Floor Slab – John & Isabella Bromby
Description
Broken pieces of upper part of a blue slate ledger commemorating Hull merchant John Bromby (1745-91) and his wife Isabella, née Mallison (1749-1809), and three children who died in infancy. John and Isabella, who married in Cottingham in 1769, were the parents of the church's longest-serving vicar, Rev John Healey Bromby. The infant children originally interred with them in the church are probably Benjamin (1775), Joseph (1776) and Harriet (1790); Margaret (1774) seems to have been buried in the churchyard. The inscription is mostly legible, with only slight loss at the bottom, but most of the filling is gone.
Inscription and donor(s)
In Memory of
JOHN BROMBY Merchant
of this Town who departed this Life
April the 4th 1791
Aged Forty-six Years
Also three of his Children
who died in their Infancy.
Also of ISABELLA BROMBY, his Wife
who died Jannuary 7:th 1809,
in the 60:th Year of her Age.
["]Th[e] Memory of the Just is Blessed"
