Ledger Stone 16
~ Slate ~ The C15 font of Bath stone manages to obscure a large section of information and decoration on this stone, but an incised panel with a Nowy head gives us a few clues to the owners identity. There are decorative flowers to each corner, denoting life and a skull with ruff at the centre, denoting death. There is damaged to a corner and it has a large crack, splitting the stone in half.
~ Orientation ~ South/North ~ 146 x 95cm // 4’10” x 3′
(Here Liet)h ye Body of
(Gregory J)enkin . Yeoman
(of the Par)iƒh of St Earth
(….)ears in ye Cuƒtoms
(….)o
(….) January . Ye 20. 1763
(….) years.
(Me)mento Mori
stone citation
- Parish records show
- Gregory Jenkins
- Buried 21 January 1763
- Yeoman –
- Married Joan Phillips, of St. Earth
- on 29 February 1727
- at the parish of St. Earth
- signed his name – Jenkin
Records suggest that Gregory Jenkin (-1763) married Joan Phillips, on 29th February 1727, both of whom were living in St. Erth, S.W.Cornwall, marrying at Perranuthnoe, on the coast. From the stone it suggests that Gregory Jenkin would have been a retired gentleman in 1763.
Perhaps if Gregory Jenkins worked as a customs man – he would have been part of a very small fleet of Revenue sloops, which would have been totally out numbered by the larger smugglers ships. In the middle of the 1700’s everyday goods and luxuries were heavily taxed and smuggling was big business, for everyone.
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