Near this Place lays the Body of
Ann the wife of JOHN MELLISON and laft Surviving Child of GEO: England of Great Yarmouth Efq by ALICE the Daughter of JOHN JERMY of Bayfield Efq The sd Ann departed this Life Oct 10th 1761. Aged 46 Years. And left iffue GEORGE & CHARLOTTE Also of GEORGE ENGLAND MELLISON Clerk A.B. Who departed this Life June 15th 1789. Aged 43 Years. George England Mellison was the "nearest in blood" to William Jermy of Bayfield when he died in 1752. There was legal action between the Mellisons and Prestons in order to recover some of the Jermy estates. (With thanks to Beryl Ellingford for pointing this monument out to me.)
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