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Church of St Mary the Virgin, Beddington, Surrey, England

Wall tablet in the Church of St Mary the Virgin, Beddington commemorating Patrick Maxwell Shaw Stewart RN d. 1846

Location

Church of St Mary the Virgin, Beddington, Surrey, England

Transcript

'IN THE VAULT BENEATH / LIE THE MORTAL REMAINS OF / PATRICK MAXWELL SHAW STEWART, R.N. / YOUNGEST SON OF CAPT HOUSTON STEWART, R.N.C.B. / HE WAS BORN 9TH AUGUST 1832 AND KILLED JUNE 25TH 1846 / BY THE ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE OF A FOWLING PIECE, / AT BEDDINGTON PARK / INNOCENT AMIABLE AND WARM HEARTED, / HE WAS LOVED AND LAMENTED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM, / IN LIFE HE NEVER CAUSED HIS FOND PARENTS / TO SHED ONE TEAR OF SORROW, / AND THEY HAVE NOW THE BLESSED CONVICTION / THAT HE IS SAFE IN DEATH'

Details

Description: Carved with flowers in the corners, a roundel at the top with a crown and anchor.
Type: Wall tablet
Position: Carew Chapel west wall
Materials: White marble on black marble base

People

Stewart, Patrick Maxwell Shaw
Age: 14
Date of Death: 25/6/1846
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: The Arts Society (NADFAS) 1998

JSON

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  "location": "Church of St Mary the Virgin, Beddington, Surrey, England",
  "transcript": "'IN THE VAULT BENEATH / LIE THE MORTAL REMAINS OF / PATRICK MAXWELL SHAW STEWART, R.N. / YOUNGEST SON OF CAPT HOUSTON STEWART, R.N.C.B. / HE WAS BORN 9TH AUGUST 1832 AND KILLED JUNE 25TH 1846 / BY THE ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE OF A FOWLING PIECE, / AT BEDDINGTON PARK / INNOCENT AMIABLE AND WARM HEARTED, / HE WAS LOVED AND LAMENTED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM, / IN LIFE HE NEVER CAUSED HIS FOND PARENTS / TO SHED ONE TEAR OF SORROW, / AND THEY HAVE NOW THE BLESSED CONVICTION / THAT HE IS SAFE IN DEATH'",
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  "categories": ["Uncategorised"],
  "details": {
    "description": "Carved with flowers in the corners, a roundel at the top with a crown and anchor.",
    "type": "Wall tablet",
    "position": "Carew Chapel west wall",
    "materials": "White marble on black marble base",
    "dateErected": "",
    "artists": "",
    "vessel": ""  },
  "event": {
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    "date": "",
    "category": ""  },
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  "extra": {
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    "recorder": "The Arts Society (NADFAS) 1998",
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Hong Kong Cemetery, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China, Rest of the World

Memorial in Hong Kong Cemetery commemorating John Alexander RN d. 1892

Location

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

Transcript

'SACRED / TO / THE MEMORY OF / JOHN ALEXANDER STOKER / OF H.M.S. 'IMPERIEUSE' / WHO DIED FROM THE EFFECTS / OF BURNS RECEIVED WHILST / ON DUTY 9TH JANUARY 1892 / AGE 28 YEARS / HERE WHERE I AT ANCHOR LIE / WITH MANY OF OUR FLEET / BUT ONCE AGAIN I MUST SET SAIL / OUR SAVIOUR CHRIST TO MEET'

Details

Description: Gothic headstone with carved border of flowers, a foul anchor over the inscription.
Type: Headstone
Vessel: HMS Imperieuse

People

Alexander, John
Age: 28
Date of Death: 9/1/1892
Cause of Death: Maritime accident
Rank / Occupation: Stoker
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Recorder: Christine Thomas; Patricia Lim, Gwulo.com

JSON

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  "id": "M118",
  "location": "Hong Kong Cemetery, Happy Valley, Hong Kong, China, Rest of the World",
  "transcript": "'SACRED / TO / THE MEMORY OF / JOHN ALEXANDER STOKER / OF H.M.S. 'IMPERIEUSE' / WHO DIED FROM THE EFFECTS / OF BURNS RECEIVED WHILST / ON DUTY 9TH JANUARY 1892 / AGE 28 YEARS / HERE WHERE I AT ANCHOR LIE / WITH MANY OF OUR FLEET / BUT ONCE AGAIN I MUST SET SAIL / OUR SAVIOUR CHRIST TO MEET'",
  "content": "<p>Memorial in Hong Kong Cemetery commemorating John Alexander RN d. 1892</p>",
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    "materials": "",
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Bangor Abbey, Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland

Memorial headstone at Bangor Abbey, Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland commemorating William Hassan, d.1847

Location

Bangor Abbey, Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland

Transcript

‘Erected / by / W. H. HASSAN, / IN MEMORY OF HIS FATHER / WILLIAM HASSAN, / MASTER MARINER / LOST FROM THE SHIP Wm PERRY, / BOUND FROM DANZIG IN OCTOBER 1847, / AGED 29 YEARS. / ALSO HIS MOTHER / HANNAH HASSAN, / WHO DIED ON THE 5TH OF MAY 1912, / IN HER 94TH YEAR. / ALSO HIS AUNT / CHARLOTTE McMEEKAN, / WHO DIED ON THE 11TH OF OCTOBER 1911, / IN HER 98TH YEAR. / ALSO HIS BROTHER / JAMES HASSAN, / WHO DIED YOUNG. / ALSO THE ABOVE / W.H.HASSAN, / DIED 20TH MAY 1927. / AGED 83 YEARS.'

Details

Description: Headstone with a triangular top - black granite with grey specks; light grey granite base. Attractive ivy leaf motif surrounds the inscription. Inscription is incised.
Type: Gravestone
Position: Churchyard
Materials: Granite
Vessel: William Perry

People

Hassan, William
Age: 29
Date of Death: 1847
Cause of Death: Maritime Accident
Rank / Occupation: Master Mariner
Organisation: Unknown

Extra

Notes: Headstone in good condition

JSON

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  "location": "Bangor Abbey, Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland",
  "transcript": "‘Erected /  by / W. H. HASSAN, / IN MEMORY OF HIS FATHER / WILLIAM HASSAN, / MASTER MARINER / LOST FROM THE SHIP Wm PERRY, / BOUND FROM DANZIG IN OCTOBER 1847, / AGED 29 YEARS. / ALSO HIS MOTHER / HANNAH HASSAN, / WHO DIED ON THE 5TH OF MAY 1912, / IN HER 94TH YEAR. / ALSO HIS AUNT / CHARLOTTE McMEEKAN, / WHO DIED ON THE 11TH OF OCTOBER 1911, / IN HER 98TH YEAR. / ALSO HIS BROTHER / JAMES HASSAN, / WHO DIED YOUNG. / ALSO THE ABOVE / W.H.HASSAN, / DIED 20TH MAY 1927. / AGED 83 YEARS.'",
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}

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St James's Cemetery, Liverpool, England

Memorial in St James’s Cemetery, Liverpool commemorating Lieutenant Peregrine Bowen RN d. 1848

Location

St James's Cemetery, Liverpool, England

Transcript

'To the memory of Sarah ENH / the beloved wife of / N A Braquehais of Dieppe, France / who departed this life on the 23rd May 1846 / aged 25 years / Lieut P Bowen, RN late of / Pope Hill Pembrokeshire / and father of the above died 23rd / February 1848, Aged 61 years'

Details

People

Bowen, Peregrine
Age: 61
Date of Death: 23/2/1848
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: This cemetery was sited in an old quarry. It has now largely been cleared. Bowen was the Admiralty agent on board packets plying between Liverpool and Dublin. He was accused of forging the will of his brother William Bowen and committed suicide in prison while awaiting trial.
Bibliography: Graham Dean and Keith Evans 'Nelson's Heroes' (Norwich, 1994) pp. 33-4; Ed. James Stevens Curl 'Kensal Green Cemetery: the origins and development of the cemetery of All Souls, Kensal Green, London 1824-2001' (Chichester, 2001); 'Liverpool Mercury' 25 February 1848.

JSON

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  "id": "M693",
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  "transcript": "'To the memory of Sarah ENH / the beloved wife of / N A Braquehais of Dieppe, France / who departed this life on the 23rd May 1846 / aged 25 years / Lieut P Bowen, RN late of / Pope Hill Pembrokeshire / and father of the above died 23rd / February 1848, Aged 61 years'",
  "content": "<p>Memorial in St James’s Cemetery, Liverpool commemorating Lieutenant Peregrine Bowen RN d. 1848</p>",
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    "bibliography": "Graham Dean and Keith Evans 'Nelson's Heroes' (Norwich, 1994) pp. 33-4; Ed. James Stevens Curl 'Kensal Green Cemetery: the origins and development of the cemetery of All Souls, Kensal Green, London 1824-2001' (Chichester, 2001); 'Liverpool Mercury' 25 February 1848.",
    "recorder": "",
    "photographer": ""  }
}

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Nunhead Cemetery, London, England

Memorial at Nunhead Cemetery commemorating Lieutenant John Waller RN d. 1854

Location

Nunhead Cemetery, London, England

Transcript

'In memory of / John Waller / died 10th September 1854 in the 75th year of his age / Also of Susanna, his wife /Daughter of William Green, M.R.C.S. of Hoxne, Suffolk / Died 11th November 1878, in the 97th year of her age, / And of Mary Waller, / Eldest daughter of the above, died 12th January 1882 aged 70 years'

Details

Type: Gravestone
Materials: Red granite

People

Waller, John
Age: 75
Date of Death: 10/9/1854
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Lieutenant RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Bibliography: Phillip Whittemore ''Waller Fecit, London', 'Church Monuments: Journal of the Church Monuments Society' vol. xvi (2001).

JSON

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  "post_id": "372",
  "id": "M955",
  "location": "Nunhead Cemetery, London, England",
  "transcript": "'In memory of / John Waller / died 10th September 1854 in the 75th year of his age / Also of Susanna, his wife  /Daughter of William Green, M.R.C.S. of Hoxne, Suffolk / Died 11th November 1878, in the 97th year of her age, / And of Mary Waller, / Eldest daughter of the above, died 12th January 1882 aged 70 years'",
  "content": "<p>Memorial at Nunhead Cemetery commemorating Lieutenant John Waller RN d. 1854</p>",
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    "position": "",
    "materials": "Red granite",
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    "artists": "",
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    "event":"",
    "date": "",
    "category": ""  },
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    "bibliography": "Phillip Whittemore ''Waller Fecit, London', 'Church Monuments: Journal of the Church Monuments Society' vol. xvi (2001).",
    "recorder": "",
    "photographer": ""  }
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Boldixum Church, Island of Fohr, Germany, Rest of the World

Gravestone at Boldixum Church, Island of Fohr, Germany commemorating Peter Jacob Thetsen d. 1810

Location

Boldixum Church, Island of Fohr, Germany, Rest of the World

Details

Description: Carved with a ship with a town to one side, a figure holding the hand of God on the other.
Type: Gravestone
Position: Churchyard

People

Thetsen, Peter Jacob
Age: 58
Date of Death: 19/12/1810
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: Born 1752 at Friedrichstadt
Bibliography: T. Sheppard 'Old Dutch Whalers','Mariners Mirror' vol. 25, pp. 50-61, (Cambridge, 1939).

JSON

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  "id": "M2778",
  "location": "Boldixum Church, Island of Fohr, Germany, Rest of the World",
  "transcript": "",
  "content": "<p>Gravestone at Boldixum Church, Island of Fohr, Germany commemorating Peter Jacob Thetsen d. 1810</p>",
  "images": [],
  "categories": ["Uncategorised"],
  "details": {
    "description": "Carved with a ship with a town to one side, a figure holding the hand of God on the other.",
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    "position": "Churchyard",
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    "dateErected": "",
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  "event": {
    "event":"",
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    "notes": "Born 1752 at Friedrichstadt",
    "bibliography": "T. Sheppard 'Old Dutch Whalers','Mariners Mirror' vol. 25, pp. 50-61, (Cambridge, 1939).",
    "recorder": "",
    "photographer": ""  }
}

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Fort Canning Cemetery, Singapore, Rest of the World

Memorial at Fort Canning Cemetery, Singapore commemorating John Youlton, RN, d. 1854

Location

Fort Canning Cemetery, Singapore, Rest of the World

Transcript

‘Sacred / to the / Memory / of / JOHN YOULTON L.S. / of H.M.S. SYBILLE / who departed this / life 25th October 1854 / Aged 24 years / Erected by his shipmates / as a tribute of their / great esteem and regard'

Details

Type: Tablet
Position: North wall N 58 C89
Vessel: HMS Sybille

People

Youlton, John
Age: 24
Date of Death: 25/10/1854
Cause of Death: Unknown
Rank / Occupation: Leading Seaman
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Bibliography: Alan Harfield 'Early Cemeteries in Singapore' (Putney 1988) p. 210.

JSON

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  "id": "M460",
  "location": "Fort Canning Cemetery, Singapore, Rest of the World",
  "transcript": "‘Sacred / to the / Memory / of / JOHN YOULTON L.S. / of H.M.S. SYBILLE / who departed this / life 25th October 1854 / Aged 24 years / Erected by his shipmates / as a tribute of their / great esteem and regard'",
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    "vessel": "HMS Sybille"  },
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    "event":"",
    "date": "",
    "category": ""  },
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  "extra": {
    "notes": "",
    "bibliography": "Alan Harfield 'Early Cemeteries in Singapore' (Putney 1988) p. 210.",
    "recorder": "",
    "photographer": ""  }
}

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East Greenwich Pleasaunce, Greenwich, London, England

Gravestone at East Greenwich Pleasaunce, Greenwich commemorating Henry Williams d. 1903

Location

East Greenwich Pleasaunce, Greenwich, London, England

Transcript

'In / Loving Memory / of / HENRY THE BELOVED HUSBAND OF / ELIZABETH WILLIAMS FOR 21 YEARS AN INSTRUCTOR / IN GREENWICH RH SCHOOL / WHO FELL ASLEEP 25 APRIL 1903 / AGED 59 YEARS / "FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH" / ...AT GOD'S COMMAND HE FELL..../ TIME TO BID HIS FRIENDS FAREWELL /...CAME WITHOUT A WARNING GIVEN /...HIM HASTE TO MEET HIS GOD IN HEAVEN. / ERECTED BY THE OFFICERS, STAFF AND BOYS / PAST AND PRESENT OF THE SCHOOL AS A TOKEN OF RESPECT'

Details

Description: In the form of a scroll.
Type: Gravestone
Materials: Marble, lead letters

People

Williams, Henry
Age:
Date of Death: 25/4/1903
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation:
Organisation: Royal Hospital School, Greenwich

Extra

Recorder: B. Tomlinson 1988
Photographer: Dr Pieter van der Merwe 2020

JSON

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  "id": "M2358",
  "location": "East Greenwich Pleasaunce, Greenwich, London, England",
  "transcript": "'In / Loving Memory / of / HENRY THE BELOVED HUSBAND OF / ELIZABETH WILLIAMS FOR 21 YEARS AN INSTRUCTOR / IN GREENWICH RH SCHOOL / WHO FELL ASLEEP 25 APRIL 1903 / AGED 59 YEARS / \"FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH\" / ...AT GOD'S COMMAND HE FELL..../ TIME TO BID HIS FRIENDS FAREWELL /...CAME WITHOUT A WARNING GIVEN /...HIM HASTE TO MEET HIS GOD IN HEAVEN. / ERECTED BY THE OFFICERS, STAFF AND BOYS / PAST AND PRESENT OF THE SCHOOL AS A TOKEN OF RESPECT'",
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    "recorder": "B. Tomlinson 1988",
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Sydney Cove, Sydney, Australia, Rest of the World

Plaque at Sydney Cove, Sydney, Australia commemorating the arrival of the First Fleet in 1988

Location

Sydney Cove, Sydney, Australia, Rest of the World

Transcript

[Map of Australia F.F.F. on ribbon] 'THIS PLAQUE HONOURS THE PEOPLE WHO SAILED / TO THIS COUNTRY IN THE ELEVEN SHIPS OF THE FIRST / FLEET UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN ARTHUR PHILLIP / THEY LEFT PORTSMOUTH ON 13TH MAY 1787, JOURNEYED VIA / VIA TENERIFE, RIO DE JANEIRO AND CAPETOWN TO / ARRIVE IN BOTANY BAY ON 18TH JANUARY 1788. / THE PEOPLE AND THEIR PROVISIONS WERE LANDED / HERE IN SYDNEY COVE TO SET UP THE FIRST BRITISH / SETTLEMENT IN THIS COUNTRY ON 26TH JANUARY 1788 / SHIPS OF THE FIRST FLEET, SIRIUS SUPPLY GOLDEN GROVE / FISHBURN ALEXANDER CHARLOTTE SCARBOROUGH / PRINCE OF WALES FRIENDSHIP LADY PENRHYN / FELLOWSHIP OF FIRST FLEETERS / 1988 / "THUS EQUIPPED EACH SHIP / LIKE ANOTHER NOAH'S ARK, AWAY / WE STEERED FOR BOTANY BAY" / GEORGE WORGAN / SURGEON, H.M.S. SIRIUS.'

Details

Type: Plaque
Materials: Metal

Event

First Fleet

Event Date

1788

Event Category

British colonization of Australia

Extra

JSON

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  "id": "M6455",
  "location": "Sydney Cove, Sydney, Australia, Rest of the World",
  "transcript": "[Map of Australia F.F.F. on ribbon] 'THIS PLAQUE HONOURS THE PEOPLE WHO SAILED / TO THIS COUNTRY IN THE ELEVEN SHIPS OF THE FIRST / FLEET UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN ARTHUR PHILLIP / THEY LEFT PORTSMOUTH ON 13TH MAY 1787, JOURNEYED VIA / VIA TENERIFE, RIO DE JANEIRO AND CAPETOWN TO / ARRIVE IN BOTANY BAY ON 18TH JANUARY 1788. / THE PEOPLE AND THEIR PROVISIONS WERE LANDED / HERE IN SYDNEY COVE TO SET UP THE FIRST BRITISH / SETTLEMENT IN THIS COUNTRY ON 26TH JANUARY 1788 / SHIPS OF THE FIRST FLEET, SIRIUS SUPPLY GOLDEN GROVE / FISHBURN ALEXANDER CHARLOTTE SCARBOROUGH / PRINCE OF WALES FRIENDSHIP LADY PENRHYN / FELLOWSHIP OF FIRST FLEETERS / 1988 / \"THUS EQUIPPED EACH SHIP / LIKE ANOTHER NOAH'S ARK, AWAY / WE STEERED FOR BOTANY BAY\" / GEORGE WORGAN / SURGEON, H.M.S. SIRIUS.'",
  "content": "<p>Plaque at Sydney Cove, Sydney, Australia commemorating the arrival of the First Fleet in 1988</p>",
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    "type": "Plaque",
    "position": "",
    "materials": "Metal",
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    "artists": "",
    "vessel": ""  },
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    "event":"First Fleet",
    "date": "1788",
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St Peter's Parish Church, Liverpool, England

Memorial at St Peter’s Parish Church, Liverpool commemorating John Roscoe d. 1813

Location

St Peter's Parish Church, Liverpool, England

Transcript

'John Roscoe, mariner, died 5th April 1813 aged 82'

Details

People

Roscoe, John
Age: 82
Date of Death: 5/4/1813
Cause of Death: Unknown/None
Rank / Occupation: Mariner
Organisation:

Extra

Notes: From a MS in Liverpool Record Office compiled by James Gibson d. 1886, vol. 1, p. 239.
Recorder: Captain J. P. Brand

JSON

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  "location": "St Peter's Parish Church, Liverpool, England",
  "transcript": "'John Roscoe, mariner, died 5th April 1813 aged 82'",
  "content": "<p>Memorial at St Peter’s Parish Church, Liverpool commemorating John Roscoe d. 1813</p>",
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    "event":"",
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    "notes": "From a MS in Liverpool Record Office compiled by James Gibson d. 1886, vol. 1, p. 239.",
    "bibliography": "",
    "recorder": "Captain J. P. Brand",
    "photographer": ""  }
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Commemorating seafarers and victims of maritime disasters