Cemetery: ANTRIM, RASHARKIN CHURCHYARD. Parish of Rasharkin
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Rasharkin Churchyard.

'On an oval tablet fixed in the wall of the old church of Rasharkin,
on the south side of the Chancel':-

HIC JACET. I
OHAN. DV | NBAR. CLER |
QVI. BERRIS [sic]. IN CELVM.
MIGRAVIT. 28 | DIE 7 BRIS | ANNO
DINI | 1696.
[Copied by Canon Grainger, 1872.]

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'On a table on the north wall of the old church':-

Here lieth ye body of MARGARET McNEILE who departed this life
March the 17th 1723. as also Rose, Mary, Archd, and Margaret McNeil
his children.
[Copied by Canon Grainger, 1872.]

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To the Memory of the Revd. WM. RAVERSCROFT, Prebendary
of Rasharkin who died May the 5th 1804 aged 38 years.
[J.G. 1872.]

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Erected to the Memory of the REVD. WM. DICKSON for 46 [? 50] years
Prebendary of Rasharkin. He departd this life on the 24th Sept 1850
in his 74 year.
[Copied by Dr. Grainger, 1872.]

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Here lieth the body of the REVd. SKEFFINGTON [BRISTOW] 
Prebendary of Rasharkin for 60 years, who d[eparted] this
life in the Ninety Sixth [year] of his age on [the] 7th day of May 1797.
And also of his wife ELIZABETH who depar[ted] this life on
the 21st day of March 1792, aged seventy [   ?].
and also of their daughter, SOPHIA WILLSON wh[o] departed
this life on the 14th of December 1791. aged forty five years.
And also of their granddaughter, MARGARET TORRENS, and
of their great grand-daughter SOPHIA BRISTOW aged 5 months. and their
great grand-daughter SOPHIA MARSHALL, aged 6 months.
Also of SKEFFINGTON GORE BRISTOW son of the above, who died in the month
of February 1798.
[Copied by Canon Grainger, 1872.]



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Source:   Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of
the Dead, Ireland, Vol. V1 - No. 1 - Part 1.