1st Marriage: 21 Dec 1733 to Mary Wesley at St Andrew's Church, Epworth.
2nd Marriage: 22 Sep 1736 to Mary Taylor in Haxey, Lincolnshire.
3rd Marriage: ? No record available (see below).
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The attached newspaper article states, "A few words on a tablet in the chancel of the church in which her husband officiated record the death of his wife, who survived him." The article is referring to a brass plate (epitaph) which was fixed to the south wall of the original church (demolished c.1796) and appears to imply that it was Rev. Whitelamb's first wife, Mary, née Wesley, that survived him. Mary is said to have died in childbirth in October 1734, but there is no mention of this in the article or on the epitaph. There is also no mention on the epitaph of Rev. Whitelamb's wife surviving him, only that she is buried "near this place", possibly within the church itself.
Rev. Whitelamb remarried in 1736 to a lady named Mary Taylor (-1744) and it is likely that the epitaph is referring to her and not Mary, née Wesley, his first wife.
There doesn't appear to be any records available of any further marriage(s) or any burial record (for this particular graveyard at least) of a wife that could have survived him.
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https://archive.org/details/memorialsofwesle00stev/page/294/mode/2up?view=theater
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Born: c.1706
Burial: 29 Jul 1769
1st Marriage: 21 Dec 1733 to Mary Wesley at St Andrew's Church, Epworth.
2nd Marriage: 22 Sep 1736 to Mary Taylor in Haxey, Lincolnshire.
3rd Marriage: ? No record available (see below).
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The attached newspaper article states, "A few words on a tablet in the chancel of the church in which her husband officiated record the death of his wife, who survived him." The article is referring to a brass plate (epitaph) which was fixed to the south wall of the original church (demolished c.1796) and appears to imply that it was Rev. Whitelamb's first wife, Mary, née Wesley, that survived him. Mary is said to have died in childbirth in October 1734, but there is no mention of this in the article or on the epitaph. There is also no mention on the epitaph of Rev. Whitelamb's wife surviving him, only that she is buried "near this place", possibly within the church itself.
Rev. Whitelamb remarried in 1736 to a lady named Mary Taylor (-1744) and it is likely that the epitaph is referring to her and not Mary, née Wesley, his first wife.
There doesn't appear to be any records available of any further marriage(s) or any burial record (for this particular graveyard at least) of a wife that could have survived him.
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https://archive.org/details/memorialsofwesle00stev/page/294/mode/2up?view=theater
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Born: c.1706
Burial: 29 Jul 1769
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