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This tablet is erected to the memory of Frances Dovell, aged 47 years, and William Quartly Dovell, aged 12 years (youngest daughter and grandson of the late Henry Quartly and Elizabeth his wife of this parish) the beloved wife and son of Captn. William Dovell of the Port of Bristol, who unfortunately perished by shipwreck on the night of the 19th Dec. 1850 on their voyage to the West Indies. The unfortunate occurrence took place at Lage near Corunna in Spain, when 16 persons, constituting with but one exception the whole crew and passengers of the ship 'Adelaide', found a watery grave. Captn. Dovell, the bereaved survivor of this mournful event, who was most miraculously rescued, now a widower and childless, here records his enduring grief