Monumental inscriptions - Thanet St Laurence, Ramsgate
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404 [2]. Next the above, also covered by seats, surmounted by a Shield of Arms, bearing, argent on a chevron gules, between three lions’ heads erased sable, crowned or, as many bezants. Crest, a lion’s gamb erased and erect or, holding a pellet, for PETTIT. "To the memory of Sarah TICKNER who died the 27th of July 1785 aged 94 years. To the memory of Ann CURLING, who died the 8th of October 1779 aged 86 years. They were both daughters of John and Sarah Pettit. Here lye buried the bodys of John Pettit, gent., and Sarah his wife. They had issue 5 sons and 4 daughters. He departed this life September 15th …./ aged 69 years. She departed this life November 25th 1715 aged 54 years. S. Curling."
498 (7). Captain John PETTIT, buried in the south east (or north?) chapel in St Laurence Church. The Arms upon the Hatchment are as follows:
Argent, on a chevron gules between three lions’ heads1 erased sable, crowned or, as many bezants.
Crest, A lion’s gamb, erased, and erect or, holding a pellet.
John Pettit, Esquire, his wife Sarah (née HOOPER), his sister Elizabeth, married to Mr Thomas WILSON, and certainly two of his children, Sarah married to John TICKNOR2 and Ann married to Henry CURLING3 all lie buried within the Church (see their Leger Stones Nos. 1 and 2, p.82, and Nos.33, p.87). He was descended from an old Kentish family (Philpott, Vill.Cant.p.386), originally from Shalmesford4 near Chartham, from whence his ancestor about the beginning of the reign of KING EDWARD IV came into Thanet, to marry the sole daughter and heiress of John DAUNDELYONN (Lewis’s Tenet Coll.p.86) of Dent-de-Lion near Margate, who dying in the year
1 Hasted in his "History of Kent", 2nd edition, vol. x, p.400, describes them as griffins’ heads.
2 Sarah, widow of John Ticknor, bur. August 3 1785 aged 94. Burial Register.
3 Ann Pettit married Henry Curling, March 1 1719-20. Marriage Register.
4 Early mention is made of a PETIT family in Thanet, one of whom, John Petit was a feudal tenant of Christ
Church Priory, Canterbury, in 1338.
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