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Dartmouth Devon

"Here lyeth the bodye of Barbara the wife of John Plumleigh of Dartmouth who departed this life the thirde day of September 1610

Here lyeth the wife of John Plumleigh who Barbara had to name

Whose virtuous life and Godly death hath left her lasting Fame

Of Rich and Poore she was beloved to Ye one a Neighbour kind

To the other still in all distress, a tender harted frende

Two sons and daughters 4 she bare unto her husband deare

And dyed when age had neere run out ye Four and XXXth yeare

Whose corps have thou O Death destroy, yet Christ shall raise again

And it conjoin with Soul in blisse for ever to remain

For Death to Life A Passage Is, as Scriptures ALL accord

Blest are the Dead therefore that die in favour of ye Lord"

 

Brass figure of Barbara wife of John Plumleigh with her 2 sons & 4 daughters below - Barbara wears a kind of French hood with dependent cover-chief, ruff, and richly embroidered stomacher and petticoat, with fathingale over, close sleeves with cuffs, the hands raised in prayer, the feet in shoes with rosettes.

 

Barbara was the daughter of Stephen Eyre

She m (1st wife) John Plumleigh 7th son of John Plumleigh of Dartmouth, both mayors of Dartmouth, by 2nd wife Anne daughter of John Fortescue of Fallopit & Honoria daughter of Edmund Speccott of Thornbury

Children

1. Richard Plumleigh 1596–1636 m Elizabeth daughter of William Nutbrowne, by whom he had two sons, Charles and Philip, and a daughter, Elizabeth.

2. George James Plumleigh 1601–1649 m Joan- by whom he had a son John

1. Rachel Plumleigh b1596

2. Anne Plumleigh 1602–1640 m Nicholas Ford of Ford

3. Barbara 1604 - m 1626 Thomas Woodward of London

 

Husband John m2 (within 2 months - 17 Dec. 1610), Margaret, daughter of Nicholas Martin of Exetor, relict of John Ellacott, merchant of Exetor, by whom he had one daughter Jane wife of Nicholas Roope. His will, Nov. 1641 proved 1641-2.

 

( Margaret's memorial is nearby inscribed; "Hereunder lyeth ye Body of Margaret the second wife of John Plumleigh of Dartmouth Gentleman, who was the daughter of Nicholas Martin of Exon, Esq: who departed this life ye 25 of Februar 1638. She lived vertously and died Godly" )

 

- Church of St. Petrox, Dartmouth

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Vonderene www.findagrave.com/memorial/199664818/barbara-plumleigh

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