| HEXAB1282 | ||||||||
| Missing Lawson Gravestone | ||||||||
| ledger | memorial | ||||||||
| And at a little distance [from Copperthwaite & Ashby slabs] the following: | ||||||||
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| 1641 | ||||||||
| From Hexham Register: 1641, 16 Dec Mary, wife of Edward Lawson, gent., buried in the Chancel. She was daughter of John Copley of Skelbrook in Yorkshire, and wife of Edward Lawson of Brunton, in the parish of Embleton. 1637/8 23 Jan. Jane Lawson, daughter of Edward Lawson, gent., buried in the church. The founder of the Lawson Charity [HEXAB249.1] still enjoyed by the widows and orphans of Hexham. 1823: “1637. Mrs Jane Lawson, spinster, daughter of Edward Lawson, of Topcliffe, in Yorkshire, Gent. (but then of Hexham) desired her father upon her death-bed to give 40s. a year for ever unto forty poor widows in Hexham, which hath been ever since distributed yearly on Good Friday.” [A B Wright, p.232] | ||||||||
| Documented in past, now lost. | ||||||||
| Unknown | ||||||||
| Warburton MS in PSAN Vol.8 1898 No.18 p147 | ||||||||