Bawdeswell – All Saints’ Church (Robert Leeds 1711-1763) and Alice Leeds (1700-1770)

This is the ledger stone of Robert Leeds (1711-1761) and his wife Alice Leeds (1700-1770), who were buried in All Saints’ Church in Bawdeswell. I can’t be certain, but I suspect the baptism at Foxley (near to Dereham) on 1 October 1711 (and birth on 18 July 1711) is the same Robert Leeds. He himself was the son of Robert Leeds (not another one…..?) and Mary Leeds.

He married Alice at St. Mary Church in Sparham on 26 January 1730 and that’s a little bit of an age gap for the time, with Robert being 19 and Alice being 30. They were the parents of Robert Leeds (1736-1807), William Leeds (1740-1798) and John Leeds (1743-1763).