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Sir Richard Lee (1591) & Wife
Alabaster. His wife's effigy is obscured but kneeling
behind are 9 children in a frontal position. He was ancestor of
Robert E Lee, the famous Confederate General.
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Sir Humphrey Lee (1632) & Margaret
Corbet . Children kneel below. He was the son of Sir
Richard. By Nicholas Stone (1632) who was paid
£66.19.4d.
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Acton Round
St Mary theVirgin |
Sir Whitmore Acton
(1731) & Elizabeth (1759)
Designed by
T F
Pritchard |
Sir Richard Acton
(1791) & Lady Ann Acton (1784) |
Richard Acton (1703)
Monument erected by his 2nd wife,
Hester Acton 1713 |
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tablet to Stephen Humphries (1865), a Royal
Marine, who served at the Battle of Trafalgar. He was buried in
the church yard but his grave (below) was only
discovered a few year ago when a large tangle of brambles was
discovered; the headstone was badly weathered and has been
replaced by a new stone. |
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Astley Abbots - St
Calixtus |
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Far Left: Hannah Phillips (1709)
Drowned crossing the Severn on the eve of her
wedding. A 'maiden's garland'
Left: Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones (1811)
& Hannah rebecca (1824) & their 3 children:
Charlotte (1820), Harriet Emma (1820) &
Edmund (1820)
Above Left: Sir Thomas Jones
(1782)
Above Central & Right: Rt Rev
Thomas Percy Curate here 1752-1754; later Dean
of Carlisle and Bishop of Dromore. Author of 'Percy's
Reliques'
Left: Mjr Francis Billingsley (1656)
& his son Col Billingsley (1646)
Kia defending Bridgenorth against the
Parliamentary army in St Leonard's churchyard |
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Above Far
Left: John Botterell (1588) &
Wife Large and rather good incised slab
Above: John Botterell (1588) &
Wife Note the 'rather coarse detail'
Left: Ann Bishop (1800)
'relict of Thomas Bishop'; John Bishop (1819)
son of Richard and Hannah Bishop;
Richard Bishop (1827) The relationships are
obscure
Right: William Barker
(1826) 'and part of his family'. Three
daughters who died in infancy. Elizabeth (1824),
Ann (1824), William Corsen (1825), Mary (1826), Thomas
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Barrow - St Giles |
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Newport, Baron Torrington (1716) |
Henry Sprott
(1744) & Anna (1763) Also their son Thomas
(1740) |
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Richard Corbet
(1684) & Judith (1691) Also ? Hartshorns
but not legible |
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Cound
St Peter |
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| Robert Cressett (1728) |
Catherine Cressett (1680)
wife of Sir Robert. Also sons Robert
(1678) & Edward 'dyed in his
infancy.' |
Henry Cressett Pelham
(1803), Mrs Jane Cressett Pelham (1820), John Cressett
Pelham (1838) |
Thomas Langley (1694) |
John Dod (1774) |
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| Sir William Fowler
(1717) sons Sir Richard (1731)
& Richard Sloan (1758) |
Frances Cressett
(1765) wife of the Bishop & their
daughter Elizabeth (179_) |
Dr Edward Cressett
(1755), Bishop of Llandaff |
Barbara Cressett
(17136) |
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Linley
St Leonard |
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| Right: Francis
Anderson (1779) & George Johnson (1803)
They were monks of Douai who died here while on the
English Mission |
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| William Layton Lowndes (1906) |
Jane A Lowndes (1897) |
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| Anne Edwina Townsend Powell
(1986) Churchwarden. Incised metal tablet |
Ethel May Hoult (1956)
Organist. Raised letter on metal plate |
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Moreton Corbet - St Batholomew |
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Sir Robert Corbet (1513) & Elizabeth (Verdon)
(c. 1560).
The window shows the Corbet arms and
alliances |
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Sir Richard Corbet (1567) & Margaret of York |
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Andrew Corbet
(1771) Rev William Clarke (1786) Judith Corbet
(1786) |
Richard Corbet
(1691) The Latin epitaph tells of his
devotion to 'Charles the Martyr' |
Robert Corbet
(1829) & Judith (1829) |
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Corbet Monument - Illegible
Latin |
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Sara, Vincent Corbet & Phineas Fowkes
Otherwise illegible Latin
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Frances Corbet (1760), Richard Prynce
Corbet (1779), Elizabeth Corbet (1710), Andrew
Corbet (1796), Richard & Judy (children
of Richard Prynce, who died in infancy)
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| Sir Andrew
Corbet (1835) & Mary (1852) |
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Neen Sollars
All Saints |
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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
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Shipton
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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.
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Left: Mary Mitten
(1640)
Above: More Childred who sailed
on the Mayflower. Plaque presented by the Society of Mayflower
Descedants1996
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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.
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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Wroxeter -
St Andrew |
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Above & Top Right:
Sir Richard Newport (1570) &
Lady Margaret neé Bromley
(1578)
Alabaster |
Above Bottom:
Thomas Burt (1627) The
inscription is very legible |
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John Barber & Wife |
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| Chief Justice
Sir Thomas Bromley (1555) & Mable
Alabaster. He was an
executor of Henry VIII's will and Lord Chief
Justice under Edward VI & Mary I. The standing
figure on the side of the tomb chest is of
Margaret, their daughter, who married Sir
Richard Newport, whose monument is shown above.
Note the various badges at the sides of the
principal figures on these monuments |
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| Mary
(1743), her husband John Cornfield
(1777) and Laraell Cornfield |
Sir
Francis Newport, 1st Earl of Bradford (1708).
Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire and created earl by
William III |
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Lady
Anne Torrington (1734)'widdow' of Rt Hon
Thomas Newport, Baron Torrington |
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All of these photographs and some of the information
were kindly provided by Dr John Davis
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