Family History Library Salt Lake City - MIs for West Hoathly - NAIRN, NUNN

[clontarf]

I am hoping someone located in Salt Lake City may be able to lookup a film that appears to have  not yet been digitised:

“Inscriptions in the churchyard of the parish church of West Hoathley in the county of Sussex” copied by J. Harvey Bloom in 1935 apparently from an original manuscript produced in 1875.

The film is located on the British B1 Floor
Film number: 2214197, Item 8
DGS 4428064

Within this document I am looking for the tombstone inscriptions of Fasham NAIRN (1731-1810) who was buried at West Hoathly on 3 Nov 1810 from Barnetts Place.

There are at least three people buried in the tomb:

1.   A Friend (possibly Charlottee NUNN, buried 16 Jul 1802) for whom Fasham NAIRN built the tomb
2.   Fasham NAIRN himself
3.   A 5 week old infant also named Fasham NAIRN who died 29th March 1823.

The tomb seems to have originally had three marble inscription tablets attached with metal pins to the two ends and one of the long sides.  Only one tablet survives – that of the elder Fasham Nairn - and is now illegible.  From an old photograph it read:

In this Tomb
Are deposited the Remains of
FASHAM NAIRN
Of Barnetts Place
In this parish [….]
Who died the [27th] day of Octr 1810
Aged […] [years]

If the document can be located and this tomb was recorded in 1875 there is a good chance all three inscriptions may still have been extant.  If so, and the third person is not Charlotte(e) NUNN, then could a search also be made for her inscription, if any.

Alternatively, if there is a way I can view this film from outside the United States, please let me know how.

[oldohiohome]

1. There are probably paid researchers in Salt Lake City who would do the work, if you wanted to go that route. I don't know how to find one though. There used to be ads in hard copy family history magazines.

Have you already tried these:

2. Might the publication also be called this, or do I have the church wrong:

St Margaret’s Church, West Hoathly, Monumental Inscriptions.
available at:
The West Hoathly Local History Archive
publications list:
https://www.westhoathly.gov.uk/uploads/document-list.pdf?v=1673870555
this is the main url and has contact information at the bottom
https://www.westhoathly.gov.uk/

3. Could it be included in one of the publications listed here?
https://www.sussexrecordsociety.org/dbs/biblio/subjects/Mis/

The word "inscriptions" occurs 74 times on the page. I saw a few that looked like they included more than one churchyard. I didn't look at all 74.

Or might one of those two sources know of a copy in England, if you are in England. You said you were not in the US.

[oldohiohome]

I just looked through some of your recent posts and it looks like you have already tried the sources in Sussex.

[clontarf]

Thanks for the suggestions oldohiohome.  Unfortunately I am not in England either!
The Sussex Record Society does republish exisiting material on Sussex, but perhaps there are copyright and access issues with Bloom's work.
A very brief internet search for local Salt Lake City agents produced some eye watering prices.  Most seemed to require a minimum number of hours research far beyond what my simple task needed.

[rosie99]

Unfortunately I am not in England either!

It does help us if you have your country of residence in your profile then we don't suggest you visiting archives in other countries