Scraptoft Church has several 18th Century headstones, the most impressive of which occupy prominent positions near the path. A few smaller, less perfectly engraved stones are crowded together along the edge of the churchyard, somewhat overgrown with nettles and ivy.
Among these are the headstones presumably belonging to husband and wife James and Alice. The surname is spelt Frostnill on James's stone and Frostnil on Alice's.
Here lyeth the body
of James Frostnill who
departed this life February
the 6th Anno Dond. 1716
in the 68 yeare of his age
Alice the wife of James
Frostnil departed this life
the 28 of sep 1721 aged 77
The husband's memorial names him without reference to any other. But the wife's memorial only gives her name in relation to her husband, already more than five years dead.
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