Mortality

I’m not developing a fascination for gravestones but what I do find interesting is that the inscriptions are often an indication of the social conditions of the time. In the Eighteenth century the Medical Sciences had not developed as they have today and mortality was high. Note from the inscription on this grave marker that Mary, the wife of Charles Foster died just Thirty one years old. Their daughter had died in infancy, only two years old and there was another lost child where the inscription is obscured. Next time I go there I’ll investigate further.
Gravestone at All Saints church at Settrington.