Oliver Eborn: first half of 17th century
This inscription on the side of a chest tomb at St Nicholas’s Church, Old Marston dates from the first half of the seventeenth century. It reads:
H E R E L I E T H
T H E B O D Y O F
O L I V E R ∩ E B-
O R N ∩ [?O B:] ∩ A N o
[rest buried beneath the ground]
Oliver Eborn’s descendants (who tend to spell their name as "Hebborn") now provide Oxfordshire with funfairs.