Dame Thomasine BELLINGHAM

  Noted events in her life were:

• Memorial: Kendal Parish Church : Westmorland. In the Kendal Parish Church in Westmorland in the North corner in the Bellingham chapel can be found a small marble table in her memory; above it is the arms of the Thornburgh family with a total of six quarterings. The inscription is marred by cracks but is still plainley describable. It shows her to be the daughter of Sir Robert Bellingham and the wife of Sir William Thornburgh and that she died 8/12/1582
THIS WORLD. SHE LEFT THERE OF LOTH, ALLMIGHTY GOD HIR COVLE RECEAVE, TO HEVENLY BLIS SHE HUMBLYE CRAVED.

• See also. http://home.att.net/~rgartee/thornsb/d99.htm

Thomasine married Sir William THORNBURGH, son of Rowland THORNBURGH Esq and Margaret MIDDLETON, ca. 1540 in Hampsfield Hall, Lancashire County, ENGLAND. (Sir William THORNBURGH was born ca. 1511 in Hampsfield Hall, Lancashire County, ENGLAND and died on 18 Nov 1552.)