Alice Reskymer - St Tudius - St Tudy, Cornwall
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N 50° 33.266 W 004° 43.878
30U E 377358 N 5601709
A slate memorial slab with effigies and coats of arms of four females, a mother (Alice Reskymer) and her three daughters in St Tudius' church, St Tudy.
Waymark Code: WMZGF0
Location: South West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 11/08/2018
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A slate memorial slab with effigies of four females, a mother (Alice Reskymer) and her three daughters (Anne, Johanna, and Katherine). Alice Reskymer died in 1563. The surviving daughters made advantageous marriages to husbands in the lower echelons of the gentry. William Reskymer the husband of Alice, was a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber of Henry VIII.
"Alice Reskimer formerly Densell aka Reskim
Born 1526 in Denzell, Cornwall, England
Daughter of John (Densell) Denzell and Mary Lacey
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of William Reskimer
Mother of Anne (Reskimer) Mohun, Katherine (Reskimer) Courtenay and Johanna (Reskimer) Lower
Died 24 Jan 1564 in Cornwall"
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Arms -
1. RESKYMER Barry of six gu. and ar. on a chief of the last a greyhound courant az.
2. DENZELL Sa. a crescent and a mullet in chief ar.