Person:Richard Hill (34)

Only son of Abraham Hill.

1660 - Baptism: Richard HILL ye sonne of Mr Abraham HILL Mrcht, was baptised ye 10th of December.

Memorial Inscription: Near this place lies buried / Richard Hill, Esq. / Only son of Abraham Hill, Esq. / He married Mrs. Franks, / To whom he proved a most loving husband / For seven years and four months. / When dying 14 Mar 1721-22 / He left his widow / More than her original fortune / Besides a fair joynture. / But as he had no child by her / To preserve his name, / And she having married in 1723 / With Francis Bathurst, Esq., / Of Franks in Horton, / His only sister Mrs. Frances Hill / Thinking her brother's ashes / Too much neglected, / Erected this small monument / As a memorial of her Brother, / And to testify a Sister's love.

1. ↑ London Metropolitan Archives, St Dionis Backchurch, Composite register: baptisms 1538 - 1666 and 1668 - 1736/7, marriages 1538 - 1666 and 1674 - 1736, burials 1538 - 1736/7, P69/DIO/A/001/MS017602.
2. ↑ Vivian, J. L. (John Lambrick), and Henry H Drake. The visitation of the county of Cornwall, in the year 1620. (London: [Harleian Society], 1874)
   page 230.

   http://ukga.org/england/Cornwall/visitations/p230.html

3.   A Family Tree.

   http://www.celtic-casimir.com/webtree/17/31915.htm