Ledger Stone 40
~ Slate ~ A complete slate without decoration, for a mother and her very young grand children, only one of whom she could have met.
~ Orientation ~ North/South ~ Centre Aisle ~ 136 x 71cm // 4’6″ x 2’4″
- Margaret Rundle 1745 – 11 May 1810
- Aged 65 years
- Wife of Thomas Rundle
- of Polperro
- Parish Records show
- Buried 13 May 1810
- Aged 60 years
- Also – William Sargent 1810 – 10 April 1810
- Aged 7 weeks
- Son of Thomas & Ann Sargent
- Parish Records show
- 19 April 1810
- named as William Rendle Sargent
- Also – William Rundle Sargent 1811 – 12 September 1811
- Aged 5 months
- His Brother
- Margaret wife of Thomas Rundle, was baptised Margaret Tapril (1745-1810) in Lansallos. She married Thomas on 14 October 1780, at Talland Church. Her daughter Ann Rundle (1789-1863) married Thomas Sargent (1787-) 19 August 1809, at Talland Church. They went on to have a third baby called William in 1817.
How frail our Lives, how ƒhort their date,
Repent, Believe, ere tis too Late;
No time of Life, from Death is free,
‘Twixt Hoary-hairs, and Infancy;
The Mother, Child, Grand-children dear,
At GOD’s command, lies Sleeping here
Memorial Verse
Talland Church Headstones 
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