Portrait yes, inscription no - Tawstock Devon
"Near this place lie the Remains of Mrs Ann Chilcot wife of Mr Thomas Chilcot Organist of Bath and daughter to the Revd Mr Chichester Wrey late Rector of this Parish by his first Wife Margaret daughter of Roger Pyne of this County Gent:
She was a Woman of Great Piety. Constant in the Duties of Religion both Public and Private and ever inclin'd to Acts of Humanity and Benevolence.. She died much lamented June 30th 1758 aged 39
Her Disconsolate Husband as a Testimony of his Conjugal Affection erected this Monument to her Memory"
Ann was the daughter of Chichester Wrey and 1st wife Margaret Pyne. She was the great grand daughter of Chichester Wray and Anne Bourchier daughter of Edward Bourchier 4th Earl of Bath www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/0Dn6n8 , through whose marriage the Wrays inherited the entail of Tawstock and 36 other manors.
She m c1749 (2nd wife) Thomas Chilcot 1707-1766 4th son of John Chilcot a cordwainer (leather worker) and Elizabeth Powell. Thomas was the widower of Elizabeth Mills of Bath with 4 surviving children en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Chilcot
Thomas and Ann do not appear to have had any children.
Thomas was for 38 years organist of Bath Abbey from 1728 until his death
The inscription to Thomas is missing from the monument as a result of a dispute between the executor of his will and the children of his first marriage.- Tawstock church Devon
Portrait yes, inscription no - Tawstock Devon
"Near this place lie the Remains of Mrs Ann Chilcot wife of Mr Thomas Chilcot Organist of Bath and daughter to the Revd Mr Chichester Wrey late Rector of this Parish by his first Wife Margaret daughter of Roger Pyne of this County Gent:
She was a Woman of Great Piety. Constant in the Duties of Religion both Public and Private and ever inclin'd to Acts of Humanity and Benevolence.. She died much lamented June 30th 1758 aged 39
Her Disconsolate Husband as a Testimony of his Conjugal Affection erected this Monument to her Memory"
Ann was the daughter of Chichester Wrey and 1st wife Margaret Pyne. She was the great grand daughter of Chichester Wray and Anne Bourchier daughter of Edward Bourchier 4th Earl of Bath www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/0Dn6n8 , through whose marriage the Wrays inherited the entail of Tawstock and 36 other manors.
She m c1749 (2nd wife) Thomas Chilcot 1707-1766 4th son of John Chilcot a cordwainer (leather worker) and Elizabeth Powell. Thomas was the widower of Elizabeth Mills of Bath with 4 surviving children en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Chilcot
Thomas and Ann do not appear to have had any children.
Thomas was for 38 years organist of Bath Abbey from 1728 until his death
The inscription to Thomas is missing from the monument as a result of a dispute between the executor of his will and the children of his first marriage.- Tawstock church Devon