From: Peter Dzik
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:42 AM
To: Robert Jack Eardley
Subject: Info re Edward Eardley for picture
Tomb inscription fits data from elsewhere. On 21 Jan. 1601 William Eardley
and Edward Sutton of Rushton Spencer made a marriage settlement for respective
heirs John and Alice. You normally expect offspring soon and Edward's tomb shows
him born 1602 (age 53). Have noticed errors over selecting a 1618 Audley parish
entry for an edward of John, but his wife would then be 41 and had 11 more children
afer him. Wife and Six sons and 2 daughters survived John's death in late 1645
- height of Civil war. Most children seemed to have stayed in the Rushton area
, except William.
All children might have been baptised Catholic as Alice was a strong Catholic
, and later parish entries might have been Anglican baptisms. Catholic priests
were legally being dismembered alive until 1680 in Staffs.
Parliament had decreed marriages to be civil for a period , and thus Edward's
marriage to Ann Moncks could have been civil - its not in Eccleshall parish
records which covered her home.
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