Mary ANDERSON

(1802-1837)

Grave No: 303;

Estimated Year of Birth: 1802;

Date of Death: 19th May 1837;

Age: 35 years;

Latitude: 53.7206;

Longitude: -0.8512;

what3words: lifters.indulges.airship;

Condition: Sound & in situ; traces only of inscription;

Height: 750 mm;

Width: 814 mm;

Thickness 64 mm;

Mason: W.THORPE, GOOLE.

Sacred /

To the memory of /

Mary, the wife of Richard /

Anderson, of Goole; who departed /

this life May 19th 1837, /

Aged 35 years /

Farewell dear friends my life is past /

But now for me no sorrow take /

But love my children for my sake /

Also of Robert Anderson son of /

the above who died in infancy.

(Part of this inscription is now illegible, so copied from the 1986 survey)

Richard Anderson was a mariner. It would seem that Mary might have died in child birth as their son, Robert, was baptised on 23rd May 1837, a few days after Mary's death. Presumably, Robert died shortly afterwards, although we have not yet found his burial record.

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