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Offline SmallTownGirl

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Re: Request for Deciphering Head Stone
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 01 December 16 18:23 GMT (UK) »
I can see:

Son of Henry and Mary Barber
who departed this life Dec (r) 14 (th) 1854
in the forty fifth year of his age

The details on the link that Girl Guide posted say buried 1831 age 44.

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Re: Request for Deciphering Head Stone
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 01 December 16 18:29 GMT (UK) »
The Church seems to have a Facebook page.  Why not message them and ask?
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Re: Request for Deciphering Head Stone
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 01 December 16 19:29 GMT (UK) »
The year on the headstone could read 1834 and not 1854 as I first thought.
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Re: Request for Deciphering Head Stone
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 01 December 16 23:02 GMT (UK) »
A can of shaving foam & a plastic scraper should do the trick. Fill the letters & use the scraper then wash the inscription clean with water.

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Re: Request for Deciphering Head Stone
« Reply #13 on: Friday 02 December 16 15:24 GMT (UK) »
I have tried to highlight the relevant section but did not have much success. I think it reads Dec 11th but the year is very unclear, it could be  1871/1874 or 1841/1844 or something else. ::)

The message after is taken from Revelations 114:13, King James version... Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth. Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours............ etc. etc.

edit: sorry not very clear, it looked better on my computer than on here. ??? :-[
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Re: Request for Deciphering Head Stone
« Reply #14 on: Tuesday 06 December 16 16:53 GMT (UK) »
I have tried to highlight the relevant section but did not have much success. I think it reads Dec 11th but the year is very unclear, it could be  1871/1874 or 1841/1844 or something else. ::)

The message after is taken from Revelations 114:13, King James version... Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth. Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours............ etc. etc.


I don't think that's all of it though; I tried to read the stuff at the bottom.

.. promised full and ...
... of earth born bliss ...
... that looks beyond time ...
to realms where purer love are found
the faith alone can peace impart
to the survivors broken heart
............
..........

Google doesn't give me anything for those phrases

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Re: Request for Deciphering Head Stone
« Reply #15 on: Tuesday 06 December 16 16:56 GMT (UK) »
Bingo!


Epitaphs, collected from the cemeteries of London, Edinburgh &c. by J.B. Robinson

Joseph Barlow Robinson
1859

Swarkestone church yard


Lay up in heaven thy treasur'd store,
And trust to time's vain hopes no more,
Whose blighted blossoms wither here,
Water'd by sorrow's bitter tear.

Yet once they promised full and fair,
The fruit of earth-born bliss to bear,
But faith that looks beyond time's bound,
To realms where purer joys are found;

This faith alone can peace impart,
To the survivor's broken heart,
Which worn by griefs corroding rust
Craves rest together in the dust.

(google link)

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Re: Request for Deciphering Head Stone
« Reply #16 on: Tuesday 06 December 16 16:59 GMT (UK) »
Swarkestone is in Derbyshire - this old book may be a transcript of this particular marker!

Edit; the gravestone photo site says "Thomas Barber grave monument in St James , Swarkestone, Derbyshire, England"

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Re: Request for Deciphering Head Stone
« Reply #17 on: Tuesday 06 December 16 17:16 GMT (UK) »
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KBXH-WTL

Name    Thomas Barber
Event Type    Burial
Event Date    15 Dec 1831
Event Place    Swarkestone, Swarkestone, Derbyshire, England
Gender    Male
Age    42
Birth Year (Estimated)    1789

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