Wirksworth and Five Miles Round; An Historical Sketch (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ...she died 2nd February, 1799, aged 3 years and and 24 days. This promising and lamented child had so greatly endeared herself to every individual of the domestic circle in which she passed her short life, that her sorrowing parents would hope they may be indulged in recording her death and their deeply-felt loss. May their grief on this occasion have been sufficiently mingled with resignation to God, without whose permission 'not a sparrow falleth to the ground.'" On a wall in the body of the church is a monument to the Ferne family. It is of white marble, highly embellished, and ornamented with cherubim and fern branches. It bears the following inscription: --"In memory of Henry Feme, Esq.. of Snitterton, in this county, Receiver-General of the Customs, in the reign of King William, Queen Anne, and George the First. He died July 12th, 1703. And of his wife, Elizabeth Ferne, youngest daughter and coheiress of Nicholas Dayrell, Esq., of King's Clear, in the county of Hampshire. She died May 7th, 1723: their issue was one son, Robert, and three daughters, Elizabeth, Isabella, and Frances. His eldest daughter, Elizabeth, was married to Edmund Turnor, Esq., of Stoke Rochford, in the county of Lincoln, who died December 4th, 1763; in conformity to whose last will and testament her daughter and executrix, Diana Langton, widow of B. Langton, Esq., of Langton, in the county of Lincoln, has caused this monument to be erected." Another neat monument of white marble has an inscription as follows: --"To the memory of James Hadley Cox, M.A., 14 years rector of this parish, of excellent and well-cultivated abilities, of a signal urbanity, with its attendant endowment of the heart of a rare felicity, in the love and respect of friends, ...