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 St Johns Memorials Index - Bengal Obituary 1851

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DescriptionTranscriptions of MIs from The Bengal Obituary: Or, a Record to Perpetuate the Memory of Departed Worth, Being a etc etc by Holmes and Co (Calcutta, India ). Published by W. Thacker & Co
Date transcribed2009-08-22
Transcribed byPeter Bailey

Surname  Pattle    
Forename(s)  James    
Year of Death  1845    
Inscription  The late James Pattle, Esq., Senior Member of the Board of Revenue, and the oldest in the Bengal Civil Service, died at his residence in Chowringhee, on Thursday the 4th of September, 1845, in the 69th year of his age. He had been suffering for a long period of painful disease, which terminated in his death. He entered the Civil Service in the year 1790. In consequence of Mr, Pattle's own earenest request his funeral did not take place here, but his remains were sent to England and deposited in the Vault of his family at Camberwell. He lived respected and beloved. The following is inscribed on a tablet on the Southern Wing of St. John's Church - Sacred to the memory of James Pattle, of the Bengal Civil Service, Obiit, 4th Sep. A.D. 1845, Aetat 69. ""O be Thou our help in trouble, for vain is the help of man"" - 60 Ps. II v. Also Adeline, his wife, who died at Sea on the 11th Nov. 1845, aged 52. ""And all wept and bewailed her, but Jesus said, weep not, she is not dead but sleepeth"" - Luke 8th c. 52 v. In token of the love of their sorrowing children.    
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Transcriptions taken from publications. Photographs of headstones and memorial tablets located at St Johns Church and Cemetery, Calcutta.
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