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Index of "A Hand Book to St Mary's Church, Fort St. George, Madras"
Date transcribed | 2017-08-00 | Transcribed by | Andrew Cumine | Comment | Index of names from 'A Hand Book to St Mary's Church, Fort St. George, Madras', written by the Rev. Charles Herbert Malden, Canon of St George's Cathedral, Madras and Garrison Chaplain, 1893-4 and 1901-6. The transcription is of The Old Tombstones | Outside St Mary's Church. The other memorials recorded in the book are of those inside the church.
The book contains a useful checklist (as at 1905) of the church's registers from 1680.
The book is in the library of the East India Club in St James's Square, London SW1Y 4LH. |
| Surname | Seaton | | Other names | Hannah | | Death | 1 February 1710 | | Inscription | Heart, Virtue, Grace, center'd in one | Adorn'd ye dust that lyes below this stone, | Now, who has strength t'oppose ye Almighty's hand, | None can against his deadly terrors stand, | At length the Archer grim his arrows shott, | He seis'd from her what she from God had gott. | Such moves our minds his greatness to adore , | Even love his goodness and rever his pow'r, | Above, her Soul with rapturous joy ascends | To God; in heaven her life with praises ends, | On high with God this heavenly soul remains, | No return thence till all is into flames. HNANNAH SEATON, wife of Captain Francis Seaton dyed 1st February 1710, aetat 37. | | Comment by Rev. Charles Herbert Malden | The initials of the first lines of the poem ! form her name. She was the second wife of Captain Seaton. His first wife is Anne Seaton. |
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The major central Anglican cemetery in Madras in Anna Salai (formerly Bodyguard Road, an extension towards the Fort St George of Mount Road)
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