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The Corbet Vernon tomb

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"...chest tombs bearing effigies of the Corbet family - one with eighteen children portrayed and one with a single baby in swaddling clothes with rose and lily"

This may be true, and it was certainly the impression I also received from visiting the church, but I'm not at all sure. Sir Robert's will, available at [1] only mentions three sons and four daughters living in 1513. Add one dead, and who are all the others? There are certainly 3 male figures, in armour, and angels at each corner, but there are just too many figures on the tomb for them all to be children of Robert and Elizabeth - unless, of course, Elizabeth remarried and had more children, and they are included, but I can't find anything about this. Can anyone elucidate? Until then, I've been very cautions about labelling some of the funerary images.

John Marius Wilson Gazeteer entry - a suspected incomplete sentence (section Village)

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The last sentence in the quoted entry looks suspiciously as if there has been some words omitted in transcription just before the final word (between Corbets and charities): Several mills are on the Roden, the church is ancient; has a tower and several stained windows; and contains ancient effigies and monuments of the Corbets charities". Somebody please check this against the printed version.Cloptonson (talk) 18:42, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Further war grave to be added

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Capt R Bowers died in Afghanistan 2012 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87273087/rupert-william_michael-bowers 2A00:23C7:F242:D001:3C3A:A9F1:BB30:D30 (talk) 23:08, 10 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]