GRANBY

CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

Church Post Code NG13 9PX

Open to visitors

Continuing the look at the Vale of Belvoir Angel gravestones in the church grounds at Granby.

The stone to Mary Riley is quite weathered and hard to read; this one also tells a sad story, with the mother and two young children passing away within two months of each other.

'Here lies the body of Mary the wife of Tho Riley She died Aug ye 27th 1724 aged 40 years'

'Also Henry the son of Tho and Mary Riley died Oct ye 9th 1724 aged 7 years'

'Also Mary ye daughter of Tho & Mary aforesaid died Oct 14th 1724 aged 5 years'

'Blessed are they that in the Lord they die from their labours they rest eternally'

I struggled to photograph the front of the gravestone to William Rick. It was obscured by another leaning stone and vegetation. The inscription on the front is recorded though as being...

'Here lies the body of William the dear child of George Rick by Cassandra his wife he died April the 24th 1710 in the 11th year of his age'

The reverse of this stone does have an inscription though which reads 'Though death has parted you and I our bodys to dust must turn I hope that we shall meet again you have no cause to mourn dear parents do not grieve for me but cheer upnow your heart and strive that you may come to me where death shall no more part'.

A small Belvoir Angel stone, faded and a little sunk in to the ground is to Elizabeth Flower. This one reads

'Here lies ye body of Eliz ye wife of William Flower of Barnston who departed this life Sept 21st 1727 in ye (left blank) year of her age'

'A loving husband and a virtous wife here lies confined both to leave this life And tho their bodys they return to dust their souls I hope are dwelling with the just'

The one that I missed has the following recorded...

'Here lies the body of Robert Willomet who departed this life Nov the 21st 1722 aged 84 years'

'Spectators all who ere you be see that you live and die as he Loe here he is laid in the dust waiting the rising with the just As we'll be judged so must we all when God almity pleased to call'

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