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Ashbourne Derbyshire

On a table tomb www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/jB9mD2 moved to the opposite end of the chapel to make room for the Boothby memorials , are the figures in brass of Francis Cokayne d1538 & wife Dorothy Marrow www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/0Vm4H2

Francis was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Cockayne and Barbara Fitzherbert www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/8276923761/

He m Dorothy heiress daughter of Thomas Marrow and Isabel daughter of Nicholas Brome & Lady Elizabeth Lygon daughter of Sir Renfrey Arundel www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Q45Fg6 & Jane Coleshull widow of John Nanfan at Birtsmorton

 

Children - 3 sons & 3 daughters

1. Thomas 1592 m Dorothy daughter of Humphrey Ferrers of Tamworth Castle 1553 www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/8276981973/ and 1st wife Margaret daughter of Thomas Pygott by Agnes Forster www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/9636494258/

2. Francis m .....Browne

3. William

4. Alice m Edward Littleton www.flickr.com/photos/52219527@N00/6120432821/

5. Barbara m John Ferrers (son Humphrey m1 Elizabeth dc1600 daughter of Humphrey Bradbourn & Elizabeth daughter of Sir William Turville of Newhall ; m2 Elizabeth Longford widow of Humphrey Dethick of Hartshorne www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/EP590F )

 

Francis died on August 5th 1538, only a year after his father and this must have placed a drain on the family's resources with two dowagers, his mother & his wife to support until his wife married again.

 

Dorothy is not buried here. She m2 Humphrey son of John Ferrers of Tamworth Castle and Dorothy Harper; Humphrey was the widower of Margaret daughter of Thomas Pigott & Agnes Forster

 

Coats-of-arms recording the ancient Cokayne connections as well as Marrowe family associations appear in the four corners of the brass, while Francis’s figure is depicted in an heraldic tabard featuring the complex quartering of the Cokayne/Harthill arms with those of Rossington, Edensor, Deyville, Savage of Tissington, and Three Stags. The arms, and those of Marrowe, Brome, Riche, and Arundell (all Marrowe connections), were also painted onto 10 shields supported by angels around the edges of the tomb chest.

 

- Church of St Oswald, Ashbourne Derbyshire

 

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