File:Dennis family memorial, Saint Thomas à Becket, Pucklechurch, South Gloucestershire, UK - 20090920.jpg

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English: The Dennis family memorial tablet in the north aisle of the parish church of Saint Thomas à Becket, Pucklechurch, South Gloucestershire, England, UK. It was erected after 1660. The Latin inscription on the tablet reads as follows:

Monumento

In memoriam Johannis Dennis Armigeri, primo-geniti et haeredis Henrici Dennis Armigeri qui 26 die Junii Anno Domini 1638 ex hac vita decessit postquam ex uxore sua Margareta Domini Georgii Speake de Whight-lackington in Comitatu Sommerset Equitis balnei e filiabus una, Duos accepisset filios Johannem Scilecet et Henricum e quibus Johannes Dennis de Puckle-church (alias pulcher-Church) in Comitatu Gloucestriae Armiger duxit Mariam, Nathanielis Still de Hutton in Comitatu Somerset Armigeris filiarum et cohaeredum Unam; ex qua tres accepit filios, et filiam unam, viz: Henricum, Johannem, Gulielmum et Margaretam.

Hoc Quod est pulchri Templum, est pulchrius.

It may be translated into English thus:

By this monument

In memory of John Dennis Esquire, first-born and heir of Henry Dennis Esquire who on the 26th day of June in the year of Our Lord 1638 departed from this life after he had received from his wife Margaret, one out of the daughters of George Speke Lord of Whight-lackington in the county of Somerset, Knight of the Bath, two sons, that is to say John and Henry, out of which John Dennis of Puckle-church (otherwise pulcher- [i.e., beautiful] Church in the county of Gloucester, Esquire, married Mary, one of the daughters and co-heiresses of Nathaniel Still of Hutton in the county of Somerset, Esquire; from whom he received three sons and one daughter, that is to say: Henry, John, William, and Margaret.

(By this monument) what is a beautiful temple is become more beautiful.


Note: John Dennis (1607-1660) (eldest son of Henry), was Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1649 and was a grandson of w:John Dennys (died 1609) lord of the manor of Pucklechurch, a poet and fisherman, who pioneered Angling poetry in England. His only work w:The Secrets of Angling was the earliest English poetical treatise on fishing. A junior branch of Denys/Dennis of Siston and Dyrham in Gloucestershire. His brother Henry Dennis (1620-1649) died aged 29 and was buried at Pucklechurch.


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