Ledger Stone 5
~ Slate ~ No decoration, simply a stonemason’s mark; P, Symons of W. Looe.
~ Orientation ~ North/South ~ South Aisle ~ 160 x 61cm // 5’3″ x 2′
- Mary Ann Elliot 1829 – 28 April 1870
- Aged 41 years
- Late of this Parish
- Parish Records show
- Buried 28 April 1870
- surname spelling – Eliot
- of Wayland
- In the 1861 census Mary Ann Eliot was a widow, living with her 9 year old son William, b.1852 at Wayland Farm where her father, John Marshall b.1805, a widow, was the farmer of 45 acres.
- In the 1851 census Mary was a widow, without a baby, living with her father, as above.
- West Devon parish records show Mary Ann Marshall, aged 22years, born in Morval, married William Elliott, of Brixham, in 1851, aged 25years.
- This is a late date for an intramural burial; ‘The Burial Acts of the 1850’s banned interior church burials for reasons of space and hygiene’.
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