Malta.
_Office of Sexton held by One Family._--The following obituary, copied from
the _Derbyshire Advertiser_ of Jan. 27, 1854, contains so extraordinary an
account of the holding of the office of sexton by one family, that it may
interest some of your readers, and may be difficult to be surpassed.
"On Jan. 23, 1854, aged eighty-six, Mr. Peter Bramwell, sexton of the
parish church of Chapel-en-le-Frith. The deceased served the office of
sexton forty-three years; Peter Bramwell, his father, fifty years;
George Bramwell, his grandfather, thirty-eight years; George Bramwell,
his great-grandfather, forty years; Peter Bramwell, his
great-great-grandfather, fifty-two years: total 223 years."