'Tablets to the Purvis family in Fareham Church, Hampshire.

They are now in the South aisle of the nave, having been
placed there some 20 years ago at the last restoration
of the Church. They were formerly near the entrance to the old
Chancel, which is now the Lady Chapel. The Purvis family
pew was situated there and the tablets were in the wall adjoining.
We may safely assume that Mary Jane Purvis was interred
in the Church, and in the pew or very close by, as
was the fashion in those days.'
– Parish Clerk.

In Memory of MARY JANE, wife of
George Thomas Maitland Purvis R.N.
of Blackbrook Cottage in this Parish.
She departed this life December 29th 1836.
Her patience and resignation during an
illness of fifteen months borne without a
murmur against the will of her God
proved the sincerity of her faith and
the value of those truly Christian
principles which had been implanted
in her mind by her excellent Father.