Ledger Stone 20
~ Slate ~ The top and bottom edges are lost, but the roman lettering is clear and there are glimpses of the Memento Mori images contained in an incise Nowy head.
~ Orientation ~ East/West ~ Centre ~ 64 x 55 cm // 2′ x 1’10”
- Jane Toms 1760 – 29 April 1761
- Aged ‘three quarters’
- Daughter of Richard & Cathrine Toms
- of Polperro . Talland
- Parish Records show
- Buried 1 May 1761
- Baptised 14 September 1760
Dear parents weep for me no
more. I am not Loƒt but gon
Be fore. with Chrisƒt to dwell
Where joys abound. no Tongue
Can tell
memorial verse
- Richard Toms 1727 – 22 June 1779
- Aged 52 years
- Parish Records show
- Buried 24 June 1780 [sic]
- Aged 52 years
- Catharine Toms 1729 – January 1804
- Aged 75 years
- Wife of Richard Toms
- Parish Records show
- Buried 31 January 1804
Jane Toms (1760-1761) was aged ‘three quarters’ when she died. 19 years later her father Richard Toms (1727-1779) was added to the stone and a further 21 years saw her mother Catherine Toms (née Rummett) (1729-1804), added too. They were married at Lansallos church on 9 June 1753.
Talland Church Headstones 
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