Section E – Row 3 – 2 – Clay/Blake

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In Loving Memory of our mother MARY CLAY, who passed away at Tillmouth, 21st Aug. 1915, in her 87th year.

Also sacred to the Memory of  FRANCIS DOUGLAS BLAKE, Baronet of Tillmouth Park, born 27th Feb. 1856, died 5th Feb. 1940.

Commentary

Mary Clay born at Trimdon Durham. Mary Bell was her daughter she is in the next door plot.

Blake demolished the family house at Tillmouth and replaced it with a grand mansion in 1882 using in the process large quantities of masonry from the unfinished and abandoned project that was Twizell Castle