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St Margaret of Antioch, Tanfield

Joseph Kirtley Henderson

Sacred
TO THE MEMORY OF
JOSEPH KIRTLEY YOUNGEST SON OF
JOHN & ELIZABETH HENDERSON
OF CLOUGH DEAN
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 4TH DECR 1866
AGED 21 YEARS.

WHY SHOULD WE WEEP NOW HE IS FREE
FROM SICKNESS AND FROM PAIN
RATHER REJOICE BECAUSE OUR LOSS
IS HIS ETERNAL GAIN.

ALSO OF HENRY THEIR ELDEST SON
WHO DIED 5TH FEBRY 1837, AGED 2 MONTHS

THE ABOVE JOHN HENDERSON,
DIED JUNE 30TH 1873, AGED 70 YEARS.

THE WINTER OF TROUBLE IS PAST
THE STORMS OF AFFLICTION ARE OER,
HIS STRUGGLE IS ENDED AT LAST
AND SORROW AND DEATH ARE NO MORE.

THE ABOVE ELIZABETH HENDERSON
DIED DECR 30TH 1878, AGED 75 YEARS

HER END WAS PEACE.

 

John Henderson, the son of John Henderson and Ann Robson, was born about 1803 at Lanchester, Co Durham. He married Elizabeth Kirtley on 27th August 1832. Elizabeth was born on 25th August 1803 at Tanfield, Co Durham, the daughter of Henry Kirtley and Margaret Pace.

Henry Henderson was the third child and eldest son of John and Elizabeth. Their second son, born about 1839, was also named Henry. Two more children followed, John Robson in 1841 and Isabella about 1844, before Joseph Kirtley Henderson, who was born in 1845.