curtain, while an angel lifts her up, to receive the visitation.

SIX highly eulogistic lines in rhyme, follow.

I5.

THE HONBLE JOSEPH BARNES, LATE MAYOR AND CUSTOS OF THIS CITY, AND PARISH: MR. OF ASSLY., &c. OB. 6 MAY 1829, AET 66. ERECTED BY THE CORPORATE BODY.

Mural, G. & W. Marble.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF AUGUSTUS LEVESON GOWER, CAPTAIN IN HIS MAJESTY'S NAVY, BORN THE 21st OF JUNE 1782. HE GAVE EARLY PROMISE OF BEING AN ORNAMENT TO HIS PROFESSION, AND AN HONOR TO HIS COUNTRY, AND DIED MUCH LAMENTED, AT PORT ROYAL IN THIS ISLAND, ON THE 3d OF AUGUST 1802, BEING THEN CAPTAIN OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP SANTA MARGARETTA

Mural, gray-white and reddish-brown Marble and Stone ; a naval trophy, inscription on a boat's square sail of W. Marble.

CAPT. A. L. G. not found in Burke's " Peerage."

17.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF SIR ALEXANDER LEITH BART. LIEUT. COLL OF THE 88th REGIMENT WHO DIED OCTOBER THE 3d 1781 AGED 40 YEARS THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED, BY HIS AFFECTIONATE SON SIR GEORGE LEITH BART OF BURUGH ST PETER'S NORFOLK.

Mural, W. Marble.

SIR ALEXANDER, cr. Bart. in 1775, married Margaret, eldest daughter of Thomas Hay, Sen. Coll. of Jus., Scotland.


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18.

(Ab.) THE REVD GEORGE WATSON ASKEW B.A. OF QUEEN'S COLLEGE OXFORD. OB. 27th OCTR 1831. AET. 31. 10. 10.

Handsome mural sarcophagus, W. & G. M.; Arms, A fesse between three horses passant.

19.

Ab.) ERECTED BY HIS WIDOW, TO THE MEMORY OF MR JOHN BURROWS, MERCHANT OF KINGSTON, WHO DIED 12 FEB, 1807, AGED 39.

Mural, W. Marble.

(Ab.) WM. JAS. STEVENSON ESQ., BORN 29 OCT 1764; DIED 15 APRIL 1830, AGED 66. ERECTED BY THE MERCHTS OF KINGSTON

Mural, W. Marble.

HE was Receiver-General of Jamaica, and grandfather of the late Sir W. Stevenson, Governor of Mauritius.

21.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS STOPFORD ESQR LATE COMMANDER OF H.M.S. CARNATION WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 11 DAY OF OCTOBER 1824 AGED 32 YEARS

Mural, W. & G. Marble (chaste design).

(Ab.) EBENEZER REID, SENIOR, A NATIVE OF SCOTLAND OB: 25 MAY 1843 AET 66. HE WAS ELECTED HEAD MASTER OF WOLMER'S FREE SCHOOL IN 1815, AND RESIDED ALTOGETHER 43 YEARS, AS A TEACHER IN JAMAICA.

Mural, Black Marble, gold lettered.

HE is described as a husband and father. The tablet was erected by his pupils.

Ab.) BARTH OWEN WILLIAMS ESQRE A KIND HUSBAND AFFECTIONATE FATHER, TRUE FRIEND, AND SINCERE CHRISTIAN. OB. 10 APRIL 1830, AET 66 ERECTED BY HIS BRETHREN OF THE SUSSEX LODGE OF FREE MASONS, OF WHICH HE WAS THE FOUNDER

Mural, W. & G. Marble.


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24.

(Ab.) ROBERT MCCLELLAND OF THE ROYAL LODGE NO. 250. PROVL, NO. 1. GRAND REGISTRAR OF THE PROVINCIAL LODGE OF EAST JAMAICA HE DIED 15 SEP, 1860. ERECTED BY THE BRETHERN OF THE LODGE.

Mural, Black Marble Tablet, Royal Archmasonic devices.

25.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MARY CARR WIFE OF DAWKINS CARR ESQRE COMMANDER OF THE JUPITER WHO DIED JUNE 4th 1798 AGED 28.

Mural, W. & G. Marble; a sculptured urn.

26.

(Ab). MR NATHANIEL MILWARD, A NATIVE OF THE CITY OF BRISTOL; AND LATE OF THIS PARISH, MERCHANT. HE WAS A TRULY HONEST MAN, &C &C. OB. JUNE 6th 1775 AET 37. ERECTED BY FRIENDS

Mural, W. & Coloured Marble.

27.

(Ab.) ALEXANDER EVANS ALDERMAN OF KINGSTON, OB. 8 JANY 1858. HE WAS 27 YRS IN THE MAGISTRACY. ERECTED BY THE CORPORATION OF KINGSTON

Mural, W. Marble.

28.

(Ab.) GEORGE MARTIN, ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM MARTIN, ESQR. OF HEMINGSTONE HALL, IN CO: SUFFOLK. BORN 15th SEP: 1796 & DIED, OFF ST JAGO DE CUBA, ON BOARD H.M.S. BUSTARD 13th JANY. 1822.

Mural, W. Marble,

29.

(Ab.) THE REVD FRANCIS HUMBERSTONE, CHAPLAIN TO THE CORPORATION OF KINGSTON; OB AUGT. 9th 1819. AET. 28 AFTER ONLY 9 MTHS RESIDENCE IN THE ISLAND.

Mural Monument, W. & G. Marble; the Bible encircled by a snake.

HE was one of the first stirring men, after the emancipation. He died of tetanus, caused by preaching a sermon, immediately after the extraction of a tooth.

30.

Ab.) THE REVD ISAAC MANN, B.A. ONE OF THE CHAPLAINS TO THE LORD BISHOP OF JAMAICA, AND FOR FIFTEEN YEARS, THE BELOVED RESPECTED


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RECTOR OF THIS PARISH. HE DIED, OCTOBER 31st 1828, AGED 51 YEARS. ERECTED BY THE MAYOR & COMMONALTY.

Mural, Black & White Marble.

THIS MARBLE INTENDED AS A MONUMENT OF PUBLIC GRATITUDE TO A PUBLIC BENEFACTOR IS SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN WOLMER, GOLDSMITH FOUNDER OF A FREE SCHOOL AT KINGSTON. OBT. 29th JUNE 1729

Mural, G. & W. Marble J. Bacon, R.A., Sculpt., 1789. A lifesize female figure, subscribed "Liberalitas."

32.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF EMANUEL THOMAS POE, MAJOR OF HIS MAJESTY'S 50th REGT., BORN 12th NOVR 1782; DIED 7th JANY 1822.

Mural, B. & W. Marble.

33.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF CAPTAIN EDWARD ROWLEY, THIRD SON OF SIR WILLIAM ROWLEY, BART. OF TENDRING HALL, IN THE COUNTY OF NORFOLK; WHO DIED AT NASSAU, NEW PROVIDENCE, ON THE 8th OF JULY 1817, WHILE COMMANDING H. M. BRIG SHEARWATER, AND WAS BURIED AT THAT PLACE, ON THE 15th OF THE SAME MONTH BORN, THE 16th OF APRIL 1792.

Mural, B. & W. Marble.

34.

IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM BROWN OF LEESTHORPE, IN THE COUNTY OF LEICESTER, ESQUIRE, A REAR ADMIRAL OF THE RED, & COMMANDER IN CHIEF AT JAMAICA, WHERE TO THE REGRET OF THE WHOLE COLONY, HE DIED ON THE 20th DAY OF SEPTEMBER 1814; IN THE FIFTIETH YEAR OF HIS AGE. HE MARRIED FIRST, CATHERINE, DAUGHTER OF JOHN TRAVERS ESQUIRE, A DIRECTOR OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY; AND SECONDLY, MARTHA VERE, DAUGHTER OF JOHN FOTHERGILL OF HANDSWORTH, IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD, ESQUIRE, WHO HAS ERECTED THIS MONUMENT, AS A FAINT RECORD OF HER UNBOUNDED AFFECTION, AND AS A SLENDER TRIBUTE, TO HIS UNSHAKEN AND ACKNOWLEDGED WORTH

Mural Monument

B & W. Marble sculptured; Arms, On a fess, between three mallets sable, a crescent argent. Impaling, vert, a deer's head couped at the shoulder, within a border engrailed, argent. Crest, A demi-eagle displayed, its neck entwined by a snake.


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35.

NEAR THIS MARBLE LIE INTERRED THE' REMAINS OF MALCOLM LAING ESQUIRE WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 1st OF AUGUST 1781 AGED 63 YEARS ALSO THE REMAINS OF ELEANOR HIS WIFE THE DAUGHTER OF MRS MARY SHARPE WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 29th OF SEPTEMBER 1747 AGED 35 YEARS. THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED IN GRATITUDE TO THEIR MEMORY, AND AS A LASTING TESTIMONY OF THEIR WORTH BY JOHN JAQUES ESQRE

Fine Marble Mont., bearing a sculptured female figure, beautifully designed and executed by J. Bacon, R. A., 1794; Arms, Argent, three piles azure.

36.

(Ab.) IN MEMORY OF LIEUT. BURTON ROWLEY, SECOND SON OF REAR ADMIRAL SIR CHARLES ROWLEY, COMMANDER IN CHIEF IN THE WEST INDIES, WHO DIED ON THE 15th OF SEPTR. 1822, ON BOARD H.M.S. SIBYLLE, AT CARTHAGENA, IN THE 20th YEAR OF HIS AGE.

Mural, White Marble.

37.

(Ab.) SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ENSIGN JOHN SKINNER, 58th REGT., SECOND SON OF LIEUT. GENL: SKINNER, WHO FELL A SACRIFICE TO THIS CLIMATE, 28th NOVEMBER 1821, AGED 19 YEARS & 3 MONTHS

Mural, B. & W. Marble, sculptured ; Arms, Sable, a chev. or, between three eagles' heads erased, a mullet in chief.

TWELVE eulogistic lines follow. These arms appear as a quartering in the escutcheon of Skinner, of Carisbrooke. Burke's "Landed Gentry."

38.

(Ab). JEAN DAUR. OF SAMUEL GREGORY, MERCHANT, BORN NOV. 30, 1753: DIED OCT 12. 1776. ERECTED BY HER HUSBAND, HUGH POLSON ESQRE.

Mural, W. Marble.

39.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. ANN NEUFVILLE, DAUGHTER OF MRS. FRANCIS DWARRIS, BY HER FIRST HUSBAND, JOHN DUNSTON ESQRE., SHE DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 15th AUGUST 1782, AGED 24 YEARS.

"MANY DAUGHTERS HAVE DONE VIRTUOUSLY BUT THOU HAST EQUALLED THE BEST."


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LIKEWISE, THE HONORABLE FORTUNATUS DWARRIS, ESQR. M. D., AND CUSTOS ROTULORUM FOR THE PARISH OF ST. GEORGE, IN THIS ISLAND. HE DEPARTED THIS LIFE, ON THE 5th OF FEBRUARY 1790, AGED 63 YEARS

WITH JUST APPLAUSE EACH STAGE OF LIFE HE RAN, AND DIED LAMENTED, AS AN HONEST MAN.

THIS MONUMENT (A JUST TRIBUTE DUE TO DEPARTED MERIT) IS ERECTED BY THE AFFLICTED PARENT, AND DISCONSOLATE WIDOW, MRS. FRANCES DWARRIS IN TENDER REGARD TO THEIR RESPECTIVE MEMORIES, AND MANY VIRTUES

Beautiful W. Marble Mont., by J. Bacon, R. A., Sculptor, London, 1792. Figures in bas relief, and on an urn in the arm of the principal these lines:

Ascend to Bliss ye gentle spirits

Where yon angel soars above

There, virtue her reward inherits

Crown'd with Heav'ns Eternall Love."

40.

IN THE CEMETERY OF THIS PARISH LIE INTERRED THE MORTAL REMAINS OF COLONEL CHARLES HILL, LIEUT.-COLONEL OF THE 50th REGIMENT OF FOOT, AND A COMPANION OF THE MOST HONORABLE MILITARY ORDER OF THE BATH. AS MAJOR, AND AFTERWARDS AS LIEUT.-COLONEL COMMANDING THIS BRAVE AND DISTINGUISHED REGIMENT, HE WAS HIMSELF EMINENTLY CONSPICUOUS IN THE NUMEROUS ACTIONS OF THE WAR, IN WHICH IT WAS ENGAGED, AND ASSISTED IN PLACING ON ITS COLOURS THE GLORIOUS DISTINCTIONS OF VIMIERA, VITTORIA, PYRENEES, AND PENINSULA. COVERED WITH WOUNDS, AND WITH HONOR, HE MIGHT, AT THE PEACE, HAVE RETIRED TO THE ENJOYMENT OF HIS COUNTRY'S BLESSINGS AND APPLAUSE; BUT ANXIOUS TO SEE HIS OLD REGIMENT RESTORED TO ITS WONTED FORCE, AND DISCIPLINE; AND THEN UNWILLING TO QUIT IT WHEN AGAIN ORDERED ON DISTANT DUTY, AND AN UNFAVOURABLE CHANGE OF CLIMATE, HE ULTIMATELY FELL A VICTIM TO HIS EVER ANXIOUS SOLICITUDE FOR THOSE WITH WHOM HIS BLOOD HAD BEEN SO OFTEN SHED; AND, TOGETHER WITH A NUMEROUS BAND OF HIS GALLANT OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS, PERISHED BY A DESOLATING FEVER, ON THE 31st OF AUGUST 1819, IN THE 57th YEAR OF HIS AGE, & THE 41st OF HIS MILITARY SERVICE. THIS STONE IS ERECTED TO HIS MEMORY BY HIS AFFECTIONATE WIFE ANNE HILL.

Mural, White Marble; a military trophy, in relief.

(Ab.) COLONEL HENRY CAPADOSE, DIED AT UP PARK CAMP, 29th FEB: 1848, AGED 70. ERECTED TO THEIR LATE COMMANDING OFFICER, BY THE OFFICERS OF THE 1st W. I. REGT.

W. M. Mural Sarcophagus.


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42.

MEMORIAE SACRUM JOANNIS BECHER ARMIGERI APUD ANGLOS INDIGENAE PROBI JURISPERITI; QUI QUUM IN HAC INSULA MULTOS ANNOS COMMORATUS FUISSET, ARTEMQ SUAM FIDE SUMMA JUDIC10 SUMMO EXERCUISSET, PRAE PROPERE NIMIS AMICIS ABREPTUS EST, NUNQUAM SATIS DEFLENDUS SATIS DESIDERANDUS OBIIT 27 SEPTR 1762 AETAT SUAE 35.

White Mural Mont., with an obelisk of yellow variegated marble ; Arms, Vair, or and gules, on a canton of the first, a deer's head caboshed azure. Impaling, azure, a fess nebulé, between three lions' heads erased, argent.

43.

TO THE MEMORY OF GEORGE ORLEBAR, FRANCIS W HODGES, JOHN SMITH HANDCOCK, CECIL F .P. HALE, & HENRY DYSON, MIDSHIPMEN ON BOARD H.M.S. SANSPARE1L, WHO IN THE BLOOM OF YOUTH& WITH EVERY PROMISE OF ADORNING THEIR PROFESSION OF BEING USEFUL TO THEIR COUNTRY AND A BLESSING TO THEIR FRIENDS PREMATURELY PERISHED IN 1800, & 180l BY THE FELL FEVER OF THE WEST INDIES.

Mural, White Marble Tablet ; oval on gray.

G. ORLEBAR, born 1782, was son of Richard Orlebar [O. of Hanwick], by his second wife, Charlotte Willing. See Hale, of King's Walden, pedigree. Of the Hodges family a notice will be found farther on.

44.

MEMORIAE SACRUM CAROLI LLOYD ARMIGERI QUI E FAMILIA GLOCESTRIENSI ORIUNDUS ET LIBERALIBUS HUMANIORIS VITAE STUDIIS IN ANGLIA PROBE EXCULTUS. HIC MATURUS SEDEM FIXIT UBI MERCATURAM FELICITER EXERCENS INTEGERRTMAE, V1TAE EXEMPLAR SE PRAESTANS, ET OMNIUM QUIBUSCUM VEL COMMERCIUM VEL CONSORTIUM HABUIT, FAVOREM SIBI CONCILIANS, IN HAC PROVINCIA PRAEFECTUS AERARII COOPTATUS EST: QUO MUNERE SUMMA CUM PROBITATE. SUMMO OMNI.UM PLAUSU PERFUNCTUS EST; POST FACULTATES SATIS AMPLAS HONORIF1CE ACQUISITAS QUAS (PAENETOTAS) SINGULIS SUIS NEPOTIBUS EX AEQUO LEGARAT. LANGUORE CORREPTUS OBIIT DIE SEPTEM BRIS 28. A.D. MDCCLI ET AETATIS SUAE LX.

HOC QUALECUNQUE AFFECTUS ET DESIDERII TESTIMONIUM P.P. NATHANIEL LLOYD ARMIGER NON MINUS COMMERCII QUAM FRATERNITATIS VINCULO OLIM CONJUNCTISSIMUS: JOHANNES LLOYD S.T.P. & THOMAS CRAWLEY BOEVEY ARMIGER. E NEPOLITIUS ET TESTAMENTI HAEREDIBUS.

Mural White Marble Arms, Argent, a saltire gules.


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TREVOR, third son of Sir Evan Lloyd [cr. Bart. in 1647], a Captain in the army of Charles I., was the ancestor of this family. Thomas, second son of T. Crawley, merchant of London, assumed the additional surname of Boevey, on inheriting the estate of Flaxley Abbey, and succeeding to the baronetage conferred on Sir C. Barrow, his wife's cousin. See " Baronetage," Boevey.

45.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MRS MARGARET TAYLOR WIFE OF WILLIAM TAYLOR MERCHANT IN THIS CITY WHO DIED THE 14th OF JUNE 1806 AGED 28 YEARS. FEW WOMEN HAVE BEEN M0RE BELOVED IN LIFE OR MORE LAMENTED IN DEATH

Simple design: an urn, &c.; Mural, G. & W. Marble.

46.

(Ab.) TO THE MEMORY OF MESSRS. CHARLES INMAN, & RALPH PRESTON FROM LANCASTER, IN GREAT BRITAIN, BUT LATE OF THIS PARISH, MERCHANTS. THE FORMER DIED 14 AUG 1767, AET 42 THE LATTER THE 29th OF JANY. 1772, ONLY TWENTY SIX.

Mural, W. G. & B. Marble. (Ford, Bath, Sculp.)

SIX eulogistic lines follow. C. Inman, born 1725, Son of Christopher Inman, by his wife, Mary Patefield, married " Lady M. Bowlby," and by her had a son, ancestor of the Inmans of Upton Manor, co. Chester.

47.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF HORATIO S. CROSS OFFICER OF H. M'S CUSTOMS OBIIT JANY 29 1854. ETATIS SUAE 28. REQUIESCAT IN PACE.

White Marble Mural Tablet on a Black Marble; representation of a curtain drawn aside, and these words, " Thy will be done as it is in Heaven."

48.

TO THE MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING

(Ab.) CAPT. ROBT. MOSTYN, 3d W. .I. R., DIED OF YELLOW FEVER, AT NASSAU, BAHAMAS, 23 JULY 1853, AET 27.

ENSIGN JOHN ALEXR GORDON PRINGLE, 3d W. I. R., DIED OF YELLOW FEVER, AT KINGSTON, JAMAICA, 31 JULY 1833, AET 21.

ASST: SUR: WALTER WM. HARRIS, 1st W. I. R., ATTACHED TO 3d W. I. R., DIED AT UP PARK CAMP, OF YELLOW FEVER, 4 AUGT 1853, ALT 24.

LIEUT. JOHN MARYON WILSON, 3d W. I. R., DIED AT U. P. C., OF YELLOW FEVER, 13 AUGT 1853, AET. 22.

ELIZA CHANCELLOR WILSON, WIFE OF THE ABOVE, DIED AT U. P. C., OF YELLOW FEVER, 5th SEPTR 1853, AET. 22.

CATH: ELIZABETH, WIFE OF LIEUT. WM HENY WILSON HAWTAYNE, 3. W. I. R., DIED OF YELLOW FEVER AT NASSAU, BAHAMAS, 9 AUGT. 1853 AET 23.


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ASST. SURG. GIDEON JAS WM GRIFFITH 3. W. I. R. DIED OF YELLOW FEVER, AT LUCEA, 26th AUG 1853, AET 23. ALSO, SELINA MARIA, WIFE OF CAPT C. S. H HINGSTON, 3 W. I. R, DIED AT U. P. C. 11th APL 1854, AET. 23. ERECTED BY THE OFFICERS OF THE 1st & 3d W. I. REGTS.

Mural, W. Marble Tablet.

LIEUTENANT J. M. WILSON, son of J. M. Wilson, second son of Sir T. M. Wilson, seventh Bart. Ensign Pringle was probably of the Whlylbank family.

49.

IN MEMORY OF ISAAC JONES OF THIS CITY, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, 16th JANUARY 1853, AGED 62 YEARS ERECTED BY THE BRETHERN OF THE SUSSEX LODGE, IN TOKEN OF THEIR ESTEEM.

Mural, White Marble.

50.

(Ab.) NEAR THIS PLACE LIES BURIED, THE BODY OF RICHARD CARGILL, OF THE PARISH OF ST THOMAS IN THE EAST, ESQR. LATE COLL. OF THE ST THOMAS'S REGIMENT OF FOOT MILITIA, AND A REPRESENTATIVE IN THE ASSEMBLY OF THIS ISLAND FOR THE SAID PARISH WHO DIED IN MARCH 1781. AGED 37 YEARS. AT THE EAST PART OF THIS CHURCH, ALSO LIES BURIED, THE BODY OF JOHN CARGILL ESQ; FORMERLY MERCHANT IN THIS TOWN, WHO DIED IN SEPTEMBER 1780, AGED 35 YEARS. ERECTED BY THEIR BROTHER.

Handsome Mural cut of coloured Marble and blazonry; Arms, Gules three martlets, or.

EULOGISTIC lines follow. The Cargill family was from Scotland, some time during the Stuart rebellions, and were connected in Jamaica with the Marstons, Lascelles, and Dallas families.

51.

(Ab.) EDWARD NATHANIEL BANCROFT M. D. CANTAB; FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, LONDON; AND DEPUTY INSPECTOR GENERAL OF ARMY HOSPITALS. (ERECTED BY THE PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS OF JAMAICA) 0B. AT KINGSTON, 18 SEP. 1842, AET. 70.

Mural, W. M. Tablet.

52.

NEAR THIS MONUMENT LIES INTERRED THE BODY OF EDWARD MANNING, ESQ. ONE OF THE HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY AND CUSTOS ROTULORUM OF THIS PARISH IN WHICH STATIONS HE DISTINGUISHED HIMSELF. (HIS VIRTUES ARE THEN RECORDED, AND THE INSCRIPTION THUS TERMINATES): HE DIED GREATLY LAMENTED DECEMBER 6th, 1756 AGED 46 YEARS.

Arms, Gules, a cross rnoline, between three trefoils slipped ...A marble bust of the deceased.


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DWARD MANNING was married to the sister of Sir Henry Moore, but they were divorced, Ballard Beckford having been what is termed the co-respondent.

INTRA MURAL SLABS.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT FOSTER ESQR, OF KINGSTON, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, DECEMBER 5th 1768, AGED 55 YEARS.

Black Marble.

FRANCIS MARY, THE WIDOW OF THE HONBLE JOHN SCOTT, ESQR., AND DAUGHTER OF THE HONBLE ALEXANDER HENDERSON ESQ., LATE ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S PRIVY COUNCIL, AND ATTORNEY GENERAL OF JAMAICA DIED 20th NOVEM. 1755. AGED 27.

B. M.

EIGHT eulogistic lines follow.

55.

HERE LIES INTERR'D THE BODY OF FLORENTIUS SON OF FLORENTIUS VASSAL ESQR BORN 18th OF APRIL 1732 & DEPARTED THIS LIFE 29th OF MAY FOLLOWING.

B. M.; Arms, In chief, the sun in splendour; and in base, an uncovered cup. Crest, Over an esquire's helmet, a three-masted ship with sails furled (a kind of lymphad),

SEE pedigree of "Vassal of Milford."

56.

(Ab.) HERE LYETH INTERRED, THE B0DY OF ELIZABETH COLLY, WIFE OF W. M. COLLY OF THIS PAR: WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JULY 9, 1717 AND ALSO THREE OF THEIR CHILDREN VIZ

WILLIAM COLLY OB 29 FEBY. 1711

RICIIARD COLLY OB 5 NOV. 1715

JANE COLLY OB 3d JANY. 17.....

WILLM. COLLY, OBIIT THE l0th OF FEBRUARY, 1736, AGED 64.

B. M.

57.

HERE LYETH THE BODY OF MRS ELIZABETH FREEMAN WHO DYED JULY 2d 1728 AGED 50 YEARS ALSO ANN GOAD, HER NIECE, OBIIT 11 SEP 1731, AGED


MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS. 91

31 YEARS. LIKEWISE, YE BODY OF CAPTAIN GAYWOOD GOADE, HER NEPHEW OBIIT 1st SEPTR. 1758, AGED 45 YRS.

B. M.

58.

Ab.) LUCY, WIFE OF WM LEVER, MERCHANT, OB. AUGT. 10, 1720, AET. 43 YRS. & 3 MONTHS.

B. M.

59.

ANN GOODIN, WIDOW, MOTHER TO ROBT G..................................OF GOODIN (obl.)

B. M. apparently one of the oldest; no date.

60.

HERE LYETH THE BODY OF WATERHOUSE .... RNELEY ESQ OBIIT THE 6th OF .... LY 1723 AGED 43 YEARS.

B. M.; Arms, On a bend three deers' heads caboshed. Crest, Over an esquire's helmet a talbot passam.

61

HERE LYES INTERR'D, YE BODY OF WILLIAM HAY OF THE PARISH OF WESTMORELAND IN JAMAICA WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 16th DAY OF APRIL A. D 1717 AGED THIRTY SIX YEARS.

B. M.

62

DR JAMES COCKBURN, AND SARAH HIS WIFE; ALSO PRUDENCE, LATE WIFE OF DR THOMAS COCKBURN. SHE DIED AGED 31 .... AUGUST 1738 WITH HER ONLY CHILD.

G. M.; Arms, Quarterly, 1 & 4, three cocks ; 2 & 3, six mascles, 3, 2, & 1.

THESE are the arms of Cockburn, Bart., of Langton (now represented by the Lord Chief justice of England). Perhaps, however, they should be those of Ryslaw. See Baronetage."


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63.

HERE LIES INTERR .................... EDDE THE WIFE OF .................. HIS MAJESTY'S ........................ THE 6th OF JULY 173 ................OF HER

B. M. ; Arms, A chev. ....between three animals like does. Impaling . Crest, Over an esquire's helmet, out of a ducal coronet, a bird (Phoenix?) rising.

64.

(Ab.) JOHN DAVIS, OB. 30 JUNE, 1728, AET. 32.

B. M.

65.

(Ab.) BASILLEA HAWKS, WHO DIED AFTER HER BROTHER RICHARD THE 17 FEB 1739.

G. M.

TWENTY eulogistic lines follow.

66.

HERE LIETH THE BODY OF EDWARD EVANS SON OF JOHN AND ELIZABETH EVANS WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE YE 4 th DAY OF FEBY 1745/6 AGED 24 YEARS, JOHN EVANS SENR DYED YE 7th DAY OF OCTR 1746 AGED 70 YEARS.

White veined M.; Arms, Quarterly, argent and or, four demilions rampant gu. Crest, On an esquire's helmet a demilion holding an escallop.

67.

Ab.) JONATHAN HURST, OF KINGSTON, MERCHT. OB: DEC: 22 1744, AET. 42.

W. M.

(Ab.) MARY FLETCHER, WIFE OF LEWIS FLETCHER, 0B. JULY 20 1712, AET. 53. ALSO, JAMES DICKSON, SON OF DANIEL DICKSON, HER GRANDSON, OB. AUGT 28 1713, AET. 2 MTHS.

B. M.


MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS. 93

69.

HERE LYETH THE BODY OF MR SAMLL. SHAWE, LATE OF BRISTOLL, MARCHT., WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, DECR. THE 3, 1716, AGED 42 YEARS.

B. M. Arms, A chev. ermine between three lozenges, each with four ermine spots. Crest, Over an esquire's helmet, a bundle of seven arrows, points down, three and three in saltire, and one in pale.

70.

HERE LYETH THE BODY OF MR...............................LATE OF KINGSTON, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, JAN. THE 4 th 1717, AGED 43 YRS.

B. M. Arms, A chev. voided, or fimbriated, between three fleurs-de-lys. Crest, On an esquire's helmet, a demi-eagle displayed.

71

(Ab.) ELIZABETH BATTERSLY WIFE OF BENJAMIN BATTERSLY OF YE PARISH OF KINGSTON MERCHT OB DEC 10 1737 AET 21 11 MTHS & 2 DAYS: ALSO THEIR DAUR HANNAH OB: OCT. 26. 1739 AET 3.

G. M.

THE name is probably " Battersby."

72.

IN VERTUOUS AND GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF MRS MARY OBURNE THE WIFE OF WILLIAM OBURNE, OF THIS PARISH MERCHT. SHE SURRENDERED HUMAN LIFE, UNDER THE AGONIES AND EXTREME PANGS IN TRAVEL, WITH HER FIRST CHILD NAMED FRANCES, DECEMBER THE 21st ANNO DOM: 1724, IN THE TWENTIETH YEAR OF HER AGE

AND IN COLD EARTH REPOSED, THE CORPS HERE LYS

UNTIL LAST TRUMPET SOUND A....................T ARISE

I Cor. xv.

WITH HIM, WHO ALL THINGS MADE WITHOUT CONTROL, IN HEAV'NLY BLISS, IS HER IMMORTAL SOUL

Gen i. Luke xvi.

ALSO HERE LYETH .................1725/6

Sculptured.


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73.

HIC JACET SAMUEL KNIGHT, M. D. QUI TRIGINTA QUATUOR ANNOS IN HOC INSULA MEDICINAM MAGNA CUM LAUDE EXERCUIT.OBIIT 12 JAN. 1707-8 AETATIS SUAE 65.

B. M. On a fess, three cinquefoils pierced; in chief a unicorn's head erased. Crest, Over an esquire's helmet a goat's head with a cherry leafed in its mouth.

HE was Member of Assembly for Kingston in 1691 and 1701.

74.

UNDERNEATH THIS MARBLE ARE INTER'D THE REMAINS OF THE HONOURABLE JAMES LAWRENCE OF FAIRFIELD IN THE PARISH OF ST. JAMES, ESQ. WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1756 IN THE 47th YEAR OF HIS AGE. HE WAS BURIED THERE 16th JUNE.

COLONEL JAMES LAWRENCE was Custos Rotulorum of St. James's parish. By his wife Mary, daughter of Colonel Richard James, of Hanover (the first child born of English parents in Jamaica after its conquest), he had a numerous family.

Richard James Lawrence, his eldest son, married Mary, fourth daughter of Thomas Hall, of Kirkpatrick, a Member for the parish of Westmoreland in 1752. He died in London, Nov. 8, 1830, aged eighty-five years. Mr. R. J. Lawrence had five sons, viz., 1. James; 2. George; 3. Charles (who had issue: I. G. H. Lawrence, 2. Rev. C. W. Lawrence, 3. Major-General A. Lawrence; 4. Henry; 5. Frederick Augustus, Captain, and Gentleman of the P. Chamber to King George IV., when regent.

His eldest son was the late (Sir) James Lawrence, Knight of Malta, and author of several works, one of which, on the " Nobility of the British Gentry," is well known. George, the second son, was the late proprietor of Cowsfield House, near Salisbury.*

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*Lineage:Henry Lawrence, President of the Council of State, under Cromwell, was of St. Ives, in Huntingdonshire, and came of an ancient family, a long account of which is to be found in the Gentleman's Magazine (1815 and 1829), Sir Egerton Brydge's edition of Milton, and other works. He married Amy, only daughter and heiress of Sir Edward Peyton, of Isleham (vide the " Extinct Baronetage"), and died in 1664. One of his daughters married an Earl of Barrymore, while Johnone, it is believed, of his seven sons emigrated to Barbados, with John Bradshaw, nephew of the regicide, and ultimately removed to Jamaica, about 1675. His (J. L.'s) will is dated May 10th, 1690. By his wife Jane, daughter of Collins, and relict of Richard Dunn, of Cabrete, he had three sons, of whom the eldest, John, married Susanna Petgrave, and by her, had six sons and three daughters. His third son, James Lawrence, of Fairfield, was the ancestor, as already stated, of the late (Sir) James Lawrence. i. The eldest daughter of John Lawrence and Susanna Petgrave was named Susanna. She married Lawrence Lawrence,* of a New England family (of his family there are records elsewhere), and had, with other children, Rachel, who married Henry Gordon,** and was mother of Anne Gordon, who, by her husband Alexander Edgar (buried in Edinburgh in 1820), had a numerous issue, and who is mentioned in the curious genealogical will of her aunt, the late Mrs. Catherine Franklyn, who died in London in 1831. 2. Rachael, the second daughter of John and Susanna Lawrence, married Jeremiah Downer. 3. Mary, the youngest daughter of John and Susanna Lawrence, married Philip Auglin [Anglin], and had a daughter, Elizabeth, who married, in 1765, Robert Scarlett, and was the mother of James Scarlett, created Baron Abinger. This very extensive family of Lawrence is necessarily connected with numerous other families,* more or less well known, and the records substantiating the descent of its various branches have been carefully preserved in Jamaica and elsewhere, but are of too voluminous a character to be enlarged upon here. However, a good account of them is to be found in part iii. of Roby's History of the Parish of St. James, ** who has, however, omitted several descents.

*Richards, Morris, Walcott, James, &c.

**After the annotator had made his collection, in 1857, he met with this portion of the work, but failed to discover the others.

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*His will recorded in Jamaica, 1753. N.B. The author is only responsible for the above lineage from 1690.

**His will recorded in Jamaica, 1789. (Vide " Taaffe Notes. ") Alexander Edgar was the son of Alexander Edgar of Auchingramont, by his wife Margaret, daughter of James Edgar. His father (born 1698) was the.brother of Peter Edgar, of Bridgelands, Peebles (father-in-law of Sir H. Raeburn, the celebrated artist). Their mother's maiden name was Priscilla Handasyde. (For a notice of the latter peculiar surname vide Sinclair's " Survey, Parish of Hutton, Berwickshire.")


 

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS. 95

75.

(Ab.) EDWARD CLARKE, HEIR OF THE HON: COLL: JOHN CLARKE, OF ST DAVID'S OB. 6th DECR. 1731.

B. M.

LONG inscription, much obliterated.

76.

(Ab.) MARTHA, THE WIFE OF ALEXR GRANT, OB. NOV. 17 1733, AET. 27 ALSO MICHAEL HAY, ESQ., OF KINGSTON, OB. 12 MARCH ALSO HER DAUR. ISABELLA, WIFE OF WALTER RICHMOND, OB. FEBY. 1772, AET. 28.

SOME nearly obliterated lines follow.

W. M.; Arms, Three antique crowns. Crest, Over an esquire's helmet a dexter hand holding a branch.

77.

REQUIES .................. ANN

G. M. Arms effaced, a maunch on a canton, however, being apparent, also over an esquire's helmet, a head winged.

78.

HERE LYES THE BODY OF EDMOND FITZPATRICK ESQ DOCTOR OF PHYSICK WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 11th ... OF JULY 1732

Stone.

79.

.... THIS STONE BODY OF MR THOMAS BORN AT LIVERPOOL .......................80


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80.

HERE L..TH INTERR'D THE BODY OF WILLIAM PARK OF YE PARISH OF KINGSTON, MERCHANT: WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 25th OF MARCH 1710, AGED 39 YEARS.

B. M.

81.

HERE LYETH INTERR INTERR'D THE BODY OF THE HONOURABLE EZEKIEL COMESSAL ESQR ONE OF HIS MAJESTIES COUNCEL AND COLONEL OF THE REGIMENT OF HORSE WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 12 DAY OF APRIL ANNO 1734 AGED 70 YEARS.

B. M. ; Arms, A chev. ermine between three dexter gauntlets. Crest, Over an esquire's helmet, out of a coronet a cuffed cubit arm holding a battle-axe.

QUERY, Gomersal ? See No. 88.

82.

HERE LYES THE BODY OF HENRY SMITHSON OF KINGSTON MERCHANT WHO DEPARTED ...................AUGUST THE ....... 1715 IN THE 51 YEAR OF HIS AGE.

B. M.

HE was probably a son of Hugh, grandson of the 1st Bart., who died in 1670. Vide Peerage."

83.

HERE LYES INTERR'D THE BODY OF OF MARY THE WIFE OF CHARLES BRAYNE OF THIS PARISH WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE l0th OF DECEMBER A.D. 1710 AGED 30 YEARS WITH SEVERALL OF HER CHILDREN

B. M.; Arms, Between seven crosses crosslet, a lion rampant. Crest, Over an esquire's helmet, a dove close, with an olive branch in beak.

THERE is, in the will of Alexander Henderson, Attorney-General of Jamaica (ob. 1732), a reference to Mary Brayne, his mother-in-law, as "the unfortunate Mrs. Brayne." The Braynes were connected by marriage, with the families of Willoughby, Moore, Cassan, Scott, Tucker, Long, &c. In their pedigree, however, the husband of Mary is not entered as Charles, but as Thomas.


MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS. 97

84

HERE LYETH THE BODY OF MARY THE . ............. OF JOHN HAYNES ...........................ANT AND DA.................................WHO DEPA .... DAY ..............FIRST HER AGE

B. M. Arms, Two lions rampant combatant, supporting a tower. Crest, Over an esquire's helmet an arm embowed grasping a pennon. Motto, Turris fortis est mihi Deus.

85

No date. Inscription almost entirely effaced ; the name "Pratter," however, is distinguishable.

B. M.; Arms, On a chev. between three griffins' (?) heads erased, a lion passant. Crest, Over an esquire's helmet, a doe's head.

86.

(Ab.) MR. THOMAS WOOLHEAD, LATE OF THIS TOWN, PRINTER, OB. 13 DEC 1777, AET. 60

B. M.

87.

(Ab.) MRS ANN BRIDGE, OB. DEC. 12, 1761, AET. 60. ALSO REBECCA, WIFE OF CHRISTOPHER SPARKE, ESQ ...........................1763.

88.

HERE LYETH THE BODY OF THE VIRTUOUS MRS MARY GOMERSALL, WIFE OF COLO. EZEKIEL GOMERSALL, AND DAUGHTER OF FRANCIS AND MARGARET DICKENSON. SHE DEPARTED THIS LIFE, THE 1st OF DECEMBER 1723, IN THE 56th YEAR OF HER AGE, AND IN THE 36th YEAR OF HER MARRIAGE.

B. M.

THERE was a well-known poet of the reign of Charles I. of this rare name.

89.

(Ab.) MARGARET, WIFE OF DANIEL MCQUEEN OF KINGSTON, MERCHT., OB. DEC. 1 1757 AET 29, ALSO THE BODY OF HER SISTER, THE WIFE OF GEORGE RICHARDS EQR. MERCHT. OB: 1 JULY, 1755, AET. 30. LIKEWISE THE BODY OF THEIR SISTER ANN, WIFE OF JOHN MINOT, OB. 17 JANY. 1758 AET. 30, ALSO MARY M .......... 10 SEP. 1764.


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