Memorials

Wall Plaque - Dorothy Shaw

Catalogue ID: 26

NADFAS ID: 1026

Description

Horizontal, rectangular brass plate with rounded corners, mounted on wood and secured by eight screws, commemorating Dorothy Shaw, née Heathcote (1616-57), wife of Rev John Shaw. She was the eldest of 8 children of George and Dorothy Heathcote of Cutthorpe Hall, Brampton, near Chesterfield (baptised 31 March 1616). John Shaw, in his memoir of her, states that they married in York on 10 December 1632; that she died on their 25th wedding anniversary, which was also the day her daughter Dorothy was married. They had six daughters.

Lettering engraved, unfilled, Roman Caps. It was formerly set in a floor slab near the pulpit.

Inscription and donor(s)

HERE SLEEPETH THE BODY OF MRS DOROTHY
SHAW (LATE THE DEARE WIFE OF M JOHN SHAW
PREACHER OF THE GOSPELL IN THIS CHURCH) WHO
WAS HERE INTERRED DECEMBER THE 12.1657.
WAITING FOR THE MORNING OF THE RESURRECTION
OF THE JUST.

Subjects

Forename(s)	Family name	Dates
Dorothy	Shaw (née Heathcote)	1657

Physical attributes & manufacture

Date of manufacture

Second Quarter of 17th century

Dimension	Value	Notes
Height	65mm
Width	510mm
Depth	18mm

References

Shawe, John, 1608-1672., 2012, Mistris Shawe's tomb-stone or, the saints remains. Being a brief narrative, of some few (amongst many) remarkable passages in the holy life and happy death of that precious servant of the Lord Mrs. Dorothy Shaw, (late the dearly beloved wife of Mr. John Shaw preacher of the Gospell at Kingstone upon Hull,) who sweetly slept in the Lord, Decemb. 10th. and was interred at Trinity Church, in Hull, Decemb. 12. 1657. Collected by her dearest friend: with many usefull instructions, especially for his own and his six daughters consolation and imitation., Oxford Text Archive, http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/A93051.

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