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Reflectance Transformation Imagery

In Affectionate Remembrance

of

ROBERT MILLER

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE

JULY 19TH 1854 AGED 56

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ALSO OF JOHN HIS BROTHER

WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE

JULY 14TH 1861 AGED 53.

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FOR IF WE BELIEVE THAT JESUS DIED AND

ROSE AGAIN, EVEN SO THEM ALSO WHICH

SLEEP IN JESUS WILL GOD BRING WITH HIM.

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ALSO OF CHARITY WIFE OF THE ABOVE NAMED ROBERT MILLER WHO DIED AT TOOTING SURREY

MAY 29TH 1850 AGED 44 YEARS

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ALSO OF ELIZA THEIR DAUGHTER

WHO DIED MAY 23RD 1847 AGED 5 YEARS

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ALSO OF WALTER JACOB THEIR SON

WHO DIED FEB 18TH 1848 AGED 9 MONTHS

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ALSO OF LYDIA THEIR DAUGHTER

WHO DIED MAY 22ND 1849 AGED 10 YEARS

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ALSO OF ELIZABETH THEIR DAUGHTER

WHO DIED AUGT 4TH 1849 AGED 18 YEARS

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ALSO OF HARRIET THEIR DAUGHTER

WHO DIED NOVR 18TH 1881 AGED 49 YEARS

INTERRED AT TOOTING SURREY​​​​

ROBERT MILLER, CHARITY MILLER, JOHN MILLER

ELIZA MILLER, WALTER MILLER

LYDIA MILLER, ELIZABETH MILLER

HARRIET MILLER

This symbolically carved gravestone is dedicated to 8 people, only 1 of whom is buried at the chapel.

  • The oak leaves and acorn symbolise a steadfast and enduring individual.

  • The roses or other flowers are a symbol of immortality

  • Blackberries God's voice and divine love.

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​Robert Miller was born to George and Lydia Miller (nee Tinsley) in 1797, the eldest of their eight children. He was baptised at Beaulieu church on 30th December 1897. He married Charity West(20) in 1826 at Boldre church. Robert and Charity had eight children over the next 19 years.

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Five are commemorated on this gravestone but buried at Tooting Graveney church along with their mother Charity who was buried there in 1850..

  • Eliza (age 5) was buried on 31st May 1847

  • Walter was baptised at Tooting Graveney church on 18th February 1848 and was buried there just a week later. Walter's death records give him as 1 month old when he died rather than the 9 months shown on this gravestone.

  • Elizabeth was baptised in 1830 at Beaulieu Church. She was buried 10th August 1849

  • Lydia (aged 10) was buried on 22nd May 1849.​​

  • Harriet (b. 1832), is commemorated here. In 1851 she was living with her father in Tooting Graveney and in 1861 she was in service to the Pennington family in Clapham. The gravestone says she was also buried at Tooting, but we have been unable to find a record of this.

 

Records show that by 1848 Robert was a policeman; the 1851 census lists Robert (49) as a police constable, living with three of their children in Tooting Graveney (Harriet 17, William 13, Robert 6). Robert was buried at the chapel on 24th July 1854 by the Rev John Barlett Burt.

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​​John Miller, Robert's brother, was baptised at Beaulieu church on 17th July 1808.  John, a shoemaker, married Charlotte Luffman (nee Munday), a widow, in Lymington in 1837. By 1841 the couple lived in George’s Row, Portsea but Charlotte died in 1846. In 1851 John lived in Grigg St. Portsea and the Pearson family lodged with him.

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In 1858 John married Eliza Colenutt (the sister of his brother Peter's wife, Patience) at James’ church, Paddington and they lived in King St., Portsea. John died 2 years later but we could not find where he is buried; he is not listed in the chapel’s burial register nor in those of Portsea’s churches

3D photogrammetry model

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