Church Memorials Rudyard-Sedgley

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Rushton Spencer
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Rudyard

CHURCH. St Gabriel
Demolished 1934. Some of the stone was used for the extensions to the Memorial Institute at Rudyard. There is a photograph of the church in Horton Church.

Rugeley

CHURCH. St Augustine (old church)
MEMORIALS. Incised slab inserted in the wall, very worn, with figure of a lady bearly visable, dog curled at her feet, probably was once a figure to her right, now disappeared. Brass of a priest in a stone slab - John Welton senior of Rugeley 1566. Very mutilated tablet, could be to a Weston, 1607?. Richard Weston d1613 & wife Barbara (daughter of John Kniverton of Mircaston, Derbys.) & one son Rafe Weston, two daughters - Jane (married Thomas Broughton), Anne (married Francis Wolfersley of Wolesley). Largest monument in church - Thomas Landor d1670. Philip Weston of Rugeley d1713 son of Richard Weston & wife Mary. Robert Landor d1781 & wife Mary (daughter of Walter Noble) d1798 & daughter Mary d1774 & six children survived their father - Walter, John, Robert, Ann, Elizabeth & Catherine. Robert Cotton d1793, & Susanna Cotton d1810. Samuel Barnett d1803, established iron works at King’s Bromley. Elizabeth Landor daughter of Rev. John Landor, rector of Colton, d1814 buried at Colton. Edward Rogers Pitman M.A. d1879, master of King Edward’s School, Rugeley, vicar of Pipe Ridware. WW1 & WW2 rolls of Honur. Five benefaction boards stacked up & not erected.
GLASS MEMORIALS. Ralph Armishaw d1890 - Restored in memory of Rev. Harry Lowe 1971. E window - Rev. Robert Litler & wife Mary & daughter Diane Mary 1891 - Restored in memory Phyllis Mary Williams d1968. Louisa Frances Levett & daughter Frances Mary Levett - restored in memory of Frank Wright d1968. E window of Lady Chapel - restored in memory of Mary Ann Fortesque d1956. Glass restored in memory Alva George Harding d1956. Glass restored in memory Charles Roland & Kate Reeve Morris 1968.
NOTE. A fragment of fresco to left of window in Lady chapel.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. Edward & Emma Hollinghurst d1696. Near the S porch - Richard Snead & wife Isabel & daughters Jane, Margery d1702 she was a benefactor to the poor, & Katherine (SHOS vol 2 p324). John Parsons Cook. Thomas George Bonney - these two could be in the new churchyard?

CHURCH. St Augustine (new church)
MEMORIALS. First stone of church was laid by Viscount Anson 20 March 1819. Rebecca Simpson d1849, benefactor & helped found the almshouses founded by Mrs Hopkins. Mary Landor daughter of John Landor, rector of Colton d1860 & her brother William Landor d1860. Private Walker 2nd V.B.P.W.N. SR. d1900 in Boer War, S.Africa (plaque has been removed from the wall). Prayer rest - A.T.W. Andrews 1906. The boys of the Prince of Wales School made a substantial contribution towards renovation of the organ 1907. The carved canopies of the organ screen - Emma Oseland Litler d1908. Henry Cope d1908 & wife Ann d1910, benefactors (plaque has been removed from the wall). Robert Landor d1914, Caroline Anne Landor d1918, Richard Henry Landor d1941, Ruth Landor d1951. John Allen Benedict Burrough priest & deacon 1906-15 d1918 aged 38. Jack Jones d1957. And Les Bates d1984 - both little plaques inserted into choir stalls where they sat. Sanctuary lamp - Margaret Elcock 1951-89. Annie (Nan) Mason d1979 & Arthur Mason d1982. Door to gallery - Cecely Ingham d1988. Incumbents board in memory of George Braidley, sidesman. Pew - Major James Farrington Wilde 9th Gurkha Rifles & headmaster Shooting Butts School. One plaque which had been removed from the wall, couldn’t be seen.
GLASS MEMORIALS. E window - five lights - John Bellot Litler & Leatilia Bellingham. Evlander Sophie Rose. Rev. Richard Macgregor Crier. Sarah Mourrier. Margaret Balwin Smith. W window - Assheton Viscount Curzon of Hagley Hall son of Hon. Robert Curzon d1863 at Parham, Sussex (plaque has been removed from the wall). Gilbert Woolland & Ann Hattersley 1906. Thomas & Mary Anne James 1906. Mary Tunnicliff of Rugeley 1907. All clear glass - Ernest Clement Toye & Arthur Ernest Toye. Robert George Smith, churchwarden 1962-73. Jane & John E. Southwell. Elsie Elizabeth & George Reginald Powell. Charles George Handley d1975 & Mary Ann Handley d1961. Janet Walley d1976. Thomas Grey.

Rushall

CHURCH. St Michael
MEMORIALS. Rev. John Rann vicar of West Bromwich & Rushall d1771 & wife Damaris Rann daughter of John Dolphin of Stafford d1772. Henry Browne d1781. Foundation stone laid by Mrs Mellish of Hodsock Priory, Notts. 1844. Five old bells in the tower re-cast & present peal complete 1908 - treble bell to Job Wilkes vicars warden to 1896; fourth bell to William & Joseph Alfred Toovey; fifth bell to Fanny Neville. Very large wall mural painted by F. Reginald Frampton 1906 - Rev. Cresswell Strange Canon of Worcester & vicar of Edgbaston. Frank Child of Rushall Chorister d1906 aged 22 placed by his principal, tutors & fellow students of Borough Rd. College, Isleworth, Middlesex. Percy Frederick Hawley 1913. John Nicholds Cotterell Mayor 1914-5. Sarah Royton d1918. Rood beam - John Tunner Rubery & Catherine Mary Rubery 1926. Isabella Louisa Mary Willmore d1938. Engineer Capt. Henry Herbert Willmore d1940. William Southwick Willmore IMS d1941. F. Manson d1948 & J. Doughty d1943 choristers. Font cover - Henry & Ellen Maria Walley 1962. Mary Kathleen Kench Willmore d1963. Ida Mary Willmore M.B.E. d1965. Entrance to church - Rev. Harry Christie Sheldon 1st vicar of Meir native of Rushall d1967. Two incumbents tablets, vicars from 1442.
GLASS MEMORIALS. Nicholas Willet d1803 & wife Anne d1817. Thomas Fletcher d1811 & wife Anne d1800. George Strong i’ th’ Arm d1856. Horatius Chavasse M.A. E. Coll. Oxon. d1861. George B. Scott d1866 & wife Elizabeth d1894 & John Stokes d1849 & wife Sarah d1891. Annie Graeme Littlecot d1874. Joseph Alfred Alfred Toovey d1882 & Joseph Toovey d1909 & wife Harriet d1910. Charlotte Banton d1883 & Edward Banton d1888. Mary Stokes Whitehouse d1889. Samuel Smith d1889 & Herbert Moss d1891. Thomas Rosten d1890 & wife Elizabeth d1889. Joseph Naylor J.P. & wife Hannah Jane 1898 & children Brown? Naylor & Mary Frances Cozens. Mary Ann Lazenby d1914. Frederick William & Sarah Elizabeth Willmore.
FURNISHING. A bench with inscription ‘RA 1661 CF’.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. Charles While his rhyming epitaph states he was 6 feet 6 inches high ‘in his proption nature had been kind/ his symmetry so just none fault could find ....’ died 21 Feb. 1760. George Strong i’ th’ Arm d1827 & George Strong i’ th’ Arm d1856 & his wife Ann d1877. William Henry Duignan d1914 & wife Jenny Catherine d1926 & sons Bernard d1890 aged 19, William Minors d1874 in Sydney, Australia aged 19, Frank Stubbs d1877 aged 24 & Ernest Henry d1893 aged 33, also Duignan’s parents Henry d1874 & Ann d1876. Emma J. Strong i’ th’ Arm neice of Robert & Mary Lazenby d1928. Alice Lawrence d1971 aged 101. Frederick W. Willmore author.

Rushton Spencer

CHURCH. St Lawrence.
FURNISHINGS. Church chest with carved initials - E.H.W. Small table with carved letters reading - ‘All things come of thee and of thine own have we given thee’. Lord’s Prayer board.
MEMORIALS. Christopher Rhode of Eaton, Cheshire & wife Mary & children - William, Christopher, Thomas, James, Isabella, Randle & Jane 1731. Thomas Gibson wife of Wormhough d1795. Ann Fernehough d1802 aged 3. Nursing sister Dorothy Anne Fletcher d1900 also brother Arthur d1900. Leonard Shufflebotham d1916. WW1 roll of honour x 2. Albert Knight d1949.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. Stump of old cross. Graffitti carved into the church door by the masons, leaving amongst many initials the dates; 1713; 1789. Thomas Meaykin grave.

Salt

CHURCH. St James the Great.
GLASS MEMORIALS. Margaret Hawthorn d1854. Charles Chetwynd founder of the church 1854, Bishop John Lonsdale, Earl Talbot, Henry John Chetwynd, benefactor.
MEMORIALS. WW1 roll of honour. Emma Burnley 1919, inscription on a paper notice. Thomas & Eliza Jones 1938. Kenneth George Rowlands d1945. Shrine of Our Lady & of St James - Jane Timberlake Pearce d1953. George Deavall d1958. Stations of the Cross - Margaret Challinor d1979. Evelyn Marion Martin d1981. Candle holder - Michelle Jane Stubbs d1986. Silver cruets & tray - George & Sarah Elizabeth Deavall. Table - Minni Foster. Vase - Walter & Alice Simms.
FURNISHINGS A font of Norman origin, a remnant of an older church (GNHS p546). Carved oak screen by Augustus Pugin, originally at Alton Towers (All Saints Church, Milwich Flower Festival, 2005).
IN THE CHURCHYARD. An old font. Stubbs family of Weston Hall. All graves have been placed flat along the edge of the yard nearly all are overgrown with moss & lichen.

Sandon

CHURCH. All Saints.
MEMORIALS. Fragments of coffin lids. Chest-tomb topped with incised slab with figures of Hugo Erdeswick d1473 & wife Cecilia, probably made c.1600. Chest-tomb topped with incised slab with figures of Hugo Erdeswick d1500 & wife Elizabeth, probably made c.1600. Chest-tomb topped with incised slab with figures of Hugo Erdeswick d1598 & wife Maria, probably made c.1600. Chest-tomb with effigies of Richard de Vernon d1601, & wives - Elizabeth (left side), Maria (right side). Chest-tomb topped with incised slab with figures of Samson Erdeswick d1603 & wife Elizabeth. Font - William Atkins, churchwarden 1669 & Mr Miohn Palmer. George Digby d1675. Floor slab - Isabell Berisford wife of Robert Palmer d1695, but previously wife of John Seluefter. Charity board - Ralph Lander of Hardewick 1701 & Rev. James Tomkinson d1709. Penelope Corne d1709 & mother Lettice Marler d1723 & son (Penelope’s brother) John Corne d1725. Floor slab - Robert Palmer d1711. Rev. George Unett d1763. Nathaniel Ryder 1st Baron Harrowby bought the estate at Sandon, d1803 at Bath & wife Elizabeth d1804. Lady Frances Ryder d1824 also her sister Susan Georgina d1839 aged nearly 2, & Jane Archer, servant d1851. Susan Countess of Harrowby (daughter of 1st Marquis of Stafford) d1838 & her granddaughter Charlotte d1847 aged 16 in a fire at Sandon Hall. Dudley 1st Earl of Harrowby (friend of William Pitt) d1847. Dudley 2nd Earl of Harrowby d1882 & wife Frances d1859. Thomas Dudley Ryder d1886 & Hon. Albert Dudley Ryder d1881. Edward Knight d1889 & wife Mary d1881. Rev. William Edward Coldwell d1898. Henry Dudley 4th Earl of Harrowby d1900 in Algiers & wife Susan Maria Juliana Hamilton d1913. Dudley Francis Stuart 3rd Earl of Harrowby d1900 & wife Mary Frances d1917. Major Robert Nathaniel Dudley Ryder killed in France 1917 (his wooden cross from site placed above). Howard Lidyard Bentley 2nd Lieut killed France 1917 & George Warwick Bentley 2nd Lieut. d1917 in France. WW1 roll of honour. Carved head of Tory, a Cairn terrier, & one of her puppies. - Through the sale of her descendants in 1928, 29 helped raise funds to restore the church. Margaret Susan Ryder d1932. Col. Charles Henry Dudley Ryder C.B. C.I.B. D.S.O. d1945, also sons - Major Lisle Charles Dudley Ryder killed France 1940, Major Ernle Terrick Dudley Ryder killed in Java 1942 & Capt. Robert Edward Dudley Ryder V.C. d1986 at sea. John Herbert Dudley 5th Earl of Harrowby d1956 & wife Mabel Danvers D.B.E. d1956 & daughter Frances Ryder C.B.E. d1965. Beryl Ryder wife of Robert d1970. Helena Blanche 6th Countess of Harrowby d1974 & husband 6th Earl Dudley d1987.
GLASS MEMORIALS. Cinders Margaret? to her husband d1845. Gualtere Charles Hopper? 1856.
FURNISHINGS. Old font.
NOTE. Samson Erdeswick’s heraldic family tree painted on walls of the chancel, there are framed colour illustrations of these.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. Close to the church on the S side a cross shaft turned into a sundial. William Underwood gamekeeper to Lord Harrowby d1809. To W of church - Ralph Trundley gardener at Sandon Hall perished in the Trent on night of Oct. 24 1869 aged 66. Fanny White servant at Sandon Hall d1886. There are other graves to servants of the Harrowbys. In the Harrowby plot: Henry Dudley 4th Earl of Harrowby d1900 & wife Susan Maria Juliana Hamilton d1913 (daughter of John Villiers Dent). Mary Frances wife of 3rd Earl of Harrowby d1917. Margaret Susan Ryder eldest daughter of 4th Earl d1932. Edward Alan Dudley Ryder 3rd son of 4th Earl d1949 & wife Mary Maud 3rd daughter of 2nd Earl of Lichfield d1961. John Herbert Dudley 5th Earl & wife Mabel Danvers both died late March 1956 & daughter Frances Ryder d1965. Helena Blanche 6th Countess of Harrowby d1974 & husband 6th Earl d1987. Hilda Palmer d1983 servant. Dorothy Ethel Ryder d1991.

Scot Hay

CHURCH. St Paul. The priest converted to Catholicism and took his congregation with him. The church became RC in c.1983 and the memorials were removed. Now repossessed by C of E, but the memorials have vanished. (Info. needs checking).

Sedgley

CHURCH. All Saints
MEMORIALS. Elizabeth wife of Thomas Bradley of The Wood d1627 & Elizabeth their daughter wife of Edward Parkshouse of Nether Gornall d1650. Edward Persehouse of Lower Gornall interred betwixt his two wives Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Bradley of the Wood) & Margaret (daughter of John Asteley of Bushbury) d1685 aged 75. Piece of wooden plaque from a pew from the old church prior to 1829 - ‘The seat was set up at the cost of Thos Newton by ye consent of ye R. Honable John Lord Ward & ye Rev. Mr Groome Vic. 1748’. Benefactions board - Mrs. Anne Jevon of the Hall gave £20, Mrs. Elizabeth Pinson of Wolverhampton, Mr. John Jukes of London mercer, Mr. Daniel Walter of Wickham 1754. Michael Nickins of Tipton clerk & wife Catharine only surviving daughter of Lord Chief Justice Hall & also Jane & Catharine Nickins spinsters lie interred near this place, W.T. Price of Wolverhampton & wife Catherine erected this memorial 1805. Dudley Bagley d1815 & Ann Bagley d1800 & son John Marsh d1783 aged 19. Mary daughter of John & Sarah King d1820 also Henry King d1827 & his son William d1830 aged 13 also John King d1842 also William King d1852 & Mary daughter of Henry King d1854. Thomas Waterhouse nail factor d1832 & wife Eleanor d1842 & son Liuet. John Waterhouse d1832. Ann Cecilia wife of John Turton Fereday of The Ellowes d1832 & children - Adolphus, Turton, Elizabeth Jane, Rosa Cecillia also John Turton Fereday d1849 at London of apoplexy. Ann wife of William T. Fereday d1835 & daughters Sarah d1826 aged 6, Jane Turton Fereday d1834 aged 18, Elizabeth Ann Fereday d1842 aged 21 & Thomas Fereday d1851 & son Samuel Day d1874 & his wife Ann d1906. Thomas Wainwright d1836 & wife Elizabeth d1814. Mary Ann Elwell daughter of John & Ann Elwell d1840 aged 22. Rev. Samuel Faulkner Montgomery M.A. of Corpus Christi Coll. Cam. eldest son of Andrew Thomas Montgomery of The Knocks, Kildare, Ireland d1847 missionary to the island of Borneo, East Indies. Mary wife of Henry Bickerton Whitehouse of Turls Hill, Sedgley d1855 & daughter Mary d1841 aged 11 also Henry Bickerton Whitehouse d1871. I.M.L. d1867. Henry Bickerton Whitehouse of Sedgley d1867 aged 40. Rev. William Lewis M.A. assistant curate d1870 & wife Jane Matilda d1867. Elizabeth wife of Richard Smith d1838 also Richard Smith of The Priory, Dudley & of Berry Hill near Lichfield J.P. d1868. J. Henry M. Bellenden d1875. Lectern - Isaac & Esther Naylor 1902. Henry Bickerton Whitehouse d1907. Joseph Smith of Bunker Hill d1911 & wife Caroline d1907 also Aubrey Leighton their son H.M.S. ‘Worcester’ 1880 Mercantile Marine d1884 aged 21 also Shirley Louisa Richards daughter of above d1921. Benjamin Whitehouse d1913 & wife Susanna Matilda d1917 & Benjamin, Edwin, Harold & Christabel their children also Ernest O’Brien Whitehouse their son d1919. Thomas William Underhill 2nd Lieut. 8th Batt. of (The Buffs) 1st Kent Regt. killed 1916 at Waterlot Farm near to Delville Wood, France. WW1 roll of honour. Electric lighting - Rev. Thomas Greenall Swindell D.D. vicar to 1929. John Twigg Homer C.B.E. of Sedgley Alderman J.P. & D.L. for Staffs d1934. Benefactions board - Thomas Bradley of Wolverhampton, Mrs. Mary Bradley his wife, Mr. Richard Bradley, & Thomas Bradley, & Capt. Dudley of Tipton.
GLASS MEMORIALS. William Shale d1827 at Sedgley Hall & son William Shale of Bilston d1868. James Fellows d1854. To a previous window - H.B. Whitehouse junior d1867. Rev. W. Lewis d1870. Julia Fellows d1920 & Gaius Hubert Fellows d1935 schoolmaster. Unveiled by Lieut. Col. Law D.S.O. T.D. 1922. William, Stephen, Alfred, Arthur & Oliver Cox. A window in the clergy vestry in church, to which a casual visitor wouldn’t have access.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. John MacNab Ballenden M.D. son of Governor John Ballenden of the Hon. Hudson Bay Company d1895. Scout Sydney Williams drowned when attempting to rescue a comrade on Aug. 6 1935 aged 15. Harold Victor Stanley fatally injured Aug. 31 1949.

CHURCH. St Chad & All Saints. (R.C.).

VICAR STREET CEMETERY. Joseph Nicholds, hymn composer died Feb. 18 1860 (BCM April 1985 pp51-52).


Seighford
CHURCH. St Chad.
MEMORIALS. Chest tomb with effigies of William Bowyer d1593 & wife Mary, front part of chest has been replaced with stone & not in alabaster. Francis Chamberlin of Doxey gave 4L to be paid out of lands near Marston 1628. Charity board - Richard Umpton of Blithbury 1642 & Leonard Riley 1708 & Francis Eld. Edward Bowyer son of Sir John Bowyer of Knipsersley, lies in tomb behind stone tablet 1652. Francis Eld 1777. Catherine Eld wife of John Eld of Seighford d1785, John Eld d1796 (Francis Eld’s son), Stanton Eld d1800 & another son Howard Eld d1807 & Elizabeth Eld wife of Francis d1833, Francis Eld of Seighford Hall d1855 & his son Francis d1866 & Mary Eld daughter of Francis Eld (senior) d1876 also Col. Frederick Eld 3rd son of the late Francis Eld (senior) d1881 at Leamington. Matthew Ward of Bilston, later Stafford d1788 & wife Mary d1824. William Reynolds of Bridgeford d1798 & wife Elizabeth d1803. Mary Eld d1810 & John Eld her son d1830. John Milner of Worston Hall d1838 & wife Elizabeth d1848 & children - John d1862, William d1890, Eliza d1862, Mary d1862. Anthony Titley of Clanford hall d1845, later resided at Wortley Lodge, near Leeds. Rebecca Dorothea Thompson d1848. Edward Eld youngest son of Francis Eld d1896. Rev. Edwin Creswell Perry M.A. d1899 & wife Ester Cooper Perry d1921. A side door - David & Sarah Anderson of Coton Clanford 1904. WW1 roll of honour in the porch. Sir Edwin Cooper Perry G.C.V.O. M.A. M.D. Cambridge M.D., Egypt L.L.D., London F.R.C.P. humanist, physician & administrator d1938.
GLASS MEMORIALS. E window - Frederick Eld d1881 & children - Lorina Constance d1870 & Cecilia Frederica d1875. Rev. Joseph Thompson. John & Emily Blakemore & children. WW1 rememberance.
IN THE CHURCHYARD. Elizabeth Tilsley.

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