Talland Church Headstones

Headstone 159

~ Sandstone ~ The top edge to this stone is very damaged, however the size and shape is similar to a tombchest lid.

Inside Talland church, Ledger Stone 29 records the sons of Edward Rundle – Thomas Prynn Rundle & John Rundle, who both died as young boys. Edward married Jane Prynn (1750-1821) on 14 November 1772, in her parish, at St. Newlyn East. Jane’s gravestone is in the east graveyard, Headstone 139

Edward Rundle was born at Hendersick and was churchwarden for one year in 1773. His simple gravestone stands next to the south door entrance to Talland Church. His name is inscribed, together with Samuel Prynn on a Talland church bell, dated 1773, which was re-cast in 1913.

Will of Edward Rundle, farmer, of Talland, dated 1815. AP/R/3863 Kresen Kernow – The Royal Cornwall Gazette remembers him as ‘a respectable farmer’.

Frank Perrycoste, author of Talland Parish Records, has deduced from his pedigree project, that the name of RUNDLE is one of the few totally authentic, wholly Polperro, family names.

Frank Perrycoste notes over a period of ten years, Edward Rundle takes four apprentices the youngest, Ann Foot, is just 8 years old, providing them with a life skill.

“It was the practice in old days to provide for poor children by apprenticing them to farmers, who were bound to lodge and feed and clothe them and teach them their work in return for their services. The boys were always to be taught husbandry and the girls housewifery; boys were bound until 21, and for girls, until 18 or marriage.”

Baptism records show that Edward & Jane Rundle had several children, their last being Jane Prynn Rundle (1792-1812).

She married Dr. Johnathan Couch (1789-1870) of Polperro, Surgeon & Naturalist, in 1810, as his first wife; she died shortly after the birth of their first child, aged 20.

The History of Polperro 1871 – ‘Sketch of the Life of Jonathan Couch’ – Introduction written by his son Thomas Quiller Couch.