Talland Church Headstones

Ledger Stone 43

~ Slate ~ A small stone showing complete memorial information within a few lines, with the use of decorative medieval script and Roman numerals, on the final line.

~ Orientation ~ West/East ~ North Aisle ~ 83 x 60cm // 2’9″ x 2′

Ancestry research shows –

• Will of Nicholas Harris Nicholas written 21 August 1803, as Lieutenant of His Majesty’s Royal Regiment of Artillery, with property & orchard in the Barbican/Shutta, in East Looe, on his stone in 1806 he has the title of Captain.

• Baptised twice “at the same time as [twin] sisters Frances and Loveday Nicholas” on 2 and 28 November 1781
• the same document shows Birth 16 October 1781

• In the burial records his surname is documented as Harris.