Samual Gilbert - Swithland

Here lieth ye Body

of Samual Gilbert

the Son of Robert

Gilbert by Hannah

his wife, He departed

this life Janr: 26.th 1728/9

In ye 10:th year of his Age

Four years after the death of Ann Gilbert, Robert and Hannah seem to have lost another child. This time the 10 year old Samuel. The design of Anne and Samual's memorials is so similar, it seems highly likely to be the work of the same mason.

From this layout it also seems likely that Ann's headstone would have given her age at death, but that part of the stone is now under the soil level and so is unreadable.

This is yet another double dated stone. Another death in the cold month of January.