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Sacred

TO THE MEMORY OF

WALTER JOHN WILLIAMS

BORN AT WEYMOUTH
DIED AT HOODS CANAL
SOUTH AMERICA
AGED 47

ALSO

JANE THE BELOVED WIFE OF
THE ABOVE AND DAUGHTER OF

ROBERT & CATHARINE KILBORN

WHO DIED OCT 28TH 1868
AGED 42


Note: this gravestone is very worn and the transcription may not be correct.

It appears that Jane Kilborn and Walter Williams met whilst Jane was working with her Aunt Lucy in London.

Jane was born at Desborough about 1826, the eldest child of Robert Kilborn and Catherine Ginns.