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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.