Grave & Memorial for Charles & Catherine Edwards

Contin Churchyard, Scotland

The grave and memorial for Charles & Catherine Edwards

 

The grave of Charles & Catherine Edwards in Contin churchyard, Scotland

This image [WMH1.JPG] was kindly submitted by William Hill

Inscription on the grave of Charles & Catherine Edwards in Contin churchyard, Scotland 


Sacred to the memory
of Catherine
and her husband
Charles Edwards Esq
of Darcey Hey, Near Halifax,
in the County of York
who died each after three days' illness
at Strathpeffer
the former September 17th 1842
aged 28
the latter September 19th 1842
aged 33
     
Lovely and comely in
their lives, in their deaths
they were not divided

This image [WMH2.JPG] was kindly submitted by William Hill

The Latin memorial to Charles & Catherine Edwards in Halifax Parish Church

For our dearest sister, Catherine, forever missed, and her husband, Charles Edwards, taken one day apart by a deadly fever, and buried far away in Contin, Scotland.

Catherine aged 29, Charles aged 34

From your mourning brothers J and S Waterhouse

In the year of our salvation 1860

Lovely and comely in their lives, even in death they were not divided [Samuel 2: 1 / 23]

This image is taken from The Monumental Inscriptions in Halifax Parish Church

© Malcolm Bull 2023
Revised 14:24 / 4th January 2023 / 5559

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