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Description: Monument in w:Bristol Cathedral with recumbent effigy of Joan Wadham (1533-1603), a daughter of w:John Wadham (died 1578) of w:Merryfield, Ilton, Somerset and w:Edge, Branscombe, Devon, and a sister and co-heiress of Nicholas Wadham (1531–1609), co-founder with his wife w:Dorothy Wadham of w:Wadham College, Oxford. Joan later remarried Sir John Young. Inscription:[1] "Here lyes the bodies of Sir John Young knight and Dame Joan his wyfe. By him she yssued Robert, Jane and Margaret. She was fyreste marryed to Sir Gyles Straingwayes knight by whome shee had yssue John, Edward, George, Nicholas, Ann and Elizabeth. She was daughter to John Wadham esquire and she departed this mortall lyfe the 14th June 1603 aged 70 yeeres".
Title: Bristol Cathedral Young monument
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