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Thornbury St Mary's Church

Monumental Inscriptions from within the Church building

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Middle Aisle Under this Stone lieth ye Body of Joseph Walker, he departed this life April ye 26th Anno Domi. 1723. Aetatis suae 48.
Here lyeth the Body of Richard White of this parish, Senr. , Yeoman, who departed this life, the XXX day of April, Anno Domi. 1722, aged L years.
All things must change and shall changed be.
From life to Death into Et….
.. Happy man is he that…
Heaven his home..
.. wait with patience …
.. change doth come ..

Also here lyeth the Body of Susan Whitfield, of this parish, and sometime wife of the above said Richard White, who departed this Life ye 16th day of November 1752, in the 73rd year of her age.
North Aisle Arms: “Argent, on a Bend vert, between six cross crosslets fitche Gules, three crosiers Or” …. Weare.

Sacred to the Memory of Henry Weare, late of the City of Bristol, Esqr, who departed this Life the 5 day of June 1773.  Aged 63 years.
Also Susanna, his wife who died the 17 day of January 1774.  Aged 45 years.  And were interred near this place with the remains of Mary, their daughter, who died as an infant.
North Aisle (brass) Also underneath lyeth Mary the infant daugh. of Henry and Susanna Weare, who died the 17 Jan. 1765, aged 16 weeks and 2 days.
Here Innocence and Beauty lie whose breath
Were snatch’d by early not untimely Death,
Hence did she go just as she did begin
Sorrow to know, before she knew to sin,
Death that does sin and sorrow thus prevent,
Is the next Blessing to a life well spent.
South Aisle In loving memory Stanley E.W. Weatherhead 2nd Lieut., 4th Batt. Worcestershire Regt. who fell in action at Arras on April 23rd 1917 after 2 years and 8 months service aged 19 years and 8 months.  Death is swallowed up in Victory.  
Middle Aisle In memory of Elizabeth, the wife of John Webb, of this parish, Gent, who departed this Life, September the 14th Ano. Domi. 1715.  Aged 52 years.
Also near this place lyeth the Body of John Webb, abovesaid, who departed this life the 17trh day of August A.D. 1726.  Aged 67 years.
 
North Wall Arms: Quarterly 1 & 4 Sable three Salmons haurient Argent. Salmon. 2 & 3 Argent, a lion rampant sable….Mathew.

To the Memory of Anne Salmon, who died the 20th of January 1789, aged 70 years and is interred in this church.
This Monument is erected conformable to the will of Thomas Stokes Salmon, Esqr. (son of John, and the said Anne Salmon, who died in Jamaica the 15th Oct. 1795, aged 51 years).  As a Tribute to his Affection.
Also of the above John Salmon who died May 8th 1800, aged 83.  He was many successive years Mayor of this Town.
And of their Sons
John who died Dec. 8th 1795, aged 58.
William died August 15th 1794 on his passage from Jamaica.  Aged 50.
Brice Webb died Jan. 15th 1796 in the Island of Cuba aged 50.
Middle Aisle To the memory of John Webb, Junior of this parish, who died 29th day of September Ano Domi. 1719.  Aetatis suae 25o.
Here lyeth the body of Mary, the daughter of Richard Webb, of Morton, who departed this life, the 24 of January 1695. aged 8 years.
Here lyeth the Body of Martha Hayward, wife of ….Hayward, and daughter of ….Webb, who departed this Life, the 21 day of August 1710.  Aged 22 years.
 
Middle Aisle Here lyeth the Body of Nicholas Webb, of this parish, Gent, who departed this Life November the 19th 1733.  Aetatis suae 62.  
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.
 
Chancel The Altar in this Church was lengthened in loving memory of Edith Emily Williams who died 16th January 1936?  and of Edith Joyce Williams who died 4 June ….. At Rest in
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.