Hawes M.I. at Solihull

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John Brandon

Hawes M.I. at Solihull

Legg inn av John Brandon » 14 mai 2007 21:22:10

Back in 2005, I wrote the following:

I'm pretty certain that we can assign a birth year of 1530 to William
Hawes (d. 1611). The _VCH Warwickshire_, discussing Solihull church
(4:228), notes that ...

"At the east end of the north aisle on the arcade wall, high up, is a
stone tablet set with a brass plate incised with the kneeling figures
of a man and wife, four sons and four daughters, and an inscription to
William Hawes and Ursula (Colles) his wife. There is also on the
south wall of the crossing a painted wooden memorial to the same
William Hawes, died 19 October 1611, with a Latin acrostic and English
verse of thirty lines; over the inscription are shields of arms."

A fellow Hawes descendant, Janet Ireland Delorey, sent me a copy of a
rubbing of this brass many years ago (I don't know whether or not it's
included in James W. Hawes's book on the
family [I think it's not included]). It shows a man and woman
kneeling in the foreground; four sons are kneeling behind the father
and four daughters behind the mother. In the top center of the brass
is a stylized depiction of the sun, in the center of which are the
words, "Jehouah GOD." At the bottom of the brass is this
inscription:

HERE WILLM HAWES & VRSVLA HIS WIFE
THER BODIES LIE THER SOVLES WTH CHRIST IN LIFE
WHOSE HOLY SPIRIT DID SO DIRECT THER WAYES
THAT IN HIS FEARE THEY LIVED TO AGED DAYES
IN ENDLES JOYE THEY NOW WTH CHRIST REMAINE
BY WHOSE BLOOD ALL SALVATION DOE OBTAINE

On the left side of the picture, directly above the man's head, are
the words:

1610
WILLM
HAWES
AETATIS
80

On the right side of the picture, directly above the woman's head, are
the words:

1610
VRSVLA
COLLES
AETATIS
70

As Doug notes in the new book, "She [Ursula Colles] was baptized at
Leigh with Bransford, Worcestershire 21 June 1540." A little math
will show that a child born in 1540 would be 70 in the year 1610,
which is the age assigned to Ursula on the brass. Inferring from this
paradigm,
I think we can say with certainty that the husband, William Hawes, was
aged 80 in 1610; hence, born in the year 1530.
Both William Hawes and his wife Ursula died shortly after
1610. Apparently the brass was put up while both were still living
and was to celebrate their attainment of 80 and 70 years of age,
respectively.
* * * * * * *

A description of this monument in _Transactions of the Birmingham and
Warwickshire Archaeological Society_ seems to support this conclusion,
i.e., that the ages shown are for the husband and wife in the year
1610, not at the time of their deaths (1611 and 1616).

http://books.google.com/books?id=lV0JAA ... 2+solihull

Does anyone know of other monuments put up _prior_ to the deaths of
the subjects and giving their ages *at that time*?


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