Now! Then! Martha Savile (100) is buried at Mexborough (Doncaster) in a Cudworth family coffin

4 January 1728: Martha Savile (100) is buried at Mexborough (Doncaster) in a Cudworth family coffin

John Hobson. 1877. The Journal of Mr. John Hobson, Late of Dodworth Green. Yorkshire Diaries and Autobiographies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Ed. Charles Jackson. Durham: Surtees Society. A (morbid) compendium of everyday England. It is sometimes unclear whether the date given is that of an occurrence or that on which news reached his capacious ears. Get it:

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At the funeral of Madam Savile. She was buried at Mexborough, on the north side of the great quire, within the rails close by the wall. On her coffin was writ M.S., aetatis 100. It was of oak, and made 60 year ago for her mother, Mrs Cudworth, who had it by her 20 years before she died.

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She died the week before:

29th, Fryday.-About one a clock, Madam Savill died at Fawthwaite, aged nigh 100. She was one of the three daughters and coheirs of Mr. Cudworth, of Eastfeild, and married Mr. Savill, of Mexborough.

Footnote:

Martha, second daughter and coheiress of Richard Cudworth, of Eastfield, in the township of Thurgoland and parish of Silkstone, wife of Samuel Savile, of Mexborough. She was a sister of the wife of Dr. Johnston, the antiquary. (See South Yorkshire, vol. i. p. 393, vol. ii. p. 270.) The marriage of “Samuel Savile, gener, et Martha Cudworth,” occurs in the Tankersley Register, Oct. 7, 1651.

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January 4th. – At the funeral of Madam Savile. She was buried at Mexborough, on the north side of the great quire, within the rails close by the wall. On her coffin was writ M.S., aetatis 100. It was of oak, and made 60 year ago for her mother … Cudworth, who had it by her 20 years before she died.

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