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In
Loving
REMEMBRANCE OF

THOMAS COE,
DIED AT LEICESTER
MAY 28TH 1886
Aged 61 Years

NOT GONE FROM MEMORY OR FROM LOVE
BUT TO OUR FATHER'S HOME ABOVE

ALSO MARY, WIFE OF THE ABOVE
DIED 24TH MAY 1918, AGED 95 YEARS.


Thomas Coe was born in 1824, the eighth  (known) child of John and Elizabeth Coe.

He was an agricultural worker (labourer, carter, shepherd) who married Mary Brown of Gumley in Leicestershire. Together they had nine children.