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In Loving Memory
of

JAMES SUMNER

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
DECEMBER 1ST 1870
IN THE 50TH YEAR OF HIS
AGE

ALSO

ELIZABETH ANN

WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO PASSED AWAY FEB 11 ----
AGED 71 YEARS


James Sumner was baptised at Desborough on 20th Feb 1821, the fifth (known) child of George Sumner and his wife Ann.

He married Elizabeth Ann Ward of Walgrave in 1852. Her year of death is illegible on the monument but BMD index records her death in the first quarter of 1893.