In Memory
OF
ROBERT NURSEY
Who departed this Life
March the 1st 1825
AGED 54 YEARS
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ALSO of WILLIAM NURSEY
His Son, who died November the
27th 1824 Aged 18 Years
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HARK from the tombs a doleful sound
My ears attend the cry
Ye living men come view the ground
Where you must shortly lie.
Robert Nursey was
baptised 25 Mar 1770, the son of
William Nursey and
Mary Watson, both of
long-established Desborough families.
Robert married
Esther West
in 1791. Their son
William was baptised 5 Jun 1806.
The Christian names William and Robert alternate between
the generations back at least five generations back to the William Nursey
who was born before 1688.