Monumental Inscription Detail

Place:

St Andrew, West Stoke

Inscription:

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
ELIZABETH SCRASE DICKINS,
BORN APRIL 12TH 1769
DIED OCTOBER 6TH 1840
A TRULY PIOUS AND HUMBLE CHRISTIAN;
BELOVED AND RESPECTED BY ALL
WHO HAD THE HAPPINESS OF KNOWING HER.
THE COMMANDMENTS OF HER GOD
WHERE HER GUIDE THROUGH LIFE,
AND HER FIRM TRUST IN
THE MERITS OF HER SAVIOUR,
WAS HER SUPPORT IN THE HOUR OF DEATH.
THIS TABLET IS ERECTED
AS A TRIBUTE OF RESPECT AND AFFECTION,
TO THE BEST OF MOTHERS,
BY HER ONLY CHILD.
CHARLES SCRASE DICKINS.
THE ABOVE WAS DAUGHTER OF JOHN DEVAL, ESQR.
AND RELICT OF CHARLES SCRASE DICKINS, ESQE.
MANY YEARS RESIDENT AT WEST STOKE.

Monument details:

Type: Internal Monument.

Monument Condition: Very good.

Inscription Condition: Very good.

Person commemorated (or mentioned):

Last name: Dickins.

First Name(s): Charles Scrase.

Birth date: Not given.

Death date: Not given.

Transcription details:

Transcribed by: Mark Collins.

Batch: Unknown.

Image:

Image of a monument

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