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Memorial Inscriptions information for Babworth and places above it in the hierarchy

Babworth

There is a tablet mounted on the North Wall of the Chancel:

To the memory of
JOHN SIMPSON, Esq.
(son of WILLIAM SIMPSON, Esqr.
Late of this Place)
who Died February the 5th 1727
in ye 57th year of His Age;
this Monument was Erected by
ELIZABETH his Relict
Daughter of FRANCIS STRINGER Esq.
Late of Sutton upon Lound
in this County.

They had Issue, Six Sons WILLIAM,
FRANCIS, JOHN, GERVASE, THOMAS, & LINDLEY,
& four Daughters,
ELIZABETH, MARY, JANE, & ELEANOR:
of the Sons, two Lye
Buried near this Place,
FRANCIS and THOMAS; and
of the Daughters one, ELEANOR:
the rest still Survive.

ELIZABETH SIMPSON,
Relict of IOHN SIMPSON.
Died the 6th February 1746
Aged 76
And was Buried near the remains
of Her Beloved Husband
in the Chancel of this Church

There is a sarcophagus set on to the ground of the monument to Arthur Bridgeman Simpson who died in 1827.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
ARTHUR BRIDGEMAN SIMPSON, MIDSHIPMAN
ON BOARD HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP, TWEED,
WHO DIED AT THE AGE OF FIFTEEN OF
A FEVER CAUGHT AT THE
CAPE DE VERD ISLANDS,
ON THE 6TH OF NOVBR 1827.