Headstone 127
~ Slate ~ Neoclassical with flat top
- Walter Hoskin 1842 – 29 December 1860
- Aged 18 years
- Son of Walter & Philippa Hoskin
- of West Looe
- Brother of Charles Edward Hoskin
- Nephew of Captain Hoskin
- ‘Who with Captain Hoskin and crew were drowned in Cawsand Bay’
- “The God who first his being gave, From this vain world called him away; His sun went down ere noon arrived, Just in the morning of his day”
- Parish Records show
- Buried 2 January 1861
- Charles Edward Marshall 1875 – 3 February 1880
- Aged 5 years
- Possible connection to Headstone 154
- Possible connection to Headstone 160
Ancestry research – Coroner’s Inquest: ‘There was no signal of distress (which would be an ensign turned upside down), but she had no ensign on board at all.’
“Five persons thus lost their lives. They were— Ed. Hoskin, the master and part owner of the Speedwell, a man of about thirty years of age, married, with three children; James Toms, the mate, about twenty-six of age, married and two children; David Libbey seaman, aged about thirty-seven, married, and several children; Thomas Clapp, a youngster of about eighteen, and Walter Hoskin, the nephew of the captain, also about eighteen years of age.”
Royal Cornwall Gazette, January 1861
Talland Church Headstones 
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