Volume 2

The parish registers of Chipstead, Co. Surrey / transcribed and edited by W. Bruce Bannerman.

Date:
1909
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The parish registers of Chipstead, Co. Surrey / transcribed and edited by W. Bruce Bannerman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the same place, deceased, whom she survived sixty years, And died the Twenty Fifth Day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred Fifty five in the Eighty ninth Year of her age. | On a black Marble Grave-Stone is this Inscription ; Here lyeth the Body of Joseph Gibbons, Gent. Citizen of London, who departed this Life the 30% day of September 1710, in the 73d. Year of his Age. And also Mercy his late Wife, who departed this Life the 25 day of September Anno Dom. 1709. in the 72d Year of her Age. This Stone was laid at the Charge of their Daughter Mrs. Mercy Gibbons. Next the Door of the Chancel, on a Rage Stone, in Capitals, is this Inscription ; Here lyeth interred the Body of Mr. Matthew Atkinson of London, Goldsmith, who deceased the 2g of June 1693, in the 33 Year of his Age.” Other Monumental Inscriptions are to be found in Man- ning and Bray’s “ Surrey,” vol. ti, pp. 247—9. The following is written on the fly-leaf in front of Register Vol. 1V. (commencing 3 Jan. 1813) -— The periodical Stream of Water, commonly called the Bourn, burst forth, in the Years 1822—1824 and 1828 and ran, in a pure and copious Stream, for a Period of three months. The Autumn and Winter preceeding having been, on each Occasion, unusually rainy. Again in the Year 1837, the above mentioned Stream burst out, and continued to flow, till the middle of April. The Autumn and Winter preceeding. having been exceedingly wet; a very heavy Snow having fallen, beginning on the night of Christmas
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