Penelope EVELYN [3241]

  General Notes:

Lady Penelope is buried with her Husband in Long Ditton Church. She was from a long line back to Edward I and Eleanor of Castile and beyond to the later Roman Emperors.

In Aubrey's Surrey, Vol I, p. 244, the following Memorial Inscription appears as existing in Long Ditton Church.
The present Vicar, the Rev. C. R. Worsley Hughes tells me that the original is not now to be found. It was apparently (from its form) in an oval.
Alstoniana Pg 239 1898

HERE
LYES THE BODY OF DAME
PENELOPE ALSTON WIFE
OF SIR JOSEPH ALSTON BART.
DAUGHTER AND HEIRE OF SIR
EDWARD EVELYN BART. WHO
HAD FOR HER PORTION THESE TWO
MANNORS OF LONG-DITTON
AND HAD SEAVENTEEN CHILD-
REN, TEN OF WHICH SHE BURIED
AND SEAVEN SURVIVED HER
VIZ: JOSEPH, EVELYN, CORNE-
LIUS,SONS, AND PENELOPE,
ELIZABETH, THEADOSIA AND
DIEPATRIS DAUGHTERS
OBIIT 22 JUNii 1714
AETATIS SUAE
42

LIKEWISE
HERE LYES IN THE SAME GRAVE
UNDER THE SAME STONE THE
BODY OF THE ABOVE SAID SIR
JOSEPH ALSTON, BART,
OBIIT . . . . . . AETATIS
SUAE . . . . .

Penelope married Sir Joseph ALSTON 3rd Bart [3235] [MRIN: 1100], son of Sir Joseph ALSTON 2nd Bart of Bradwell [3218] and Dame Elizabeth THOMPSON [3233], on 23 Jan 1689/90. (Sir Joseph ALSTON 3rd Bart [3235] died in 1716 in Bath SOM and was buried on 29 Jan 1715/16 in Long Ditton SRY.)