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Tombstone Nº.2 of Dame Mary Blackett

tombstone | memorial

stone

Small slab recording vault burial

N^o 2.
Dame Mary
Blackett died
29^th Nov^r 1756
aged 82

1756

Dame Mary was the wife of Sir Edward (HEXAB1049), and formerly wife of Nicholas Roberts, merchant of London, by whom she had a son Nicholas (Nº.4: HEXAB1046).
1754: Licence to Sir Edward Blackett, bart., to convert a certain arch or vacant space of ground, under the ancient treasury, and the way leading thereto at the south end of the south aisle of the parish church, containing in length from east to west 14 yards, and in breadth from north to south 4 yards, into a family burying place, with a door leading thereto from the south aisle. [A History of Northumberland Vol. III part I 1896 A B Hinds p.175]
Beneath this balcony [in the south transept] is the cemetery of the respected ancestors of the Blackett family. [History of Hexham, A. B. Wright, 1823, p.67]
Burial Register: Dame Mary Blackett, relict of Sir Edwd, Bart. 7 Dec 1756.

H 98 cm | W 60 cm | D 9 cm

Against S wall base on ground

South Transept/Slype/Outer Porch

CND: S7; EM253