43 Mary Ann Jordan

Date recorded:  9/9/09

Inscription

In
Memory of
MARY ANN JORDAN:
who departed this life
April 10TH 1865
Aged 3 years and 3 months
SLEEP LOVELY BABE AND TAKE THY REST:
GOD OFT FIRST CALLS WHOM HE LOVES BEST

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Earliest date (of death):  1865

Type of monument:  Pointed headstone

Dimensions (in millimetres):

  a) monument/headstone:  height:  750  breadth:  530  thickness:  65

 Orientation of monument/headstone:  West facing

Material:  Sandstone

Condition:  In place, leaning slightly forward, mostly sound, small broken area at bottom right

Number of surfaces bearing inscription:  1

Technique/s used for inscription:  Incised

Condition of inscription:  Slightly worn

Name of mason:  COTTRELL COLUM

Notes:  leaning but firm in ground.  Final ‘s’ of ‘months’ less deeply incised (or worn?)

‘I’ of ‘In’ on inscription elaborated

 



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