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The Culpeper Embroidery (c 1630-50) has recently been conserved. Unfortunately the conservator has had to pull out of this event but there will be a presentation on the history of the piece in the church at Hollingbourne (near Ashford and Maidstone) on Saturday 23 November, starting at 10.30. The embroidery will be on display. Tea and coffee will be provided.
The church also has a fine collection of monuments from the 16th-19th centuries, not least the Culpeper Chapel (c 1650), built for the monument by Edward Marshall to Elizabeth Culpeper (d. 1638). Photos of several of the monuments are at https://www.culpepperconnections.com/archives/uk/places/hollingbournechurch.htm .
Demand for this event will be heavy. If interested, contact Val Lurcock, the churchwarden at Hollingbourne, on 01622 880 694 .
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My John Marshall family line in the very early 18th C established on 100 acres of land “The Blockley Alms House” in Philadelphia, PA, USA. Operating, as one of two charitable hospitals in Philadelphia, it was open for over 100 years. It ceased existence about 1820 and the land was used for the city’s new “Philadelphia General Hospital”, new physical locations for University of Pennsylvania, and Drexel University. Tracing our family’s line via DNA brought me back into Derbyshire and Yorkshire and the Silk Industry of “Nether Yeadon”, Yorkshire. In Particular to Edward Marshall Sr, Clothier of Nether Yeadon, Yorkshire, 1540-1616. Edward has an unknown Spouse with four Children: Edmund Marshall, Ship’s Captain M. Marshall, William Marshall, and Unknown Marshall.
So, the family has recently questioned what does Blockley mean, and why call the Charitable Hospital “Blockley Alms House”? Is the link “Silk” ? and is silk the common thread linking a branch of 16th C Marshalls to both the Culpeper Embroidery of Kent (c 1630-1650), to Blockley Gloucestershire, to Nether Yeadon Gloucestershire, and finally as arriving Quakers to Philadelphia in 1683 ?
David H Marshall Jr
Correction: Nether Yeadon, Yorkshire.
David Marshall Jr