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The inscription on the gravestone of James Ryder Mowatt (1755-1823), Barrack Master at Romford Barracks.1 It reads:

The inscription on the gravestone of James Ryder Mowatt (1755-1823), Barrack Master at Romford Barracks.¹ It reads:

15½ FEET FROM EAST WAL[L]
THIS STONE
MARKS THE GRAVE OF THE L[ATE]
JAMES RYDER MOWATT
A CAPTAIN OF THE 28TH REGIME[NT]
OF INFANTRY
AND AT THE TIME OF HIS DEAT[H]
THE BARRACK MASTER
AT ROMFORD.
BORN 26TH OCTOBER 1755.
DIED 11TH JANUARY 1823.

HIS FATHER AND MOTHER
LIE BURIED IN THE
CHURCHYARD AT CHESHUNT

JANE MOWATT HIS WIFE 25 AND WIDOW 44 Y[EARS]
DIED 31 MAY 1867 AGED 90
HER GRAVE 17 1/2 FEET FROM NORTH WALL IN SQUAR[E]
OF KENSAL GREEN CEMETERY, HARROW ROAD IS NO. 20[...]
UNDER A LIKE GRANITE SLAB RECORDING ALSO THE PRE-DEC[EASED]
OF SIX OF THEIR NINE CHILDREN.

The gravestone, which lies in St. Edward's churchyard, is no longer sited at the spot identified by the inscription.

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¹ Photographed in March 2004.


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