Military Rank:

Captain

First Name:

John

Last Name:

Meynell

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

No

Installation Date:

late 1640s/50s?

Inscription:

HERE LIETH THE BODY OF GODFREY
MEYNELL LATE OF WILLINGTON ESQR
WHO MARRIED DOROTHY DAUGHTER
OF JOHN WHITEHALL OF YELDERSLEY
GENT: BY WHOM HEE HAD 9:SONNS
AND 3:DAUGHTERS: AND DEPARTED
THIS LIFE THE 21TH: OF APRILL: 1667:
ABOUT THE 77TH: YEERE OF HIS AGE.

IN MEMORY OF CAPTAIN JOHN MEYNELL,
ELDEST SON OF ABOVE AND OF THIS PARISH.
KILLED AT BURTON-BRIDGE 1647
FIGHTING VALIANTLY FOR KING AND COUNTRY.

IN MEMORY OF THE REVD THOMAS MEYNELL AM.
PREBENDARY OF LICHFIELD AND FORTY FOUR YEARS
RECTOR OF THIS PARISH
YOUNGER [...] SON OF THE ABOVE GODFREY MEYNELL
HE MARRIED KATHERINE DAUGHTER OF THOMAS LANE ESQR.
OF BENTLEY IN THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD.
AND DIED AUGUST XXII.MDCCVII HAVING HAD 5 CHILDREN VIZ:
GODFREY, KATHERINE, DOROTHY AND SUSANNA.
AND SARAH WHO
DIED AN INFANT.

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Average

Condition Description:

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Memorial Notes:

There appear to be no records of a Captain John Meynell in the Royalist army and no record of any engagement at Burton Bridge in 1647. The Battle of Burton Bridge took place on 4 July 1643. It is possible that the error in the date is due to the epitaph to the son being added to the memorial to the father many years after the event (possibly because of the ascendancy of the Parliamentarians in the Derbyshire area) and the actual date of the battle having been forgotten and erroneously applied.