Precisely such had the paragraph originally stood from the printer 's hands ; but Sir Walter had improved improve it by adding add , for the information of himself and his family , these words , after the date of Mary 's birth birth -- " Married marry , December 16 , 1810 , Charles , son and heir of Charles Musgrove , Esq. of Uppercross , in the county of Somerset , " and by inserting insert most accurately the day of the month on which he had lost lose his wife .