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Name:
Richard Sleep
Sex:
Male
Father:
Mother:
St Nonna
St Nonna Font
1823, Register Entry for Baptism of Richard Sleep
1824, Register Entry for Burial of Richard Sleep
Headstone for Isabella & Richard Sleep
Birth:
Oct 1823
His baptimal record does not give his date of birth. However, as it was normal practice to baptise children a few weeks or even a few days after their birth and as he was baptised on 26 Oct he was almost born in early October. It is assumed that he was born in the house in Penport, Altarnun where his parents lived all their married lives. This is confirmed by the age ( 5 months) given on his gravestone which records the date of his death as 17 March 1824.
Baptism:
26 Oct 1823 (age 0)
St Nonna's Church3
Address: Alternun, Cornwall
His parents and probably his older brother John would have been present and possibly his grandparents but who else is not known.
Death:
17 Mar 1824 (age 5 mns)
Cause: an unknown cause but probably a childhood illness
Address: Altarnun, Cornwall
Burial:
17 Mar 1824 (age 5 mns)
Address: Altarnun, Cornwall
His parents and older brother John would have been present and possibly his grandparents. He shares a grave with his older sister Isabella who died in December 1822 at the age of 2. Although their deaths are not linked it must have been a blow to his parents to lose two children in two years. The memorial verse on their headstone reads:-
All happy children are ye fled
To mingle with the silent dead:
Til the last trump: when ye shall rise
To claim your mansion in the skies.
Her father was labourer and he and his wife Eliza must have loved Isabella and Richard very much to pay for such an elaborate headstone.
Rev. John Gillard, Register Entry for the Baptism of Richard Sleep in St Nonna's Church, Altarnun, Cornwall, (FamilySearch (LDS) website). Custom Id: Baptisms 1823 Page 40, No. 317; PlaceAltarnunDate of Birth---Date of Baptism26 Oct 1823. Cornwall County Records Office, Turo. Call Number: Altarnun Registers.
Memorial Inscription for Isabella & Richard Sleep children of Samual & Eliza Sleep. St Nonna Churchyard, Altarnun, Family Info: Children of Samual & Eliza Sleep, Location: St Nonna Churchyard, Altarnun. Died March 17th 1824 aged 5 months.
Rev. John Gillard, Register Entry for the Baptism of Richard Sleep in St Nonna's Church, Altarnun, Cornwall, (FamilySearch (LDS) website). Custom Id: Baptisms 1823 Page 40, No. 317; Cit. Date: 26 October 1823. Cornwall County Records Office, Turo. Call Number: Altarnun Registers.
Memorial Inscription for Isabella & Richard Sleep children of Samual & Eliza Sleep. St Nonna Churchyard, Altarnun, Family Info: Children of Samual & Eliza Sleep, Location: St Nonna Churchyard, Altarnun. Richard Sleep son of Samual and Eliza Sleep died March 17th 1824.
Gravestone for Isabella Sleep and Richard Sleep: St Nonna's Churchyard, Altarnun, Cornwall; Pat Ward.
Parish Register for Burial of Richard Sleep, St Nonna, Altarnun, Cornwall, 17 March 1824, Cornwall County Records Office.