File:St Andrew, Thurning - Ledger slab - geograph.org.uk - 2592516.jpg
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St Andrew's Church, Thurning, Norfolk - ledger stone of Fountain Elwin II (1703-1735) of Thurning (son of Fountain Elwin I by his wife Anne Hastings), who married Elizabeth Fleetwood, only child of Smith Fleetwood of Wood Dalling, Norfolk (Source: Joseph Foster, The Royal Lineage of Our Noble and Gentle Families, Volume 1, London, 1883, p.83 "Elwin of Booton, formerly of Thirning, Norfolk"[1]). He was the father of Elizabeth Elwin (d.1759), whose own mural monument, sculpted by W. Tyler, is in the same church. Elizabeth Elwin was the wife of William Wake (died 1750) Governor of Bombay for the English East India Company from 26 November 1742 to 17 November 1750. Two mural monuments, one to Wake the other to his wife, survive in St Andrew's Church, Thurning. Elizabeth Elwin had issue an only daughter: Margaret Wake (c.1732-1819), wife of Col. William Tryon (1729-1788), Governor of the Province of North Carolina (1765–1771) and of the Province of New York (1771–1780). Wake died in 1750 in South Africa during his return voyage to England. HeraldryArms: Argent, a chevron gules between three martlets sable (Elwin) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.325 "Elwin of Thorpe, Norfolk") impaling: Party per pale nebulée azure and or, six martlets, two, two and two, counterchanged (Fleetwood). |
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English: St Andrew, Thurning - Ledger slab  |
| Depicts | religious site, Thurning  |
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Geograph Britain and Ireland |
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John Salmon |
| Place of creation | Thurning  (Thurning→North Norfolk→Norfolk→East of England→England→United Kingdom) |
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