Headstone 207
~ Granite ~ Latin cross with two step base
- Hannah Hill Hitchen Rowett 1850 – 22 June 1928
- Aged 78 years
- Died in Polperro
- “Nothing in my hand I bring, simply to thy cross I cling”
- Parish Records show
- Buried 26 June 1928
- Sarah Letitia Hindley 1850 – 23 April 1931
- Aged 80 years
- Possible connection to Headstone 214
Ancestry research – born in Liverpool, to parents Richard Rowett & Hannah Hill Hitchens – Probate Report – shows, she is a spinster, living at Hillside, Polperro in 1931. She leaves half her estate to Herbert Butler, artist. Headstone 214
Best of all friends were the cottage Aunties, their long low house was always open to us for a bed or a meal. A lemon verbena grew over part of it, and was impossible to pass without picking a bit to keep in ones pocket.
Auntie Hannah was the daughter of a merchant captain; she had relations in Burma, tea planters, with whom she had spent some years as a girl.
Auntie Sally was a north-country woman, but we only knew her as an old inhabitant of the cottage. The two friends were very unlike each other, Auntie Sally petite with soft brown hair brushed back from a centre parting, very quiet and gentle, but very decided on all questions of morals and religion.
The Aunties were fond of children and brought up several nieces.
The Aunties were always kind and indulgent. Aunt Sally’s little blue books of scripture verses, occasional story books, and Auntie Hannah’s Christmas gifts often exciting.
‘ Recollections of a Talland Childhood’ – Muriel Jerram
Talland Church Headstones 
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