Monumental Inscription Detail

Place:

All Saints, Beckley

Inscription:

Hic requieseunt
Vir reverendus THO: HOOPER A. M.
Filius Thomae Hooper de Mayfield generosi
E MARIA unor ejus C H loyd Londinens filia
Dilectus Maritus en chara conjuge 7 liberos habuit
Tres omnino superstites effe voluit intempersta Mors.
In hac Parochia,
Rectorium munus per annos 52 fideliter explevit,
Et Aetatis anno 79. dilectam Conjugem,
Quam brevi spatio praecountem aegre viderat,
Ipse inaturus aevi ei ???? fatur confecutus est.
ODIARNE HOOPER, filius superlles,
Hunc lapidem parentibus bene Merentibus
Posuit.

Monument details:

Type: Floor slab (internal).

Monument Condition: Fair.

Inscription Condition: Fair.

Person commemorated (or mentioned):

Last name: Hooper.

First Name(s): Tho.

Birth date: Not given.

Death date: Not given.

Age: Unknown or not given.

Grave Number:

CH 24.

Comments:

Black stone in front of the altar, inscription in Latin to Rev. Tho Hooper A.M. son of noble Thomas Hooper of Mayfield and his wife Maria, daughter of C H Loyd of London. 7 children, 3 survived. (notes from transcription available in the church).

Transcription details:

Transcribed by: Mark Collins.

Batch: Unknown.

Image:

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