Image: EllerySydenham Died1794 BroadhemburyChurch Devon

Description: Mural monument in Broadhembury Church, Devon, to Ellery Williams (1727-1794), eldest daughter of Sydenham Williams (1701-1757) of Herringston House in the parish of Winterborne Herringston in Dorset (Governor of Portland Castle and Sheriff of Dorset in 1740-1 (Source: pedigree of "Williams of Herringston" in Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, pp. 2443-4)), wife of St Barbe Sydenham (died 1757) of Kerswell Priory in the parish of Broadhembury, Devon, and of Coombe in the parish of Dulverton, Somerset. Inscribed: "In Memory of Ellery, Wife of St Barb Sydenham Esq of Combe in the County of Somerset, eldest daughter of Sydenham Williams Esqr of Herringstone in the County of Dorset, who died March 26th 1794 aged 67". Below are shown in a circular escutcheon the following arms: Argent, three Cornish choughs proper a bordure engrailed gules charged with crosses patée or and bezants alternately (Williams) impaling Argent, three rams passant guardant sable (Sydenham, with the rams shown incorrectly as goats). The arms are thus shown incorrectly, as Sydenham should impale Williams.
Title: EllerySydenham Died1794 BroadhemburyChurch Devon
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