Flaxley Gloucestershire
Wall memorial with winged cherub & coat of arms - "Here sleeps Abraham Clark, esquire, in expectation of a glorious resurrection in omni vita modestus ac fobrius, justitiae et aequitatis cultor eximius, summa in amicos fide, veraque in Deum. Egenorum fautor ac patrenus, orpanorum pater,
liberalitatem exercere maluit quam ostentare aliis, munificentiae testes praetor Deum aegre admisit. Satis ei magnum ad virtutem invitamentum recte factorum conscientia. Died December 4 AD 1683 aged 61 "
(Abraham was lord of the manor and abbey of Flaxley;
He was the son of Abraham & Joanna Clarke 1664 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/0o6250
Dying without surviving issue, his heir was his cousin William Boevey 1692 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/2p5xE6 who after a short life of "excesses, both in debauch and ill-humour," left the estates to his long suffering wife Catherina Riches www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/83x7Ed who never remarried and after a long philanthropic life died in 1726
The estate was sold by William Kingston in 1648 to merchants William and James Boeve (later Boevey), members of London's Dutch community. In 1654 James conveyed his interest to William, his half brother, and the latter assigned a moiety of the estate to his half sister Joanna +++ , widow of Abraham Clarke. Joanna, who bought the other moiety after William's death in 1661, died in 1664 leaving Flaxley to her son Abraham Clarke (d. 1683) and he left the estate to his cousin William, son of James Boevey. William Boevey died in 1692 and under his will the estate passed in turn to his wife Catharine Riches 1727 === www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/mWP8c6 and a kinsman Thomas Crawley who assumed the name Crawley-Boevey. Thomas died in 1741 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/v44poL and his son and heir Thomas Crawley-Boevey enlarged the estate in the 1760s by purchasing land in Westbury-on-Severn adjoining the main part of Flaxley. Thomas (d. 1769) was succeeded by his son Thomas Crawley-Boevey, heir in 1789 to a baronetcy, and from Sir Thomas (d. 1818) the estate descended with the baronetcy from father to son, through Thomas (d. 1847), Martin (d. 1862), Thomas (d. 1912), and Francis (d. 1928), to Lancelot. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/33EYte who sold the family home Flaxley Abbey in 1960 )) - Church of St Mary the Virgin Flaxley Gloucestershire
Flaxley Gloucestershire
Wall memorial with winged cherub & coat of arms - "Here sleeps Abraham Clark, esquire, in expectation of a glorious resurrection in omni vita modestus ac fobrius, justitiae et aequitatis cultor eximius, summa in amicos fide, veraque in Deum. Egenorum fautor ac patrenus, orpanorum pater,
liberalitatem exercere maluit quam ostentare aliis, munificentiae testes praetor Deum aegre admisit. Satis ei magnum ad virtutem invitamentum recte factorum conscientia. Died December 4 AD 1683 aged 61 "
(Abraham was lord of the manor and abbey of Flaxley;
He was the son of Abraham & Joanna Clarke 1664 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/0o6250
Dying without surviving issue, his heir was his cousin William Boevey 1692 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/2p5xE6 who after a short life of "excesses, both in debauch and ill-humour," left the estates to his long suffering wife Catherina Riches www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/83x7Ed who never remarried and after a long philanthropic life died in 1726
The estate was sold by William Kingston in 1648 to merchants William and James Boeve (later Boevey), members of London's Dutch community. In 1654 James conveyed his interest to William, his half brother, and the latter assigned a moiety of the estate to his half sister Joanna +++ , widow of Abraham Clarke. Joanna, who bought the other moiety after William's death in 1661, died in 1664 leaving Flaxley to her son Abraham Clarke (d. 1683) and he left the estate to his cousin William, son of James Boevey. William Boevey died in 1692 and under his will the estate passed in turn to his wife Catharine Riches 1727 === www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/mWP8c6 and a kinsman Thomas Crawley who assumed the name Crawley-Boevey. Thomas died in 1741 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/v44poL and his son and heir Thomas Crawley-Boevey enlarged the estate in the 1760s by purchasing land in Westbury-on-Severn adjoining the main part of Flaxley. Thomas (d. 1769) was succeeded by his son Thomas Crawley-Boevey, heir in 1789 to a baronetcy, and from Sir Thomas (d. 1818) the estate descended with the baronetcy from father to son, through Thomas (d. 1847), Martin (d. 1862), Thomas (d. 1912), and Francis (d. 1928), to Lancelot. www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/33EYte who sold the family home Flaxley Abbey in 1960 )) - Church of St Mary the Virgin Flaxley Gloucestershire