254: EDSTONB. 



GENEROUS AND KIND TO THEIR DE- 

 PENDANTS, 

 CHARITABLE AND HUMANE TO THE 



POOR; 



THEY PASSED THROUGH THE VALE 



OF LIFE, 

 AND DEPARTED AMIDST UNIVERSAL 



REGRET, 



IN THE HOPE OF A BLESSED IMMOR- 

 TALITY, 



RELYING, SOLELY, ON THE MERIT AND 

 ATONEMENT OF JESUS CHRIST, THEIR 



SAVIOUR AND REDEEMER. 

 THEIR SURVIVING FAMILY UNITE IN 



ERECTING THIS MONUMENT, 



AS A TRIBUTE OF GRATITUDE TO 



THEIR BELOVED PARENTS. 



The register of this parish commences with the 

 year 1690 ; and the following is a list of the vicars, 

 irom-that time :- 



"When instituted. Name of Incumbent. Vacated ^ 



Robert Taylor, died..., 1695- 



16 96 Christopher, 47 years > 1704 



3.1) t vicar, died aged SO, > 



1743 ...Philip Dowker, died 1788,7 y . 



,',, ,but vacated j 



1784 Christopher Dowker, buried > 1010 



at Sinnington ; died ) 



1819 Edmund Dowker. Rev. M. A. Mack- 



ereth. curate. 



