Memorials
Floor Slab – Thomas Eagle & Barbara Milnes Stanley
Common name(s): Stanley Children
Catalogue ID: 591
NADFAS ID: 1363
Description
Very worn incised slate, with loss of filling and mostly under carpet, commemorating the children of John and Barbara Stanley, who died within days of each other: Thomas Eagle Stanley (1801-04) and Barbara Milnes Stanley (1803-04). The circumstances suggest infectious childhood disease.
Inscription and donor(s)
[Here] lieth interr'd the Body of
[THOMAS] EAGLE S[TANLEY]
[son of] JOHN & BARBARA [STANLEY]
who died on April] 11.th 1804 [Aged 3 Years]
[Also BARBARA] MILNES [STANLEY]
[daughter of the above] JOHN & BARBARA
[who died on April 1]6.th 1804 Aged 11 Months
