Memorial to Maria Watkinson

Halifax Parish Church

H. M. Memoriæ sacrum MARIÆ, filiæ Unicæ Revdi Dni Edvardi Watkin- son, Capellæ de Luddenden in hac Vicaria Cur/t\, Quæ Nata Ves- peri præcedente Pasca, Anno 1723, febre perquam maligna Correpta Occidit (heu nimium fugax et multum flebilis) Au- gusti xxiv/ta\ MVCCXXVI/o\

This monument is erected in memory of Maria, only daughter of Rev Edward Watkinson, Vicar at Luddenden Chapel. She was born the evening before Easter 1723, and died of a terrible fever (alas gone too quickly and greatly lamented)  August 24th 1726