England

 THE PAUL FAMILY. — It is well to place on record, with
some others, the following inscriptions on eight large tombs in tin-
old churchyard of Woodchester, copied in 1879 : — (
1) ” Elizabeth, the relict of Nicholas Paul, of this parish, Clothier,
and daughter of Thomas Dean [also of this parish], died August ye
lltb, 1739, aged 54 years. “
Francis, the son of Onesiphorus and Catharine Paul, died June
ye 26″”, 1753, aged 8 months. “
Jane, the wife of Onesiphorus Paul, died May the 26th, 1748,
aged 41 years.” (
2) ” In memory of Dean Paul, Gen’. He died Novr 17th, 1761,
aged 57 yr8. Also of Elizabeth, his wife, and daughter of John
Andrews, of Stonehouse [in this county], Gen’. She died August
4th, 1741, aged 37 yra. And also of Anna, his second wife, auJ
daughter of John Self, of Cirencester, Gen’. She died September
7th, 1745, aged 41 y”. “
In memory of Margaret Paul, third wife of Dean Paul, Gent,
and daughter of Philip Hampton, Gen’, of the parish of Westbnry,
in the county of Glocester. She died March the 11th, 1764, aged
59 years.”

Onesiphorus Paul, Bar’, eldest daughter of Francis Freeman, of
Norton Malereward, in the county of Somerset, Esq. She departed
this life ye 20 day [of Ocf], 1766, in ye 56 year of her age. Sr
Onesiphorus Paul died Sepr 218′, 1774, aged [68 years], and lies
buried near this [place].” (
4) “Susanna Paul, daughter of George Paul, LL.D. Ohiit 18th
May, 1767, aetatis suae 43. “
Here lie the remains of Elizabeth Snow, wife of George Snow,
Esqr, of this parish [and of Langton, Dorsetshire], and daughter to
Onesiphorus Paul, of Hill House. She died the 7th of Jan1?, 1772,
aged 24 years. Valentina Elizabeth, her daughter, died an infant,
and is buried near her.” (
5) “In memory of Sir Geo. Onesiphorus Paul, Baronet, who
died the 16th day of December, MDCCCXX., in the 75th year of his
age.” (
Also within the same enclosure.) (
6) ” Here resteth the body of Sarah, the daughter of Thomas
Veals, and wife of Thomas Deane, Clothier, who deceased the
28th of September, 1707.” (
7) ” In memory of Edmund Browne, of Lincoln’s Inn, Esq.,
son of Edmund Browne, Esq., Counsellor-at-Law, late of the parish
of Rodborough, who died August ye 30th, 1754, in the 36th year
of his age.” (
“Anna, the relict of William Merrick, Esq., of Weston, in
the county of Hereford, died the 29th of October, 1754, aged 64.”
In the nave of Gloucester Cathedral there is a fine bust by
Sievier, with this inscription under it : — “
To the memory of Sir George Onesiphorus Paul, Baronet, who
died Jany 16th, 1820, aged 74 years ; a man endeared to his friends
by many virtues, both public and private, but who claims this
mark of local respect by having first reduced to practice the
principles which have immortalized the memory of Howard ; for to
the object of this memorial it is to be ascribed that this county
has become the example and model of the best system of criminal
discipline, in which provident regulation has banished the use of
fetters, and health been substituted for contagion; thus happily
reconciling humanity with punishment, and the prevention of crime
with individual reform.”
In the parish register of Woodchester, under the year 1820, the
entry of his burial is as follows : — ” Sir G. O. Paul, Rodborough,
Decr 23rd ” ; and the date in this inscription undoubtedly is wrong.
The mistake has been repeated in Stratford’s Good and Great Men
of Gloucestershire (1867), p. 457, Hand-Hook for Visitors to the
City and Neighbourhood of Gloucester (about 1862), p. 29, and
other publications. The date of death, December 16th, 1820, is
correctly given in the inscription (as above) on the tombstone in
Woodchester Churchyard.

from the old building, these inscriptions (copied in 1879) appear : — (
1) “la memory of Robert Paul, Esqr, Commander of his
Majesties sloop Pheasant, who died whilst cruizing off Trinidad,
Jany, 1805, in the 27th year of his age, and was buried at Grenada.
His public conduct repeatedly procured for him the admiration and
the thanks of his country, and his private virtues alike endeared
him. to his friends. “
Not feigned the sorrow, nor suborned the tear,
That pays due tribute to this early bier.
Each sailor wept, and each with misty eye
For his loved captain heaved a parting sigh.
So mourned his friends, too proud, alas ! to claim
A kindred interest in his rising fame.
For his firm breast the ocean had its charms,
The war of elements, the shock of arms.
And tho’ no stone may mark his distant grave
On shores where rolls the transatlantic wave,
Here in this vale shall memory speak his praise,
And fond affection here this tablet raise.” (
2) ” In remembrance of Charlotte, wife of Robert Snow Paul,
Esq., of the Hill House, Rodborough, who died at an advanced age,
December the 3rd, 1838. Also of the above-named Robert Snow
Paul, Esquire, who died on the 27th of February, 1849, in the
81st year of his age.” (
3) . . . . ” Also Deborah, wife of Nathaniel Peach, son of
the said Nathaniel and Margaret Peach, and sister of Samuel Paul,
of Rodborough, Esq. She died May the 16th, 1765, aged 58. Also
Nathaniel Peach, Esqr, third son of the said Nathaniel and
Margaret Peach, and husband to the said Deborah. He died the
25th of Decr, 1780, aged 68.”
In the parish church of King’s Stanley (see No. CXC.) there are
the following, which were copied in 1879 : — (
1) ” Near this place lieth the body of Anne, ye wife of Nathaniel
Paul, of this parish, who died the 29tb of Octob., 1723. Also four
children, Holmun, Mary, Onesiphorus, and Obadiah. Also near
this place lieth ye body of ye above mentioned Nathaniel Paul, who
died the 19th of June, 1737, in the 65th year of her age. Also
Anne, his daughter, died Janry ye 29th, 1739, aged 38 y™. Sarah
Elliott, daughter of Nath1 and Ann Paul, died Feb. 22, 1740,
aged 35.” (
2) ” This monument is erected to the memory of Obadiah Paul,
of this parish, Gentleman, who died the 9th of September, 1724,
aged 46 years. Susanna Paul, his widow, who died the 29th of
May, 1737, aged 56 years. John Paul, son of the said Obadiah
and Susanna, who died the 13th of July, 1752, aged 39 years.
Samuel Paul, of Rodborough, Esq., son of Obadiah and Susanna
Paul, died the 5th of May, 1768, aged 59. Anne, wife of Sir Paul
Baghott, Kn’, daughter of Tho8 Wathen, Esqr, of Picked Elm, in this parish, died November 30th, 1826, aged 57 years, and was
buried in the north aisle of this church.” (
3) ” To the memory of Nathaniel Paul, son of Nathaniel and
Anne Paul, of this parish, who died April 6th, 1742, aged 40 years.
Elizabeth Wathen, sister of the said Nathaniel Paul, died March 1 4th,
1 749, aged 43 years. Onesiphorus Paul, brother of Nathaniel Paul,
died March 19th, 1770, aged 57 years. Also of Elizabeth Pike,
daughter of the above Elizth Wathen : she died December 29th,
1795, aged 49 years.” (
4) ” In memory of John Turner, Esq., of this parish, who died
Feb* 20th, 1753, aged 48 years. Sarah, his wife, afterwards married
to Sir Onesiphorus Paul, the first baronet of this name, died at
Little JQford, Essex, aged 87 years, and was buried there April 19th,
1801. Sarah, daughter of the above John and Sarah Turner, and
widow of the Revd Hugh Price, M.A., of Castle Maddock, Brecon-
shire, and Rector of Rettenden and Little Ilford, Essex, died May
9th, 1821, aged 75 years. Sarah, second daughter of tho above
Rev. Hugh and Sarah Price, died December 2nd, 1842, aged
63 years.” (
5) ” In memory of Margaret Lady Wathen, wife of Sir Samuel
Wathen, of Woodchester, Kn’. She meekly fell asleep in Jesus, in
the faithful & blessed hope of the resurrection to the life eternal,
September the 17th, 1826, aged 78 years. Also of Sir Samuel
Wathen, nephew of Nathaniel and Obadiah Paul. He died in
Calais May the 19th, 1835, in the 88th year of his age.”
According to Bigland, these two inscriptions, which have since
disappeared, were in the church : — (
1) “Here resteth the body of Mary [dau. of John Bond, Esq.,
of Lutton, Dorsetshire], the wife of Nicholas Paul, Vicar of
Frampton, who departed this life the fifth day of Decr, 1669. Here
resteth also the body of Nathaniel Paul, of this parish, who departed
this life the 17th day of October, 1679. Anne Paul, 1723. Nathaniel
Paul, 1737.” (
2) ” Sacred be the monument which is here erected by affection
and gratitude to perpetuate the memory of Obediah Paul, of
Eodborough, Esqr. He died Jan* 21 [? 28], 1792, aged 72 years.”
The Rev. Nicholas Paul, A.M., of Berkeley, Vicar of Frampton-
on-Severn, died on Good Friday, 1680, and was buried in Frampton
Church, under a flagstone with a Latin inscription recorded by
Bigland, vol. i., p. 598. His youngest son, Samuel Paul, who died
January 17, 1670, aged 20, had been buried in the same place.
And in tho churchyard of King’s Stanley, the following (copied
in 1879) may be found : — (
1)” Sacred be tho monument which here is raised by affection
and gratitude to perpetuate the memory of Obadiah Paul, of
Rodhorough, Esqr. He died January the 28th, 1792, aged 72 years.”
Is this the stone referred to by Bigland 1[
sometime Wathen], late of Nash Court, in the parish of Stonehouse,
who departed this life November the 30th, 1838, aged 68 years.”

 

 

FROM: Gloucestershire parish registers. Marriages. Ed. by W. P. W. Phillimore … vol. 1,” published as supplement to v. 6 and 7