Joan Berry

Notes:

Her gravestone bears a brass representing a Jacobean lady, her hands clasped in prayer, wearing a great beaver hat and a high, pleated ruff. Above her effigy is a small brass plate with a Latin sentence that roughly translated says:"O friend, if you seek the grave of the one who prepared it, it was John my husband by the name of Austen."

Beneath her effigy is a larger brass plate stating:
"Here underlyeth the body of Joane Berry daughter of Jeffery Berry sometime of the parish of Midley and wyfe to John Austen of this pish [parish] of Horsmonden beinge of the age of 36 yeares who depted the 9th of Decemb: 1604 and left behind her 8 sones and one daughter. Vidz: John Jeffry [sic] Benjamin Robt Joane Francis Peter Thomas & Robid [sic - i.e. Richard] of wch two last she died in childbed often utteringe these speaches 'let nether husband nor chidren nor land nor goods separate me from the [thee] my God.'"

Joan married John Austen 10 Sep 1584, Lydd, Kent, England. John was born ca 1560, England; died Bef 5 March 1620, Horsemonden, Kent, England; was buried , St. Margaret of Antioch Church, Pisidia, Horsmonden, Kent, England. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Married:
Frank Watt Tyler. The Tyler Collection. Canterbury, Kent, England: The Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies.

Name: John Austen
Event Type: Marriage
Marriage Date: 10 Sep 1584
Marriage Place: Lydd, Kent
Spouse Name: Joane Bere

1. Jeffrey Austen was born Bef 02 Jun 1588, Horsemonden, Kent, England; was christened 02 Jun 1588, Horsemonden, Kent, England; died ca 1636, Horsemonden, Kent, England.
2. Francis Austen was born Abt 1600, Horsemonden, Kent, England; was christened 11 May 1600, St. Margaret of Antioch Church, Pisidia, Horsmonden, Kent, England; died Mar 1687, Horsemonden, Kent, England; was buried 15 Mar 1687, St. Margaret of Antioch Church, Pisidia, Horsmonden, Kent, England.