Sileby History
Its people and places. A community through time.
NORTH AISLE MEMORIALS
The memorials in the North aisle are dominated by the War Memorial (see separate listing). Other stones are hidden under the Organ Chamber, and access to that area is limited. An opportunity to see some of the existing stones came in 2015 and it gave a chance to verify the details of other lists. However, not every stone could be seen. Therefore, this listing contains details from the card index at Leicestershire Record Office (blue), Nichols listing of 1800 (red) and my own survey (black).
Sileby St Mary : Location of North Aisle Memorials
NA1
HERE
lieth the body of the
Revd Mr JOHN BOWES
Sometime Curate of this Parish
He died on the 27th Day of Feb
1755
Aged about 44 years
NA2
[Here lieth the body]
of
[Mr Thomas] CARTER
Second Son of [Mr Thom]as Carter
late of the [Newarke] Leicester
who died
the 26th day of October 1773
Aged 47 years
[He was]
an honest humane and generous
Man
NA3
Here lieth
the Body of
Mrs MARY HEATHCOTE
She died the 8th of Jan
1780 Aged 48
She was a Woman of Integrity
[generosity] and all Christian Virtues
NA4
[Hi]c sita eft
[MARIA] HEATHCOTE
[SIMON]IS OCKLEY
[Linguae] Arabiae nuper
[apud Cant]abrigienfes profefsoris
[filia] natu maxima :
[RADUL]PHI HEATHCOTE
[hujufce] Ecclefiae Vicarii
[amantiffima] nec minus amata Conjux
[Filios tr]es filiafque quatuor,
[feliciffi]mi pignora conjugii
[reli]quit superftites,
[obiit Ja]nuarii die tricefimo,
[Anno] Dni 1737
Aetatis 39
NA5
Hic fitus eft
RADULPHUS HEATHCOTE
Magifter Artium Cantabrigienfis
Hujus Ecclefiae Vicarius
et Rector de Morton
in Agro Derbienfi ;
Vivunt etiamnum liberi feptem
Quos uxor MARIA peperit
optimum lugentes
et parentum et virum
Morbo doloribufque consectus
requievit tandem in pace
Junii die nono
Anno Dni 1765
AEtatis 68
NA6
ELEANOR,
THE VERY FAITHFUL AND
AFFECTIONATE WIFE OF
JOHN DUDLEY, VICAR
OF THIS PARISH
DIED MAY 5th 1847
AGED
77 YEARS
NA7
JOHN DUDLEY
61 YEARS VICAR OF THIS PARISH,
AND
62 YEARS VICAR OF HUMBERSTONE
IN THIS COUNTY
DOMESTIC CHAPLAIN TO THE
MARQUIS OF EXETER
AND FOR 47 YEARS ONE OF HER
MAJESTY’S JUSTICES OF THE PEACE
HE DIED 7TH OF JANUARY 1856,
IN THE
94 YEAR OF HIS AGE
