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St Mary's Church, Conwy, Conwy, Wales

Tomb at St Mary’s Church, Conwy commemorating Richard Wiliams d. 1865

Location

St Mary's Church, Conwy, Conwy, Wales

Transcript

'Sacred to the Memory of / JANE / Wife of RICHARD WILLIAMS / Master Mariner of the Port / who departed this life on the 20th / day of Janry 1842 / in the 26th year of her age / Those who knew her best / respected her most / Likewise of SARAH MARGARET / Daughter of the above RICHARD / WILLIAM by JANE MARGARET his / wife Died Novr 6th 1819 / Aged 5 weeks / Likewise of CLARA JANE Daughter / of the above died Novr 3rd 1851 / Aged 3 Months / LIKEWISE THE ABOVE NAMED / RICHARD WILLIAMS DIED SEPT 30 1865 / AGED 48.'

Details

Type: Table tomb
Position: Churchyard
Materials: Slate

People

Williams, Richard
Age: 48
Date of Death: 1865
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master Mariner
Organisation:

Extra

JSON

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  "location": "St Mary's Church, Conwy, Conwy, Wales",
  "transcript": "'Sacred to the Memory of / JANE / Wife of RICHARD WILLIAMS / Master Mariner of the Port / who departed this life on the 20th / day of Janry 1842 / in the 26th year of her age / Those who knew her best / respected her most / Likewise of SARAH MARGARET / Daughter of the above RICHARD / WILLIAM by JANE MARGARET his / wife Died Novr 6th 1819 / Aged 5 weeks / Likewise of CLARA JANE Daughter / of the above died Novr 3rd 1851 / Aged 3 Months / LIKEWISE THE ABOVE NAMED / RICHARD WILLIAMS DIED SEPT 30 1865 / AGED 48.'",
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Westoe Cemetery, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England

Memorial at Westoe Cemetery South Shields commemorating George Elliott d. 1865

Location

Westoe Cemetery, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England

Details

Vessel: Lady Stewart

People

Elliott, George
Age: 47
Date of Death: 16/8/1865
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: Master of brig 'Lady Stewart' of South Shields.

JSON

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  "transcript": "",
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Hong Kong Cemetery, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China, Rest of the World

Memorial in Hong Kong Cemetery commemorating Alfred Alexander Lawrence d. 1898

Location

Hong Kong Cemetery, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China, Rest of the World

Transcript

'In loving memory of Alfred Alexander LAWRENCE, Master Mariner of Hull, England who passed away at Hong Kong, 6th December 1898, aged 36 years'

Details

Description: Cross on plinth.
Type: Cross

People

Lawrence, Alfred Alexander
Age: 36
Date of Death: 6/12/1898
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master mariner
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: Master Mariner of Hull, England.
Recorder: Christine Thomas

JSON

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  "transcript": "'In loving memory of Alfred Alexander LAWRENCE, Master Mariner of Hull, England who passed away at Hong Kong, 6th December 1898, aged 36 years'",
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    "recorder": "Christine Thomas",
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}

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Naval and Military cemetery, Portland, Dorset, England

Gravestone in Portland, Dorset, commemorating Arthur Pride d. 1912

Location

Naval and Military cemetery, Portland, Dorset, England

Transcript

'ARTHUR PRIDE / Private R.M.L.I. H.M.S. Liverpool/ died / 6th Sept 1912 Aged 29'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Position: Church of England (old) 389
Vessel: HMS Liverpool

People

Pride, Arthur
Age: 29
Date of Death: 6/9/1912
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Private RMLI
Organisation: Royal Marine Light Infantry

Extra

Recorder: R. & J.H. Perry 1987

JSON

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  "transcript": "'ARTHUR PRIDE / Private R.M.L.I. H.M.S. Liverpool/ died / 6th Sept 1912 Aged 29'",
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St George's Cathedral, Georgetown, Guyana, Rest of the World

Memorial in St George’s Cathedral, Georgetown, Guyana commemorating Captain William Peake RN d. 1813

Location

St George's Cathedral, Georgetown, Guyana, Rest of the World

Transcript

‘SACRED / TO THE MEMORY OF / CAPTAIN WILLIAM PEAKE / THE BRAVE AND HIGHLY RESPECTED COMMANDER / OF HIS MAJESTY'S BRIG 'PEACOCK' / WHOSE DEATH WAS GLORIOUS AS HIS / LIFE WAS HONOURABLE. / ENGAGED IN UNEQUAL COMBAT WITH THE / AMERICAN SHIP OF WAR 'HORNET' / A CANNON SHOT IN MERCY TERMINATED HIS EXISTENCE / ALMOST AT THE SAME MOMENT THAT HIS / GALLANT VESSEL CONSIGN'D TO THE DEEP / GAVE A WATERY SEPULCHRE TO THE REMAINS OF / HER LAMENTED CHIEF. TO COMMEMORATE / THIS GLORIOUS BUT FATAL ENGAGEMENT / WHICH TOOK PLACE ON THESE SHORES / ON THE 24 DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1813, / AND TO PERPETUATE THE NAME OF A DISTINGUISHED OFFICER / HIS EXCELLENCY GENL. CARMICHAEL, ACTING GOVERNOR / SYMPATHISING WITH THE GENEROUS FEELING OF THE INHABITANTS OF THIS UNITED COLONY IN THE UNIVERSAL EXPRESSION OF SINCERE REGRET / WAS PLEASED TO GRANT ON THEIR BEHALF / THIS MEMORIAL TO HIS FAME/WHERE'ER THRO VARIED CLIMES OLD OCEAN ROLLS / FROM THE EQUATOR TO THE FROST BOUND POLES / IS BRITISH VALOUR SHEWN-THIS DISTANT SHORE / SHALL CLAIM HER PAGE IN BRITISH NAVAL LORE / TO FUTURE TIMES THEN VOTIVE TABLET TELL / HOW BRAVELY PEAKE HERE FOUGHT, LAMENTED FELL / FROM MANLY BREASTS CALL'D FORTH THE DEEP DRAWN SIGH / THE TENDER TEAR BEGUIL'D FROM BEAUTY'S EYE / AND THOUGH HE FLOATS UPON A WATERY BIER / PRESERVE HIS NAME TO BRITONS EVER DEAR / AND WHILE HIS SPIRIT SOARS IN BLISSFUL SKIES / PROCLAIM THAT FAME WITH VIRTUE NEVER DIES'

Details

Type: Wall tablet
Position: West of south aisle
Materials: Marble
Vessel: HMS Peacock

Event

War of 1812

Event Category

1803-1815 Napoleonic War

People

Peake, William
Age:
Date of Death: 24/2/1813
Cause of Death: War casualty
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Bibliography: Captain J.H. Lawrence-Archer 'Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies' (London, 1875).
Recorder: Reverend William Henry Donnan 1989

JSON

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    "artists": "",
    "vessel": "HMS Peacock"  },
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    "date": "",
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}

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St Margaret's Westminster, Westminster, London, England

Wall tablet in St Margaret’s Westminster, London, commemorating James Rumsey d. 1743

Location

St Margaret's Westminster, Westminster, London, England

Transcript

'IN MEMORY OF THE LATE DECEASED VIRGIN / +MISTRIS ELIZABETH HEREICKE+ / SWEET VIRGIN / THAT I DO NOT SET / THY GRAVE-VERSE UP / IN MOURNFUL JET / OR DAPL'D MARBLE / LET THY SHADE / NOT WRATHFUL SEEME / OR FRIGHT THE MAID / WHO HITHER AT HER / WEEPING HOWRES / SHAL COME TO STREW / THY EARTH WITH FLOWRES: / NO, KNOW BLEST SOULE / WHEN THERE'S NOT ONE REMAINDER LEFT / OF BRASSE OR STONE / THY LIVING EPITAPH SHALL BE / THOUGH LOST IN THEM / YET FOUND IN ME / DEARE, IN THY BED / OF ROSES THEN / TILL THIS WORLD SHALL / DISSOLVE (AS MEN) / SLEEPE, WHILE WE HIDE THEE / FROM THE LIGHT / DRAWING THY CURTAINS ROUND / - GOOD NIGHT',
'This epitaph by ROBERT HERRICK, formerly on a mural tablet / in the middle of the north aisle of this church, was restored in memory of / JAMES RUMSEY / whom the State of West Virginia honours as the inventor of / the Steamboat, which he demonstrated privately to George / Washington in 1784 and publicly on the Potomac River at Shepherdstowne W Va. 3 December 1787. Born of English parents / in Cecil County, Maryland in 1743, he died while lecturing / on the principles of steam navigation to English scientists / in London, and was buried in St. Margaret's Churchyard / 24 December 1792'

Details

Type: Wall tablet
Position: South aisle south wall
Materials: Wood

People

Rumsey, James
Age: c. 49
Date of Death: 12/1792
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Engineer
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: DOSSIER
Recorder: The Arts Society (NADFAS) 1998

JSON

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  "id": "M4769",
  "location": "St Margaret's Westminster, Westminster, London, England",
  "transcript": "'IN MEMORY OF THE LATE DECEASED VIRGIN / +MISTRIS ELIZABETH HEREICKE+ / SWEET VIRGIN / THAT I DO NOT SET / THY GRAVE-VERSE UP / IN MOURNFUL JET / OR DAPL'D MARBLE / LET THY SHADE / NOT WRATHFUL SEEME / OR FRIGHT THE MAID / WHO HITHER AT HER / WEEPING HOWRES / SHAL COME TO STREW / THY EARTH WITH FLOWRES: / NO, KNOW BLEST SOULE / WHEN THERE'S NOT ONE REMAINDER LEFT / OF BRASSE OR STONE / THY LIVING EPITAPH SHALL BE / THOUGH LOST IN THEM / YET FOUND IN ME / DEARE, IN THY BED / OF ROSES THEN / TILL THIS WORLD SHALL / DISSOLVE (AS MEN) / SLEEPE, WHILE WE HIDE THEE / FROM THE LIGHT / DRAWING THY CURTAINS ROUND / - GOOD NIGHT', <br />\r\n'This epitaph by ROBERT HERRICK, formerly on a mural tablet / in the middle of the north aisle of this church, was restored in memory of / JAMES RUMSEY / whom the State of West Virginia honours as the inventor of / the Steamboat, which he demonstrated privately to George / Washington in 1784 and publicly on the Potomac River at Shepherdstowne W Va. 3 December 1787. Born of English parents / in Cecil County, Maryland in 1743, he died while lecturing / on the principles of steam navigation to English scientists / in London, and was buried in St. Margaret's Churchyard / 24 December 1792'",
  "content": "<p>Wall tablet in St Margaret’s Westminster,  London, commemorating James Rumsey d. 1743</p>",
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    "notes": "DOSSIER",
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    "recorder": "The Arts Society (NADFAS) 1998",
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Grave Island Cemetery, Chapwani Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Rest of the World

Memorial at Grave Island Cemetery, Chapwani Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania commemorating George Barnes, RN d. 1894

Location

Grave Island Cemetery, Chapwani Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania, Rest of the World

Transcript

'George Edward Barnes / 1st Stoker / H.M.S. Thrush / died 9th April 1894'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Vessel: HMS Thrush

People

Barnes, George Edward
Age: Unknown
Date of Death: 9/4/1894
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Stoker
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

JSON

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  "transcript": "'George Edward Barnes / 1st Stoker / H.M.S. Thrush / died 9th April 1894'",
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    "event":"",
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St James's Cemetery, Liverpool, England

Memorial in St James’s Cemetery, Liverpool commemorating Captain Launcelot Harrison d. 1856

Location

St James's Cemetery, Liverpool, England

Transcript

'Capt. Launcelot Harrison died on board the ship 'Silistria' off Holyhead 9 May 1856 age 35'

Details

Vessel: Silistria

People

Harrison, Launcelot
Age: 35
Date of Death: 9/5/1856
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Master
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: From a MS in Liverpool Record Office. Compiled by James Gibson d. 1886, vol. 7, p. 185.
Recorder: Captain J. P. Brand

JSON

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  "location": "St James's Cemetery, Liverpool, England",
  "transcript": "'Capt. Launcelot Harrison died on board the ship 'Silistria' off Holyhead 9 May 1856 age 35'",
  "content": "<p>Memorial in St James’s Cemetery, Liverpool commemorating Captain Launcelot Harrison d. 1856</p>",
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    "event":"",
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    "recorder": "Captain J. P. Brand",
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Hong Kong Cemetery, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China, Rest of the World

Memorial in Hong Kong Cemetery commemorating William Power d. 1902

Location

Hong Kong Cemetery, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China, Rest of the World

Transcript

'Sacred to the memory of William POWER, who departed this life 14th July 1902, aged 33 years. This stone is erected as a token of filial regard by his brother officers in the Imperial Maritime Customs'

Details

Type: Headstone

People

Power, William
Age: 33
Date of Death: 14/7/1902
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation: Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs

Extra

Recorder: Christine Thomas 1988

JSON

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  "transcript": "'Sacred to the memory of William POWER, who departed this life 14th July 1902, aged 33 years. This stone is erected as a token of filial regard by his brother officers in the Imperial Maritime Customs'",
  "content": "<p>Memorial in Hong Kong Cemetery commemorating William Power d. 1902</p>",
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    "recorder": "Christine Thomas 1988",
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Above village of Llanarthney, Llanarthney, Carmarthenshire, Wales

Paxton’s Tower at Llanarthney, Carmarthenshire commemorating Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson d. 1805

Location

Above village of Llanarthney, Llanarthney, Carmarthenshire, Wales

Details

Type: Tower
Position: South side of Tywi Valley

Event

Battle of Trafalgar 1805

People

Nelson, Horatio
Age: 47
Date of Death: 21/10/1805
Cause of Death: War casualty
Rank / Occupation: Vice Admiral
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: Paxton's Tower erected circa 1810 to memory of Lord Nelson. Now owned by National Trust. File of newspaper cuttings in reference library, Carmarthen. The stained glass windows from the tower, based on the illustrations in Clarke and M'Arthur's 'Life of Admiral Lord Nelson', are now in the Carmarthen Museum.
Bibliography: Colin White (editor) 'The Nelson Companion' (Portsmouth, 1995) p. 140,
Recorder: David Saunders

JSON

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  "location": "Above village of Llanarthney, Llanarthney, Carmarthenshire, Wales",
  "transcript": "",
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    "bibliography": "Colin White (editor) 'The Nelson Companion' (Portsmouth, 1995) p. 140,",
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters