Mary had married COPESTAKE and was a widow at the time of her marriage to Amos CRYMES.
From Crymes of London, Devon and Surrey by Philip A Crimes: "The year 1783 must have been extremely sad for Mary Crymes. First, news reached her that her eldest son, the Reverend Amos Crymes, junior, had died in the West Indies. Then on the third of August her husband also died, aged fifty six years; he was buried in the family vault in the chancel of Buckland Monachorum church four days later. Although as a youth Amos had expressed some dislike at the idea of becoming a vicar as had been desired by his great aunt Sarah, in the event he served his home parish faithfully for 31 years. A monument on the north wall of the chancel commemorates Amos and his two wives."
Mary appears in the Index to Death Duty Registers for 1807 as 'Crymes, Mary of Stoke Damerill, Devon.' |
