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Leadbitter family gravestone

gravestone | memorial

sandstone

Freestanding sandstone, decorative top, lettering good, Gothic and Roman

The place of interment of the
REV. JASPER LEADBITTER;
THE SIXTH LEADBITTER OF THE
ORDER OF S^T DOMINICK;
5^th son of MATTHEW LEADBITTER
of Low Warden and of his wife
ELIZABETH HERON; born on the
11^th May 1749; Resided in Hexham
50 years, and died on the 5^th
July 1830; aged 81 years
R.I.P.

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1830

“Legend of a Tombstone. This tombstone was erected in Hexham Churchyard by the old gentleman some time before he died, in consequence, as he asserted, of his fear that his body, after death, might be taken to the family burial place at Warden, by his brother, Mr Thomas Leadbitter, solicitor, whom some old inhabitants of Hexham may still remember living in the house in the Fore Street, now belonging to Mr Alexander.” [John Robinson: The Ancient Cathedral of Northumbria & Notable Hexham Families, 1907, HEXAB7102.9]
Burial register transcript: 1830, Jly 4 Leadbitter Rev Jasper, R.C. Priest, H, 81.

W 830 | H 1200

Exterior/Nave/North/Campy Hill West

CND: 6 A8 31; NCH3 p.199

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