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GA-STNL-0407
Record Date:
5 May 2024
Graveyard:
Exact wording of epitaph:
Near this place Re/ts In full a//urance of a Ble/sed Re/urrection Jane Eyre Daughter of Sir Willm Maynard Baronet and Relict of Edward Eyre late of Galway E/qr She was a loving and obedient Wife; A careful and indulgent Mother; Affable and courteous to her Acquaintance Her Piety, Prudence and well di/po/ed Bounty to the Poor; Giving Bread to the Hungry and Cloathing to the Naked Made her a worthy Example to her Sex She took leave of this World on the 29th Day of December 1760 In the 88th Year of her Age, Re/igned herself chearfully into the Hands of her Redeemer With a lively Faith a/tedfa/t Hope and that Charity Which never fails to obtain an Inherritance among The Saints in Light Two Daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret Survived her The Sum of 3001 was given by the Widow lane Eyre to the Corporation for the yearly Sum of 241 to be di/tributed in bread to 36 poor Objects on every Sunday for ever
People commemorated:
Surname:
EYRE and MAYNARD
Notes:
A large white marble wall monument on a black marble/limestone backing of pseudo-Classical design. It is situated beside another wall plaque dedicated to the Eyre family (No. 406). The Ins. is Inc'd. with black lettering with some of the words in conjoined script. On either side of the Ins. there is a column, the capitals and pedestals of which are of white marble. They each rest on a base. On top of the monument there is a free standing carving in white marble of a naked (and now armless) child. On either side of this small statue there is a carving of an urn, both identical and "Grecian" in style. A Mrs. Eyre who petitioned for the "grant of some small cabbins in ye West Suburbs, in 1685/1686" is, according to Rabbitte (Ed.)(1922-3), "probably the wife of Edward Eyre who died in 1683." Rabbitte (Ed.) ibid, goes on to quote from the monument to herself and Edward Eyre (See both Nos. 406 and 407). See also Rabbitte (Ed.)(1922-3) op cit. "Att a Comon Councill held at Mr. Mayor's house on the 27th day of August. 1687... Then ordered that Mrs. Jane Eyre shall be allowed out cif her rent due to the Corporation the sum of ten pounds, sterling for lodging the Judge in the yeare 1686". See also Rabbitte (Ed.) (1922-3) ibid. 20 and 26-7 for further information on the funeral affairs of Jane Eyre and properties owned by her. See also Nos. 363, 364 and 406 for other Eyre monuments.
