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THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
After Slater's death his wife went to live at West Rainton,
Durham, her parents' home, but she survived her young husband
only four years, and died at West Rainton in 1797. By her
Will she left everything in trust, including the whole of the
monies under her marriage settlement, to her only surviving
child, her second son, Jas. Hy. Slater.
She must have left Leyton directly after her husband's
death for her name appears but twice in the Leyton rate-books,
viz., in the rates made July, 1794, and January, 1795.
The present head of the family is Mr. Gilbert Edwd. Sclater,
of the Manor House, Newick, Lewes, Sussex, born 1901, a great-
great-grandson of Gilbert Slater, of Leyton. The family has
reverted to the way the name was spelt before they came to
England, viz., Sclater.
Gilbert Slater's father, Captain Gilbert Slater, a native of
Stepney, was born nth September, 1712; he was elected an
Elder Brother of Trinity House on 30th November, 1765, and
was deputy-master from 1783 until his death in 1785. He died
3rd April, 1785, aged 72.
The following entry appears in the baptismal register of
St. Luke, Old Street, London:—"Baptised 3 May, 1749,
Gilbert, son of "Gilbert Slater, gent., and Rachel his wife."
If this is our Gilbert, the age on his tomb and on his memorial
ring is wrong. Of course, the Gilbert baptised in 1749 may
have been an earlier Gilbert who died young.
(To be continued.)
THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB—REPORTS OF
MEETINGS.
NATURE-RAMBLE, PASSINGFORD BRIDGE TO
TOOTHILL (790TH MEETING).
SATURDAY, 30TH APRIL, 1938.
A party of some thirty members, coming from all quarters, met
punctually at 10.34 o'clock at Passingford Bridge, undeterred by a strong
and bitter north wind and low temperature: but the sun shone warmly
through the hurrying clouds and no rain fell, so that the walk of five and
three-quarter miles, across very rough ground, uphill all the way and
in the teeth of the wind, was not shirked by any single one of the party.