Headstone 122
~ Slate ~ Gothic head & convex shoulders with decorative central interwoven IHS motif
- John Gould Lakes 1835 – 13 June 1889
- Aged 54 years
- at Polperro
- Salutation ‘Lieut in H.M.I.N’
- Husband of Tryphena Jane Lakes
- “Looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ”
- Parish Records show
- Buried 18 June 1889
- Talland Church Marriage
- John Gould Lakes, gentleman 49 years to
- Tryphena Jane Welch, 21 years
- Tryphena Jane Lakes 1864 – 5 May 1894
- Aged 30 years
– Ancestry Research – 1881 census born in Liskeard (he joined the Indian Navy- foreign stations in 1851) now as a retired Lieutenant in Indian Navy, aged 46, single & boarding in Lansallos Street, Polperro. John married Tryphena Jane Lakes in July 1884, a local girl 29 years his junior.
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