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Suffolk Sibton

Only son "taken hence in his infancy" of Sir Edmond Barker and his wife Mary, flic.kr/p/MLSE3 daughter of Sir William Cooper of Ratling Court, Kent.

"Sacred tto the memory of Sir Edmond Barker knight, Lord of the mannor of Peasenhall gent. Pentio"Sacred tto the memory of Sir Edmond Barker knight, Lord of the mannor of Peasenhall gent. Pentioner in Ordinary to King Charles 2nd ....of a proved pietie & prudence exemplar for his loyaltie to his Prince. Conformitie to the church .... affection to his deare and well deserving wife Mary the eldest daughter of the Right Worshipful Sir William Cooper of Ratling Court in the County of Kent, knight and Baronet by whom having had one son & one daughter both taken hence in their infancies in XLl years happie wedlock with her ,the Vth of Xth divorced from her deare embrace by death in the LXl year of his life and of our Lord 1676 To whose deare & happie memory his sayd wife erected this monument the wittnesse of her never dying sorrow""

Edmund was the son of Edmund Chapman alias Barker www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/517997686/ and Marryan heiress daughter of George Vesey of Blyborough www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/517997674/

 

- Sibton church Suffolk

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Uploaded on May 28, 2007
Taken on June 29, 2006