Images of Langton Matravers

Memorial Inscriptions

 

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IN LOVING MEMORY


TO OUR LOVED ONE

CECIL HAROLD TOMES
DIED APRIL 1
ST 1935
AGED 36 YEARS
SWEET MEMORIES & KIND THOUGHTS
LIVETH FOR EVER

ALSO HIS BELOVED WIFE
RUTH

DIED NOVEMBER 2ND 1975 AGED 76

REUNITED

 

 

 

 

 

 

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

 

 

 


JAMES BOWER

DIED JULY 25TH 1954
AGED 77 YEARS

ALSO WIFE OF THE ABOVE
PHYLLIS
WHO DIED JANUARY 4
TH 1970
AGED 88

 

 

 

IN
LOVING MEMORY OF

 

 



ARTHUR RICHARD TOWN
25
TH JULY 1958
AT REST

ALSO HIS WIFE
CHARLOTTE FLORENCE
[NEE CORBEN]
18
TH OCTOBER 1983
AGED 93

 

 

 

IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
A DEVOTED WIFE
AND MOTHER

HILDA HARDEN
DIED 15
TH JANUARY
1947
AGE 49 YEARS
AT REST

ALSO OF
WALTER JOHN
HARDEN


HUSBAND OF THE
ABOVE
WHOSE EARTHLY PILGRIMAGE ENDED
30TH APR 1963
AGED 65 YEARS

WE FEEBLY STRUGGLE

THEY IN GLORY SHINE

 

 

 

 

IN

LOVING MEMORY

OF

JOHN BOWER

BELOVED HUSBAND OF

SARAH CHINCHEN BOWER

DIED 13TH JULY 1921

AGED 54 YEARS

UNTIL THE DAYBREAK AND THE SHADOWS

FLEE AWAY

 

ALSO OF HILDA MAY BOWER

BELOVED DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE

WHO PASSED AWAY 10TH OCTOBER 1942

AGED 45 YEARS

I HEARD THE VOICE OF JESUS SAY

COME UNTO ME AND REST

 

ALSO OF SARAH CHINCHEN BOWER

BELOVED WIFE OF THE ABOVE

WHO DIED 28TH MAY 1946

AGED 82 YEARS

IN THY PRESENCE IS FULNESS OF JOY

PSALM 16V 11.

 

 

 

 

 

In

Loving Memory

of

 

 

 

 

JOB BOWER

BORN OCTOBER 4TH 1815, DIED MAY 31ST 1886

AGED 70 YEARS

HIS END WAS PEACE

 

ALSO OF MARY, WIFE OF THE ABOVE

WHO DIED APRIL 30TH 1891

AGED 67 YEARS

DEEPLY LAMENTED

 

 

 

 

 

IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE

OF

JANE

BELOVED AND ELDEST DAUGHTER OF

SAMUEL JAMES AND MARIA SMITH

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE

WEDNESDAY MORNING AUGUST 4TH 1875

AGED 7 YEARS

NOT GONE FROM MEMORY, NOT GONE FROM LOVE

BUT GONE TO THE FATHER'S HOUSE ABOVE

 

ALSO IN LOVING MEMORY OF

MARIA

THE DEVOTED WIFE OF SAMUEL JAMES SMITH

WHO FELL ASLEEP

TUESDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 14TH 1888

AGED 48 YEARS

HER CHILDREN RISE UP AND CALL HER BLESSED

HER HUSBAND ALSO, AND HE PRAISETH HER

 

ALSO IN EVER LOVING

AND GRATEFUL MEMORY OF

SAMUEL JAMES SMITH

WHO FELL ASLEEP

THURSDAY MORNING JULY 9TH 1914

AGED 72 YEARS

A SERVANT OF GOD

 

ALSO OF ALBERT JAMES AND BESSIE

WHO DIED IN INFANCY

 

ALSO OF MARGARET ANNE

WHO DIED MAY 28TH 1888

AGED 2 YEARS AND 9 MONTHS

 

 

 

 

 

In Loving Memory

of

 

GEORGE EDMONDS

WHO DIED OCTOBER 28TH 1913

AGED 63 YEARS

THY WILL BE DONE

 

ALSO

SARAH EDMONDS

WIFE OF THE ABOVE

DIED SEPT 18TH 1924

AGED 73 YEARS

 

IN OUR LIVES YOUR MEMORY EVER LINGERS

ALSO

ALICE EDDY MARIA EDMONDS

YOUNGEST DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE

PASSED AWAY AUG 18TH 1945

AGED 59 YEARS

REST IN PEACE

 

 

 

 

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

 

HENRY DAVIS

DIED 23rd June 1913. AGED 56

ALSO

 

ANN DAVIS

WIFE OF THE ABOVE

DIED 27TH SEPT 1938. AGED 81

 

R.I.P.

JANE DAVIS

DIED 20-12-72

AGED 83 YEARS

 

EDITH JESSOPP

NEE DAVIS

DIED 19-2-94

AGED 93 YEARS

 

 

 

In Loving Memory of

 

OWEN

THE BELOVED SON OF

MARTHA & THOMAS BOWER

WHO DIED APRIL 23RD 1922

AGED 22 YEARS

HIS MEMORY IS AS DEAR TODAY

AS IN THE HOUR HE PASSED AWAY

 

ALSO LAURA

BELOVED DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE

WHO DIED APRIL 5TH 1895

AGED 8 MONTHS

 

 

 

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

 

JAMES BRADFORD

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE

AUGUST 6TH 1927

AGED 70 YEARS

PEACE PERFECT PEACE

 

ALSO OF ELLEN ELIZA

WIFE OF THE ABOVE

WHO FELL ASLEEP

JANUARY 17TH 1928

AGED 67 YEARS

 

ON THAT HAPPY EASTER MORNING

ALL THE GRAVES THEIR DEAD RESTORE

FATHER, SISTER, CHILD AND MOTHER

MEET ONCE MORE

 

 

 

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

 

MARIA EDMONDS

DIED 16TH SEPR 1914

AGED 80 YEARS

 

ALSO OF HER SISTER

SUSAN EDMONDS

DIED 6TH SEPR 1915

AGED 77 YEARS

 

THEY ARE GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

NEVER SHALL THEIR MEMORY FADE

SWEETEST THOUGHTS SHALL EVER LINGER

ROUND THE SPOT WHERE THEY ARE LAID

 

 

 

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

 

 

 

 

 

CHARLES EDMONDS

DIED DECEMBER 30TH 1906

AGED 76 YEARS

 

ANN

CHINCHEN EDMONDS

DIED MARCH 7TH 1914

AGED 81 YEARS

 

UNTO YOU THEREFORE WHICH

BELIEVE, HE IS PRECIOUS

1 PETER 11.7.

 

 

 

IN LOVING MEMORY

OF

 

 

 

EMMA EDMONDS

BELOVED WIFE OF

EVAN EDMONDS

DIED SEPT 25TH 1939

AGED 85 YEARS

 

AT REST

 

ALSO OF EVAN EDMONDS

HUSBAND OF THE ABOVE

DIED JUNE 9TH 1946

AGED 86 YEARS

 

RE-UNITED


 

 


Photo by Susan Butchers - 2011

Here

Lay the body of
Martha Edmunds
who departed this life
30th Nov 1794
aged 25 years
 

Also Helen Edmunds, niece
of the above, who died
July 19th 1837. aged 27 years

 

 

 

Photo by Susan Butchers - 2011

Sacred to
the Memory

of Elizabeth Corben

wife of Henry

Corben: who departed
this Life Sep. 17th 1796 aged 34 years

 

 

 

In

Memory of

Joseph Corben
Born March 4th 1799, died December 27th 1872

aged 73 years

 

Also of his three children

George Corben, born April 10th 1827
died November 26th 1835
aged 8 years

William Corben, born September 11th 1834
died March 1st 1836
aged 2 years
Ruth Corben, born July 17th 1839
died April 6th 1842
aged 3 years

"Absent from the body, present with the Lord"


Photo by Susan Butchers - 2011


 

 


Photo by Susan Butchers - 2011

Sacred
To the Memory of
Mary Anne, daughter of
Thomas and Hester Corben

of Melbourne, Victoria
who departed this life in London
on Sunday the 17th day of May
1863
after a short illness
aged 22 years
 

Much esteemed and Regretted by
All who knew her
 


 

 

In
Memory of
Rachel Smith

who died December 31st 1866
aged 66 years


She died in Jesus and is bless'd
How sweet her slumbers are
From suff'rings and from sin releas'd
And freed from every care

Also George Smith

husband to the above
Rachel Smith
who died December 26th 1870
aged 70 years


Photo by Susan Butchers - 2011

 

 

 


Photo by Susan Butchers - 2011

In

Memory of Thomas
the son of William and Miriam

Talbott

who died Jan 2nd 1817
aged 5 years

 

When the Archangel's trump shall sound
And souls to body join
Millions will wish there lives below
Had been so short as mine
 

Also William Talbott

Father of the above

who departed this life Jan 4th
1837, aged 49 years
Also Miriam Talbott
wife of the above
who died 21st May 1857
aged 69 years


 

 

In Memory of
Charles Hayward
thirty three years Clerk of this Parish
and sometime Churchwarden of the above
He fell asleep May11th 1870
aged 82 years


Photo by Susan Butchers - 2011