Heraldic Monuments at Purton, Wiltshire (SADLER, SHEPPARD, etc.)
RHBC-Z
monuments inside the parish church of St Mary the Virgin at Purton,
Wiltshire, I would be interested to learn if any of them have been
recorded in heraldic literature known to other readers of this list.
Here are the URL, viz.:
http://www.oodwooc.f9.co.uk/ph_purton_mem.htm#
I am particularly interested in the Sadler and Sheppard monuments and
the arms they display.
Derek Howard
> Having discovered that there are armorial bearings on various
> monuments inside the parish church of St Mary the Virgin at Purton,
> Wiltshire, I would be interested to learn if any of them have been
> recorded in heraldic literature known to other readers of this list.
>
> Here are the URL, viz.:
>
> <http://www.oodwooc.f9.co.uk/ph_purton_mem.htm>
>
> the arms they display.
Thanks for the URL - if only all armorially decorated churches were
covered so well ...
The shield of Samuel Sheppard d. 1782 - Gules three battle axes
(Argent?) a chief Ermine - appears to be a minor variant of that of
Shepard of Buckinghamshire (where the battle axes are Or) but this is
insufficient to suggest no relationship. The Buckinghamshire family
had a crest of 2 battleaxes in saltier Or.
The shield of John Sadler d. 1747 and his family - Or a lion rampant
per fess Azure and Gules is attributed in 1780 to the Sadler family of
Temple-Dinsley, Standon and Stopwell, Hertfordshire. The crest is a
demi-lion Azure ducally crowned Gules (or in another version
Or)(another version says the lion is armed and langued Argent).
This shield appears to have been granted in 1542 to Sir Ralph Sadleir
or Sadler knight of Standon in Hertfordshire, who is said to be the
last knight banneret who lived in England (having been so made after
the battle of Musselborough in Scotland). He was Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster and a Privy Councillor to all the Tudors from Henry
VIII on. Apparently an alteration to the arms was granted in 1575-6
but under the name of Sir Paul - possibly an error in original or
transcript. One ref says he died without issue but in 1679 the arms
were said to be borne by Sir Edwin Sadler kt., of Temple Dinsley,
Herts. having formerly been borne by Ralph Sadler of Sandon, Esq., the
grandson and heir male of Sir Ralph. In the 17th century records that
the arms were to be found in an ancient roll owned by Clarenceux
King of Arms. I have not yet checked the Dictionary of British Arms
for any medieval occurences of the shield before Sir Ralph (who may
have been confirmed or granted a version of arms long in use in his
family).
The shield at the bottom of the Sadler memorial at Purton is that of
the Champernon family about whom I can find nothing more on a quick
check other than there are several variants - Gules a saltire vairy
between 4 crosses paty fitchy Or; a version with 12 crosses formy
fitchy Or (the one in question I think) and a version with the 12
crosses botony Or. The name Franklin on the monument appears to be
that of the sculptor as it is seemingly on more than one monument.
I cannot see the brass plaque with the 19th century quartered arms
clearly enough to comment on the quarterings. Perhaps someone else
can?
Derek Howard
RHBC-Z
Thanks you so much for your research into these arms.
The website run by Mandy Ball has links to many other Wiltshire parish
churches and their monumental inscription inside and outside and
covers much of North Wilts., particularly its eastern part.
I wonder if you can comment on the likelihood or not that arms so
displayed are likely to be used by right or simply assumed?
I found a references in Crozier's "General Armory", p. 118, col. 2,
to "Shepard, Massachusetts" , borne by "Rev. Thomas Shepard,
Cambridge. (Earl's Colne, Essex)" as "Gules, three battle-axes or, a
chief ermine. Crest -- Two battle-axes in saltire or. Motto -- Nec
timeo, nec sperno."
These arms are also listed as being borne by "Shepard, Michigan.
Charles Nelson Shepard, Esq., Grand Rapids. Same Arms as Rev. Thomas
Shepard, Cambridge, Mass."
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Derek Howard
> I wonder if you can comment on the likelihood or not that arms so
> displayed are likely to be used by right or simply assumed?
>
> I found a references in Crozier's "General Armory", p. 118, col. 2,
> to "Shepard, Massachusetts" , borne by "Rev. Thomas Shepard,
> Cambridge. (Earl's Colne, Essex)" as "Gules, three battle-axes or, a
> chief ermine. Crest -- Two battle-axes in saltire or. Motto -- Nec
> timeo, nec sperno."
>
> These arms are also listed as being borne by "Shepard, Michigan.
> Charles Nelson Shepard, Esq., Grand Rapids. Same Arms as Rev. Thomas
> Shepard, Cambridge, Mass."
You will have to do some thorough genealogical research to establish
whether the families are related or were assuming the arms of a same
surname family. However, it is quite likely and a reasonable starting
hypothesis that the Wiltshire, Essex and Massachussets families are
linked.
Derek Howard
RHBC-Z
In fact, I am engaged in a 20-odd year project to trace these Purton
families (SADLER, SHEPPARD), so your advice is certainly on the mark!
I had hopes that perhaps someone out there in the ether might have
some knowledge of the specifics of these arms, and that this might
lead me to a genealogical account of the families concerned. In
identifying the blazons and their proper owners, you have indicated
some very useful directions in which I can now make genealogical
enquiries.
What is curious about the Sadler arms displayed at Purton is that they
are not those of either of the armigerous Sadler/Sadleir families
recorded in the Visitations of Wiltshire (1565) and (1623). See the
following URLs for the 1623 Visitation, in which, alas, no arms are
displayed (Visitation reproduced courtesy of Nigel Batty-Smith,
genealogist and inheritor of the valuable collection of his father and
grandfather), viz.:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.battysmith/Wiltshire/visitations/p18.html
[which shows the line of Sadler settled at Costow in the parish of
Wroughton, Wiltshire, which was that of Sir Thomas Sadler, of
Salisbury, temp. Jas I]
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.battysmith/Wiltshire/visitations/p68.html
(Sadleir of Salthrop [parish of Wroughton], Wiltshire, wherein the
granddaughter of Sir Ralph is shown to have married Robert Sadler [fl.
1623])
In addition two men are specifically declared ignoble (John Sadler of
Overton [in the parish of Wroughton] and ... Sadler of East Everley
[parish of Everley, Wiltshire, where Henry Sadleir the 3rd son of Sir
Ralph Sadleir of Temple Dinsley, Herts. {and Hackney} is supposed to
have settled]). See the following pages of the Visitation at these
URLs, viz.:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.battysmith/Wiltshire/visitations/p108.html
[John Sadler, disclaimed, of Overton in Wroughton]
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.battysmith/Wiltshire/visitations/p109.html
[Nomen Nescio Sadleir, disclaimed, of East Everley in Everley]
John Sadler (d. 1925), professional genealogist, and compiler of
parish register transcripts for publication by Phillimore, collected a
vast amount of information about Wiltshire Sadlers as he tried to
discover the exact reason (genealogical) why his Sadler forebear was
willed the estates of his kinswoman Jane Sadler, Mrs Bendry, of
Wroughton, Wilts., the last member of the Visitation family of Sadler
of Elcombe alias Wroughton.
Among the papers of John Sadler, genealogist, which extend over more
than 600 pages of mss notes of engrossed wills, chancery proceedings,
etc., are several sketch pedigrees of the Wiltshire Sadler family
including my line from Purton, whose armorial memorials are under
discussion. Sadler indicates that the Purton Sadlers descend from
those of Wroughton recorded in the Visitation, but he is lamentably
brief in his delineation of this, stopping in the 16th or 17th
century. I have been endeavouring to trace the link, and have made
some progress, but as yet no clear pedigree has been forthcoming,
though I have progressed back to circa 1635 with my line at Purton and
have established links to some of the engrossed wills in Sadler's
mss.( It almost seems that the best of Sadler's findings were not
passed on to the Wiltshire Archælogical and Natural History Society in
whose Devizes library I was able to view his collection after being
referred to it by a footnote in the Victoria County History volume
covering Wroughton.
The Wroughton Sadler family and the Temple Dinsley (Herts.) Sadler
family descended from the courtier Sir Ralph Sadler, protegé of Thomas
Cromwell, are not, so far as I can establish, related in the male
line, though there was an early intermarriage of one of Sir Ralph's
female relatives with a Wroughton [Salthrop] Sadler. It would seem to
be impossible for the Purton Sadlers to be related to those of
Wroughton as indicated by John Sadler, genealogist, if they used the
Temple Dinsley Sadler arms legitimately.
Are there specialised compilations available on Wiltshire's Landed and
Armigerous Families specifically (as opposed to Burke etc., which I
have already consulted). I would be interested to know too if there
are studies of hatchments and armorial bearings displayed in
Wiltshire's churches and public buildings that might provide useful
information (I have consulted Aubrey).
Many thanks.
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RHBC-Z
to me, I
have written up a fuller account of my research to date into these
apparently armigerous families (with some modifications for various
Wiltshire genealogy lists I subscribe to), viz.:
I am engaged in a 20-odd year project to trace these Purton
families (SADLER, SHEPPARD). I have hopes that perhaps
someone out there in the ether may have some knowledge of
the specifics of these arms, and that this might lead me to a
genealogical account of the families concerned.
What is curious about the Sadler arms displayed at Purton is that they
are not those of either of the armigerous Sadler/Sadleir families
recorded in the Visitations of Wiltshire (1565) and (1623, but rather
those granted to Sir Ralph Sadleir or Sadler, of Standon, Herts., in
1542).
Here are the comments of one heraldist, Derek Howard, at rec.heraldry,
a
public forum for the discussion of matters heraldic, viz.:
"The shield of John Sadler d. 1747 and his family - Or a lion rampant
per fess Azure and Gules is attributed in 1780 to the Sadler family of
Temple-Dinsley, Standon and Sopwell, Hertfordshire. The crest is a
To this I can add that as genealogical and heraldic evidence re the
reputed descent
of the Purton Sadler family from one of those of Wroughton, Wilts.,
one can examine
the accounts recited in the Visitations of Wiltshire.
See the following URLs for the 1623 Visitation, in which, alas, no
arms are
displayed (Visitation reproduced courtesy of Nigel Batty-Smith,
genealogist and inheritor of the valuable collection of his father and
grandfather), viz.:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.battysmith/Wiltshire/visitations/p18.html
[which shows the line of Sadler settled at Costow [also Costoe] in
the parish of
Wroughton, Wiltshire, which was that of Sir Thomas Sadler, principal
registrar of
the diocese of Sarum [Salisbury], temp. Jas I].
Arms: party per saltire ermine and or, four escutcheons gules [vert].
Confirmed to
Sir Thomas Sadler of New Sarum by William Camden, Clarenceux King of
Arms.
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.battysmith/Wiltshire/visitations/p68.html
(Sadleir of Salthrop [parish of Wroughton], Wiltshire, wherein the
granddaughter of Sir Ralph is shown to have married Robert Sadler [fl.
1623])
Arms: A wolf passant in chief ----- and a wolf's head erased -----.
Crest: A wolf's
head erased ----. No arms supplied by Camden according to an annotated
version
of the 1623 Visitation (not the Batty-Smith one on-line) which I saw
many years ago.
The annotator continues: "[quere This is an old seale of the same
famyely of Sr Tho
Sadler of Sarum.]"
These blazons accompany pedigrees found are on pp. 163-165 on this
version of the
1623 Visititation of Wiltshire which include the additional material
cited as follows, viz.:
" [I C. 22, 18: Lyte 11; Harl. 1165, 12.]"
Returning to the unannotated version of the 1623 Visitation of Wilts.,
available on-line:
in addition to the foregoing, two men are specifically declared
ignoble (John Sadler of
Overton [Overtown or Overton in the parish of Wroughton] and ...
Sadler of East Everley
[parish of Everley, Wiltshire, where Henry Sadleir the 3rd son of Sir
Ralph Sadleir of
Standon, Herts. {and Hackney} is supposed to have settled]). See the
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.battysmith/Wiltshire/visitations/p108.html
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.battysmith/Wiltshire/visitations/p109.html
family descended from the courtier Sir Ralph Sadleir, protegé of
Thomas
Cromwell, are not, so far as I can establish, related in the male
line, though there was an early intermarriage of one of Sir Ralph's
female relatives with a Wroughton [Salthrop] Sadler. It would seem to
be impossible for the Purton Sadlers to be related to those of
Wroughton as indicated by John Sadler, genealogist, if they used the
Temple Dinsley Sadler arms legitimately.
Are there specialised compilations available on Wiltshire's Landed and
Armigerous Families specifically (as opposed to Burke etc., which I
have already consulted). I would be interested to know too if there
are studies of hatchments and armorial bearings displayed in
Wiltshire's churches and public buildings that might provide useful
information (I have consulted Aubrey, though not as thoroughly as I
would
like, not having it readily available to me).
The Sheppard arms are also displayed in Purton parish church, viz.:
http://www.oodwooc.f9.co.uk/ph_purton_mem.htm
They have been identified by Derek Howard on the rec.heraldry
newsgroup
as being those of the armigerous Shepard [sic] family of
Buckinghamshire,
and are blazoned as follow, viz.:
"The shield of Samuel Sheppard d. 1782 - Gules three battle axes
(Argent?) a chief Ermine - appears to be a minor variant of that of
Shepard of Buckinghamshire (where the battle axes are Or) but this is
insufficient to suggest no relationship. The Buckinghamshire family
had a crest of 2 battleaxes in saltier Or."
In addition, I found a references in the American William Armstrong
Crozier's
"General Armory", p. 118, col. 2, to "Shepard, Massachusetts" ,
borne by
"[The] Rev. Thomas Shepard, Cambridge. (Earl's Colne, Essex)" as
"Gules,
three battle-axes or, a chief ermine. Crest -- Two battle-axes in
saltire or.
Motto -- Nec timeo, nec sperno."
These arms are also listed as being borne by "Shepard, Michigan.
Charles Nelson Shepard, Esq., Grand Rapids. Same Arms as [The] Rev.
Thomas Shepard, Cambridge, Mass."
The later arms of Sadler of Purton quarter Champernowne (an ancient
Devonian
knightly family), and can be seen at the URL noted above, viz.:
http://www.oodwooc.f9.co.uk/ph_purton_mem.htm
I descend from Mary Sadler (1775-1842), wife of Richard Plummer,
gent., of Purton
and Lydiard Tregoz, Wilts. (1773-1824), second son of Thomas Plummer,
of Purton,
by his wife Sarah, daughter and eventual heiress of Edward Deane, of
Purton, Wilts.
Mary Sadler, Mrs Plummer, aforenamed, was the 2nd daughter of William
Sadler, of
Purton (1744/5-1817) by his wife Hannah (1750/1-1809), herself the
daughter of
William Orum, yeoman, of Garsdon, Wiltshire, by his second wife, Mary
Lea]. William
Sadler and Hannah (Orum) are named later in armorial MI headed by
William's father,
John Sadler (d. 1747, aged 38) and his wife, Hannah (née Sheppard )(d.
1797, aged
83) , where the painted escutcheon displays the simple arms of the
original Sadleir of
Standon coat. The other (later) Sadler armorial memorials are those of
male line
descendants, showing quarterings brought in my marrriage with,
presumably, heraldic
heiresses. They include those erected in 1890 by the Squire of Purton,
James Henry
Sadler (1843-1929), J.P., benefactor (founder of the Purton
Workingmen's Institute)
and local character. He descended from the younger brother of my
ancestress, Mary
Sadler, Mrs Richard Plummer, namely Samuel Sadler (1782-1845), gent.,
of Arle Court,
Cheltenham, Glos., who married Eleanor Champernowne (1783-1823),
daughter of
William Champernowne, of Cricklade, Wiltshire, by his wife, Elizabeth
Stone. I do not
know the filiation in the earlier Champernowne lineage that might
prove a link to the
Devonian family of Champernoune/Champernown/de Champernon. I have some
idea of
how Eleanor Champernowne, wife of Samuel Sadler, may be related to the
Devonshire
family. Through research into the wife, Catherine Hall Jenner
(1780-1870), of my ancestor
Richard Plummer's younger brother, Joseph Plummer (1784-1849), gent.
of Cricklade, I
have constructed a pedigree that indicates that descendants of the
Reverend John
Champernowne (1682-1732), Vicar of Paignton, Devon, established
themselves in Wiltshire.
The Vicar married one Margaret Mallock, and had issue, among others, a
third son, Richard
Champernowne (baptised 1727 at Paignton). This Richard seems to be
identical with the one
who married Catherine Hall at Eisey, Wilts., on 14 Jan. 1746/7. They
had at least two children,
namely, Eleanor (baptised 1749, Cricklade St Sampson, Wilts., and
possibly the aunt and
godmother after whom Eleanor Champernowne [1783-1823], wife of Samuel
Sadler was
named), and Catherine Champernowne (1762-1794), who married Thomas
Jenner (1749-
1809), of Marston Meysey and Cricklade, Wilts. at Eisey, Wilts. on 12
May 1779. Their eldest
child was Catherine Hall Jenner, who married my ancestral uncle Joseph
Plummer. Of their
other children, their son Richard Jenner (baptised 1791 at Eisey),
married my great-great
grandfather, William Large's (1805-1871) elder sister Susannah Large
(baptised 1803,
Christian Malford, Wilts.; her brother William, my forebear, married
Mary Ann Plummer,
daughter of Richard Plummer, gent., of Purton and Lydiard Tregoz by
his wife, Mary Sadler),
while their daughter, Ann Jenner (1794-?), married Richard
Champernowne, of Colerne, Wilts.
(whose blood connexion to the rest of the Wiltshire family of
Champernowne remains a mystery
to me) at Cricklade St Sampson on 15 April 1811, leaving at least
seven children, including
a son Arthur Champernowne, whom I find in the 1881 census recorded as
"Arthur Champernoune",
widowed agricultural labourer, in the 1881 census as a pauper living
in the union workhouse at
Purton, which must involve something of a comedown in fortune
considering his probable double
descent from Sir Arthur Champernowne, Kt, Vice-Admiral of the West (d.
1578), for whom I
imagine he was named. Shades of "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"!
James Henry Sadler, Squire of Purton, was the 2nd son of Samuel
Champernowne Sadler (1809-
1889), of Purton Court, Purton, Wilts., himself the 2nd son of
Samuel Sadler and Eleanor
Champernowne. S.C. Sadler married Fanny Jarvis, daughter of Simon
Jarvis, gent., of Upavon,
Wilts. I wonder if one of the quarterings stems from this marriage?
Squire Sadler himself was
married on 16 Dec. 1879 at St James's Westminster to the considerably
older (so I am told) Ann
Matilda Butt, formerly Mrs Fisher, daughter of Thomas Packer William
Butt, of Arle Court,
Cheltenham, Glos. [Walford's County Families, 1890 edn]. This may be
the source of a further
quartering. Squire Sadler (my second cousin, thrice removed!) was
apparently something of
a rake, as well as being quite feudal toward Purtonians. He had a son,
James Fisher alias Sadler,
his wife's daughter by her earlier marriage to Mr [Christian name
unknown to me] Fisher, Annie
Marion Fisher. It is a curiosity of my genealogy that I have also
found a Thomas Packer Butt,
perhaps grandfather or great-grandfather of Ann Matilda Butt, Mrs
Fisher/Sadler, whose own
father bore a very similar name, already cited. This Thomas Packer
Butt married at Purton on
29 July 1784 one Anne Sheppard (baptised 1756 at Purton) daughter of
James Sheppard (1716/7-
1771), baker, of Purton, by his wife, Betty Carter. He was the younger
brother of Samuel Sheppard
of Purton whose Purton MI is the cause of Sheppard arms query.
The Sheppard arms displayed in the memorial to Samuel Sheppard, mercer
(d. 1782 aged 69)
and his wife, Ann (d. 1783 aged 70; N.B. her maiden name unknown to
me), if borne correctly,
would also be those of the paternal family of Hannah Sheppard
(baptised 1715, Purton),
Mrs John Sadler, as Samuel Sheppard, aforenamed, (baptised 1712 at
Purton; d. 1782) was
her elder brother. They were the eldest children of Henry Sheppard
(1675-1718), of Purton Stoke,
Wilts., by his wife Anne Hayward (d. 1718/9) whom he married at Eisey,
Wilts., in 1712. Henry
Sheppard was, so far as I can tell, the only child of Samuel Sheppard
and his wife Elizabeth Carter,
who were married at Purton on 17 June 1669. This is as far back as I
can trace the Sheppard lineage,
possibly due to gaps in the Purton registers, though the family may
have arrived in the parish
shortly before this time or used an additional parish church in
another part of England (possibly
Buckinghamshire or Essex where Shepard [sic] families bearing the
same, or similar, arms, are
recorded in the heraldic literature as residing). Apart from the
children I have already named, I
find that Henry Sheppard and Anne Hayward his wife had Grace Sheppard
(bt. 1718, Purton), for
whom I have found, as yet, no husband, and possibly Mary Sheppard
(born circa 1720), wife of
Jonas Bathe (1718-1793), feltmaker, of Purton. This couple had a third
child, and second son,
James Bathe (1745-?) who married Mary Sheppard (baptised 1753),
daughter of Samuel Sheppard,
mercer, by his wife Ann whose armorial MI is under discussion. James
Bathe and Mary Sheppard's
daughter, Mary Anne Bathe (1785-1871) married her probable double
cousin, Thomas Sadler (1784-
1852), of Shaw in the parish of Lydiard Millicent, Wilts., who is yet
another brother of my ancestress,
Mary Sadler, Mrs Richard Plummer. Their son, Thomas Butt Sadler
(1813/4-1889), married my great-
great grandfather William Large's younger sister, Ann Large (baptised
1810, Christian Malford), and
has issue at least one child, James William Large (1840-1845). As one
can see from this
account there is a very high incidence of cousin marriage in this area
making for a very interrelated
community!
I would be interested in learning more about these families, the arms
their monuments display and their
ties to other armigerous and non-armigerous Purton area families.
As I make my investigations into the Purton registers, and examine the
wills I have on hand and other
documents, it is becoming clear that a great many people descended
from relatively humble folk
at later periods of Purton's history must be related to these
relatively well-healed and well-documented
members of the local farming and mercantile gentry via their
genealogical ramifications among the local
yeomanry and thence the 'lower orders' of husbandmen, tenantry,
cottagers and small artisans. I have
hopes yet of tying most or all the inhabitants of the village and
surrounding parishes together into one
great kinship group, with Gallipot eyes.
To anyone who has been kind enough to send me a message and has yet to
hear back from me, please
rest assured that I will reply to all enquirers and correspondents.
Life is improving greatly as my computer
problems are being solved bit by bit (Now to get my scanner to be
recognised by the software again!).
Many thanks.