Grace & Fleetwood Watkins - St Michael - Whichford, Warwickshire - Coats of Arms on Waymarking.com

Coat of arms on a memorial to Grace Watkins [nee Tyth, of Launceston] (d.1718) and her husband Capt. Fleetwood Watkins (d.1741) in St Michael's church, Whichford.

Captain Fleetwood Watkins was eldest son of Rev Richard Watkins, Rector of Whichford, by his wife Elizabeth Hyckes. His younger brother was Henry Watkins (1666-1727) of Christ Church, Oxford, and Duke Street, Westminster, who was an army administrator and diplomat who served briefly as a Member of Parliament for Brackley in Northamptonshire (20 Apr. 1714 - 1715). Another brother was Dr Richard Watkins, a senior don at Magdalen College, Oxford until 1709. His sister was Henrietta Watkins, wife of Sir Matthew Decker, 1st Baronet (1679-1749).

He married Grace Tyth, of Launceston., Cornwall, in 1711. (Ref. Heraldic church notes from Cornwall)

The inscription on the memorial reads:

S
To the Memory of M: GRACE WATKINS
who departed this life Nov: 20^th 1718 Aged 27.
In every condition if life she was
[**altern] to her sex. She was modest
without affectation, caste without levity,
reserv'd without pride, & religious without
hypocrisy.
Here also lyeth the body of Captain
FLEETWOOD WATKINS Husband of the
above M: GRACE WATKINS.
He served with Reputation in the
Wars of King WILLIAM & Queen ANNE for
the space of twenty years. After the peace
of Utrecht he retired to this village where
He acted as a Justice of peace the Remainder
of his Days. in each capacity He was
Serviceable to his Country & led a life worthy
of Imitation.
He left two Sons & two Daughters,
& departed this life Aug^st 8^th 1741
Aged 63.