A5, MONUMENTS 121, 122, 123

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SE ABBEY PRECINCTS, Great Churchyard 639-1/16/30 A 5, MON: 121, 122, 123

GV II

A group of 3 churchyard monuments:- MON 121: Box tomb. 1755. JOHN CUMBERLAND, late of Norwich, 1755; also JOHN CUMBERLAND & REBECCA, his wife, 1781, and their 2 sons, JOHN, 1793 and SIMON, 1809. Also SAMUEL BUCK of Hawstead, 1852; ROBERT BUCK, 1860. Broken and badly repaired. MON 122: Box tomb. 1760. MR SAMUEL CUMBERLAND, 1760; MRS SARAH CUMBERLAND, his widow, 1768; ANN, wife of Thomas ROBINSON, 1781; JOHN CROSBIE, 1796; SARAH, his wife, 1787; JOHN CROSBIE, 1838; ANN, his widow, 1854; WILLIAM BUCK, 1838; JOHN BUCK, 1839; WILLIAM BUCK, 1818; SARAH, his wife, 1804. The Buck family were local maltsters and brewers. Broken, with a Coat of Arms on the top ledger. MON 123: Box tomb. Commemorates MARY, wife of Thomas ROBINSON, n.d.; THOMAS & ELIZABETH, their children, 1765; THOMAS ROBINSON, 1777; MARY, his widow, 1790; THOMAS ROBINSON, 1797; HENRY ROBINSON, 1815; MARY, wife of THOMAS, 1826; THOMAS ROBINSON, 1860; HENRY CRABB ROBINSON, 1867, diarist, (buried at HIGHGATE CEMETERY); ELIZABETH, wife of Habbakuk ROBINSON, 1803; THOMAS HENRY ROBINSON, 1841; CAROLINE ANNE, 1829; EMILY MARY, 1836; HENRY HUTCHINSON, 1856, who died at TORQUAY. Of local interest. (Survey of Monuments in the Great Churchyard c.1960: West Suffolk CC: SECTION 5).

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