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Snettisham Norfolk

"Our dayes are like a shadow that fadethe

But thou O Lord doest remayne forever - psalm 102 ....... "

John Cremer 1610, churchwarden & wife Anne Tash.

John Cremer alias Scrime, of Snettisham & lord of Ingoldsthorpe Manor was the son of Henry Cremer of Elmham Norfolk

He m Anne daughter of Christopher Tash

Children www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/B3b6zh

1. Thomas of Snettisham d pre 1632 m1 Joan daughter of Robert Hargate of Sedgeford

2. John of Ingoldsthorpe 1581/2-1652 m Margaret 1666 daughter of William Boynton of Flitcham

3. Anne

4. George of Seche & North Runcton manor m1 Elizabeth d1624 daughter of Adam Williamson of Keswick(grandparents of Anne Lady Fitzwilliam of Marholm flic.kr/p/HEAchL m2 Mary ......

5.. Edmond of Hitcham m Joane ......

6. Jeffrey

 

The left hand side inscriptions are in English, the right side in latin.

Anne's Scroll = "Blessed are they that dye in the Lord for they rest from their labours"

John;s scroll = "Christ mihi et in vita et in mort lucrum" - (With Christ I in life & death profit).

"Here under also lyeth the body of Anne Cremer, the wife of John Cremer before deceased, who dyed the ...... daye of ......... An Dm of the age of ...... years, Laid me down & sleep and rose up agayne for the Lord sustained me " Psalm 3:5

"Si quis praeteriens rogitabit forte viator

Memoriae cujus hic lapis est positus

Cremerus verae cultor pietatis, alumnus

Virtutis, vindex, conditur hoc tumulo"

(If any passing traveller may ask in whose memory this stone is placed, It is to Cremers true piety, learning, valor, who is stored in this grave)

 

Under the children is inscribed :

"The children of thy servants shall continue and their seed shall stand fast in thy sight" Psalm 102:28

John was churchwarden here and there is an inscription in the south aisle "John Cremer and Thomas Banyard, church wardens weare ye townmen of Snettisham. Thys ille did repair Anno Do 1595".

- Church of St. Mary Snettisham Norfolk

 

 

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