An enquiry as to the duration of life in rural districts : including the parishes of Barnes, Putney, Kew, and Mortlake, in the county of Surrey, and the parishes of Acton, Ealing, Chiswick, Hammersmith, and Fulham, in the county of Middlesex : illustrated by tables, topographical, biographical, and heraldic notices / by J.H. James.

  • James, James Henry.
Date:
1858
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Credit: An enquiry as to the duration of life in rural districts : including the parishes of Barnes, Putney, Kew, and Mortlake, in the county of Surrey, and the parishes of Acton, Ealing, Chiswick, Hammersmith, and Fulham, in the county of Middlesex : illustrated by tables, topographical, biographical, and heraldic notices / by J.H. James. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    From the age of 70 to /9, there lived 50 males and 62 females. From 80 to 89, there were 28 males and 26 females living. From 90 to 98, there also lived 6 males and 8 females. The ages of eleven persons enumerated in this parish, amounted to 1,000 years. Robert and Ann Plaistow died 28th August, 1/28, and are buried at Kew (near the west door of the church), being the first recorded interments, on whose grave is the fol- lowing quaint epitaph: — ‘ ‘ In Tyso they were bom and bred, And in the same, good lives they lead, Untill they came to marriage state. Which was for them most fortunate. Near sixty yeai’s of mortal life, They were a happy man and wife ; And being thus by nature tyed, When one fell sick the other died ; And both together laid in dust. To wait the raising of the Just. They had six children born and bred. The one before them being dead. Their only then surviving son Hath caused this stone for to be done.” The church of Kew presents no remarkable architectural features ; and except its neat interior fittings (the effect of which is spoiled by the high-backed pews), and its plea- sant position on the Green (nearly opposite to the Royal Gardens), it has little artistic merit to attract the curiosity of a stranirer.