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JACOB MILLER
ELIZABETH MILLER
SACRED
to the Memory of
JACOB SON OF
GEORGE & LYDIA MILLER
who died Aug 20th 1846
Aged 27 years
--
ALSO OF ELIZABETH
their Daughter
who died Feb 3rd 1826
Aged 15 years
--
Bereaved of earthly friends
We find them all in One
And peace and joy that never ends
And heaven in Christ begun."
Jacob Miller, son of George and Lydia, was born in 1819, the youngest of their eight children. He was baptised by Rev Henry Adams at Beaulieu church on 12th June 1821 when he was 2 years old.
The 1841 census records him, aged 20, living with his parents in Beaulieu Rails (East Boldre) but lists no occupation for him.
Jacob was buried at the chapel by William Mursell on 25th August 1846. The chapel's burial record and baptismal records confirms he died age 27 as the inscription is not clear.
Elizabeth Miller, daughter of George and Lydia, was born in 1810, the sixth of their eight children. She was baptised in Beaulieu church on the 8th December 1810.
She died aged 15 and was buried on 8th Feb 1826 at Beaulieu church by the Rev Henry Adams.
Under the chapel's rules of the time of Elizabeth's death (church minutes of 27th September 1824) Elizabeth could not be buried at the chapel because her father was not a baptised church member. (This is slightly curious as the Rev Comyn lists George and Lydia as dissenters (i.e. Baptists) in his notebooks of 1817).
The epitaph is the last verse of the hymn written by Charles Wesley and was included in the Baptist Hymn book of the time. He was the brother of John Wesley (leader of the revival movement within the church of England known as Methodism) and wrote no less than 6500 hymns in his lifetime.
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