Sandys family, Miserden

[Descendant of Murby]

Hi wee Hugh - again I can see this is quite an old thread and I don't know if you are still looking at it but.....

I am temporarily living in West Alvington, just outside Kingsbridge in the South Hams area of Devon and I often have a prowl around the West Alvington church graveyard to look at the gravestones - they have some fascinating and very old ones. There is a tomb which caught my eye - Barbara Bayntun Sandys Reed, the wife of the Rev. Edward Reed and the third daughter of Sir Edwin Bayntun Sandys Reed, Bart of Miserden Park, Gloucestershire. Also in the tomb are two of Barbara and the Rev. Edward's very young daughters - Margaret C. Sandys Reed died 1837 aged 9 months and her sister Aubrey Rosalie Sandys Reed who died in 1845 aged only 6 months. These inscriptions really remind us how high the child mortality rate was!

Anyway, I hope you find this of interest. The tomb inscription is in fairly good condition but one side of the tomb structure has caved in.

All the best.

Descendant of Murby

[HughC]

Thanks for that, Snowballz.  I somehow missed your post last year; I hope you're finding RootsChat helpful.

Sir Edwin Windsor Bayntun-Sandys was the only surviving brother of my ancestress, and died before his father so that the baronet title became extinct.  He was rector of Winstone near Cirencester.
Mary Ann, née Turner, was his wife.  Cambridge Street is in Belgravia; that's where she died, but I assume was buried at Miserden if she's in the parish register.
Sarah Harriet was a sister, baptized in 1817 as (I think) Harriet Sarah; I knew she'd died before 1837, but didn't know when or where.

That's exciting news, Descendant of Murby.  Would you be prepared to photograph the Sandys Reed stone or stones, if possible so that the inscriptions show up clearly?  I don't think one can attach images to a personal message, but if you let me know that you have a photo or photos I can tell you my eMail address.

[Descendant of Murby]

Hi yes, happy to do that. If you send me your email I'll take some photos and attach them.

Saira