| HEXAB1278 |
| Missing Gibson Grave Slab |
| ledger | memorial |
| Next to which [grave slab of the Allgoods] is the burying place of the Gibsons, as the following rhymes will show: |
| Come hither my friends and mourn with me, | | And see where Richard Gibson my husband doth lye, | | Who lived together without any strife | | Three and forty years with Edith his wife | | And was buried the fourteenth of February | | Ano dom. 1610. | | Here lyeth interred the body of Richard | | Gibson, tanner who was buried the 27th 9ber | | 1685 | | Mary Gibson daughter of James Gibson | | buried September 1696 | | Here lyeth interred the body of James Gibson, tanner | | who departed this life | | April the 1st 1691 |
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| ‘9ber’ = ‘November’ |
| 1610–1696 |
From Hexham Register: 1610/11 14 Feb Richard Gibson senior buried; 1685 27 Nov Richard Gibson, tanner, buried in the Chancel; 1691 3 Apr James Gibson, tanner, buried in the Chancel.
From Rossiter Database: 1691 will of James Gibson, tanner, £59 10s 0d. |
| Documented in past, now lost. |
| Unknown |
| Warburton MS in PSAN Vol.8 1898 No.18 p146–147 |