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Humfrey Conyngesby (1624)
Alabaster. '....he was a great traveller by his
own affections....never after seene by any of his
aquantances on this side, the seas or beyond, nor any
certainty known of his death, where when, or how from
his first journey to his last was 16 yeares & 6
months...' |
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Sir Rowland Cotton & Frances (1606)
Alabaster, now in porch. She died in childbirth, the
baby girl also dying. She is shown holding a naked
baby to her breast |
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Above
left:
William
Ottley (1530) & Margery (Bruyn)
Above right: Thomas Ottley (1534)
& Katherine (Corbet)
Far right: Ottley (1578) & Mary (1587)
Signed by
John Tarbrook of Bewdley, carver. |
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Above & near right
(detail): 'Here under lyeth the body of
Margaret the wife of Thomas Cupper
gent: who departed this life the 5th day of January
AD 1695. She left issue behinde her (to wit) Thomas and
Margaret. Aged 21'
Far right: Richard Phillips (1821);
also his second son Richard,
Ensign in the 17th Regiment of the Hon India Company. Died
at sea off the Cape of Good Hope on return from India 1852
aged 20. Also Catherine (1857 at 28); Mary (1856 at
86) Phillips Signed C M Seddon fecit of
Liverpool |
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Above:
'Here lieth
Humphrey Brigges
of Haughton esq and
Anne
his wife
one of the daughters of Robert Moreton of Haughton esq...He
died the 8th of April 1626 and had by the
said Anne one sonns and one daughter."
Right:
Oliver Briggs - or Brigges (1596)
Alabaster |
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Abbey (Church of the Holy Cross) |
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Above: Said to be
Roger de Montgomery
(1094) founder of the Abbey,
although the monument is c 1250-70
Centre left: 13th century judge (from Old St Chad's)
Centre right: John Lloyd (1647)
Draper
Far right: William Charlton (c. 1532) &
Anne (Hoorde/Horde) (1524)) Alabaster.
From Wellington.
(also below left)
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| William and
Anne Charlton (see above) |
Solicitor - General
Richard Onslow (1571) & Catherine (Harding) (1599).
(From Old St Chad's) |
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Above:
Col Charles Robert Cureton (1848)
Killed at Ramnagar, India when leading the
14th light dragoons. By Westmacott
Right: Admiral John Benbow (1702) He
of the song and Treasure Island inn. Born at Coton Hall in
this parish; died of wounds Kingston, Jamaica, where
he was buried, following action with a French
Squadron off Carthagena. Monument paid for by public
subscription. By Evan Thomas c 1840 in
imitation of an earlier style
Far right: Nicholas Stafford, 'Town
Bailiff' (1471) and Catharine
(Meverell) (1463) Alabaster incised slab. |
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St Alkmund |
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of the Old Church collapsed in 1788; one chapel survives.
Princess Street. |
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The medieval
church was demolished, except for the tower, in the scare
following the collapse of St Chad's; a new church was 1793-5.
Few monuments remain from the old church. |
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| William Hazledine
iron-master
(1840)
Bust by Chantry;
surround by J & J Carline..
He built the Menai Bridge. |
John Simpson (1815) Bust by
Chantry; surround by J & J Carline.
Paid for by Thomas Telford. He built the church and the
Caledonian Canal |
William James Clement (1870)
surgeon, MP, JP |
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Margary Humphreston (c. 1500) and her two
husbands, John Hervy (1470) and
John Humphreston (1497) Under John Hervy were 3
daughters and 1 son; under John Humphreson, 6 sons and 6
daughters. These were lost c 1790. |
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‘ ..... And it was in the
winter or 1958-59 that Sir Jasper Mores of Linley, near Bishop's
Castle, decided to explore a trunk in his attic and found a
document that blew the lid on the 17th century scandal which led
to four More children from Shropshire being sent on the
Mayflower. Previously the Mores on the passenger list had been
assumed by historians to be orphans from the streets of London.
Mr Harris explains that Samuel and
Katherine More were cousins who married at Shipton in 1611 and
lived at Larden Hall.
They had four children. Or rather,
Katharine did. Samuel noticed most of the children looked like
one Jacob Blakeway, "a fellow of mean parentage and condition."
from nearby Brockton, He accused Katharine of adultery.
After a bitter legal
hattle, Samuel won control of the children, and packed them off
to America on the Mayflower under the care of the Pilgrim
Fathers.
When the ship sailed in 1620, Jasper was
six, Richard was five, Mary was four, and Ellen was eight
According
to Mr Harris, Jasper and Ellen probably died aboard the ship
while it was anchored off Cape Cod and may never have set foot
in America. Mary died during the winter. Only Richard survived,
with his guardians William and Mary Brewster. |
Left:Mary
Mitten
(1640)
Above: More Children who sailed
on the Mayflower. Plaque presented by the Society of Mayflower
Descedants1996 |
He married in 1636 and moved to Salem. A
ketch owner, he traded at sea and may have made voyages to
England, although there is no record of his seeking contact with
the Mores.
Mr Harris says that in old age Richard
acquired a reputation as a sinner. Salem church records for
1688, when he was in his seventies, say: "Old Captain More,
having been for many years under suspicion & a common fame of
lasciviousness ... was at last ... convicted before justices of
peace by three witnesses of gross unchastity with another man's
wife."
There is a parish register record in
Stepney in 1645 recording the marriage of one Richard More of
Salem to Elizabeth Woolno of Limehouse - which, if it was the
same Richard More, would mean he had a wife on both sides of the
Atlantic. He died in 1695.
This Shropshire lad, embroiled in scandal
both in his early life and in his twilight years, was the last
male survivor of the Mayflower ...’ |
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Sir Reginald Corbet, Justice of the
King's Bench,
(1566) &
Alice (1603) (Gratwood/Gratewood)
Alabaster
effigies |
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George Bromley
(Chief Justice of Cheshire) (1588) & Joan (Waveton) Alabaster |
Above and left:
Sir Edward Bromley (1626)
&
Margaret (Lowe)
Alabaster |
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John Talbot, 1st Earl of
Shrewsbury (1453) The effigy comes from the church
which collapsed in 1711, but is much restored. The arch is
of 1847
He was a military commander in the later stages of the Hundred
Years' War. He was kill at the Battle of Castillon; he death -
at the age of 66 - brought about the end of English rule in
France. He was known as 'Old Talbot' |
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Alabaster effigy |
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Above :
Sir Richard Newport (1570) &
Lady Margaret (Bromley)
(1578)
Painted alabaster |
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John Barber & Wife |
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Mary
(1743), her husband
John Cornfield
(1777) and Laraell Cornfield.
Top centre left :Lady
Anne Torrington (1734 )'widdow' of Rt Hon
Thomas Newport, Baron Torrington. Ledger stone. Top
centre right: Rt Hon Thomas Newport
Top right: Illegible. Far right:
Sir
Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford (1708).
Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire and created earl by
William III |
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