Church Memorials

St David's Much Dewchurch

A listing of the memorials in St David's Much Dewchurch, going anticlockwise from the porch door.

 

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SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF

JAMES PHILLIPS

OF BRYNGWYN, ESQ

WHO DIED AUGUST 20 1809

ACTIVE AS A MAGISTRATE, UPRIGHT AND

INDEPENDENT IN HIS CONDUCT

HE CLOSED AN HONEST AND USEFUL LIFE

BELOVED AND REGRETTED

AMIDST HIS SORROWING FAMILY AND FRIENDS

IN THE 58 YEAR OF HIS AGE

MARY

HIS RELICT, SECOND DAUGHTER OF

SAMUEL BEACHCROFT, OF CROYDON

IN THE COUNTY OF SURRY, ESQR

DIED MARCH 23, 1816

AGED 53 YEARS

STRICTLY ATTENTIVE TO THE DUTIES OF

RELIGION PUBLICK AND PRIVATE, AND

TENDERLY AFFECTIONATE TOWARDS HER FAMILY,

HER LOSS WILL BE SEVERELY FELT AND HER

MEMORY LONG BE CHERISHED IN THE BOSOMS

OF HER SURVIVING CHILDREN

THOMAS AND HENRY

THEIR SONS DIED INFANTS

South Wall

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF

REGINALD PHILLIPS

OF THE BOMBAY CIVIL SERVICE

SON OF THE LATE JAMES PHILLIPS ESQ

OF BRYNGWYN WHO DIED AT SURAT

ON NOVR 1ST 1864 AGED 34 YEARS

South Wall

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

CHARLES ROBERT ROBSON

BRYNGARTH

BORN JULY 23, 1864. DIED MAY 3, 1937

AND HIS WIFE, MABEL HELEN

BORN OCT. 3. 1871. DIED MARCH 30, 1947

South Wall

PRIVATE OWEN EDWARD SLATER

GRENADIER GUARDS

WHO DIED OF WOUNDS AT YPRES BELGIUM

OCT 30 1914 AGED 24 YEARS

ERECTED BY TER SYMONS  LIEUT GRENADIER GUARDS

IN MEMORY OF A FAITHFUL SERVANT

South Wall

THIS TABLET

IS ERECTED BY HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS

IN MEMORY OF

EDWYN CHRISTOPHER

FOURTH SON OF JAMES AND ANNIE RANKIN

OF BRYNGWYN IN THIS PARISH

BORN JANUARY 3RD 1879, DIED APRIL 17TH 1925

South Wall

IN LOVING MEMORY OF

HAROLD LUTWYCHE HELME

CAPTAIN 1ST LOYAL NORTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT

KILLED IN ACTION IN THE BATTLE OF THE AISNE FRANCE

SEPTEMBER 14TH 1914 AGED 36 YEARS 

SERVED ALSO IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WARS 1899 - 1902

AND WITH THE ONITSHA HINTERLAND AND THE

BENDE-ONITSHA EXPEDITIONS WEST AFRICA 1904 - 1906

RECEIVING TWO MEDALS WITH FOUR CLASPS

BAPTIZED IN THIS CHURCH SEP 15TH 1878

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Walter Pye

Chancel - West Wall

UNDERNEATH

ARE DEPOSITED

THE REMAINS OF

JAMES WILLIAMS     CLERK

VICAR OF THIS PARISH

WHO DIED SEP 3RD 1812

IN THE 47 YEAR

OF HIS AGE

Chancel - South Wall

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS GEORGE SYMONS

OF MYNDE PARK, IN THIS PARISH, ESQUIRE

ELDEST SON OF THE LATE THOMAS HAMPTON SYMONS, ESQUIRE

AND ELIZABETH HIS WIFE

BORN OCTOBER 25TH 1818, DIED NOVEMBER 15TH 1868

ALSO IN MEMORY OF MARY HALEY, WIFE OF THE ABOVE AND DAUGHTER OF

THE REV. THOMAS EDWARD ALLEN, CHAPLAIN H.E.I.C... AND LAURA ELIZABETH

DAUGHTER OF SIR HENRY FARRINGTON, BART, BORN OCT 16TH 1839 AT HAZAREE BAUGH,

DIED OCT 13TH 1922 AND WAS BURIED AT COMBE RALEIGH, DEVONSHIRE

“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor

Principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate

Us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans VIII 38, 39

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THOMAS RAYMOND SYMONS

ONLY SON OF 

THOMAS GEORGE & MARY HAYLEY SYMONS

BORN MARCH 30 1866 DIED JULY 26 1922

AGED 56 YEARS

HE MARRIED IN 1888 MARGARET ETHEL, SECOND

DAUGHTER OF SIR JAMES RANKIN BART OF BRYNGWYN

AND HAD ONE CHILD THOMAS EDWARD RAYMOND

HE WAS BURIED IN THE FAMILY VAULT UNDER THIS CHANCEL

HE SERVED DURING THE S. AFRICAN WAR 1899 - 1902

WITH THE NORTH SOMERSET IMPERIAL YEOMANRY AND

OBTAINED THE RANK OF CAPTAIN

 

"THE BEST PORTION OF A MAN'S LIFE, HIS LITTLE NAMELESS

UNREMEMBERED ACTS OF KINDNESS AND OF LOVE"

 

ALSO OF HIS WIFE MARGARET ETHEL

BORN DECEMBER 18TH 1868, DIED APRIL 3 1949

AGED 80 YEARS

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BENEATH THIS MONUMENT ARE DEPOSITED

THE REMAINS OF

THOMAS SYMONS ESQR

OF MEEND-PARK IN THIS PARISH

WHO DIED NOVEMBER 6TH 1818

AGED 74

ALSO OF MARY MARGARET

RELICT OF THE SAID THOMAS SYMONS ESQR

WHO DIED ON THE 14TH APRIL 1834

AGED 69 YEARS

AND WAS BURIED AT LYME-REGIS

IN DORSETSHIRE

 

ALSO IN MEMORY OF

WILLIAM JOHN RAYMOND

SON OF THE ABOVE NAMED

THOMAS SYMONS ESQR, BY MARY, HIS WIFE

WHO DIED AUGUST 4TH 1808, AGED 14 YEARS

AND OF GEORGE RAYMOND, THEIR SON

WHO DIED 13TH SEPTEMBER, 1796

AGED 3 MONTHS AND 13 DAYS

AND WAS BURIED AT KINGSTON

IN THE COUNTY OF SURRY

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SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF

RICHARD HARCOURT SYMONS, ESQ.

WHO LIES IN THE VAULT BELOW

FORMERLY OF THE 7TH DRAGOON GUARDS,

SECOND SON OF THOMAS SYMONS ESQ., OF THE MYNDE PARK , HEREFORDSHIRE

WHO DIED SUDDENLY, IN LONDON, THE 13TH OCTOBER 1850, AGED 50,

BELOVED AND LAMENTED

 

ALSO TO HARCOURT KNIGHT SYMONS, ONLY SON OF THE ABOVE,

BY HIS WIFE JANE DINNISS TOLSON SYMONS,

WHO DIED IN HIS INFANCY AT LYME REGIS, DORSETSHIRE

MAY 23RD 1821, WHERE HE IS BURIED IN A VAULT

ALSO TO THEIR DAUGHTER MARY LOUISA SYMONS

WIFE OF THOMAS GEORGE SYMONS ESQ., OF THE MYNDE PARK , HEREFORDSHIRE

WHO DIED AT HASTINGS, SUSSEX, THE 25TH OF OCTOBER 1845, AGED 25

ALSO TO HER ONLY CHILD RICHARD LANGTON SYMONS

WHO DIED AT THE MYNDE PARK, HEREFORDSHIRE, THE 9TH OF FEBRUARY 1843

AGED 6 MONTHS

 

THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED AS A MARK OF AFFECTION AND ESTEEM

TO THE BEST OF HUSBANDS AND FATHERS

BY JANE DINNISS TOLSON SYMONS

WIDOW OF THE ABOVE RICHARD HARCOURT SYMONS ESQ., AND ONLY CHILD

OF THE LATE MAJOR RICHARD HENRY TOLSON, OF BRIDEKIRK, CUMBERLAND

FORMERLY OF THE 2ND REGIMENT OF LIFE GUARDS

BY HIS WIFE JANE COLLINS, OF HATCH COURT, SOMERSETSHIRE

 

ALSO TO THE ABOVE JANE DINNIS TOLSON SYMONS

WHO DIED AT BATH THE 18TH OF JUNE 1869

AGED 71 YEARS

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NEAR THIS PLACE

LIE THE REMAINS OF JOHN SYMONS ESQ.

WHO DIED ON THE 30TH DAY OF DECEMBER 1763

AGED 55 YEARS

Not unimputed slide the Silent hours;

Not unimputed nature’s various pow’rs,

Meth added Blessings from indulgent heav’n.

Wealth, honour, influence, are to Mortals giv’n.

This Symons knew, in whom accomplish’d shone

The Christian, Patriot, Husband, Brother, Son

In rank his equal hither if thou come,

Learn, Reader, learn a lesson from the tomb.

While Worth like his, extinct, thy grief shall share,

The Loss thou mournest labour to repair,

Be just, beneficent, & good as He,

And let the fair example live in Thee.

 

This Monument

Is Erected to His Memory

By ANN SYMONS

His Inconsolable Widow

And Daughter of JAMES COLEBROOKE Esq.

She Died 4th March 1765 Aged 53 Years

And lies Interr’d here

Lamented by all who knew her

East Wall

IN

LOVING MEMORY OF

JAMES RANKIN BARONET

WHO LIVED FOR 49 YEARS AT BRYNGWYN

MUCH DEWCHURCH

BORN 25TH DECEMBER 1842 DIED 17TH APRIL 1915.

 

THROUGH LIFE HIS LAW WAS DUTY AND HIS END WAS PEACE

 

THIS TABLET IS ERECTED BY HIS WIDOW

AND YOUNGER SONS AND DAUGHTERS

 

ALSO OF ANNIE LAURA HIS WIFE

BORN 16TH JANUARY 1844

DIED 22ND JUNE 1920

East Wall

WE PRAY YOU REMEMBER CAMBELL

KNOLLYS PRICE SOMETIME OF WESTBURY

MANOR IN THE COUNTY OR BUCKS

ESQ  WHO WAS BORN JULY XXXI

MDCCCXXII   DIED APRIL III MDCCCLXXXV

LIETH BURIED IN THIS CHURCHYARD

ANNE SWAIN HIS WIDOW, DAUGHTER

OF WILLIAM BELTON GREALOCKE

FORMERLY LANGERTON CO DEVON,

ESQ DEDICATES THIS MEMORIAL

North Wall

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF

THOMAS HAMPTON SYMONS

OF MYNDE PARK IN THIS PARISH ESQUIRE

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE

JANUARY 22ND 1831

IN THE 38 YEAR OF HIS AGE

 

ALSO OF ELIZABETH RELICT OF

THE ABOVE THOMAS HAMPTON SYMONS

BORN 13TH JULY 1793

DIED 9TH APRIL 1857 AGED 64

 

FREDERICK HENRY SON OF THOMAS H SYMONS ESQ.

AND ELIZABETH HIS WIFE DIED 15 JUNE 1823

AGED 7 MONTHS

AND WAS BURIED AT TENBY IN PEMBROKESHIRE

RAYMOND THEIR SON DIED 20 NOV 1824 AGED 5 MONTHS

ANNA MARIA THEIR DAUGHTER DIED 3 JUNE 1826

AGED 6 YEARS AND 4 MONTHS

North Wall

IN

MEMORY OF

FREDERICK RAYMOND

YOUNGEST SON OF THE LATE

THOMAS SYMONS

OF THE MYNDE, ESQUIRE

AND MARY, HIS WIFE

BORN 27TH DECEMBER 1804

DIED 20 SEPTEMBER,

1879

     

 


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Revised: November 15, 2010.