All Saints Church, Westbury

[king william]

This is a rather forlorn request that I do not think can be answered but who knows what the clever people on Rootschat can do.
I am wondering if anyone knows anything about All Saints Church in Westbury before it was restored in Victorian times.
My ancestors William Busshe and his wife (nee Strange) were buried there - I do not have a date of death for William but his wife died on 25th September 1558.
There was a commemorative stone or plaque for them at the time but there has been restorative work done quite a while ago and it is not there now, it may have been inlaid in the floor.
I do wonder if the plaque or any record of any of the early memorials have been recorded somewhere as I cannot imagine they would be discarded in such a historic church.
We have never known the christian name of our Miss Strange, it could well be Margaret, but if a record of the memorial was in existence then we would finally have her name.
There may be a dusty corner of the church with the memorials recorded and I have tried to email someone from there but received no reply.
I am in New Zealand so therefore cannot visit the church to seek this information.
King William (named for William Busshe and not the Conqueror William)

[wendy47]

Hi king william

I expect you have seen the following

http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/community/getchurch.php?id=369

http://www.wishful-thinking.org.uk/genuki/WIL/Westbury/AllSaints2.html

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/WIL/Westbury/index.htm

wendy

[king william]

Wendy,
Many thanks for the links - I had not seen them, the item by Phil Draper seems promising, esp. the mention of medieval brasses and forgotten remnants, I tried to find an email address for him, but it did not come up. There was a phone number for some woman in charge of it all, but I will not be phoning from new Zealand.
This has given me something to seach through,
Thanks
Robin

[wendy47]

Hi king william

I clicked on the Contact Us button at the bottom of the Genuki page and came up with

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/GLS/providers.html


Click on Phil Draper and you get

http://www.churchcrawler.co.uk/

Enter the Main page & Index and you'll get a page, which if you scroll to the bottom it says SEND EMAIL, which will give you an email form to send.

I hope this works for you

wendy

[king william]

Wendy,
Many thanks - I have emailed Phil Draper, so look forward to a reply from him.
I do think that in history-conscious England that there must still be a record somewhere of any old church that has been renovated and of what may have been removed or covered over.
Thanks - Robin

[wendy47]

Hi

Good luck.

He may be able to lead you to other information

wendy

[Woodneefreak]

Hi Robin
Am very new to this but we may have a connection re Stanley Bishop b 1879 Woolwich, London, England he married my Grandaunt Mary Gilchrist, my Grandmother was her sister Annie Gilchrist b 1896 West Ham, please contact me if you wish and I can fill you in on her line, I live in South Australia so we have travelled a bit from her time.
Many regards
Sylvia

[king william]

Sylvia
I would love to have the Gilchrist line - a son of Stanley and Mary was Stanley Jack Bishop born in 1908, he is the father of my husband, Robert Ian Bishop, known as Bob - we are in New Zealand as Bob's parents emigrated here in 1955. Bob has a sister Barbara who returned to England in 1959.
We have no knowledge of the Gilchrist family at all beyond Mary (who was born about 1883 in Scotland I believe) so would be very happy if you could give us some background to that family.
We look forward to hearing from you,
Robin

[Woodneefreak]

Hi Robin, hope this helps:-
1881 Scotland Census

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