Ledger Stone 39
~ Slate ~ A small plain stone, with half-round incised curved double lines, which are just visible bordering the top and bottom. The nibbled edges of the stone eat into the boarder design, suggesting the original proportions of the slab were slightly larger.
~ Orientation ~ West/East ~ North Aisle ~ 112 x 60cm // 3’8″ x 2′
- Paul Harris Nicholas 1753 – 16 May 1788
- Aged 34 years
- of East Looe
- Parish Records show
- Buried 19 May 1788
- Father Ledger Stone 25
- Daughter Ledger Stone 37
- Son Ledger Stone 43
Paul Harris Nicholas (1753-1788) was the son of Paul Nicholas (1721-1787). His birth register names his father and mother and their parents, all of East Looe, and gives the date and time of his birth “born the 13th day of the 11 month called November 1753 about half after 8 o’clock in the morning” He married Sarah Kingston (-1784) in 1777; two of their three children are buried in the church – Loveday Nicholas (1778-1805) and Nicholas Harris Nicholas (1781-1806). Paul married a second time, after Sarah died, to Anne Blake (1760-) in 1786, but two years later when his children were still under 10 years old, Paul dies aged 34years. Two of Paul’s brothers married two of Ann’s sisters.
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