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English: St Andrew's Church, Kilverstone, Norfolk, ledger stone of Ann Vilett (1668-1709), who died aged 41, eldest daughter of George Vilett of Pynckney Hall, Tattersett, Norfolk and wife of Charles Wright of Kilverstone, Norfolk. She bore her husband 4 sons and 8 daughters. One of the daughters, the eventual heiress, was Elizabeth Wright, who married Robert Chad, by whom she was the mother of Sir George Chad, 1st Baronet (1730–1815), of Thursford Hall and Pynckney Hall in Norfolk, Recorder of King's Lynn. (Source: Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain, 13th Ed., 1921, pp.310-11, "Scott-Chad of Thurston and Pynckney"[1])

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Arms of Wright of Sutton Hall in the parish of Burnt Bradfield in Suffolk: Sable, a chevron engrailed between three fleurs-de-lys or on a chief of the last three spear heads azure (Howard, Joseph Jackson, ed. (1868). The Visitation of Suffolke, made by William Hervey, Clarenceux King of Arms, 1561, with additions from family documents, original wills, Jermyn, Davy, and other MSS, &c.: Vol 2. Lowestoft & London, p.289) impaling Vilett: Argent, on a chevron gules three towers triple-towered of the field on a canton azure a fleur-de-lis or (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1057 "Villet/Violet of Kent, per Visitation of City of London 1568, allowed to Henry Villet alias Violet" )

Edmund Wright (d.1583) of Sutton Hall and of Buckenham Tofts in Norfolk was a Member of Parliament for Steyning in Sussex in 1559. He married Frances Spring, a daughter of the clothier Sir John Spring (d.1547) of Lavenham, Suffolk. He was the second son and eventual heir of Robert (or Edmund) Wright of Sutton by his wife Jane Russell, a niece of John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford (1485-1555). Sutton Hall had been inherited by Jane Russell from her mother Jane Jervace (or Gervas) (wife of Thomas Russell), daughter and heiress of John Jervace of Sutton.
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Object location52° 25′ 18″ N, 0° 47′ 03″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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