![Stoke Rochford Ss Andrew & Mary, interior - tower arch funerary hatchment. For Edmund Turnor (1755/6-1829), FRS, FSA, JP, antiquarian, author, landowner and politician. He married twice: firstly to Elizabeth Broke (died 1801), a daughter of Philip Broke of Broke Hall in Suffolk, and sister to Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke. The marriage produced a daughter, Elizabeth Edmunda Turnor. His second marriage was to Dorothea Tucker, a daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Tucker and sister of Sir Edward Tucker KCB, producing five sons. Arms quarterly of 4: 1: Ermines, on a cross quarter-pierced argent four fers-de-moline sable (Turnor of Stoke Rochford) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1038) on the centre point an annulet argent for difference; 2: Argent, on a chevron sable three pears (?) of the field 3: Argent, a fess and in chief a lion passant sable 4: Azure, a bend raguly or. From his heraldry he married twice: firstly to member of the Broke family; Arms of Brooke: Or, a cross engrailed per pale gules and sable; secondly to a member of the Tucker family whose arms were: Azure, a chevron between three sea-horses argent (Tucker). His arms, quarterly of 4 are shown at centre, impaling the arms of his two wives, the first in the position of greatest honour at dexter (left). Text from [1]: "In the C17 the estate of Stoke Rochford came into the possession of Sir Edmund Turnor who in 1665 began to build a new house on the site of the old one. Around it he laid out formal gardens, parterres, and terraces before he died in 1707. The park was extended and landscaped during the C18, its layout being recorded on the 1799 Enclosure map. The gardens survived in part until the beginning of the C19 but Sir Edmund's house was taken down by his successors in 1774 and by 1794 another, smaller house had taken its place (CL 1901). Mr Edmund Turnor resided in the new house until his death in 1829 and the estate passed to his son, Sir Christopher Turnor. By the 1840s the Turnor family fortune was considerable, allowing Sir Christopher to abandon the old house and its gardens. He commissioned the architect William Burn to design a grand new mansion, which was built between 1841 and 1843 on higher ground to the north-east".](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/028_Stoke_Rochford_Ss_Andrew_%26_Mary%2C_interior_-_tower_arch_funerary_hatchment.jpg)
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Stoke Rochford Ss Andrew & Mary, interior - tower arch funerary hatchment. For Edmund Turnor (1755/6-1829), FRS, FSA, JP, antiquarian, author, landowner and politician. He married twice: firstly to Elizabeth Broke (died 1801), a daughter of Philip Broke of Broke Hall in Suffolk, and sister to Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke. The marriage produced a daughter, Elizabeth Edmunda Turnor. His second marriage was to Dorothea Tucker, a daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Tucker and sister of Sir Edward Tucker KCB, producing five sons. Arms quarterly of 4:
From his heraldry he married twice: firstly to member of the Broke family; Arms of Brooke: Or, a cross engrailed per pale gules and sable; secondly to a member of the Tucker family whose arms were: Azure, a chevron between three sea-horses argent (Tucker). His arms, quarterly of 4 are shown at centre, impaling the arms of his two wives, the first in the position of greatest honour at dexter (left). Text from [1]: "In the C17 the estate of Stoke Rochford came into the possession of Sir Edmund Turnor who in 1665 began to build a new house on the site of the old one. Around it he laid out formal gardens, parterres, and terraces before he died in 1707. The park was extended and landscaped during the C18, its layout being recorded on the 1799 Enclosure map. The gardens survived in part until the beginning of the C19 but Sir Edmund's house was taken down by his successors in 1774 and by 1794 another, smaller house had taken its place (CL 1901). Mr Edmund Turnor resided in the new house until his death in 1829 and the estate passed to his son, Sir Christopher Turnor. By the 1840s the Turnor family fortune was considerable, allowing Sir Christopher to abandon the old house and its gardens. He commissioned the architect William Burn to design a grand new mansion, which was built between 1841 and 1843 on higher ground to the north-east". |
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