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Lauuelina Jane Armand

circa 29 February 1840 (computed from age at death) – 15 Feb 1866

One of 3 coffin plates transcribed on a single archive page

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At-a-glance facts

Record type

Coffin plate

Date of death

15 Feb 1866

Date of birth

circa 29 February 1840 (computed from age at death)

Age at death

25 years 11 months 15 days

Plate found in

Massachusetts, United States

The coffin plate

Inscription transcription

Lauuelina Jane Armand
Wife of F. M. Holbrook
Died Feb 15th 1866
Aged 25 yrs 11 mos 15 ds
Transcription from the Ancestors at Rest archive.

Researcher's notes

This Coffin Plates of Joseph Holbrook 1799 ~ 1866, Temperance Holbrook 1803 ~ 1877 and Lauuelina Jane Armand 1841 ~ 1866 were found in Boston, Mass USA.

I found a little bit of info on Joseph Holbrook.

Mayo's Beach Light House in Wellfleet, Massachusetts

Mayo's Beach Light, was finished in 1838 and exhibited a fixed white light visible for 12 miles. The lantern originally held ten lamps and reflectors.

Joseph Holbrook was appointed first keeper of Mayo's Beach Light at a salary of $350 yearly. During Holbrook's first four years at the lighthouse there were three shipwrecks in the vicinity, including the 270 ton brig Diligence. In 1839 Holbrook counted over 700 vessels passing the lighthouse.

In 1842 Holbrook complained that "The very wretched manner in which the house was built renders it almost uninhabitable; the walls always and the roof continually leaky."

Holbrook explained that the house, which had no foundation, was set two feet below the surface of the beach. This caused the cellar to be continually flooded with seawater. Two of Holbrook's children died in their first four years at the lighthouse, a tragedy that the keeper blamed on the unhealthy conditions. Keeper Holbrook believed that the lighthouse had been erected in a "very shameful manner."

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Source & citation

Source type
Original photograph
Provenance
From the Ancestors at Rest archive — founded 2004 by Brian and substantially built out across two decades by Lorine McGinnis Schulze of Olive Tree Genealogy.
Transcribed by
Ancestors at Rest archive — original contributor not recorded.
Last verified
2026-05-12
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Citation: "Coffin plate of Lauuelina Jane Armand (abt 1840 – 1866)," transcribed and contributed to the Ancestors at Rest archive (https://ancestorsatrest.com/records/coffin-plates/armand-lauuelina-jane-1866/ : accessed [your access date]).

One of several separate coffin plates transcribed together on a single Ancestors at Rest archive page; see related records below for the others.

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