Jarvis EMPSON
(1794-1871)
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Estimated Year of Birth: 1794
Date of Death: 28th March 1871
Age: 77 years
Grave No: 9
Latitude: 53.72077
Longitude: -0.85073
what3words: huts.flagging.recruiter
Condition: Falling apart, incomplete but recognisable
Height including base (mm): 2490 mm
Width excluding base (mm):
570 mm
Thickness excluding base (mm):
550 mm
Mason: WAUDBY, YORK
Inscription
(Facing path)
IN MEMORY OF /
JARVIS CARRICK /
EMPSON, /
ONLY SON OF /
JARVIS AND ELIZABETH /
EMPSON, /
OF GOOLE HALL. /
WHO DIED ON THE /
3RD OF MARCH 1855. /
IN HIS 37TH YEAR. /
LOOKING FOR THE MERCY OF /
OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST UNTO / ETERNAL LIFE. /
JUDE /
(Left, facing path)
ALSO /
HERE LIES /
ELIZABETH. WIFE OF /
JARVIS EMPSON, /
OF /
GOOLE HALL, /
FELL ASLEEP JULY 22ND 1867, /
AGED 83. /
COME UNTO ME, ALL YE THAT / LABOUR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN, /
AND I WILL GIVE YOU REST.
(Back of monument)
"HAPPY SOUL! THY DAYS ARE ENDED, /
ALL THY MOURNING DAYS BELOW, /
GO BY ANGEL-GUARDS ATTENDED, /
TO THE THRONE OF JESUS GO! /
WAITING TO RECEIVE THY SPIRIT, /
LO! THE SAVIOUR STANDS ABOVE, /
CLAIMS THE PURCHASE OF HIS MERIT: /
REACHES OUT THE CROWN OF LOVE."
(Charles Wesley dying Christian hymn)
(Right facing)
AND ALSO /
HERE LIES /
JARVIS EMPSON. /
LATE OF /
GOOLE HALL /
FELL ASLEEP MARCH 28TH 1871 /
AGED 77 /
YEA. THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE /
VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, /
I WILL FEAR NO EVIL THOU /
ART WITH ME: THY ROD AND /
THY STAFF THEY COMFORT ME.
On Wednesday, 27th March 1816, Jarvis Empson of Goole Hall married Elizabeth Porter, niece of the wife of Mr Alderman Carrick, J.P. of Hull. (Source: London Chronicle - Monday 08 April 1816). This would explain their son, Jarvis Carrick Empson's middle name.
Their daughter, Elizabeth Cornwell Empson, was born c.1823 in Hook and she married Robert Cornelius Lister, son of G.S. Lister, in 1842.
In 1871 Robert changed his name to Empson on the death of his father-in-law, Jarvis Empson, in whose memory he and his wife subsequently built the chancel of Hook Church. An inscription beneath a window in that part of the building memorialises this.
Elizabeth Cornwell Lister-Empson died in 1896. Less than a year later, on Tuesday 19th January 1897, her husband, Robert Cornelius Lister-Empson died at their residence, Ousefleet Hall, Robert had been a magistrate for the West Riding and also for Lincolnshire and had resided at Ousefleet for over twenty years.
For most of their married life, Robert and Elizabeth attended Hook Church. However, neither Robert nor his wife were buried at Hook but at Eastoft Church. (Source: Howdenshire Gazette - Friday 22 January 1897)
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