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Memorial Inscription to Margaret Pasmore (d. 1739) and Family

North Molton All Saints Parish Church

Transcribed 28 June 2006 by Beatrice and Desmond Painter.

Memorial inscription on a tombstone in the floor of the nave immediately in front of the pulpit.

Note: the stone is damaged, and part of the left hand side is missing. Words and part words in brackets are our guesses.


HERE LYETH THE BODY OF MARGARET THE WIFE OF WILLIAM PASMORE OF

MILLBROOK IN THIS PARISH AND DAUGHTER OF EDMUND

SAUNDERS OF BISHNYMPTON WHO DIED THE 22D

DAY OF FEBRUARY 1739 AGED 37

AND IN HER ARMS HER TWINN BORN SONS DO LIE

[SLEE]PING IN DARKNESS TILL THE JUDGMENT DAY

[HER]E ALSO LIETH THE BODY OF MARGARET SECOND

[WIFE] OF THE SD WILLIAM PASMORE DAUGHTER OF

[HUGH] MAIRE OF SOUTHMOLTON WHO DIED THE 7TH

[DAY] OF AUGUST 1752 AGED 37 YEARS

[HERE] ALSO LIE THE BODYS OF MARGARET AND

[ELIS]ABETH TWIN SISTIRS CHILDREN OF THE SD WILLIAM

[PASMORE'S] SECOND MARGARET WHO WAS BURIED ELISABETH

[JUNE] THE 30TH AND MARGARET THE 21ST DAY OF JULY

1749 AGED NEAR 7 MONTHS

HERE ALSO LIETH THE BODY OF HUGH SON OF THE SD

WILLIAM AND MARGARET PASMORE WHO WAS BURIED

THE [?] DAY OF OCTOBER 1752 AGED 4 MONTHS