Monumental Inscription Detail

Place:

St Mary the Virgin, Willingdon

Location: North sanctuary wall.

Inscription:

HERE LYETH BURIED YE BODY OF YE LADY MARGARET WILDEGOOSE WIDDOW ELDEST DAUGHTER TO HENRY DACRES BARON OF
HERSTMONCAUX IN YE COUNTY
OF SUSSEX. SHE WAS MARRIED TO
SIR ANSLOW WILDEGOOSE OF THE
SAME COUNTY BY WHOM SHE HAD 3 CHILDREN
WHO DYED BEFORE HER.
WITHOUT ISSUE SHE LIVED A WIDDOW
44 YEARES WHO AFTER A MOST
PIOUS PRUDENT AND CHARITABLE
LIFE DYED AGE 61 IN YE YEARE OF
OUR LORD 1653 YE 16 DAY OF AUGUST
TO WHOSE MEMORY GEORGE PARKER
OF RATTON ESQ HER NEPHEW
ERECTED THIS MONUMENT.

Monument details:

Type: Mural Monument.

Monument Condition: Excellent.

Inscription Condition: Excellent.

Person commemorated (or mentioned):

Last name: Dacres.

First Name(s): Henry.

Birth date: Not given.

Death date: Not given.

Transcription details:

Transcribed by: Rosalind Hodge.

Batch: Unknown.

Image:

Image of a monument

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