Her gravestone simply stated that she died 30 Sep. In Neale and Brayley's History of the Abbey (ii. 288) she is wrongly identified as the mother of the celebrated Addison. His father died in 1703, and it was his first wife whose name was Jane. This person died intestate, and was probably of the household of one of the Prebendaries or other officials.
Source: The marriage, baptismal, and burial registers of the collegiate church or abbey of St. Peter, Westminster, edited by Joseph Lemuel Chester, London, 1876
Source: The marriage, baptismal, and burial registers of the collegiate church or abbey of St. Peter, Westminster, edited by Joseph Lemuel Chester, London, 1876
Her gravestone simply stated that she died 30 Sep. In Neale and Brayley's History of the Abbey (ii. 288) she is wrongly identified as the mother of the celebrated Addison. His father died in 1703, and it was his first wife whose name was Jane. This person died intestate, and was probably of the household of one of the Prebendaries or other officials.
Source: The marriage, baptismal, and burial registers of the collegiate church or abbey of St. Peter, Westminster, edited by Joseph Lemuel Chester, London, 1876
Source: The marriage, baptismal, and burial registers of the collegiate church or abbey of St. Peter, Westminster, edited by Joseph Lemuel Chester, London, 1876
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