Title:

Gentleman

Military Rank:

Colonel

First Name:

John

Last Name:

Milward

Memorial Type:

Memorial - Funerary

Does the monument still exist?

Yes

Installation Date:

post 1658

Inscription:

According to Cox, the original plate on the memorial reads:
“To the pious memory of Anne Millward, daughter of James Whitehalgh, of Whitehalgh, in the county of Stafford, gent., and wife of John Millward, of Snitterton, Esq., who had issue by her, three sons and eight daughters. She departed this life the 20 of June, in the yeare of our Lord 1658, The 49 year of her age.”

During the repairs of 1885 a slab came to light under the altar steps, on which was a brass plate recording that John, eldest son of John Milward, of Snitterton, married, for his second wife, Joyce, younger daughter of Henry Sacheverell of Morley, and died October 3rd, 1669. The rector removed the tablet, and had it fixed on a blank space which was left by the side of his mother’s inscription on the base of the large monument.

Allegiance:

Royalist

Condition:

Good

Condition Description:

Viewed 24 March 2022

Memorial Notes:

For a description of the Milward memorial see:
Cox, J.C. The Church of St. Helen's, Darley Dale, in Derbyshire Archaeological Journal (1905), Volume 27, pp. 11-38

Sample, Eric 1973 Maynard Monument, St.Helen, Darley Dale, Derbyshire Life & Countryside, September 1973

For information on Colonel John Milward 1599-1670, his position as Commissioner of Array and his regiments see:
Bennett, Martyn 2021 In the Midst of the Kingdom: The Royalist War Effort in the North Midlands 1642-1646. Warwick, Helion & Company Ltd, Appendix 1, p.195 & Appendix III, pp.245-246

Newman, P.R. 1981 Royalist Officers, 950. Millward, John

https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/milward-john-1599-1670
MILWARD, John (1599-1670), of Snitterton, Darley Dale, Derbys.
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1660-1690, ed. B.D. Henning, 1983

Note that there is also a representation of John Milward on his father's chest tomb in St. Leonard's Church, Church Ln, Thorpe, Ashbourne DE6 2AW, as a figure with his brother and sisters, about 1642.