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| Name |
Baker, Cecily |
| Born |
Of Sissinghurst, Kent, England  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
21 Dec 1619 |
Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, England |
| Person ID |
I09986 |
My Genealogy |
| Family |
Blount, Richard, c. 28 Jun 1564, Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, England , bur. 11 May 1628, Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, England (Age ~ 63 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1595 |
England |
| Family ID |
F03173 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Memorial Canterbury Cathedral, Kent
"Here lies the Lady Thornhurst, who was sometime wife of Sir Richard Baker of Sissinhurst, in the county of Kent, who had issue, by the said Sir Richard, two daughters, the Lady Grisogone Lenard, and the Lady Cecily Blount, who departed this present world in the month of May 1609, She then being of the Age of sixty Years."
... on it is her effigies lying at full length, her head reclining on her right hand, and in her left a book; above is that of a man kneeling, with his hands joined and uplisted, he is clad in armour with his sword and spurs on. Underneath her figure, on one side the base, is that of dame Grisogone Lennard; on the other, that of dame Cicely Blunt, both kneeling in the full dress of the times.
From: 'Monuments in the cathedral', The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 11 (1800), pp. 383-424. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63674 Date accessed: 27 July 2012.
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