To Joseph Beetham Grave-Maker 206
The 11th. Day of 6th. Month 1778
MAKE a Grave on or before the next First Day, in Friends Burying-Ground, at or near Bradford and therein lay the Body of Grace Wife of Joshua Mortimer of Clayton in the Parish of Bradford and County of York aged about Thirty Nine years who died the Tenth Day of the Sixth Month, called June One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight
Tim. ? Maud
not in Unity
The Body above mentioned was buried the Fourteenth Day of the Sixth Month, called June 1778
Witness Joseph Beetham Grave-Maker.
This Note to be delivered by the Grave-Maker, as soon as may be, to the Person who signed it, or to the proper Meeting, in order to be registered.
Source: Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and
Death Registers, 1578-1837
Source: National Archives; Society of Friends' Registers, Notes and
Certificates of Births, Marriages and Burials. RG 6 Piece 0897: Quarterly
Meeting of Yorkshire: Burials (1788-1790) & Piece 1163:
Monthly Meeting of Brighouse: Burials
(1776-1790)