Headstone – Elizabeth Brown & John Bailey Hartliffe
Description
A large, almost intact headstone (slight damage to curved top) commemorating Elizabeth Brown Hartliffe (née Taylor) (1807-35), and her husband John Bailey Hartliffe (1810-37), a merchant's clerk, drowned on board the Dove (a Scarborough brig, lost with all hands when she ran aground at Flamborough Head on voyage from London to Scarborough) and buried at Flamborough. They had married at Holy Trinity on 27 April 1834. A verse based on Isaac Watts' hymn Hear what the voice from heaven proclaims follows.
Originally in South Nave Yard, in the centre of the section between the South Porch and the Transept, next to the headstone for Elizabeth's sisters and mother (ID 656). Elizabeth's father was silver mace-bearer to the old Corporation; John's father, William Hartliffe, was a foreman and lived at 6 Bishop Lane.
Inscription and donor(s)
[In] Memory of
ELIZABETH BROWN HARTLIFFE
who departed this Life
Aug:st 31:st 1835, Aged 28 Years.
Her end was peace.
Also of
JOHN BAILEY HARTLIFFE
aged 27 Years,
Husband of the above,
who was drowned on board the Dove
20:th Dec:r 1837,
and
Interred at Flambro'.
They sleep in Jesus and are blest
How sweet their slumbers are
From suffering and from sin releas'd
And freed from every care.
