 Abt 1538 - 1596 (~ 58 years)
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| Name |
Wadham, Florentina |
| Born |
Abt 1538 |
Of Merrifield, Somerset, England  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Buried |
26 Feb 1596 |
Watchet, Somerset, England |
| Person ID |
I03607 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
19 Jun 2015 |
| Father |
Wadham, John, b. Abt 1500, Of Merrifield, Somerset, England , bur. 3 Mar 1578, Ilminster, Somerset, England (Age ~ 78 years) |
| Mother |
Tregarthen, Joan, b. Abt 1498, Of Cornwall, England , bur. 30 Sep 1583, Branscombe, Devon, England (Age ~ 85 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1532 |
England |
| Family ID |
F01088 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 |
Wyndham, John, b. Abt 1526, Of Felbrig, Norfolk, England , bur. 25 Aug 1572, St Decumans, Watchet, Somerset, England (Age ~ 46 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1556 |
England |
| Children |
| | 1. Wyndham, John, b. Abt 1560, Of Orchard Wyndham, Somerset, England , bur. 1 Apr 1645, Watchet, Somerset, England (Age ~ 85 years) |
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| Family ID |
F01194 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Nicholas Wadham's three sisters are all commemorated on brasses: Joan on that
of her first husband, Sir Giles Strangeways at Melbury Sampson, Dorset; Margaret, wife of Nicholas Martin, at Piddletown, Dorset (q.v.); and, Florence, the wife of John Wyndham (d. 1572), at St. Decumen's Church, Somerset (q.v.).21
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...FLORENCE WADHAM (c.1530-c.1596)
Florence Wadham was the daughter of Sir John Wadham of Branscombe, Devon (c.1515-March 8, 1578) and Joan Tregarthen (d.1581). In 1556, she married John Wyndham (c.1506-August 25, 1572). In 1557, she fell ill and died. Or at least that’s what everyone thought. She was duly buried in the Wyndham family vault in St. Decuman’s Church in Watchet, Somerset. That night, so the story goes, a sexton bent on stealing her jewelry, opened her coffin and tried to remove her rings. This brought her back to consciousness and sent the sexton screaming from the crypt. Her family, however, welcomed her back and the following year she gave birth to a son, John (1558-1645). Florence remarried after Wyndham’s death, taking as her second husband John Faringdon
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