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Shropshire Shrewsbury Abbey

William Charlton 1532 ==and wife Anne / Alice Hoorde / Horde 1524

William was the eldest son of Richard Charlton 1522 of Apley Castle near Wellington and Ann widow of William Baskerville, daughter of William Mainwaring www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/8655981052/ by Margaret Warren of Ightfield: He served in 1513 in the French wars, where his courage won him the name "Stout William."

Anne was the daughter of Thomas Hoord of Park Bromage Bridgnorth 1488 by Joyce Stapleton ++

Children - 7 boys and 4 girls.

1. Robert m Anne daughter of Piers Stanley of Eulowe Flintshire

2. Richard m ...........Eyton

3. John of Willington m Ann widow of William Allen of Willington

4. William dsp 1567 of Wombridge

5. Alice / Katherine m Robert son of Richard Cressett of Upton Cressett and Jane Wrottesley

6. Cecilia m Richard Morton / Moreton of Horton / Haughton

7. Elizabeth m Thomas Eyton of Eyton

8. Anne

(William's niece Elizabeth Bulkeley www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/2186775653/ daughter of his sister Anne is at Market Drayton

The tomb originally stood in Wellington Old parish church, demolished in 1789

This alabaster monument lay in the churchyard for 30 years before being brought into the Abbey.

++ Anne's sister Jane Giffard www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/9241228030/ is at Brewood

==Heralds visitation - "William Charlton of Apley Castle, near Wellington, who married Alice, daughter of Thomas Hoorde of Bridgnorth, and died 23 Henry VIII." (1532)

 

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