The Monumental Church Brasses of Thurrock

 

St Mary’s Church, Chadwell-St Mary
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Thurrock Church Brasses

 An inscription, 14.2 x 48.7cm, and shield, 17.5 x 14.9cm, of Cicilye, wife of Thomas Owen of London, a merchant tailor who died in 1603.

‘HERE LIETH THE BODY OF CICILYE OWEN WIFE
TO THOMAS OWEN OF LONDON MARCHAVN TAYL
LER WHO HAD BY HER 7 SONNES & 3 DAVGHTERS
SHE DIED THE 18 DAY OF AVGUST 1603 WHOSE
SOVLE IS AT REST WITH GOD.’

Thomas Owen owned a number of properties in Orsett, Chadwell and Little Thurrock including Chadwell Place which is presumably where they lived. In 1607 he sold all his local properties to Sir Thomas Temple.

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