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The following incription is found on a gravestone at the back of Coronation Gardens:

SACRED
TO THE MEMORY
OF
ALICE,
WIDOW OF ALEXANDER BLACK, ESQ.
OF
GIDEA HALL
ROMFORD ESSEX,
BORN 2ND MAY 1782
DIED 14TH JANUARY 1871,
AGED 88.

REVD. WILLIAM ALEXANDER NEAVE,
GRANDSON OF THE ABOVE
AND ELDEST SON OF
WILLIAM AUGUSTUS NEAVE EQSRE.,
H.E.I.C. MADRAS CIVIL SERVICE,
BORN AT SALEM, FEBY. 8TH 1841,
DIED AT BATH, OCTR. 2ND 1879.

ANNE ELIZABETH NEAVE,
OF GIDEA HALL ESSEX.
ELDEST DAUGHTER OF
ALEXANDER AND ALICE BLACK.
BORN 1815, DIED 1892
WIFE OF
WILLIAM AUGUSTUS NEAVE,
JUDGE H.E.I.C.S.
YOUNGEST SON OF SIR THOMAS NEAVE, BART
OF DAGNAM PARK ESSEX.
WHO DIED AT SEA
OCT 3RD 1844.

And now Lord what is my hope, truly my hope
is even in Thee. Psalm XXXIX. 8.

 
 

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