Sileby History
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SOUTH AISLE MEMORIALS
I haven't been able to get access to the memorials in this area. Therefore, the details listed here are from a memorial card index at Leicestershire Record Office. Further additions are from historian John Nichols's basic listing of 1800.
Sileby St Mary : Location of the South Aisle Memorials
SA1
HERE
lies ye Body of Robert ye Son of
Robert and Elizabeth Bird
who departed this Life
February the 25th 1750
Aged 5 months
SA2
Here
lieth the Body of ANN
the Daughter of
ROBERT BIRD. GENT
by Elizabeth his wife
Who departed this Life
January the 15th 1748
Aged 18 Months
Beneath this little length of Stone
In Peace a Child is laid
How soon cut off ! Just seen and known
Just blooming and decay'd
Thy Parents' Joy, their chiefest care
Rest in thy Urn secure
They only know the Grief they hear
For they alone endure :
In Death secur'd, from Woes retir'd
In Innocence now rest
What made thee here to be admir'd
In Heav'n now makes thee Blest
SA3
Here lieth the Body
of Mrs Catherine Collingwood
late wife to Henry
Collingwood now living
in Quarndon Esq and
Daughter of George Morton
late of Quarndon Esqr
next interr'd ...She departed
this life the 18 day of
March Anno Domini
1709[/]10 in the 23th Year
of her age
SA4
In memory of
WILLIAM PARIS
who died March 6th 1810 Aged 63
ALSO SERENA wife of the above
who died Sepr 1798 Aged 48
Also ELIZABETH their Daughter
who died March 1851 Aged 71
"He will raise us up and we shall live in
His sight"
SA5
MEMENTO MORI
HERE
lieth the Body of Mrs
BARBARA SPENCE
Daughter of the late Rev. Abraham Spence
Rect of MARKET BOSWORTH
who departed this Life
Novr the 25th An. Dom
1734 ..Aged 71
Willm Charles ..Sculpt
SA6
HERE LIETH INTERRED
THE BODY OF
JOHN MORTON, ESQ
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
IN AUGUST,
IN THE 4[..] YEAR OF HIS AGE
A.D. 1670
Details in RED added from John Nichols
in his 'History of Leicestershire', Vol III (1800) p424
SA7
Here lieth the body of
Mrs Catharine Parkyns, fpinfter
1670
NOTE : Mrs ? Details in RED added from John Nichols
in his 'History of Leicestershire', Vol III (1800) p424
SA8
Here lieth the body of
John Shaw, gent
who died Nov. the 8th 1708
Details in RED added from John Nichols
in his 'History of Leicestershire', Vol III (1800) p424
SA9
Here lieth interred the body of
Henry Dyfon
Who departed this Life
the 29th day of April,
in the 43d year of his age
A.D. 1714
Details in RED added from John Nichols
in his 'History of Leicestershire', Vol III (1800) p424
SA10
Here lieth Mary,
daughter of Thomas Herrick,
of the borough of Leicefter, gent.
by Martha his wife,
who died Jan. 29 1721
Details in RED added from John Nichols
in his 'History of Leicestershire', Vol III (1800) p424
SA11
Here lieth the body of
Thomas King of Sileby, gent,
who departed this life
July the 12th,
anno aetatis 69,
annoque Domini 1712
Details in RED added from John Nichols
in his 'History of Leicestershire', Vol III (1800) p424
SA12
Here lie the remains of
Thomas King, esq
who died the 5th day of October, 1780
aged 46
Here alfo lieth the body of
Elizabeth King
relict of Thomas King, and daughter of
William Ofwin of Coffington, gent.
She departed this Life
January 23, 1734
Aged 62
Details in RED added from John Nichols
in his 'History of Leicestershire', Vol III (1800) p424
SA13
Here lieth the body of
John Chamberlain,
the hufband of Jane Chamberlain,
who departed this life
the 28th day of Auguft
in the 77th year of his age,
and of our Lord 1707
Here lies the body of
Jane, the wife of
John Chamberlain, aforefaid,
Who departed this Life
May 17, 1715,
Aged 67
Details in RED added from John Nichols
in his 'History of Leicestershire', Vol III (1800) p424
SA14
Here lieth interred the body of
John Chamberlain
who departed this Life
May the 20th,
in the year of our Lord 1754
aged 53 years
Details in RED added from John Nichols
in his 'History of Leicestershire', Vol III (1800) p424