Church & memorial · Kent
Wye church: the Neame memorial
A memorial transcription records John and Sarah Neame and their only son John Rigden Neame, who erected the tablet.
The place and its story
An only son’s goodbye
John Rigden Neame put up a tablet at Wye for his parents. Its words describe his loss as irreparable.
The inscription records his father John’s death in 1814 and his mother Sarah’s in 1820. It calls John Rigden their only son and places him at Rushelt.
That gives us a family relationship and a place to look next. It also gives us something a pedigree chart cannot: a son’s remembrance of losing his parents.
Continue the journeyA Kent memorial takes us to CalcuttaLocation note
The written record names this place. An exact site position has not been established, so the atlas does not invent a marker.
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An only son’s goodbye ↗
John Rigden Neame left a tablet to his parents.
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- The Monumental Inscriptions in the church of Wye ChurchKent Archaeological Society · transcription of a church inscription · accessed 2026-10-08