John Polsted-Anne Wheeler, Marriage, Family, Genealogy

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Notes for John Polsted and Anne Wheeler

1540 John Polsted died on September 1 and was buried at Thames Ditton, Surrey. An article about Thames Ditton Church in Surrey describes the monument of John Polsted and his wife Anne Wheeler. [1]

On the wall close to the pulpit there is a curious monument of Sussex marble, and the brasses of a man and woman and four daughters, with a coat of arms over, and the following inscription:--

Here resteth the bodye of John Polsted gent who depted this life the fyrst daye of September An^o Dni 1540 who had to wife Anne Wheeler daughter of Robert Wheeler gent by whom he had issue, Anne Jane Elizabeth and Julian the which Julian erected this monument An^o Dni 1582 and in the LXXIII year of her age.

She also erected the marble slab against the north wall of the samll chapel on the north of the chancel, with brasses of herself and her two husbands ... and their eleven children. The inscription is:--

Here with in do rest the boddyes of Cuthbet Balkeden Esquyer while he lyved Sarjant of the confectionary to King Henry theight who departed this lief Anno dni 1540. Also of John Boothe Esquyer while he lyved one of the ordynary Gentlemen usshers as weel to the said King Henry theight as to his sonne King Edward VI^th who departed thislief in Anno dni 1548. Also the boddy of Julyan sometym the wyef of the said Cuthbert and John who was the youngest dawter of John Polstead Gentleman and Anne his wyef one of the daughters of Robart Whelor Gentleman which Julyn had yssew first by the said Cuthbert, Ann Mary John Cuthbert Julyn and katheryne and after by thee said John Boothe Jane Dorothe Johane John & Myllysent and which Julyan made & erected this monument in Anno dni 1580 and in the LXXI yere of her aag and dyed in the moneth of July the 3 1586. She lyved 77.

The coats of arms of Blakeden and Boothe are over their figures, and over that of their wife the arms of Polsted impaling Whelor.

Footnotes:

[1] Arthur J. Style, "Thames Ditton Church," Surrey Archaeological Collections, Relating to the History and Antiquities of the County Vol. 7 (1880), 222-227 at 225-226, [GoogleBooks].