St Mary’s Memorials I-L

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North Wall (under shelf) In memory of William Till of the Park Farm Thornbury who died Dec. 15th 1888 and in grateful remembrance of his gratuitous service as Trustee for the daughters of the late William Jones of Rockhampton. 

This window is dedicated and this monument inscribed in accordance with a request of the late Amelia Jones of Edgbaston, the latest survivor in the Trust.

Cross Aisle Elizabeth Lackington died Jany. 23 1819. Aged 79 years.


Ann Fewster died March 2nd 1845, aged 74 years.

  
Cross Aisle Here lyeth the Body of the Rev. Mr. Guy Lawrence, A.M. who was some time student of C.C. Oxon and Vicar of this Parish 42 (?) years.  Obit Ma… 20, 1701.  Aetatis suae 68.


Also Here lyeth the Body of Guy Lawrence his son A.M. some time Member of the same House, obit March 12, 1700-1.  Aetatis suae 31.
Joseph Laver, associated for nearly 50 years with the Thornbury Banking Company.  He died 1857, aged 84.
Chancel Here lyeth the Body of Nicholas Legg late of Chipping Sodbury, who departed this Life, the 19 December 1713, aged 87.


Also in memory of John, the son of Nicholas Legg, who died March the 29, 1725, aged 7 months.
Middle Aisle Here lyeth the Body of Thomas Stone, of Plimouth, captain of one of her Majesty’s ships, son of John Stone, Alderman of Thornbury, who dyed September the 22nd 1709.  Aged 56.


Also here lyeth the Body of Thomas Lewis, the son of Thomas and Anne Lewis, of Thornbury, who departed this life, the 27th day of November Anno Domini 1720.  Aetatis suae 30o.
Middle Aisle Here lyeth the Body of Anne, wife of John Stone, who was buried in January the 21, Anno Dom. 1691–2.


Also Here lyeth the Body of John, the son of Thomas Lewis, who was buried the 6th day of April 1684.


Likewise Anne, the daughter of Thomas Lewis, who died the 28th day of January Anno Dom. 1691-2.


And here lyeth the Body of Anne Lewis, the wife of Thomas Lewis, and daughter of John and Anne Stone of this town, who departed this the 23rd of October 1742, in the 85th year of her age.
Middle Aisle In memory of William, the son of Thomas and Mary Linke, of Oldbury, who died March 15, 1727-8.  Aged one year and 9 months.


Also Sarah, their daughter, died October 3, 1729.  Aged 5 months and one week.


Also in memory of John, ye son of William and Susanna Cornock, of Oldbury in this Parish, who died September the 9th 1760, aged 6 years and 3 months.
West Wall Near this Place
Lies interr’d the Body of Thomas Linke, son of Thomas Linke, Gent, by Mary his wife, who died March 27, 1752. Aged 27 years.  He had a heart capable of every social virtue.  His conduct in Life was an example to his contemporaries, and his name, tho’  He was early cut off will be bless’d by posterity.
Also the Body of Thomas Linke, Senr. of this Parish, Gent, who died Jany. 13, 1759, aged 69.


Likewise the body of the said Mary Linke, who died the 10th day of September 1769. Aged 82.

  
South Aisle Under this stone lyeth the Body of Hester, the wife of William Osborne, of this parish, and daughter of Thomas Linke, of Oldbury upon Seaverne, Gent. by Elizabeth, his first wife who departed this life the 2 day of July 1762, aged 43 years.


Marginal inscription:
Susannah, daughter of Thomas Linke, of Oldbury, was interr’d the ….Oct 160…
South Aisle Here lyeth the Body of Thomas Linke of Oldbury upon Seaverne, Yeoman, who departed this life, the .. day of March An…… 1694, aged 36 years.

Under this stone lyeth ye body of Susan, the wife of Joseph Wilcox, Yeoman, and daughter of Thomas Linke, of Oldbury upon Seaverne, Yeoman.  She departed this life, January the 6, Anno Domini 1722, aged 29 years.


Also in memory of Susan, the daughter of the abovesaid Joseph and Susanna Wilcox, of this parish, who departed this life, January the 19, Anno Dom. 1722.  Aged …. Weeks.
South Aisle Here lyeth the Body of Thomas Linke, of Oldbury upon Seaverne, Yeoman, who departed this life, the 11 day of March 1694, aged 36 years.


Also Here lyeth the Body of Susanna, the wife of the abovesaid Thomas Linke of Oldbury, who departed this life, the 4th day of January Ann. Dom. 1726, aged 66 years.


And also under this stone lieth the body of Thomas Linke, ye son of Thomas and Mary Linke of Oldbury, and grandson of the abovesaid Thomas and Susanna Linke, who departed this Life, ye 27th day of March 1752.  Aged 27 years.
South Aisle Under this stone lyeth the Body of Elizabeth, the beloved wife of Thomas Linke, of Oldbury upon Seaverne, Yeoman, who departed this life May 11th Anno Domini 1723. Aetatis suae 35.
Also under this stone lyeth the Body of the abovesaid Thomas Linke Senior, of this parish, Gent, who departed this life the 13th day of January 1759, aged 69.
And also Richard Linke, buried April the 25th A.D. 1692. Aged 52 years.
Middle aisle In memory of William, the son of Thomas and Mary Linke, of Oldbury, who died March 15, 1727-8.  Aged one year and 9 months.


Also Sarah, their daughter, died October 3, 1729.  Aged 5 months and one week.


Also in memory of John, ye son of William and Susanna Cornock, of Oldbury in this Parish, who died September the 9th 1760, aged 6 years and 3 months.

  
West Wall (brass) In loving memory Charlotte Caroline Georgiana, eldest daughter of Henry Lawes and Lady Catherine Long and wife of Henry Howard of Greystoke Castle, Cumberland and of Thornbury Castle Gloucestershire born at Hampton Lodge in Surrey April 23rd 1823.  Died at Ravenstone near Keswick July 24th 1896.  This tablet is placed here by her six children.


“Ye are come unto Mount Sion and unto the City of the Living God, the Heavenly Jerusalem and to an enumerable Company of angels.  And to the God the Judge of All and to the Spirits of Just Men made perfect to Jesus the mediator of the Covenant” Hebrews Xll:23-24.
Stafford Chapel floor Arms: “argent, a chevron sable between three mullets Gules, Willis, impaling Azure a Griffin segrant per fess Argent and Or, within a border engrailed Ermine, Walker “. (Atchmant against South Wall, the same Arms Crest and Mottto).

Under this Stone lies ye Remains of the Revd. Thomas Willis, Batchelor of Physick, who was Vicar of this Parish twenty years and Rector of Rockhampton about seven years.  Married with Ann Walker, granddaughter to Thomas Lushington, of Sittingborn in Kent, by whome He had three sons, who all lie buried in this Vestry.  He was grandson to William Beaw, Lord Bishop of Landaff, first cousin to John, Lord Arundel, at whose death the Parish and all the poor, have just reason to lament.  He departed this Life, 26 June 1748.  Aged 50.

  
Stafford Chapel S.H.L.
Jacent duo copora Revend. Thoma. Willis et Anna. Uxor. pronata unum Thoma. Lushington.
Agnomen a matris familia apud cantios perantiqua obtinens Natum est maj kal iv, A.D. 1729.  Denatum Maj Non vi, 1730.
Alterum in conatibus lucem aspiciendi Luce fuit privatum.