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NOTES AND QUERIES. en s. i. FEB. 5, 1910.

INSCRIPTIONS IN THE TRAFALGAR CEMETERY, GIBRALTAR.

THE tombs in this cemetery are placed irregularly, but I have endeavoured to put them into rows running north and south. The first row is that next the west wall, and the first inscription of the first row is at the south end of the row, the first of the second TOW at the north end, and so on.

A few interments have no stone or inscrip- tion. This is called the Trafalgar Cemetery, but only one inscription (No. 19) records a death as the result of that ' ' great and memorable sea-fight, 1 ' and there is only one -other (No. 31) which may possibly be con nected with it. These abstracts were taken on 3 May, 1909.

FIRST Row.

1. Mr. E. A. Clark, Ensign, 2nd Bat. (8)5th Regt., ob. 22 Oct., 1800.

2. Catharine, w. of, ob. 24 Oct., 1803.

3. Lieut. E. A. Wilson, Royal Marines, ob. 10 Jan., 1803, a. 30.

4. Capt. Thos. Mahon, Prince of Wales's Own Regt. of Fencibles, ob. 8 Feb., 1801, a. 32.

5. Eliza Louisa Gibbon, d. of Capt. D. H. Braine, of New York, and w. of Capt. H. G. Gibbon of H.M. packet Lord Chesterfield, ob. of a decline on board the Lord Chesterfield, 15 Feb., 1810 ; bur. 22 Feb., a. 20 yrs. 3 months.

6. Mr. John Bentley, of London, merchant, ob. 13 Nov., 1813, a. 70.

7. Lieuts. Thos. Worth and John Buckland, of the R.M. Artillery, killed by the same shot, 23 Nov., 1810, while directing the howitzer "boats in an attack on the enemy's flotilla in Cadiz Bay. Erected by their brother officers as a tribute of respect to two who were the brightest ornaments of their corps.

8. Quarter-Master John Connel, ob. 22 Aug., 1812, a. 56, after a service of 40 years. Erected Iby the officers of the 26th Regt.

9. James Lilburn, Esq., Captain H.M. sloop Goshawk, who nobly fell in an attack made on the enemy's forts and shipping at Malaga, 29 Ap.

1812, a. 38. Erected by the officers of the sloop.

10. Lewis Northen, 'Esq., Capt. 82nd Regt., ob. 11 July, 1810, a. 37.

11. Robert Lee, Esq., b. in Jamaica ; landed here 1 Ap., 1810, on his voyage from England to Malta, in the, alas frail ! hope of recovering his health ; ob. 28 May following.

12. Robert Monson, Esq., Surgeon H.M. Navy, -0&. 6 May, 1811, a. 26.

13. David Lawson, Esq., Surgeon H.M.S. Rainbow, ob. 22 Nov., 1812, a. 21.

14. A four-sided tomb. No legible inscription.

SECOND Row.

15. Amelia, inf. d. of Major Fraser, 1st Royal Veteran Battn., ob. 8 Feb., 1811.

16. Henry Winter Latimer, s. of Lieut, and Adjt. James Stevenson, 1st Royal Veteran Battn., ob. 5 Jan., 1808, a. 11 months 14 days.

Look down, blest soul, and from the realms above Accept this last sad tribute of our love. The last. E'en now our sorrows we resign, And lose our feelings to rejoice in thine.

17. Mary, the w., and Sarah, the d., of Ensign McKay, 7th R.V.B., ob. 17 Oct., 1813, a. 36, and 28 Sept,, 1813, a, 11.

18. Lieut. John Mullen, 4th R.V.B., ob. 11 May, 1809, a. 54 years, 40 of which he devoted to the service of his king and country.

19. Capt. Thos. Norman, Royal Marines, of H.M.S. Mars, ob. in the Naval Hospital, 6 Dec., 1805, a. 36, from the effects of a wound received in the great and memorable sea fight of Trafalgar. Erected by his brother officers.

20. Capt. S. S. Hughes, Royal Regiment of Artillery, ob. 18 May, 1808, a. 32.

21. Lieut. Wm. King. 54th Regt., ob. 1 Nov., 1804, a. 23.

22. Jane, w. of Capt. Flack, 1st R.V.B., ob. 3 June, 1807, a. 49.

23. Edmund, s. of Lieut. John Burke, 1st R.V.B., ob. 1-6 Aug., 1805, a. 18.

24. Almena, w. of Lieut. John Burke, 1st R.V.B., ob. 10 Oct., 1805, a. 53.

25. Mary, w. of Daniel Clark, Ensign, 1st R.V.B., ob. 28 Jan., 1806, a. 52.

THIRD Row.

"26. Henry Cane, Esq., Capt. 40th Regt., ob. 17 Nov., 1800, a. 22.

27. Lieut. Wm. Robert Montresor. 18th or Royal Regiment of Ireland, ob. 16 Nov., 1799, a. 19.

28. Martha Anne, d. of Hamilton Finney, Quarter-Master 54th Regt., ob. 6 July, 1804, a. 14 yrs. 8 months.

29. Capt. Robert McGregar, 10th Regt., ob. 9 Aug., 1804, a. 50.

30. Henry Edward Andrew Sheppard, Dep.- Asst. -Commissary-General to the Forces, who fell a victim to the epidemic fever, 24 Oct., 1813, a. 20.

31. Thomas Lane, Esq., Senior Surgeon Royal Artillery, ob. 17 Nov., 1805, a. 35.

32. Sidney Hollis Halls, 1st Lieut. Royal Artillery, ob. 20 Aug., 1804, a. 19. Erected by laig parents.

Te veniente die Te descendente.

33. Lieut. Benjamin Gleed, 10th Regt., late of Priory in the I. of Wight, ob. 25 Oct., 1804, a. 23. Erected by his mother.

34. Capt. Thos. Best, 26th Regt., a victim to
 * he epidemic fever, ob. 6 Oct., 1813, a. 30. Erected

3y his widow and family.

35. Lieut. Henry Fitzgibbon Ellison, Royal Artillery, of Letterkenny, Donegal, ob. 21 Nov., 1804, a. 22.

36. John Butt Taylor, Surgeon 26th Regt., ob. of the epidemic fever, 4 Oct., 18(1)3, a. 37. Also his s. George Andrew, ob. 8 Oct., 1812, a. 10 months.

37. Agnes, w. of Lieut. Daniel Robertson, 7th R.V.B., ob. 9 Dec., 1811, a. 34. She was always
 * he peacemaker | But never the lawbreaker.

38. James Duthie, Esq., Surgeon H.M.S. Crocodile, ob. 10 Dec., 1812, a. 26.

39. Margret Ann, d. of Alexr. Farquhar, Acting-Dep. -Paymaster-General, ob. in St. Roque, 31 July, 1809, a. 3 yrs. 4 mths.

40. Lieut. John Carrew [sic] Cuthbert, 54th Regt., ob. 7 Nov., 1804, a. 22.

41. A recumbent tomb illegible from dirt.

42. Lieut. Wm. King, 54th Regt., ob. 7 Nov., 1804, a. 23.