[Tealeaf]

I think the problem may not have been so much as saving on cost (the stonemasons were probably paid a farthing per half dozen letters) but also the balalce of the stone....It would have had to be quite rectangular & possibly a bit on the large side..but there is another possibility. Assuming for a moment that the house was built on land held by the Peels, it could well have been that they specified this as a reminder as to who had once been there. They liked their memorials did the Victorians - go to any cemetary and you'll see.