Excerpts from “Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies,” was written by James Henry Lawrence-Archer 

 

Location Inscriptions Found: St. Catherine Cathedral

 

1. “TO THE MEMORY OF-ANDREW ARCHDECKNE, ESQ., A NATIVE OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND, MANY YEARS BAR~ RISTER AT LAW AND REPRESENTATIVE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE ISLAND.THIS LIFE ON THE IJth DAY OF AUGUST, THIS TOWN IN HE DEPARTED 1763, AGED 72 YEARS, LAMENTED BY HIS FRIENDS, AND REGRETTED BY HIS RELATIONS. HIS CHILDREN, IN  TESTIMONY OF THE GREAT LOVE AND AFFECTION THEY BORE HIM WHEN ALIVE, AND IN GRATITUDE FOR HIS PATERNAL TENDERNESS, HAVE ERECTED THIS MONUMENT TO THEIR FATHER, FRIEND AND BENEFACTOR.”

Andrew Archdeckne was of Gleveny Hall, Suffolk, and married a daughter of Francis Love Beckford,
Esq., of Basing Park. For an account of the ancient family of Archdeckne, vide Banks’ Baronia AttgltCa Concmtrata, and 7oumals of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society
Mr. Archdeckne was returned M.A. for ~.h is parish so early as 1718. The city of Kilkenny appears, as well as Galway, to have had its own “ten tribes,” thus recapitulated.  Of these, ” Archdekin” was of more note in the county than in the city. ·According to Banks (Baronia Anglica· Concentrtlta), the male line of Thomas· le Archdekne (summoned to parliament, 14 Edw. II.) expired in the person of his grandson, Warine, who married Elizabeth, daughter of John Talbot, of Richard’s Castle.

 

2. “JOHN ATKINSON, OBIIT. 10th OF NOVEMBER IN YE 28th YEAR OF HIS AGE ANO DO 1683). HERE LYETH INTERR’D THE BODY OF ITHAMAR THE WIFE OF THE HONBLE ROSE FULLER ESQ WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 22d DAY OF APRil 1738 AGED 17 YEARS. HERE LYETH INTERRED, THE BODY OF THE HONBLE RICHARD MILL, ESQ MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL, RECEIVER
GENERAL AND LATE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THIS ISLAND, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 16th DAY OF JUN-’ E 1739 AGED 60 YEARS.” 3. “MR. FRANCIS ARCHER * DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 8th OE FEBRUARY 1824 AGED 35·

Frances Archer appears to have been of an Irish family, connected with the Commissariat department of the army. There were other families of this name
in Jamaica during the 17th and 18th centuries, vi’z.-1. Archer from Swindon, co·Wilts ; 2. Archer of Wexford ; 3· Archer of Wicklow ; 4. Archer of Essex ; 5 .. Archer
from Barbados, but previously from Suffolk (Q. Bury St. Edmund’s and Sudbury?).”

4. “TO THE MEMORY OF ANNA MARIA ALDRED-DAUGHTER OF DANIEL BROADBELT ESQR. AND ANNA MARIA HIS SPOUSE AND WIFE OF MR. EDWARD ALDRED SURGEON-WHO DIED IN CHILDBED ON THE 21st DAY OF DECEMBER 1761-AGED 19 YEARS AND SIX DAYS. THIS STONE IS ERECTED AND INSCRIBED-BY HER AFFECTIONATE HUSBAND-”

5. “HERE LYETH THE BODY OF CHARLES ATDKINSON ESQ: A GENTLEMAN THAT BY A GENEROUS AND PUBLIC SPIRIT, PURCHASED NO INCONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS OF HONOUR, TO HIS GOOD EXTRACTION, BEING SECRETARY SUCCESSIVELY TO THE HONOURABLE SR. THOMAS LYNCH, AND THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD VAUGHAN. THRICE IMPLOYED IN FORRAIN NEGOTIATIONS HE ACQUIT HIM SELFE WITH HONOUR AND PUBLICK SATISFACTION. AFTER ALL, BEING READY TO EMBARK ON AN EMBASSY FOR ENGLAND WAS SEIZED BY AN INVIDIOUS AND MALIGNANT FEAVER UNDER A PAROXISME WHEREOF HE DEPARTED THIS LIFE NOVEMBER YE 2oth.

ANNO{AETATIS SUAE, 31
~ ~ SALUTIS 1678.

6.  ” WILLIAM ASSAM DIED IN 1730 IN HIS 45th YEAR. HIS WIFE MARY “LATE THE WIFE OF LAWRENCE PEAT” DIED”  1734. IN HER 76th YEAR.

7. “ RICHARD BATTY, ESQRE-·DIED APRIL IQth 1796 AGED 53 YEARS-THROUGHOUT THY SHRINE BENEVOLENCE ENDEAR’D !-AFFECTION’S TRIBUTARY LAMP IS REARED; -YET VAIN THE RECORD WHICH THE SCULPTUR’D STONE-WOULD RAISE TO THOSE PRE-EMINENTLY KNOWN-HIS STERLING WORTH AND VIRTUES STAND CONFEST-GRAVED ON THE WORTHY AND THE VIRTVOUS BREAST.”

8. “ HERE LYETH DURRYED ELIZABETH BEESTON DAUGHTER OF SR. WILLIAM BEESTON KNT. (PRESENT GOVERNOUR OF THIS ISLAND) BY ANN HIS WIFE, WHO DYED YE 18 OF AUGUST ANNO DI. 1693 AND IN YE 18 YEAR OF HER AGE.”

WILLIAM BEE5TON, “Gent.,” who had obtained large grants of land in Liguanea from Lord Windsor in x662, was returned a member for “Cagua” (the present Port-Royal), in the first Assembly of the island, 20th Jan., 1663-4 He was four times elected Speaker of the House, vi:;., 9th April, 1677; 4th September, 1677; 3rt! September, x6;8, and 19th August, 1679, having been each time returned for Port-Royal. -Journals. He was distinguished in that office, by his resistance to the attempt of the Governor, the Earl (If Carlisle, to enforce “Poynings law” (of Ireland) on the island;
and his successful vindication of the privileges of the Assembly is fully detailed in the histories of Long, Edwards, anu Bridges. On the 9th of March, 1692-3, having been knighted by William III., he arrived at Port-Royal with the commission of Lieut. Governor of the island. In this situation he repelled a formidable invasion from St. Domingo, under Du Casse, who, after some predatory attacks about Port-Morant, landed 1500 men in Carlisle-Bay, but was compelled to retreat to his ships, with a loss of 700 men, after several encounters with the militia of the island, in July, 1694 In 1701 Sir William was appointed Governor, which office he held about one year, when he was superseded by Major-General Selwyn.

9. “ HERE LYETH TH£ BODY OF COLL-JOHN BOURDEN BORNE IN THE CITY OF COLRAIN-IN THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND, IN YE-YEAR 1633- ONE OF HIS MAJESTIES COUNSELL OF-JAMAICA, AND SOMETIME PRESIDENT- A LOVER OF JUSTICE-A LOVING HUSBAND-A FAITHFUL FRIEND AND A GOOD MASTER- DYED THE 18th DAY OF At:GUST-1697. ”

Bourden was first returned to the Assembly as Member for Vere, 26 April, 1675. He afterwards represented St. Catherine in five Assemblies. He was then called up to the Council, where, resisting the Arbitrary measures of Christopher (Monk) 2d Duke of Albemarle, he was displaced by that Governor, but restored, on the accession of ’William and Mary, Feb. 22, 1688-9. On the death of the Governor, William (O’Brien) 2d Earl of Inchiquin, Jan. 16, 1691, the Government devolved upon the President of the Council, John White, who was killed at Port· Royal, in the earthquake which destroyed
tllat place, June;, 1692; when Bourden succeeded to the presidency of the Council, and, as President, to the chief command of the Island. In the latter he was superseded by Sir William Beeston, who arrived at Port Royal as Lieut.-Governor, on March 9, 1692-3.

10. “ HERE LYES THE BODY OF-SAMUEL BERNARD, ESQRE., CHIEF JUSTICE OF THIS COUNTREY FOR THE SPACE OF TEN YEARS, IN WHICH TRUST HE ACQUITTED HIM SELF AS BECAME A JUST AND PRUDENT MAGISTRATE, TO HIS OWN HONOUR THE GOOD OF YE COMMUNITY AND YE SATISFACTION OF ALL HONEST MEN-HE DYED MARCH YE 29th 1695, IN YE 59th YEAR OF HIS AGE.”

11. ” HERE ALSO LIES THE BODY OF JOHN THE SON OF THOMAS BERNARD WHO DIED JULY 24th 1720.-HERE ALSO LIES THE BODY OF SAMUEL ELDEST SON OF THE SAID THOMAS BERNARD ESQR. WHO DIED NOVBR. YE 17. 1720 AGED 2 YEARS AND I I MONTHS.”

12. “ MARY WIFE OF THOMAS BERNARD ESQR. WHO DIED AUGUST 13. 1724. IN THE 25th YEAR OF HER AGE.”

13. “ HERE LYES INTERR’D THE BODY OF THE HONBLE COLL PETER BECKFORD LATE PRESIDT. OF YE COUNCILL, SOMETIME LIEUT.-GOVR. AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THIS ISLAND, WHO  DEPARTED THIS LIFE YE 3d APRIL 1710, IN THE 67th YEAR OF HIS AGE. ALSO THE BODYS OF WILLM THE SON OF GEORGE BECKFORD, LATE OF EALING, IN YE COUNTY OF MIDDX, ESQ WHO DYED YE 21st  OF MAY I708 IN THE 18th YEAR OF HIS AGE. AND PHILLIS THE DAUGHTER OF PETER BECKFORD YE YOUNGER ESQ WHO WAS BORN YE 21st OF MAY 1708 AND DYED THE

28th DAY OF JULY FOLLOWING. ALSO THE BODY OF PETER BECKFORD ESQR SON OF THE HONBLE COLL PETER BECKFORD ESQR WHO DIED THE 23d OF SEPTEMBER I735 IN THE 32nd YEAR OF HIS AGE. LIKEWISE THE BODY . OF PETER BECKFORD ESQ. JUNIOR HIS SON, WHO DYED THE 16th OF AUGUST 1737 IN THE 32d YEAR OF HIS AGE.”

14 “ NEAR THIS PLACE LIES THE BODY OF-JOHN BLAIR ESQR. -ONLY SON OF THE LATE-COLL JOHN BLAIR ESQR. DECEASED -WHO DIED THE 22D DECR. 1742-AGED 26.”

15. “ HERE LIES NIDEME, THE WIFE OF JOHN BLAIRE, ESQR. AGED 29 YEARS, DIED YE 5th MARCH, 1707.”

16. “ HERE LIES THE BODY OF JAMES HAY, ESQ., ONE OF THE JUDGES OF THE GRAND COURT, AGED 39 YEARS, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 7th DAY OF OCTOBER, 1735·”

17. “ HERE LYES INTERR’D THE BODY OF ELIZABETH THE LATE WIFE OF JOHN BLAIR ESQR WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 7th OF 7BER I 72 I AGED TWENTY SEVEN YEARS-LIKEWISE THEIR FOUR CHILDRN, JOHN, THOMAS, CHRISTIAN AND MARY-HERE ALSO LIETH INTERR’D YE BODY OF THE HONBLE JOHN BLAIR ESQR. WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE YE 27th DAY OF JUNE 1728 AGED 6o YEARS.”

THE Honourable Colonel John Blair, was a surgeon, and one of the Scotch colonists of Darien. There is a large collection of interesting wills and administrations of many of these Darien refugees, preserved in the Register House, Edinburgh.

18. “HERE LYETH THE BODY OF HEARCEY BARRITT, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE Sth DAY OF MARCH 1;26 IN THE 76th YEAR OF HER AGE.”

19. “HENRY BARHAM, SEN : ESQR. DIED 1726 IN HIS S6th YEAR.”

20. “ SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE HONBLE WILLIAM BLAKE ESQR. SPEAKER OF THE HONBLE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY. HE DIED 24th JANUARY 1797 AGED 56 YEARS.”

DURING the illness of Samuel Williams Haughton, Member for Hanover, the Speaker of the House, Mr. Blake, was twice elected pro tempore. He was re-elected for Westmoreland in the Assembly of 23rd March, 1790, and on the death of Mr. Haughton, (by a fall from his horse in August, 1793,) Mr. Blake was unanimously chosen Speaker, 22nd October, I 793· He was again elected for Westmoreland, and again unanimously chosen Speaker on Oct. 28th, 1796. He was succeeded in that high office by Donald Campbell, Esq., Member for St. George, who was elected 25th July, 1797·-:Journals of House of Assembly. In 1755 we find the will of Nicholas Blake, of Jamaica, and in it mention made of his brother Benjamin, and his son Nicholas Allen Blake, &c. In 1766 is recorded the will of Samuel Blake, in which occur the names of his sons and daughters-Joseph, William, Samuel, Bonella, and Margaret. The will of Nicholas Allen Blake, the nephew of Nicholas as above, is dated July 16, 1789, and contains bequests to his son Matthew Gregory Blake, his brother William, and his cousins the Burkes of Loughrea, in Ireland. A few years earlier, in the will of Benjamin William Blake (1785), his nieces are named Jane Gregory and Helen Haughton, his brother-in-law Samuel Williams Haughton, and his brothers William and Nicholas Allen Blake, &c. The first entry of this name in the parish registers of Jamaica is in I67I, and in 1~717 is r~corded the birth of Benjamin, the son of Benjamin and ……… Blake. In 1743 is recorded the marriage of Alexander Blake* and Hagar Williams (probably a daughter of Williams of Carowena); and still later, in the Hodges family the baptism of an Alexander Blake Hodges, the nephew of Robert Francklyn Hodges, who married a daughter of the Hon. Hugh Lewis (Ch. Justice). Robert Francklyn Hodges, younger, of Maxfield, was so named after a Mr Francklyn, who married his aunt, Margaret Blake. In so extensive a family as that of Blake, it is natural to suppose that even uncommon surnames will be frequently adopted instead of ordinary Christian names, to · distinguish individuals ; but when we find a double combination of this description, we attach more  importance to the coincidence(?). A reference to the pedigree of the Aliens of Blackwell Grange, and a comparison of the names of Blake and Burke therein, suggests some connection with the family of Blake in Jamaica; and if so, of necessity it appears with that of Barbados, in the seventeenth century, and of another family of the name in Ireland, one of whose members, Nicholas Blake, is described as  of Barbados at the period to which we allude. On referring, however, to the registers of Andover, we find that Nicholas Blake of that town was also of Barbados; while in the will of the wife of Nicholas  Blake of Barbados (1663), we discover that her husband was also of” Bishop’s Mead, near Craford, Kent.” Leaving, however, such branches of this family out of the question, and turning to the pedigree of Benjamin, Nicholas, and Alexander, three of the younger brothers of the celebrated Admiral Blake,* we find very strong presumptive evidence of its being represented in Jamaica ; and this is probable,· moreover, from the interest which Cromwell took in his valuable insular acquiescent; and the date on the tomb of Alexander Blake, at Eaton Socon, 1690, brings the record of the Taunton family close upon modern times. It is probable that there were two families of Blake in Jamaica, which became united in one, about the commencement of the eighteenth century. The will of Elizabeth Blake, wife of Nicholas Blake, merchant, of London, entered (Barbados) Oct. 26, 1663, states:-” I bequeath unto my son Nicholas my land called Bishop’s Mead, in the parish of Craford, county of Kent, and bought of  W m. Borman, and to his half-brother my son John Wilson, my cousins John Blake and Nicholas Prideaux, &c. Witnesses: Nicholas Prideaux, H. Turvile, Thomas Mortimer, and Hercules Tervile” . (Vide also the Baronetage; and Pedigrees of Blake at the Heralds’ College and Brit. Mus., “Notes and Queries,” &c. Very extensive private collections of Blake records exist.) The name is probably identical with that of Black, and therefore has had various ” centres of origin ;” although, so far as we know, its earliest appearance was in Hampshire and Wilts, whence all the other recorded branches are assumed to have been derived. In Hardiman’s “History of Galway,” (Dublin, 1820,) we find the following remarks :-”This family. is of British extraction, and although the name seems derived from the Saxon Blac, a colour; yet Debrett, in his’ Baronetage,’ says, ‘they are traditionally descended from Ap Lake, one of the Knights of King Arthur’s Round Table’(!). Nothing ought to surprise us after such an announcement. ”In 1651 Government caused a map of this county to be made, and on the third sheet are, amongst others, the Arms of Blake, and also, with other inscriptions, the words (‘ Marilandire, Carolinre, Verginire, et 7amaica,’ being on the second sheet with the name Marline) on the third sheet: ‘Bermude, Barbude, Montserrat, et Sancti Christophore.’ ”

The peculiar baptismal name (probably in compliment to some S?anish family) of Bond/a, seems to have been peculiar to certain families intermarried in Jamaica. Bonella Hodges, mother to (Pennant) first Lord Penrhyn, (see” Peerage,”) gave her name to the Blakes, Haughtons, Vassatls, and Archers. Through other ramifications it passed into the families of Scarlett, &c.

From Pedigree of tlte Rev. :J. H. C. Blake.
Humphrey Blake [s. of Robt. & Margt., of Bridgewater] had, by his w. Sarah Williams, I4 sons, & I dau. The sons were in the following order [seePed. Her. Coil. & Hart. MSS., I I4I) :-1. Robert; 2. Humphrey; 3· William; 4· George; 5· George; 6. Nicholas; 7· Samuel ; 8. Edward; 9· John ; 10. Thomas; 11. • • • • • • ob. iuf.; 12. Benjamin. 13 . . ; 14- Alexander. Robert, the celebrated Admiral, 1st son, died s.p. Humphrey, 2nd son, left issue, and was represented by the late Rev. J. H. C. Blake. George, 4th son, ob. inf. George, 5th son, had issue male: Benjamin. Nicholas, 6th son, had issue male: Nicholas (viv. 1695), and the latter had-1. Alexander; 2. John ; 3· William. Samuel, 7th son, had issue male: 1. Samuel ; l. Robert. John, 9th son, died s.p. Alexander, 14th son.
Admiral Blake's uncle, Benjn. B., m. 1614, Eli.~:th, d. of Sidrach Blake, Stepney, Middx.

 

21.  "HERE LYE.S INTERR'D - MR. GERALD BERMINGHAM -OF THE NOBLE AND AXTIENT FAMILY-oF ATHEXRY-0F THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND-HE WAS A MAN OF STRICT VIRTUE -AND PRUDENCE ;- FAITHFULL TO HIS TRUSTS-AND SINCERE IN HIS FRIENDSHIPS,--TO WHOSE MEMORY HIS RELICT-MRS. ANNE BERMINGHAM-ERECTED THIS MONUMENT.-HE DIED DECEMBER THE 11th 1742-AGED 48 YEARS."

THERE was a great feudal family of this name a branch of which settled in Ireland. The Barony of Athenry de Bermingham was the premier Barony of Ireland,
and fell into abeyance on the death of Thomas, Earl of Louth, the 22nd Baron, in 1799. when the Earldom of Louth became extinct. The Berminghams and Bamewalls were two powerful families, at an early period, in the South East of Ireland. The Barony of Kingsland in the latter, was restored in the person of a Dublin hotel waiter, but is again dormant.

22. "SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF-FRANCIS RIGBY BROADBELT ESQRE. MD-WHO IN HIS PASSAGE TH~O' THIS PROBATIONARY STATE-WAS EMINENTLY DISTINGUISHED-FOR PURITY OF SENTIMENT, INTEGRITY OF LIFE-AND THE EXEMPLARY DISCHARGE OF EVERY RELATIVE AND SOCIAL DUTY - AND WAS EQUALLY RESPECTED AND BELOVED-AS A PHYSICIAN AND AS A MAN. HE WAS BORN OCTOBER 9th 1746; AND DIED DECEMBER 9th 1795-THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY HIS SON-FRANCIS RIGBY BROADBELT-1799--:-"

23. " THOMAS YE SONN OF THOMAS BRAY DIED 1699 AGED 7. ELIZABETH BRAY BORN FEBRUARY 1698/9 DIED DECEMBER 1699."

24. " SUSANNA WIFE OF THOMAS BARRITT ESQ. DIED JANUARY 14, 1727/8 IN HER 36th YEAR, AND FOUR OF THEIR CHILDREN THOMAS, THOMAS, SUSANNA, AND HEARCEY-ELIZABETH HIS SECOND WIFE DIED 1740 AGED 47·"

25. " HERE LYETH TilE BODY OF COLONEL ROBERT BYNDLOS HE DYED THE 16th DAY OF JUNE 1687 IN YE 50 YEAR OF HIS AGE."

26. " WILLIAM BALDWIN ESQR. DIED 17 JULY' 1755 AGED 54•ALSO MARY HIS WIDOW WHO DIED 12th APRIL 1700 AGED 68."

27. "HERE LYETH BURIED YE BODY OF CAPT WALTER BREAREY SON TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPLL MR. BREARY LATE LORD MAYOR OF THE CITTY OF YORKE, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE YE 29th DAY OF NOVEMBR ANO DOM 1681."

28. " MR THOMAS BREWSTER SENR. DIED 1701 IN HIS 33d YEAR. SAMUEL HIS SON DIED 1721 IN HIS 29th YEAR. JOHN BREWSTER SON OF JOHN & GRANDSON 01' THOMAS BREWSTER DIED 1733 AGED 8months. MRS JOYCE RAISBECK FORMERLY WI FE OF THOMAS BREWSTER DIED li34 IN HER 71st YEAR. SAMUEL SON OF JOHN BREWSTER DIED 1737 AGED 10 YEARS MRS JOYCE BREWSTER, DAUGHTER OF JOHN BREWSTER DIED 1737 AGED 14 YEARS."

THE Brewsters are frequently mentioned in connection with the affairs of New England in the seventeenth century.  They were also numerous in Barbados, where they intermarried with the family of Archer. There was a family of Raisbeck at Stockton, of which was Thomas, (temp. Carl. II.,) who married Sarah, daughter of the Rev. T. Stapylton, son of Miles Stapylton, Auditor to Cosins, Bishop of Durham (temp. Carl. II.). See also Notes in Misc. Gen. et Herald., July, 1870, (No. 4), on the family of the celebrated Maj.-Gen. Skippon.

29. " HERE LYETH INTERR'D YE BODY OF-FRANCIS BLACKMORE ESQ-ONE OF HIS MATIES COUNCIL OF JAMAICA AND  SON OF SIR JOHN BLACKMORE OF QUANTRIX HOUSE IN THE COUNTY OF SOMERSET KT-WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 24th -DAY OF OCTOBER 1697-AND IN YE 39th YEAR OF HIS AGE."

30 " HERE LYETH INTERR'D THE BODY OF MAJOR GENERALL JAMES BANNISTER LATE GOVERNOR OF SARRENHAIM WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 10th OF NOVEMBER ANO DOMI 1674 IN THE 50th YEARE OF HIS AGE."

31. " HERE LYETH INTERRED THE BODY OF .MRS. MARY LEWIS WIFE OF MR SAMUEL LEWIS AND DAUGHTER OF MAJOR GENERALL JAMES BANNISTER WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 2d OF JANUARY ANO DOMI 1676-7 IN THE 18th YEARE OF HER AGE."

32. " ALEXR MACGREGOR MURRAY BURGE-THE INFANT SON OF-WM AND HELEN GRACE MURRAY BURGE-DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 16th OF JUNE I82Z-AGED 7 MONTHS AND 3 WEEKS."

33. " BENJAMIN MILWARD BURGE-DEPARTED THIS LIFE-ON THE 16th JUNE 1819, AGED 23 YEARS."

34. "WILLIAM LEE BATSON BURGE-THE INFANT SON OF-WILLIAM AND HELEN GRACE-MURRAY BURGE-DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 19th NOVR-1819 AGED ELEVEN MONTHS AND-THREE WEEKS.
35. "ALEX. BAYLEY ESQ. OF WOODHALL-ST DOROTHY-D. 14 JULY 1832, IN HIS 6oth YEAR."

36. " HERE LYETH THE BODY OF COLONELL THEODORE CARY, ONE OF THE SONNES OF COCKINGTON HOUSE IN DEVONSHIRE, BROTHER TO SR HENRY CARY CAPTAINE OF HIS MATIES FORT AT PORT ROYALL, ONE OF HIS MATIES COUNCIL, AND ONE OF THE JUDGES OF THE GRAND COURT IN JAMAICA. HE DIED JUNE 26th 1683 IN YE YEARE OF HIS AGE 63. "

37.  " MR. JOHN CHILDERMAS DIED 1699 AGED 33 : RACHAEL OB: 1720 .lET IS; & SEBRAN LARSON HER FATHER OB. 1720 AT 15."

JN the Journal of the House of Lords, 17th August, 166o, mention is made of the "Bill for Naturalizing Renee de Sebran, an infant of 8 years.''  Sebran Larson was governor of the Spanish Town gaol, &c.

38.  " HERE LYETH THE BODY OF-JANE COOPER-WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE-IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1749, IN THE 86th YEAR OF HER AGE."

39. " CHRISTIAN DAUGHTER OF RICHARD AND MARY CASTELL DIED 1720 IN HER 13th YEAR."

40. " ON THE 17th DAY OF JUNE-IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD-1780-DEPARTED THIS LIFE-UNIVERSALLY LAMENTED--GEORGE CUTHBERT ESQ--ONE OF THE REPRESENTATIVES-IN ASSEMBLY-FOR THE PARISH OF-PORT ROYAL-AND LATE-PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL-OF THIS ISLAND-AGED 42 YEARs-UNDERNEATH THIS STONE-HIS REMAINS ARE DEPOSITED."

Two brothers, Lewis (father of the Hon. George Cuthbert, sometime President of the Council), and George (Provost-Marshal-General, whose epitaph is above transcribed), descended from a family in the county of Inverness, came out to this island and married two sisters of the Hon. George Pinnock, late President of the Council. A third brother, a Roman Catholic, was consecrated BishOp of Rhodes (in partibus infidelium).

41. " SACRED TO THE MEMORY-OF-ANNE THE DUTIFUL AND AFFECTIONATE DAUGHTER OF JOHN CLEMENT OF PETERSFIELD IN THE COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON ESQUIRE AND THE TRULY VIRTUOUS, MUCH BELOVED AND LAMENTED WIFE OF GEORGE RAMSAY ESQ. REGISTRAR IN CHANCERY AND CLERK OF THE PATENTS IN THIS ISLAND. SHE DIED OF THE SMALL POX ON THE 14th DAY OF AUGUST 1764 AGED 32 YEARS AND WAS BURIED WITHIN THE COMMUNION RAILS OF THIS CHURCH AND ALSO OF-PETER RAMSAY ESQUIRE REGISTRAR IN CHANCERY AND CLERK OF THE PATENTS ON THE RESIGNATION OF HIS BROTHER IN THE YEAR 1770. THE EASE AND UNAFFECTED DEPORTMENT OF THIS GENTLEMAN IN PRIVATE  LIFE DID NOT MORE TRULY ENDEAR HIM TO HIS NUMEROUS ACQUAINTANCE THAN THE UNIFORMLY UPRIGHT AND ATTENTIVE . DISCHARGE OF THE PUBLIC TRUSTS REPOSED IN HIM JUSTLY SECURED HIM THE RESPECT AND ESTEEM OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY-HE DIED THE 27th DAY OF OCTOBER 1781, AGED 48 YEARS, AND WAS BURIED ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE NORTH DOOR OF THIS CHURCH, UNDER A MARBLE SLAB IN THE CHURCHYARD.-A SMALL TRIBUTE OF CONJUGAL AFFECTION-AND BROTHERLY REGARD."

42. " HERE LYETH YE BODY OF COLLNEL JOHN COLBECK OF COLBECK IN ST DOROTHYES WHO WAS BORN YE 30 OF MAY 1630 AND CAME WITH YE ARMY THAT CONQUERED THIS ISLAND YE 10th DAY OF MAY 1655 WHERE HAVEING DISCHARGED SEVERAL HONBLE OFFICES BOTH CIVILL AND MILITARY WITH GREAT APPLAUSE HE DEPARTED THIS LIFE YE 22d DAY OF FEBRUARY  1682."

43. " JOSEPH CRASSWELL ESQ LATE OF THIS PARISH, DIED 1768 AGED 39·"

44. " MR. FRANCIS COLEPEPPER BORN AT HOLLINGBOURN IN KENT DIED 1761 AGED 44-"

THE Colepeper, or Culpeper family, of great antiquity in Kent, was, before the time of Edward III., divided into two branches, the claim to precedence between which has never been decided. The above was a descendant of Walter, son of Sir John Culpeper, from whom came "the Barons Colepeper, the Colepepers of Wiggshall and Folkington, and the Colepepers of Hollingborn, &c." (Ext. Baronetage.)
This family was eminent in the seventeenth century.

45. " HERE RESTETH YE BODY OF ANTHONY COLLYER ESQ BORN IN THE CITY OF GLOCESTER ONE OF HIS MATIES COUNCIL FOR THIS ISLAND AND COLL OF A FOOT REGMT IN YE SAME: WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON YE TENTH DAY OF AUGUST IN YE YEARE OF OUR LORD GOD ONE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED SEAVENTY AND SEAVEN, AND IN THE FORTIETH YEARE OF HIS AGE."

46. " TO THE MEMORY OF-CAPTAIN GEORGE DYSON OF THE ROYAL ENGINEERS, BORN AT WINCHESTER 12th OF MARCH 1783 DIED AT SPANISH TOWN 26th OF JUNE 18o6. YE WHOM THE RECORDS OF THE TOMB MISTRUST, AND DEEM SEPULCHRAL PRAISE MORE FOND THAN JUST, MAY IN THIS STONE'S SINCERITY CONFIDE AND READ A SOLDIER'S PRAISE WITH UNCHECK'D PRIDE; HERE IN THE WORDS OF WARM BUT SOBER TRUTH AN HONOUR'D CHIEF EMBALMS A GALLANT YOUTH HERE-SHALL NO FATHER'S FONDNESS INTERFERE TO CLAIM- THE HOMAGE OF A GENERAL TEAR CONTENT TO HOPE HIS SON'S DISTINGUISH'D PRAISE SHALL KINDRED FLAMES IN OTHER BOSOMS RAISE IN VIRTUE'S SERVICE, AS IN HONOUR'S BRAVE AND BLEST WITH LAURELS WHICH SURVIVE THE GRAVE."

47. " UNDER THIS STONE L YETH BODYS OF EDMON DUCKE ESQ ••• (MARTHA) HIS WIFE SHE BEING MOST .•• BAROUSLY MURTHERED BY SOME OF THEIR ... SLAVES DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE .•. OF APRIL 1678 AND HEE FOLLOW, .. 14th DAY OF OCTOBER 168(3) •••

48. " HERE LYES THE BODY OF ••• EXCELLENCY HENRY CUNNINGHAM ESQR GOVERNOR OF JAMAICA WHO DEPARTED On a THIS •••••• 12th DAY OF FEBRUARY 1735-6 IN THE 59th YEAR OF HIS AGE."

49. " IN MEMORY OF ELIZABETH MARY, COUNTESS OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINE, ONLY CHILD OF CHARLES LENNOX CUMMING BRUCE ESQR, OF ROSEISLE AND KINNAIRD IN SCOTLAND, MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR THE COUNTIES OF ELGIN AND NAIRN, AND OF MARY ELIZABETH BRUCE, GRAND-DAUGHTER AND REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DISTINGUISHED TRAVELLER IN ABYSSINIA. BORN ON THE 13th APRIL 1821, SHE WAS MARRIED ON THE 22nd APRIL 1841, AND HAVING ACCOMPANIED HER HUSBAND, HIS EXCELLENCY JAMES EARL OF ELGIN AND KINCARDINE, TO JAMAICA IN APRIL 1842, SHE DIED AT CRAIGTON, IN THE PARISH OF ST. ANDREWS, ON THE 7th JUNE 1843: RESTING WITH ASSURED FAITH ON THE LOVE OF HER REDEEMER, AMIDST THE UNSPEAKABLE SORROW OF DEAR RELATIONS AND FRIENDS, AND THE DEEP LAMENT OF THE COMMUNITY THAT HAD WITNESSED THE RICH PROMISE OF HER EARLY VIRTUES. THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE COLONY, NOT AS A COLD TRIBUTE OF RESPECT DUE TO EXALTED RANK, BUT TO MARK THE PUBLIC REGRET, FOR DISTINGUISHED WORTH AND TALENT, SO EARLY LOST TO HER COUNTRY AND HER FAMILY. " BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART FOR THEY SHALL SEE GOD." HERE LYETH INTERR'D THE BODY OF ITHAMAR THE WIFE OF THE HONBLE ROSE FULLER ESQ, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 22nd DAY OF APRLL 1738, AGED 17 YEARS."

50. " HERE LYETH THE BODY OF MERIDETH THE WIFE OF COLLNEL MODYFORD FREEMAN-THE DAUGHTER OF COLLNEL EDWARD STANTON AND PRISCILLA HIS WIFE-WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE YE 19th DAY OF SEPTEMBR 1697 IN YE 20th YEARE OF HER AGE."

51. "HERE LYETH INTERRED- THE BODY OF HUMPHREY FREEMIAN ESQR-WHO WAS AT YE TAKEING OF TIIIS ISLAND -HE DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 6th OF AUGUST 1692 IN THE 64th YEAR-OF HIS AGE. "

52. " SACRED TO THE MEMORY -OF ALEXANDER FORBES ESQR PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL-AND ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S COUNCIL OF JAMAICA-BELOVED AND RESPECTED-FOR HIS CREAT ABILITY-UNSPOTTED INTEGRITY-AND UNIVERSAL BENEVOLENCE-HE WAS YE SECOND SON-OF SR DAVID FORBES-OF NEWHALL IN YE COUNTY-OF EDINBURGH- IN SCOTLAND-BORN AT EDINBURGH-THE 27th JULY I68s,DIED AT JAMAICA-THE 13th NOVEMBER 1729. "

53. " BREVET MAJOR FITZGERALD 8th FOOT DIED 5th JULY 1835 AGED SJ."

54 . "BARTHOLOMEW FAUTT DIED 1703 AGED 35·"

55. "TO THE. MEMORY-OF MATTHEW GREGORY ESQR MD AND LUCRETIA HIS WIFE-SHE DIED THE 29th OF JANUARY MDCCL-IN THE FORTY THIRD YEAR OF HER AGE-HE ON THE 31st DECEMBER MDCCLXXIX-AGED EIGHTY SIX YEARS THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY THEIR DAUGHTERS MARY DEHANY AND ELIZABETH TROWER."

56. " NEAR THIS PLACE-LIETH THE BODY Oi'-MATTHEW GREGORY SENR. ESQ :-WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 6th DAY-OF SEPTEMBER-IN THE YEAR-OF OUR LORD-1715 AND IN-THE 6oth YEAR OF-HIS AGE.

This family appears by its arms, to have derived a descent from the ancient family, which is said to be now represented by that of Stivic Hall.  Archer Martin and Matthew Gregory the nephews of John
Archer, of St Thomas-in-the-Vale (of a Wiltshire family), received by the will of their uncle, (dated 1663, and recorded 1689), considerable legacies. "

57. " HERE LYETH THE BODY OF JAMES GODDARD,* SECOND SON TO JAMES GODDARD GENT OF SOUTH MARSTON IN THE COUNTY OF WILTSHEARE IN THE KINGDOM OF INGLAND HE WAS SECRETARY TO ONE SR THO LYNCH GOVERNOR OF THIS PLACE WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE TWENTY FIRST DAY OF JULY 1691 IN THE THIRTY THIRD YEAR OF HIS AGE ."

58. " IN THIS CHURCH LYES INTERRED-THE BODY OF-THE HONBLE JOHN HUDSON GUY ESQR.-WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE-THE 7th OF FEBRY 1749-IN THE 52d YEAR OF HIS AGE -HIS MERIT PROMOTED HIM TO SEVERAL PUBLIC OFFICES -IN THIS ISLAND ;-WHICH HE EXECUTED WITH HONOUR AND INTEGRITY-AND SUPPORTED THEM WITH DIGNITY-HE SERVED HIS COUNTRY AS A MEMBER OF-THE ASSEMBLY WAS MADE AN ,ASSISTANT JUDGE OF THE COURTS OF LAW AND ACTED IN THAT STATION FOR NINE YEARS-WITH SO STRICT AN ADHERENCE TO-THE RULES OF JUSTICE-THAT HE WAS RAISED TO THE CHIEF JUDGES SEAT-AS A REWARD FOR HIS UNIFORM AND STEADY REGARD-TO THE LAWS OF HIS COUNTRY. AND ALSO OF MRS ELIZ : VOSSAL-WHO DYED SEPTBER 27 1725-IN THE 43d YEAR OF HER AGE-SHE WAS A GOOD WIFE, AN AFFECTIONATE MOTHER-AND A SINCERE FRIEND ."

59. " TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES GRAHAM ESQ LATE OF THIS PARISH-DIED 9 MAY 1801 AGED 50-BY HIS MUCH AFFLICTED WIDOW."

60 " SACRED TO THE MEMORY-QF-FRANCIS GRAHAM* ESQRE OF TULLOCH CASTLE-I~ ST THOMAS IN THE VALE-AND FOR SOME TIME MEMBI:.R OF-THE HONOURABLE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY-SON OF THE LATE-ALEXANDER GRAHAM ESQRE OF DRYNIE-BRITISH CONSUL AT FAYAL-BORN ON TilE 17th OF OCTOBER 1773-DIED THE 1st OF FEBRUARY I82o-AND OF HIS INFANT SON-COLINBORN ON THE 23d OF OCTOBER 1814-AND DIED ON THE SAME DAY-ALSO OF HIS DAUGHTER -AGNES-BORN ON THE 5th OF OCTOBER 1816---DIED THE 3oth OF DECEMBER 1817-ALSO-COLIN GRAHAM-ELDEST SON OF-cOLONEL COLIN DUNDAS GRAHAM K W &C-BORN ON THE 31st OF AUGUST 1801-DIED THE 21st OF OCTOBER 1814."

61. " IN MEMORY OF-JOliN HEYLIGER-MAJOR-IN HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY's- 55th REGIME:\T-WIIO WAS BORN-IN THE ISLAND OF ST. CROIX-AvGUST 23d 1782-AND DEPARTED THIS LIFE-OCT 8th 1808."

62. " JOHN HANSON ESQR. DIED 1/45 AGED 27; HIS WIFE MRS FRANCES HANSON 1761 AGED 43-·ELIZABETH HANSON OB 1786 AET 40 JOHN HANSON ESQ OB 18I2 AET 7o-JOSHUA  CRASSEWELL ESQ OB 1768 AET 39·"

63. " HERE LYE5-YE BODY OF YE HONBLE ALEXR HENDERSON- ESQR-0NE OF THE HONBLE THE COUNCIL-AND HIS .MAJESTIES ATTORNEY GENERAL-oF THIS ISLAND-OBIIT 13th APRIL 1732-AETATIS SUAE 36.."

64. " HERE LYETH THE BODY OF MR. CARY HELYAR MARCHANT WHO DYED THE Slh DAY OF JULY 1672 AND IN THE 39 YEARE OF HIS AGE-REV 14th "BLESSED ARE THE DEAD THAT DIE IN THE LORD. THEY REST FROM THEIR LABOURE."

65. " HERE LYETH THE BODY OF MARY HALL DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM HALL ESQ IN WESTMORELAND, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 25th DAY OF JULY 1735- AGED 12 YEARS.•"

66. "HERE LYETH THE BODY OF HILL, LATE THE WIFE OF ROBERT HOTCHKYN ESQ-OB, 1700, AET, 43; ALSO ROBERT HOTCHKYN, OB, 1709· AET 42- "

ROBERT HoTCHKYN was Attorney-General of that Island. He was the eldest son of Robert Hotchkin, Esq., and Mary his wife, of Bradmore, Nottinghamshire. He was born in 1667. He married Hill, the widow of Henry Brabant, Esq., Provost-Marshal. He survived his wife and died in 1709 without issue leaving to his brothers in England-Thomas Hotchkin, a physician, and the Rev.  John Hotchkin' , R ector o f Abbot' s Ripton, HUntingdonshire very considerable property, both real and personal. Part of the former is still in the possession of one of his brother's descendants. He left £6o to the poor of the parish of St. Katharine, and desired to be buried by the side of his dear wife, Hill Hotchkin, in that church. Hill Hotchkin, the wife of the Attorney-General, was probably of an Irish family. Her maiden name was Bolton. She first married John Childermas, the only son of a wealthy planter, also from Ireland; he died in 1699. In 1701 she again married Henry Brabant, Esq., Provost-Marshal of the  island. On the death of the Provost-Marshal she married the Attorney-General, and died shortly after, in 17o6. Her third husband was laid beside her in the grave in 1709. Only ten years elapsed between the death of her first husband and that of the third, who survived her.

67. " EDWARD HALSTEAD ESQR. LIEUT. OF YE TROOP, SON OF LAWRENCE-DIED 25th DEC. 1744 AGED 26."

68. " JOSEPH JORDAN DIED 1715, IN HIS 31st YEAR. HIS SISTER JANE, WIFE OF HENRY BARHAM* DIED, 1717, IN HER 24th YEAR. THE Jordans of Jamaica seem to have been a branch of the Barbadian family of the same name (vide" Baronetage," voce Gibbes.)"

69. " SACRED-TO THE MEMORY-OF-MARY ANN JACKSON JAMES-DAUGHTER OF HUGO AND EMILY-WHO DIED THE I Ith JUNE I82Q-AGED 2 YEARS 2 MONTHS AND 13 DAYS. " THE family of James, in Jamaica, derives from Robert James, who, in 1652, married Margaret Dalton, by whom he had, besides other sons, Hugh, born 166<), ob. 1758, who, by his second wife, Anne, daughter of the Rev. Gawen Noble, of Cockermouth, had a son William, who, by his wife, Jane Senhouse, was mother of Hugh (born 1750), who, by his second wife,-- Cargill,' had a son, Hugo James, appointed Attorney General of Jamaica, who married .IEmilia, daughter of Samuel Jackson, Member of Council, &c., and had, with other issue, Hugh Rees James, C.B., Commission in the Punjab, &c."

70. " SARAH KELSALL DIED 1734 AGED 49· ALSO HER NIECE JOHANNA BOWERMAN 1729 A~ED 26."

71. " HERE LYETH INTERR'D-THE BODY OF-MR. SAMUEL KNIGHT SON OF DOCTOR-SAMUEL KNIGHT DECEASED-WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 7th OF MARCH-ANNO DOMINI 1708-9 IN THE 24th YEAR-oF HIS AGE. HIS father, Dr. Samuel Knight, was member for Kingston in · 1691. "

72. " SAMUEL LONG PIET ATIS ILLUSTRIS, INGENIO INCLYTUS JUSTITIA ORNATUS, FAMA CLARISSIMUS CORPORE RECTO, ANIMO VEGETO PRAEMATURE . ........ . .. . ... . .. . . (obi.) POST QUADRAGINTA QUATUOR] ANNOS QUOS VIXERAT PROUT VIRUM GENEROSUM, ET VERE CLARISSIIMUM DECUIT  TANDEM FATO CEDENS SlQUOD HABUIT TERRENUM, TERRIE REDDIDIT IGNE RECOCTUM-DIEI NOVISSIMO DENUO RESUMI’TURUS N.B. REDIT ASTREAE ET C£LITUS QUOD ERAT ET PATRI, ET PATRIAE. SPIRITUM, ET AMAT.tE OBIIT ANNO DOMINI MDCLXXXIII .late C. E. JUNII 28o.

THE family of Long, of Longville, Jamaica, Hampton Lodge, Surrey, and originally from Wilts, is descended from John Longe, of Netheravon, in the latter county, who died in 1630. Samuel, the  grandson of John, having subsequently participated in the conquest of Jamaica by Penn and Venables, became a person of great consideration in that Island, where his great-grandson, Edward Long, Esq., filled the office of Chief Justice of the Admiralty Court.

THE CHILDREN OF SAMUEL LONG AND ELIZ: HIS WIFE WHO DIED IN 1677.  THIS family, so eminent, and distinguished in the earlier history of Jamaica, gave to the Island its chief historian, name!}\
Edward Long, eldest son of Samuel Long, the eldest son of Charles Long, whose fourth son, Beeston Long, was father of the first Lord Farnborough.-Sce Peerages of Orford, Rivers. THERE were, at any rate, four distinct families of this name at the period referred to, settled in Jamaica. The first settled in the Parish of St. Catherine ; the second in St. James’, is supposed to have been from St. lves in  Huntingdon. The next came from New England, and originally, perhaps, from lver. There were other Lawrences in the Parish of St. Thomas-ye-East, \vho were of lrish extraction. The above was a Buccaneer.

73. “ MEMORIJE SACRUM HIC JACET CATHERINA LYTTLETON FILlA D D GULIELMI FAIRFAX DE STEETON IN COMITATU EBORACENSI EQUITIS AURATI, UXOR DD CAROLI LYTTLETON EQUITIS AURATI, ET IN JAMAICA VICE GUBERNATORI5–0BIIT JANUAR 26 AD 1662.  SIR WILLIAM FAIRFAX, of Steeton, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1562. His grandson, Sir William Fairfax, Knt., of Steeton, married Frances, daughter of Sir Thomas Chaloner, Governor and Chamberlain to Prince Henry, and, being slain in 1644, left, besides sons, two daughters, one of whom, Catherine, married,  first, Sir Martin Lister, Knt., and, secondly, Sir Charles Lyttleton, Bart., of Hagley.”

74. “ SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF-DAVID MILLIGAN ESQUIRE -SON OF THE LATE ROBERT MILLIGAN ESQUIRE OF LONDON MERCHANT,-BORN IN THAT CITY THE 27th OF APRIL-1789 DIED IN JAMAICA AFTER A SHORT ILLNESS ON THE 16th OF FEBRUARY 1818.-HE LEFT HIS OWN COUNTRY TO ATTEND UPON A BELOVED BROTHER,-WHO DIED AT SEA ON HIS WAY TO THIS ISLAND FOR THE RECOVERY OF HIS HEALTH-AND WHOM HE SURVIVED ONLY A FEW MONTHS.-HE WAS A MAN OF STRICT INTEGRITY -HUMANE GENEROUS DISINTERESTED  AND AFFECTIONATE, ESTEEMED BY HIS FRIENDS, AND BELOVED BY HIS FAMILY ;-AT WHOSE DE~IRE THIS MEMORIALl,  OF HIS WORTH-IS PLACED ON THESE SACRED WALLS, NEAR WHICH HE IS BURIED,-IN A LAND WHERE HE EXPERIENCED UNBOUNDETJ HOSPITALITY AND KINDNESS, ROBERT MILLIGAN,

ROBERT MILLIGAN, of London, merchant, was Deputy Chairman of the West India Dock Company, when the first stone of that ….. ,magnificent undertaking was laid on July 12, 1800, by the concurring hands of the Lord Chancellor (Wedderburn),, Lord Loughborough, the Right Hon. William Pitt, George Hibbert, Chairman of the Company, and himself. Mr. Milligan was the principal promoter of the work, and a noble bronze statue erected at the entrance of the dockyard, perpetuates his fame. Mr. Milligan carried on an extensive and lucrative business in Kingston, Jamaica, under the firm of” Dick and Milligan.”

75. “ HERE LYETH ·THE BODY OF DAME ELIZABETH-THE WIFE OF SR. THO?.IAS MODYFORD BARRONETT-GOVERNOUR OF HIS MAJESTIES ISLAND OF JAMAYCA-WHO DIED THE 12th OF NOVEMBER 1668-BEING THE 29th YEARE OF THEIR-HAPPY WED LOCKE. HER LIFE WAS PURE, AS CLEARE HER FAME NONE ERE THOUGHT EVILL OF THIS DAME.  THIS was Elizabeth Palmer, daughter of Lewin Palmer, Esq., of Devonshire, who died … 1668. There was a large family of this name, in the parish of St. James, one of whose monuments, by Flaxman, is in that parish. John Palmer, Chief Justice of Jamaica, married Mary Ballard, daughter of Colonel Peter Beckford.

76. “ HERE L YES THE BODY OF THE HONBLE-FRANCIS ROSE, ES<r-LATE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL OF-THIS ISLAND, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE-YE 2oth OF NOVEMBER 1720 IN THE 67th YEAR OF HIS AGE. fRANCIS RosE represented St. Thomas-in-the-Vale in two Assemblies, 4th May, 1693, and 27th Sept, 1698; and St. Catherine in three, 24th June, 1701, 17th March, 1701-2, and 6th Aug., 1702, on which last date he was elected Speaker of the House. In the Assembly of Jan. 13, 1702-3, he was chosen Member for St. George, and on the 27th of May, 1703, was called up to the Council, of which body he died President. In 1714 he gave a very handsome chandelier to this church.-Roby. See, also, Burke’s ” Peerage ” (Harrington), ” Baronetage ” (Buller East), and ” Landed Gentry” (Hall).

 

77. “ HERE LYETH THE BODY OF-MRS ELIZABETH ROSE-LATE WIFE OF-THE HONBLE THOMAS ROSE ESQ-WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE-THE 8th DAY OF OCTOBER -1722, AGED 25 YEARS. LIEUTENANT-COLONEL RosE, the founder of this family in Jamaica, was one of the officers under Venables at the conquest of the Island.

78. “ TO THE MEMORY OF-STEPHEN RICHARD REDWOOD ESQRE-WIIO WAS BORN IN SPANISH TOWN-ON THE rst OF DECEMBER 1726, AND DIED ON THE-8th OF DECemBER 1781, AND WAS, FOR MANY YEARS, ONE OF THE-REPRESENTATIVES IN ASSEMBLY FOR ST THOMAS IN THE VALE  ALSO, TO THE MEMORY OF HIS SON-THE HONOURABLE PHILIP REDWOOD, BARRISTER AT LAW,-WHO WAS A REPRESENTATIVE FOR ST CATHERINE-UPWARDS OF TWENTY FIVE YEARS,-WAS CHOSEN SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY IN 1802,-APPOINTED CHIEF JUSTICE OF THIS ISLAND IN 1808, AND DIED-ON THE 9th OF FEBRUARY 1810 IN LONDON IN HIS 6oth YEAR.

79. “DEPARTED THIS LIFE DECEMBER 25th 1807-MAJOR GEORGE CRAWFORD-OF· THE 2d W. I. REG-SON OF JAMES CRAWFORD OF AUBURN IRELAND ESQ,-WAS MAJOR OF THE 33d REG.-IN THE EAST INDIES ;-SERVED UNDER SIR RALPH ABERCROMBY ;-WAS AT THE CAPTURE OF THE DUTCH FLEET-BY LORD KEITH AND SIR JAMES CRAIG ;-WAS AT THE SIEGE AND STORM OF  SERINGAPATAM ;AND  AS FROM HIS EARLIEST YEAR5-ALWAYS ACTIVELY EMPLOYED IN THE SERVICE OF HIS KING AND COUNTRY (&c).

80. “ SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF-JOHN SANKEY DARLEY MAJOR OF THE 2fld WEST INDIA REGMT-WHO BRAVELY LOST HIS LIFE-IN THE ZEALOUS DISCHARGE OF HIS DUTYON THE 27th OF MAY 1808-HIS CONDUCT AS A MAN AND A SOLDIER, ENDEARING HIM TO ALL,-HE DIED BELOVED AND REGRETTED-BY HIS FAMILY-FRIENDS AND BROTHER OFFICERS-WITH THE DEEPEST SORROW THIS LAST SAD TRIBUTE  IS PAID-BY HIS AFFECTIONATE FATHER-GEORGE DARLEY THE LORD GAVE AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY, BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD.

MAJOR DARLEY’s death is thus related in the “Continuation to Edwards’ West Indies:” “Fifty-four Chamba and Koromantyn negroes, who had been purchased to serve in the Colonial corps, broke out into mutiny at Fort Augusta, while under drill, and massacred two of their officers, Major Darley and Lieutenant Ellis, who rode up to them to inquire into the cause of the tumult. They were speedily
chastised for their disobedience and barbarity. Fifteen of them were killed on the spot, five were wounded, and seven were afterwards executed. The reason which they assigned for their conduct was, that they were too often drilled, and that they were desirous of returning to their native country.” The date is incorrectly stated as August instead ·of May, r8o8, and the Report of the Committee of Assembly says ”that the mutiny was not by any means confined to the recruits, but that many of the old soldiers, if not openly and directly concerned in it, did persuade and excite the troops to mutiny.” The “Chronology” of the “Jamaica Almanack” is more correct in its detail: “1808, May 27. Recruits of the 2nd West India Regiment mutinied on parade: Lieutenant and Adjutant Ellis was killed, and Major Darley died of the wounds he received. Nine of the mutineers were killed; one died of wounds ; fifteen were tried by a court-martial, and found guilty ; seven of them were shot.” The reader, desirous of further particulars, may consult the 12th vol. Journals of House of Assembly, where the examination of many witnesses is given at length. The ”Violation of the privileges of the Assembly, in the case of Major-General Carmichael, commanding his Majesty’s forces in this island,” (who had directed the officers under his command not “to answer any questions that the Legislative Body of this island might put upon the subject of a late mutiny, or upon the government or discipline of his Majesty’s forces,”) has been inserted by Mr. Aikman, sen., in an Appendix to his re-publication in 1810 of” The Privileges of Jamaica vindicated,” in the case of John Olyphant, Esq., a Member of Assembly. The major was brother to Alderman Darley, of Dublin, of Orange notoriet ”

 

 

  Location Inscriptions Found: Kingston Cathedral Church

1.

NEAR THIS SPOT, IN THE ADJOINING CEh-lETERY, 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 17¢, 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. V0 DIE SEPTEMBRIS MDCCLXXIX OB. XXI DIE APRILIS MDCCXCVI.
OSTENDENT TERRIS HUNC TANTUM FATA NEQ. ULTRA ESSE SINENT. SI QUA FATA ASPERA RUMPAS TU MARCELLUS ERIS!”

2. “ 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 2oth DECR 1821, AGED 23 YEARS.”

3.  ”

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

4. “ 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 I 841, AGED 20 YEARS & 2 MONTHS &C. ALSO.-VIRGINIA MARGARET GROSETT, 2d DAUR. OF THE ABOVE, BORN 28~ OCT 1839, DIED 7 ]ANY. 1841, AGED 14 MTHS & II 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….THE Espeuts were a French refugee family, from St. Domingo.”

5. “ ELIZABETH WIFE OF ANDREW DUNN, M.D. & 2d DAU. OF W. S. TONGE, BAR·RISTER AT LAW. OB. OCT. 26 1852. AET 44 YRS. 5 MTHS, & 10 DAYS.”

6. “ 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.”

7. “ SACRED TO THE MEMORY-pF-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–QF BURUGH ST PETER’5-NORFOLK. ..SIR ALEXANDER, cr. Bart. in 1775, married Margaret, eldest daughter of Thomas Hay, Sen. Col. of Jus., Scotland.”

8. “ ERECTED BY HIS WIDOW, TO THE MEMORY OF MR JOHN BURROWS, MERCHANT OF KINGSTON, WHO DIED 12 FED, 1807, AGED 39· …HE was Receiver-General of Jamaica, and grandfather of the late Sir W. Stevenson, Governor of Mauritius.”

9. “ EBENEZER REID, SENIOR, A NATIVE OF SCOTLAND OB: 2S 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.

10. ”  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 .

11. “ROBERT MCCLELLAND OF THE ROYAL LODGE NO. 250. PROVL NO. I. GRAND REGISTRAR OF THE PROVINCIAL LODGE OF EAST JAMAICA-HE DIED 15 SEP, 186o -ERECTED BY THE BRETHERN OF THE LODGE”

12. “ SACRED-TO THE MEMORY OF-MARY CARR-WIFE OF DAWKINS CARR ESQRE. -cOMMANDER OF-THE JUPITER-WHO DIED JUNE 4th 1798-AGED 28.”

13. “ ALEXANDER EVANS-ALDERMAN OF KINGSTON, OB. 8 JANY 1858. HE WAS 27 YRS IN THE MAGISTl{ACY. ERECTED BY THE CORPORATION OF KINGSTON. ”

14. “ GEORGE MARTIN, ELDEST SON OF WILLIAM MARTIN, ESQR. OF HEMING• STONE HALL, IN CO: SUFFOLK-·BORN 15th SEP: 1796 & DIED, OFF ST JAGO DE CUBA, ON BOARD H.M.S. BUSTARD 13th }ANY. 1822.”

15. “THE REVD ISAAC MANN, B.A. ONE OF THE CHAPLAINS TO THE LORD  BISHOP OF JAMAICA, AND FOR FIFTEEN YEARS, THE BELOVED & RESPECTED RECTOR OF THIS PARISH. HE DIED, OCTOBER 31st 1828, AGED 51 YEARS. ERECTED BY THE MAYOR & COMMONALTY.”

16, “ TH IS 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″

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

18. “ SACkED 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.”

19. “ 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 OTHERGILL OF HANDSWORTH, IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD,- ESQUIRE, WHO HAS ERECTED THIS MOUNUMENT, AS A FAINT RECORD OF HER UNBOUNDED AFFECTION, AND AS A SLENDER TRIBUTE, TO HIS UNSHAKEN AND ACKNOWLEDGED WORTH.”

20. “ 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

2oth YEAR OF HIS AGE.

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

22. “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 I 5th AUGUST 1782, AGED 24 YEARS. ”MANY DAUGHTERS HAVE DONE VIRTUOUSLY BUT THOU HAST EQUALLED THE BEST.” 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 Sth 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”

23. “ TO THE MEMORY OF MESSRS. CHARLES IN;\IAN, & RALPH PRESTON ’ROM LANCASTER, IN GREAT BRITAIN, BUT LATE OF THIS PARISH, MERCHANTS.THE FORMER DIED 14 AUG I767, AET 42-THE LATTER-THE 29th OF JANY. 1772, ONLY TWENTY SIX.” s•x 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 lnmans of Upton Manor, co. Chester.

24. “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 TH~ EAST PART OF THIS CHURCH, ALSO LIES BURIED, THE BODY OF JOHN CARGILL ESQ j FORMERLY MERCHANT IN THIS TOWN, WHO DIED IN SEPTEMBER 178o, AGED 35 YEARS. ERECTED BY THEIR BROTHER. -The Cargill family was from Scotland, some time during the Stuart rebellions, and were connected in Jamaica with the Marstons, Lascellcs, and Dallas families.

25. “ SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT FOSTER ESQR, OF KINGSTON, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, DECEMBER Sth 1768, AGED 55 YEARS.”

26. “ FRANCIS MARY, THE WIDOW OF THE HONBLE JOHN SCOTT, ESQk., AND DAUGHTER OF THE HONBLE ALEXANDER HENDERSON ESQ., LATE ONE OF HIS MAJESTY’S PRIVY COUNCIL, AND ATTORNEY GENERAL OF JAMAICA-DIED 2oth NOVEM. 1755. AGED 27. ”

27. “ HERE LYETH INTERRED, THE BODY OF ELIZABETH COLLY, WIFE OF WM. COLLY OF THIS PAR: WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JULY 9, 1717-AND ALSO THREE OF THEIR CHILDREN VIZ

WILLIAM COLLY 29 FEBY. 1711

RICHARD COLLY OB 5 NOV. 1715

JANE COLLY 3d JANY. 17
WILLM. COLLY, OBIIT THE 10th OF FEBRUARY, 1736, AGED 64-

28.” HERE LYETH THE BODY OF-MRS ELIZABETH FREEMAN-WHO DYED JULY 2d 1728-AGED 50 YEAR5-ALSO ANN GOAD, HER NIECE, OBIIT II SEP 17JI, AGED.”

29. “ 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.

30. “ MARY FLETCHER, WIFE OF LEWIS FLETCHER, OB. JULY 20 1712, AET. 53· ALSO, JAMES DICKSON, SON OF DANIEL DICKSON, H:iR GRANDSON, OB. AUGT 28 1713, AET. 2 MTHS.”

31. “ IN VERTUOUS AND-GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF-MRS MARY OBURNE-THE WIFE OF WILLIAM OBURNE, OF THI5-PARISH MERCHT.-SHE SURRENDERED HUMAN LIFE, UNDER THE AGONIES AND EXTREME PANGS IN TRAVEL, WITH HER -FIRST CHILD NAMED FRANCES, DECEMBER THE -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 WITH HIM, WHO ALL THINGS MADE WITHOUT CONTROL, IN HEAVENLY BLISS, IS HER IMMORTAL SOUL. ALSO HERE LYETH • I725-6″

32. “ 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: 1. G. H. Lawrence, 2. Rev. C. W. Lawrence, 3, Major-General A. Lawrence) ; 4- Henry; S· Frederick Augustus, Captain, and Gentleman of the P. Chambe.r 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.”

33. “ EDWARD CLARKE, HEIR OF THE HON: COLL: JOHN CLARKE, OF ST DAVID’S~OB. 6th DECR. 1731. ”

34. “ MARTHA, THE WIFE OF ALEX~ · 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.”

35. “ MARGARET, WIFE OF DANIEL MCQUEEN OF KINGSTON, MERCHT., OB. DEC. I 1757 AET 29, ALSO THE BODY OF HER SISTER, THE WIFE OF GEORGE RICHARDS. EQR. MERCHT. OB: I JULY, 1755, AET. SO. LIKEWISE THE BODY OF THEIR SISTER ANN, WIFE OF JOHN MINOT, OB. 17 JANY. 1758 AET. SO, ALSO MARY M 10 SEP. 1764″

36. “ HERE LIES THE BODY OF MARY ANN MEAD, DAUR. OF JOHN & ELIZABETH MEAD, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, YE 8th OF JULY 1762, AGED FOUR MONTHSALSD- JOHN & ELIZABETH MEAD, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, YE 28 OF DECEMBER, 1766, AGED 3 YEARS & 6 MONTHS. ”

37. “ HERE LYETH THE BODY OF-THOMAS WILSONE, ESQFORMERLY OF THE MIDDLE TEMPLE, LONDON-BUT LATE OF THE PAR: ·oF ST CATHERINE-WHO DIED UNIVERSALLY BELOVED, AND–DESERVEDLY ESTEEMED, THE 29th APRILL 1]41-AGED 66 YEARS.”

38. “HERE LIES MARY GRIH’ •••••• WIFE OF LUCOCK GRIFFIN-OF TilE PARISH OF KINGSTON-CARPENTER, WHO DIED-THE 17 DAY OF XBER. 1741, AGED 49 YEARS.”

39. “HERE LYETH THE BODY OF-cAPTAIN CHARLES BROWN-SO …… THE HONOURABLE-cHARLES BROWN, ESQR., COMMISSIONER OF HIS MAJESTIES NAVY, AT CHATHAM-HE DIED, NOVR. 21st 1747, AGED 38 YEARS. ”

40 . “ MR. DANIEL DICKSON, OB. JULY 19 1723, AGED ABOUT 46 YEARS. ALSO, JAMIES DICKSON, HIS SON, OB. AUG. 28 1713, AET. 2 MONTHS. ALSO, FRA~CES, HIS DAUR. FEll. 28 17:~, AET. 14 14MTHS.”

41. “ HERE LYETH INTERRED, THE BODY-OF IOHN BENBOW ESQR., ADMIRAL-OF THE WHITE: A TRUE PATTERN OF ENGLISH COURAGE: WHO LOST HVS LIFE-IN DEFENCE OF HYS QUEENE AND-COUNTRY, NOVEMBER YE 4th 1702-IN THE 52nd YEAR OF HYS AGE-BY A WOUND IN HYS LEG, RECEIVED-IN AN, ENGAGEMENT WITH-MONS. DU CASSE, BEING MIUCH-LAMENTED.

JOHN BENBOW was born at Shrewsbury, in 1650. His gallantry in an action with Barbary pirates, gained for him, through the recommendation of the King of Spain, a commission in the British navy, shortly after which, he was entrusted with the command of a fleet.* In 1702, during an engagement with the French Admiral, Du Casse, he was struck in the leg by a chain-shot. Of this wound he died, but not before he had brought to justice the treacherous captains who had abandoned him in the fight.”

42. “ HERE LIETH INTERR’D THE BODY OF SMART MAY, WIFE OF THE REVEREND MR.. WILLIAIII MAY, RECTOR OF THIS PARISH, WHO WAS KILL’D IN YE 23d YEAR OF HER AGE, BY YE FALL OF AN HOUSE, IN YE GREAT STORM, AUGUST YE 28th, A.D. 1722. JUSTUS QUACUNQUE MORTE PR.!EOCCUPATUS FUERIT IN REFRIGERIO ERIT…..SMART Pennant was, Ist, married to Thomas Peters, Member for Clarendon, in I7I8; and, 2ndly, 7th Sept., 1721, to the Rev. W. May.”

43. “ HERE LIES INTERR’D YE HODY OF THE REVD. MR. WILLIAM MAY, BORN IN YE PARISH OF ASH IN KENT, YE 29th OF AUGUST, 1695. EDUCATED AT ST. JOHN;’S COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE, CO){MISSARY OF JAMAICA, AND 32 YEARS MINISTER OF THIS PARISH. HIS FIRST WIFE WAS SMART, YE DAUGHTER OF EDWARD A.:-;D ELIZABETH. PENNANT, OF YE PARISH OF CLARENDON; HIS SECOND WIFE WAS BATIIVSA, YE DAUGHTER OF FLORENTIUS AND ANN VASSALL, OF YE PARISH OF ST. ELIZABETH, WHO WAS BURIED IN SPANISH TOWN CHURCH BY YE GRAVE OF HER MOTHER 0~ YE 22 DAY OF JULY, 1746, BY WHOM HE HAD ISSUE SIX SONS AND TWO DAUGHTERS, FIVE OF WHICH ARE ENTERED UNDER THIS STONE, VIZ. PETER, WILLIAM, ELIZABETH, GEORGE, AND ITHAMAR. TWO DIED AT SEA GOING TO BOSTON FOR YE RECOVERY OF THEIR HEALTH, VIZ. RICHARD, ON YE 28th OF AUGUST, 1745, IN YE 21st YEAR OF HIS AGE, AND FLORENTIUS, YE 4th OF JUNE, 1747, IN YE 16th YEAR OF HIS AGE. HIS SON, ROSE HERRING MAY, IS THE ONLY CHILD THAT SURVIVED HIM, WHO IT IS HOPED WILL INHERIT HIS FATHER’S VIRTUES, AS WELL AS HIS FORTUNE. THE Revd. William May was buried, 31st January, 1753-4. His only surviving son, Rose-Herring May, born 16th February, 1736-7, was Member of Council, and Custos of Clarendon and Vere. He married, 28th March, 1759, Mary-Trelawny ’Wigan (she was buried in St. Dorothy’s, 18th Nov., 1786), by whom he had nine children, baptized in St. Catharine’s. He died, 1st August, 1791, and was buried in Spanish Town. ”

44. “ TO THE MEMORY OF SUSANNA-THE LATE WIFE-OF COLONEL WILLIAM GORDON-WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE- 31st MARCH 1731-AGED 32 YEARS-MANY DAUGHTERS HAVE DONE VERTUOUSLY-BUT THOU EXCELLEST THEM ALL ”

45. “ HERE LYETH INTERRED THE BODY OF WILLIAM HALL,  ESQUIRE, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE EIGHTEE~TH DAYOF SEPTEMBER, 1699, IN THE FORTY-FOURTH YEAR OF HIS

AGE.” HE was the youngest child of Edmund Hall, Esq., of Greatford Hall.

46. “ THE HONBLE. JAMES IRVING, ESQ.-LATE CUSTOS OF TRELAWNY, DIED-21st NOVEMBER, 1798, AGED 49 YEARS. THE Irvings, owners of Ironshore and Hartfield, in St. James’ parish. James, eldest son of Dr. James Irving, obtained Ironshore, from John Lawrence, in exchange for an estate in South Carolina. James Irving, the younger, was Custos of Trelawny, and represented that parish, in the Assemblies of 1774. 1781, 1787, 1790, and 1796. This was a branch of the family of Irving of Robgill Tower, Dumfriesshire, represented by Sir Paulus Aemelius Irving, Bart.”

 

  Location Inscriptions Found:  Kingston Parish Church

1. “(Ab.) JAS: FOTHERINGHAM OB. JUNE 25 I834 AET. 30, ALSO KEITH FOTHERINGHAM, OB. NOV. 2 1847, AET. 32 “

2. “(Ab.) ELEANOR GIBBONS BULL, DAU. OF JNO. & SARAH BULL, OB: 9 JULY I792, AET. 14 YRS. & 5 MTHS.”

3· “(Ab.) PETER WAGSTAFFE, SON OF JOHN & MARY W., OB. 16 DEC: I759, AET. I6YRS 2MTHS. 29 DAYS: ALSO MARY w., WIFE OF JOHN W., OB. 7 DEC. I76o, AET. 37·”

4. “(Ab.) JAMES LEWIN, MERCHT. OB. SEP: 1751, AET. 33: ALSO, MRS SARAH CHAPPELL, NIECE OF THE ABOVE, OB. 29 JUNE I803, AET. 74 ALSO, ISAAC MUNT, ESQ., OB. FEB. 4 1820, AET; 6I YRS. 29 DAYS.”

5·”(Ab.) JAS. HANCE, MERCHT. OB. 23 MAY, 1812, AET. 43· ”

6. “(Ab.) JAS DOLLAR, ESQ., MERCHT., OB. 6 JULY 1829, AET. 29. ”

7. “(A b.) JOHN ATKINSON, ESQ., BURIED I I FEB. 1798.”

8. “GEO: CLAYTON, ESQ., OB. 3 APL., 1816, & JOHN MITCHELL, ESQ., OB. 27 At:GT. 1840″

9. “(Ab.) WM. BROWN, ESQ., REAR ADMIRAL OF THE RED, & COMMANDER IN CHIEF IN JAMAICA OB 20 SEP 1814 AET 50.”

10. “(Ab.) DAWSON CLOWES, MIDSHIPMAN, HMS. MAIDSTONE, OB. DEC. 3· 1737, AET. 16 ”

11. “ (Ab.) ANN, WIFE OF ALEXR. BEAN, OB. NOV. 27 1726, AET. 32-ALSO, JAMES BEAN, NEPHEW TO JOHN BEAN OF KINGSTON, OB. 24 DEC. 1802 AET. 24. ”
12. “ HERE LIES THE BODY-OF S. W., AGED 27 YEAR5-ALSO THOSE OF TWO CHILDREN OF B. 0 . W.’S, & ELEANOR HIS WIFE, G. E. W.’S AGED 15 MONTHS-AND-H. W. W.’S, AGED 5 YEARS & 9 MONTHS.”
13. “(Ab.) CLAUS VAN DOLHERN, OB: 24 OCT. 1807, AET. 47.-ERECTED BY HIS FRIEND, MISS FRANCIS LAMBO.

14. “(Ab.) D. S. ROBERTS, ESQ., LATE MAJOR, 54th REGT, OB. 12 DEC. 1829, AET. 48.”
15. “HERE LYES BURIED-THE BODY OF CAPT-JOHN KENT OF-BOSTON IN NEW ENGLAND-WHO DIED ON THIS ISLAND-SEP. 16 ANNO DOMI. 1732-AGED 37 YEARS II MTHS. & 17 DAYS”
16. “(Ab.) FANNY, CHILD OF JOHN M. TREW CLERK, OB. 24 MARCH 1842. ”

17. “ (Ab.) B. C. PATEY, ESQ., MERCHT., OB. 26 JANY. 1837, AET. 57· 22.

18. ” (Ab.) DONALD ROSS, PLANTER, OF PORT ROYAL PARISH, OB. 18 SEP. 1806, AET. 57· ”
19. “(Ab.) DENNIS BRAUMGAN, ESQ., MERCHT., OB. DEC 9· 1821.”
20. (Ab;) MRS. SARAH WARDEN, WIFE OF W. R. WARDEN, OB. 29 AUGT. I8II. AET. 38.”
21 “(A b.) EDWARD BAKER, MIDSHIPMAN R.N., BORN SEP. 5 1779: OB. 21 APL. 1796.”

22. “(Ab.) THE BODY OF JOHN DRINKWATER, OF TIIIS PARISH. HE DIED, JUNE 10 1745, AGED 73-ALSO, EIGHT CHILDREN OF THE SAID JOHN, & SARAH DRINKWATER.”

23. “(Ab.) ANN, WIFE OF JOHN l\1. TREW-SHE WAS CALLED AWAY SUDDENLY, 29 MARCH 1842, AET. 42.”
24. “10th DEC. 178o–DIED AT KINGSTON IN THE 54th YEAR OF HIS AGE, MR. ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, AUTHOR OF “LEXIPHANES,”"

25. “(Ab.) FREDK. CHERRY, OB. 22 APL., 1798, AET. 40. FREDK. TREW CHERRY, OB. ”

26. “NOV., 1786, AET. 8 HOURS. MARY ANN CHERRY, OB. 1792, SEPR. 18, AET 31\1. II DAYS.”

27. “(Ao.) MRS. ELIZABETH ARMOUR, OB. OCT. 27, 1827, AET. 35· ALSO HER 3 CHILDREN, JOSEPH, JANE, & CATHERINE WORDIE, AGED RESPECTIVELY 2/-,;, l18s.

28. “YEARS, IN 1825, 7 & 8. LIKEWISE, JOHN BEAN, ESQ., OB. AUGT. 6, 1837, AET. 31.”

29. “(A b.) ABNER MELLOR, ESQR., OB. SEP. I I, 1801, AGED 70-& MARY HIS WIFE, OB. 27 JUNE, 17¢, AET. 62. ALSO, WM. MELLOR, ESQ., OB. 16 JULY, 1799, AGED 38, SON OF THE ABOVE, AND DOROTHY, DAUGHTER OF ABNER, OB. 7 NOV., 1778, AGED 6 YRS. 4 CHILDREN OF JAMES BROWN, BY HIS WIFE ANN, DAUR. OF ABNER & MARY MELLOR: MARY OB. 1791, ANNE OB. 1794 j ABNER OB. 1794; WILJ.,IAM OB. 1800-AGED RESPECTIVELY, 8 MTHS, 10 MTHS, 2 YRS, & 2 YRS & 3 MTHS.
30.”(Ab.) JOHN GRAHAM, ESQR., MERCHT., OB. 15 MARCH, 1799» AET. 74-”

31. “ BENEATH ARE INTERRED THE REMAINS OF B.S. ROWLEY ESQR., ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE, AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF HIS MAJESTY’S FLEET AT JAMAICA, WHO DIED ON THE 7th OF. OCTOBER, A.D. MD.CCCXI., AGED 47 YEARS. ”

32. “(Au.) CAPT. THOMAS STOPFORD, R.N., OB. IO OCT., 1824-”

33. “AGNES J3AILEY DIED MAY 1st, 1749, IN THE 25th YEAR OF HER AGE.”

34 .” (Ab.) ELIZABETH RUTHERFORD, WIFE OF W. J. RUTHERFORD, OB. 8 OCT., 1837, AET. 38. ”

35. “ MR. RICHARD BURGER, FATHER OF THE ABOVE, OB. 12th JANUARY, 1842, AET. 52.”

36. “ HERE LIES INTERRED THE BODY-QF MR. JOHN EDSOR, LATE OF THE PARISH OF PORT ROYAL, IN THE ISLAND–OF JAMAICA, MERCHANT, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 30th OF OCTOBER, 1745-AGED THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS.”

37. “ (Ab.) SARAH HOLDEN, WIFE OF ROBERT HOLDEN, SUGAR BAKER, OB. 5 NOV., 176<), AET. 19. ”

38. “ HERE LIETH INTERR’D THE :BODY OF ROBERT WATELY, OF KINGSTON, MERCHANT, WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE, THE 26th OF OCTOBER, 1755, AGED 25 YEARS. ”

39. “ (A b.) ALDERMAN LAUCHLAN MCLEAN, A NATIVE OF THE ISLAND OF COLL., N.B., OB. 15 OCT., 1829, AET. 43· ”

40 . “ (Ab.) ROBERT THOMSON, OF LORN, ESQ., DIED AT KINGSTON, JAMAICA, 14th OCT., 1801, AGED 45 YRS. HIS ONLY DAUGHTER, CATHERINE THOMSON, HATH CAUSED ERECT (sic) THIS STONE, &c., A.D. 1803.”

41. ‘(Ab.) CAPT. JOSEPH EVERETT, OB. AT HONDURAS, 16th JANUARY, AET. 54- HIS FRIEND, MRS. MARY PHILLIPS, HAD HIS REMAINS INTERRED IN THIS VAULT, 22d JULY, 1792.”

42. “MARY SALT STEELE, INFANT DAUR. OF DANIEL STEELE AND SARAH PHILLIPS  STEELE, BOTH (sic) OF WHOM DEPARTED THIS LIFE 3 OCT., 1797, AGED 6 MONTHS 3 DAYS. 43. ”

43. “ (Ab.) MARY CARR, WIFE OF DAWKINS CARR, ESQ., COMMANDER OF THE ”JUPITER,” WHO DIED JUNE 4th 1798, AGED 28 YEARS.

44· “ (Ab.) PETER RIENSSETT, ESQ., Oll. AUG. 5, 1820, AET. 65. SARAH ALLEN JANE, DAUR. OF THE ABOVE, AND WIFE OF EDWARD CAMPllELL WOODGATE, ESQR., OB. MARCH 4, 1837, AET. 35·
W.M.
45. “(Ab.) THE REVD. CHARLES ALFRED COOPER, DVRING TEN YEARS MINISTER OF THE DISTRICT OF ST. MARY’S, RURAL HILL, ST. THOMAS IN THE EAST. HE WAS BORN AT NEWPORT, IN THE COUNTY OF SHROPSHIRE, IN ENGLAND, AND DIED OF YELLOW FEVER, IN THIS CITY, 19th JUNE 1853, AGED 34-”
46.·(Ab.) THOMAS CUMMING, ESQ., MER.CHT., OB. 29 JULY, 1815, AET. 55. AND ROBT. MCCLELLAND, OB. 15 SEP., 1800.

47.(Ab.) HERE LIETH THE REMAINS OF MRS. ELIZABETH HOWELL, LATE WIFE OF .MR. JOSEPH HOWELL, SHIPWRIGHT, OF THE ISLAND OF JAMAICA, OB. 24 JULY, 1779, AET. 42.”

48. “(Ab.) MRS. ELI~ABETH SMITH, WIFE OF JOSEPH SMITH, CARPENTER IN KINGSTON, OB. 24 OCT., I768, AET. 40.6:z.IN MEMORIAM-PROBI COMMISQ’ VIRI ROGER! GRADWELL-DE LIVERPOOLE

NAUCLERI QUI FA TIS CESSIT-150 JANUII, I]38, AETAT. 28-HUNC TUMULUM ER EXIT FRATERNA PIETAS.
W.M .
49 .”(A b.) RICHARD NICOL, WHO ARRIVED IN THIS ISLAND, ON THE 7th DAY OF JANUARY, I8I9, & DIED 26th JULY FOLLOWING, AGED I6 YEARS, 9 MTHS, I9 DAYS. ERECTED BY HIS ONLY SURVIVING BROTHER, JOHN NICOL.
50.  (Ab.) MR. RICHARD MARSDEN, MERCHT., OB. IS OCTR., I808, AET. 44 YRS, 3 MTHS, I 2 D. ERECTED BY HIS WIDOW. (Ab.) THOS. FISHER, IN MEMORY OF HIS BROTHER, JOHN FISHER, LATE CABINET MAKER IN KINGSTON, OB. I 5t NOV., I804, AET. 67. W.M.
51. “(A b.) CAPT. JOHN FOWLES, & MARIA HIS WIFE; THE FORMER DIED 25th OCT., 1782; THE LATTER, IN THE FEBRUARY FOLLOWING. Also, UNDER THIS STONE ARE ALSO INTER’D, SEVEN CHILDREN OF THE ABOVE JOHN & MARY FOWLES.
51. (Ab.) THE REVD. ISAAC MANN, M.A., LATE RECTOR OF THIS CITY, CHAPLAIN TO. THE PRQVINCIAL GRAND LODGE, & PAST MASTER OF THE SUSSEX LODGE, NO. 8, IN THIS TOWN. ERECTED BY THE BRETHREN OF THESE LODGES, OBIIT I NOV., I828, AET. 51.
52. “(Ab.) MRS. CAROLINE DICK, WIFE OF JOHN DICK, ATTY. AT LAW, OB. I FEB., I8o6, AET. 32.”
53. “WM. MAXWELL, ESQ., ATTY. AT LAW, OB. 20 MAY, 1802, AET. 42. HIS CHILD, ANN OGILVY MAXWELL, OB. OCT. I3, I8oi, AET. 2. ERECTED BY HIS WIDOW. ”

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