An English Lady

This little building is a burial chapel. It contains the remains of an English lady and her father-in-law. Her husband is buried somewhere else.


She was born as Mary Clerke probably in Prittlewell, Sussex in 1790. In 1814, she married Colonel James Inglis Hamilton of Murdostoun Castle in Scotland. The young couple then moves to Bristol where his regiment the Scots Grey are stationed. However, already in 1815, the regiment is sent to Belgium and the Colonel dies at the head of his regiment during the battle of Waterloo. 


Two years later she marries Captain Edward Payne from the same regiment in Broadchurch in Sussex. Unfortunately, he dies in 1841.


A couple of years later, in 1844, she marries the Swedish nobleman Fredrik Vilhelm von Stierneman and moves to the city of Norrköping.


In Norrköping her third husband owns two manors Himmelstalund and Färjestaden. She dies in the latter in 1860. In her last will and testament she states that she wants to be buried next to her second husband in the burial ground of Chailey, Sussex. This does not happen, and instead she is buried on the grounds of the manor Färjestaden.