| HEXAB1267 |
| Carr gravestone |
| gravestone | memorial |
| stone |
| In northern graveyard |
| The burial place of Matthew Carr of Hexham; Dorothy his wife died the 18 Sept 1717 aged 51; the above named Matthew Carr died the 30 Nov 1757 in the 70th year of his age. |
| 1717–1757 |
| Mentioned in A B Hinds' 1896 “A History of Northumberland” volume III, p199. “1756, January 27th, Will of Matthew Carr of Hexham, gent, I give my lands in Hexham East Common, etc., to my son-in-law, Christopher Bell of Hexham, tanner, and my daughter Dorothy, his wife, for life, and then to their children; I give to my son, John Carr, $15 per annum out of my estate at Slealey, which I purchased of Joseph and Leonard Farbridge, during the joint lives of the said John and Matthew Carr, my son; also £15 to my son Matthew Carr; to my brother John Carr, £3 per annum out of Slealey; to the Rev. Benjamin Pile, £1 10s. per annum whilst he is minister of the congregation of Protestant dissenters in Giligate, in Hexham; to my eldest son, George Carr, my estate at Slealey and Hexham, my farm called Acomb West Barns; he executor. Proved January 23rd, 1758, Raine, Test. Ebor.” [NCH6 p365] |
| No.15 on 2021 graveyard plan |
| Exterior/North Transept/Graveyard North |
| CND: * * 48; NCH3 p.199 |