Title:

Gentleman

Military Rank:

Colonel

First Name:

Hugh

Last Name:

Cholmley

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

post 1657

Inscription:

From a poor photograph
Deposited
The body of Elizabeth ye daughter of
Sr William Twysden of East Peckham in e County
Of Kent Knt. M Bart wife to Sr Hugh Cholmeley of
Whitby in the County of Yorke Knt. And Bart. She dyed
the 17th of Aprill 1655 and was aged 56.
Heer also lyes
the body of Sr Hugh Cholmeley her husband who for ye great love
he bore the virtuous worth he found in the said Elizabeth declined
the being interred in his own country among his ancestors ???? ???
to be laid heer beside her, by whom he had six children ?????
Elizabeth deceased young, William Hugh Ann and Elizabeth ???
at his death which happened ye 30th of November 1667 ? In the ???? yeare of his age.
Also Deposited
The body of Sr William Cholmeley Bart their Son and heir who marryed
First Katherine daughter of Sr John Hotham of Scarburgh in the County of
Yorke Knt. & Bart who just gave life to her onely child ???????????
him last a few howers, he marryed for his second wife Katherine daughter
of John Smith of Methly in the County of Yorke ????????children
that he had by her onely Katherine his second ???????????????
Elizabeth his eldest being at his death ?????????????????????
Margaret his third fully three, Sr Hugh Cholmley ?????????????
ind ???? left in his cradle dyed ?????????????????????????
????? the third yeare of ???????????????????????????????
interred by his Father

Allegiance:

Parliamentarian 1642-43, Royalist March 1643 onwards

Condition:

Average

Condition Description:

Photographic evidence

Memorial Notes:

Also a black stone floor memorial to his wife, Lady Elizabeth Cholmley 1600-54. Inscription unknown.
See: Binns, Jack 2008 Sir Hugh Cholmley of Whitby 1600-1657. Pickering, Blackthorn Press.