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relative connections - Monks Kirby Warwickshire

Figures on the side of the tomb of Basil Feilding 1500 - 1582 of Newnham Paddox & wife Goditha Willington 1580 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/P9H3o8ZB7N

 

Probably their eldest son & his wife, their hands resting on their shield of arms: Feilding impaled with A saltire vair (Willington) impaled with Lane Quarterly 1 and 4, Per pale azure and argent, three saltires two and one counterchanged; 2 and 3 Gyronny of azure and argent a mullet or.

 

William 1553 m Dorothy daughter of Sir Ralph Lane of Orlingbury and Maud daughter of Sir William 1st Baron Parr of Horton and Mary daughter of Sir William Salisbury and Elizabeth Wylde

Children:

1. Basil Fielding / Feilding c1560 - 1637 m Elizabeth 1569 - 1597 daughter of Walter Aston 1589 of Tixall and Elizabeth daughter of James Leveson of Lilleshall +++ by 2nd wife Margery / Margaret Offley (Elizabeth was the sister of Eleanor Aston Peyto at Chesterton flic.kr/p/2fTbEVA - their husbands William Feilding & Humphrey Peyto were cousins, being grandchildren of Basil & Goditha Feilding

Their brother Edward Aston m1 Mary dsp 1590 daughter of Sir John Spencer of Althorp 1586 and Katherine Kitson flic.kr/p/bV2tf8 Ann Lucy www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/y14Xn2 daughter of Thomas Lucy 1532-1600 and Joyce Acton 1596 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/9o53DA )

 

+++ James Leveson of Lilleshall, a wealthy Wolverhampton businessman, one of the Merchants of the Staple who had the monopoly of wool exports from England. Leveson had made a fortune not only from trade but also from leasing the property of St Peter's Collegiate Church in Wolverhampton. He had bought Lilleshall Abbey, a dissolved Augustinian house in Shropshire in 1539 and thereafter it became the seat of his branch of the Leveson family.

 

 

Picture with thanks - copyright Andrew H Jackson britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101034855-church-of-st-edith...

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