Gravestone In Graveyard Near Dunfanaghy, Co Donegal

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Document ID 9802429
Date 24-06-1710
Document Type Newspapers (Births, Deaths, Marriages)
Archive Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
Citation Gravestone In Graveyard Near Dunfanaghy, Co Donegal; PRONI T1320/1; CMSIED 9802429
23610
Stone in old grave yard
near Dunfanaghy

NEAR THIS PLACE ARE LAID
UP IN HOPES OF A JOYFUL
RESURECTION [RESURRECTION ?] THE [REQUIES?] OF
WILLIAM WRAY OF CASTELL [CASTLE ?]
WRAY ESQR WHO DURING THE
MOST PART OF HIS LIFE
APPLYD [APPLIED ?] HIMSELF SO ZEALOUSLY
TO THE SERVICE OF HIS CONTRY [COUNTRY ?]
AS TO MAKE IT TRULY SENSIBL [SENSIBLE ?]
OF [EY ?] LOSS IT SUSTAINED BY
HIS DEATH  HE WAS DECENDED [DESCENDED ?]
OF VERY GOOD PARENTAGE
AND WAS TWICE MARRIED INTO
TWO CREDITABLE FAMILIES AND
LEFT ISSUE SURVEVING [SURVIVING ?] BY HIS
FIRST WIFE ANN SAMPSON
HENRY & REBECCA BY HIS SECOND
WIFE ANGEL KILBRETH HUMPHREY
LETICE ELIZABETH ISABELL &
MARIAN TWO SONS ARE POSSESED [POSSESSED ?]
EACH OF THEM OF A CONSIDERABLE
ESTEATE [ESTATE ?] ONE WHEREOF WAS
INTIRLY [ENTIRELY ?] OF HIS OWN AQUIRING [ACQUIRING ?]
& YE DAUGHERS ARE DISPOSED OF
& MATCHD [MATCHED ?] INTO GOOD FAMILIES
BEING THERE INTO RECOMENDED [RECOMMENDED?]
BY YE ADVANTAGE OF A VERTIOUS [VIRTUOUS ?]
EDUCATION AND AGREABLE [AGREEABLE ?]
FORTUNE  HE DIED YE 24 DAY
OF JUNE IN YE YEAR OF OUR LORD
1710 & LEFT HIS FRIENDS JUSTLY
GRIVED [GRIEVED ?] & CONCERNED FOR HIS DEATH
BUT MUCH IMPROVED & BETERED [BETTERED ?]
BY HIS GOOD EXAMPEL [EXAMPLE ?] THIS
MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY
HIS SURVEING [SURVIVING ?] CONSORT ANGEL
AS A TOKEN OF HER LOVE & A
PRESENT TO YE MEMORY OF
AN AFECTIONAT [AFFECTIONATE ?] HUSBAND