John Gilbert - Swithland

Another of the Gilbert family, laid in a row across the beautiful churchyard in Swithland.

John ye Son

of Robert &

Ann Gilbert

died ye 8 th of

Sept: 1690

On the reverse side of the stone is the following inscription:

When living one

of uertues hopfull

branches was he;

 

His conursation

honist delitting in

pious sobriety;

 

G Hv ls

Doner

 

There is some confusion between the letter U and V - I have transcribed it here as U because it is identical to the letter U used in other places. However, in context it should have been a V. Thus the verse could be written as follows:

 

When living, one of virtue's hopeful branches was he;

His conversation honest, delighting in pious sobriety;

 

 

The lettering at the bottom of the stone may possibly refer to a person who paid for the stone or possibly for this inscription - which seems to be the work of a different mason from the one who engraved the front of the stone.