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Internees
Description	Raised Ledger
Inscription	In Memory of Joseph Daniel Bishop who died August the 1X MDCCCIVI aged XXXXIV years. Also of his wife Ann Austen Bishop who died ?? MDCCCIIV aged XXIX. Thy will be done. Thomas Bishop son of Joseph Daniel Bishop and Mary Ann Austen Bishop ....Aged 6 years. Suffer the little children to come unto me.
Notes	SW Corner
Name	Date of death	Age	Residence
Mary Ann Austen Bishop	Nov 1854	29
Joseph Daniel Bishop	Aug 1856	34
William Thomas Bishop	Sep 1858	6	Beaminster

Transcription by Morag Curtis

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