 
In Memory
of
MARY DAWKINS
Wife of William Dawkins
who Died April 11 1779
Aged 79
Back from the Tombs a doleful Sound
My Ears attend the Cry
Ye Living Men come view the Ground,
WherWhere you must shortly lie.
 
Mary Austin was 
born in Desborough about 1700. She married
William Dawkins, also 
of Desborough, on 1st Feb 1729/30. They had seven (known) children. Mary 
survived her husband by ten years.