Isaac Lord and family
Monumental gravestone in Ipswich Old Cemetery, Suffolk to members of the Lord family.
Isaac, born in Bacup, Lancashire ( yes, that's what caught my eye) on May 18th 1818, died in Ipswich on September 28th 1893. He was a Strict Baptist Minister, serving the chapels at Orford Hill in Norwich, Turret Lane in Ipswich and finally posted to Birmingham, where he retired through ill-health and turned instead to farming.
He was not exactly a small farmer either. Less than a month after his death, the executors of his will put the stock of his farm up for sale by Spurlings, the auctioneers. It included ten horses, six grazing steers and 156 hoggets ( young sheep, prized for both their wool and the quality of their meat). There were also five wagons, 8 small carts of different types, 22 sets of plough and cart harness and several machines, including four Ransome's foot ploughs, a Ransome's Star horse rake and a Garrett 12 coulter corn drill.
Isaac was a well-known figure, much involved with local committees and politically a supporter of the Liberal Unionists and forty mourners were named in the Ipswich Journal report on his funeral procession, which went by road from Walton to the Ipswich cemetery.
Isaac's son, John William, predeceased his father, after a glittering academic career, including being elected the Senior Wrangler ( the top scorer of those who had attained a first class honours' degree) at Cambridge UNiversity in 1875. He died at Clarens ( now part of Montreux) in Switzerland ; a resort which was very popular with British travellers at the time, attracting as it did, those in search of medical treatment but also many artists and musicians from all over Europe, including Lord Byron and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Ravel and Tchaikovsky, among many others.
Isaac's wife and JW's mother, Sarah Elizabeth, is also remembered on the monument.
Isaac Lord and family
Monumental gravestone in Ipswich Old Cemetery, Suffolk to members of the Lord family.
Isaac, born in Bacup, Lancashire ( yes, that's what caught my eye) on May 18th 1818, died in Ipswich on September 28th 1893. He was a Strict Baptist Minister, serving the chapels at Orford Hill in Norwich, Turret Lane in Ipswich and finally posted to Birmingham, where he retired through ill-health and turned instead to farming.
He was not exactly a small farmer either. Less than a month after his death, the executors of his will put the stock of his farm up for sale by Spurlings, the auctioneers. It included ten horses, six grazing steers and 156 hoggets ( young sheep, prized for both their wool and the quality of their meat). There were also five wagons, 8 small carts of different types, 22 sets of plough and cart harness and several machines, including four Ransome's foot ploughs, a Ransome's Star horse rake and a Garrett 12 coulter corn drill.
Isaac was a well-known figure, much involved with local committees and politically a supporter of the Liberal Unionists and forty mourners were named in the Ipswich Journal report on his funeral procession, which went by road from Walton to the Ipswich cemetery.
Isaac's son, John William, predeceased his father, after a glittering academic career, including being elected the Senior Wrangler ( the top scorer of those who had attained a first class honours' degree) at Cambridge UNiversity in 1875. He died at Clarens ( now part of Montreux) in Switzerland ; a resort which was very popular with British travellers at the time, attracting as it did, those in search of medical treatment but also many artists and musicians from all over Europe, including Lord Byron and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Ravel and Tchaikovsky, among many others.
Isaac's wife and JW's mother, Sarah Elizabeth, is also remembered on the monument.