Lost in the Isles

This really got me excited. A headstone, damaged, propt up against a garden wall in a quiet road, almost hidden by vegetation, about 200 yards from the churchyard ?  Eve Cooper, the author of "Fifteen years of Faith on Tresco" gave me her explanation. When the church was rebuilt in 1877 some of the memorials in the churchyard were moved. This one was damaged and a new one, with slightly different content, was placed in the churchyard. The 'stray' memorial has CIP reference 1/600 and it's replacement 1/468. The family commemorated on the 'new' memorial consists of - Martin Ellis (1878) and Edmund their son (1866). The 'stray' memorial commemorates Edmund (1866) and Martin (1878).