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 St Michael, Barton
St Michael, Barton: memorials
locality type:-   church memorial


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BTR83.jpg  Memorial to John Wordsworth, Penrith, died 1819.
(taken 20.10.2010)  
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BTR85.jpg  Memorial to Anne wife of John Wordsworth, died 1815.
(taken 20.10.2010)  
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BTR84.jpg  Memorial to Elizabeth wife of John Wordsworth, died 1863.
(taken 20.10.2010)  
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BXO95.jpg  Memorial, Richard Wordsworth, died 1760:-
"... / MR. RICHARD WORDSWORTH / of Sockbridge / who died June 23th 1760 / Aged 70 Years" (taken 20.10.2010)  
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BXO96.jpg  Memorial, Ann Myers, died 1787.
"Ann Myers wife of the Revd. Thomas / Myers, Curate of this Parish and Rector of / Croglin in the County of Cumberland, and / Daughter of Richard Wordsworth of / Sockbridge in the County of Westmoreland / Esqr. who departed this Life on the 17th. day of / Feby. 1787 in the 53rd. Year of her Age." (taken 20.10.2010)  


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BXO15.jpg  Memorial with funerary plate.
(taken 21.10.2012)  
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BXO25.jpg  Memorial, WD 1674.
(taken 20.10.2010)  
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BXO16.jpg  Funerary plate; Jonathan Richardson, died 1752, et al.
(taken 21.10.2012)  


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BXO97.jpg  Memorial, William Sanderson, died 1836:-
(taken 21.10.2012)  
"... WILLIAM SANDERSON of Sockbridge who departed this life 8th. Feby. 1836. Aged 54. Who in a Codicil to his Will dated 2nd. February 1836, bequeathed to the Vicar and Church Wardens of the Parish of Barton, for the time being, the Sum of One Hundred Pounds, in Trust for the use of the Village School then at Tirril, for the instruction of the Poor Children of the several villages of Sockbridge, Tirril, Thorpe, & Yanwath, the annual interest of which sum of one hundred pounds to be paid to the teacher of such school for its better maintenance &to enable those poor children whose parents are not able to pay for their education to receive religious, moral and useful instruction. ..."


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BXO94.jpg  Memorial, Francis Dawes, died 1673.
(taken 26.10.2012)  
"Hic jacet Francisca Dawes filia / Thomae Fletcher de Strickland Armigeri / natu maxima perquam charisima quidem / et perdilecta uxor Lancelot Dawes de / Barton Kirke generosi, quae huic mundo / spe multa melioris vicesimo tertio / die february valedixit Anno / AEtatis suae XXIII Anno[que] Domini 1673. / Under this stone Reader Interr'd doth lye / beauty and Vertues true Epitomy, / Att her appearance the noone sun / blush'd &shrunke in cause quite outdone, / In her concenter'd did all graces dwell / god pluckt my Rose yt he might take a smell / I'le say noe more but weeping wish I may / soone with thy Deare chast ashes come to lay."

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