240 Bradford-upon-Avon. [Parish Church. 
Taunton, Frances, second danghter of the above,-(d. 24 May, 1803); Ex1za- 
BETH WEEKS, their eldest daughter, (d. 11 May, 1815); Ricuarp Hops, 
their son, Lieutenant in H.M. 22 Light Dragoons, (d. 19 May, 1819). 
Taunton, Joun HeARnNe, another son, (d. 15 April, 1852). 
THREsSHER, Epwakrp, (d. 18 Feb., 1725); Jom, his son, (d. 17 Aug. 1741). 
Arms. Argent, a chevron gules, between three boars’ heads erect and 
couped; Sable issuing from the mouth of each a cross crosslet fitchée 
of the second; THRESHER;—impaling, Sable, a lion rampant within 
an orle of cross crosslets argent; between two flaunches, ermine;— 
Lone. Crest. A demi buck salient, or. 
The ‘Thresher monument’ is a very large one of marble, and 
covers the whole of a Norman window on the north side of the 
Chancel. It was erected by Ellen, relict of John Thresher. From 
a long Latin inscription we learn, that Epwarp THRrEsHER was a 
successful clothier in Bradford, and that he took peculiar interest 
in the well-being of the town and neighbourhood! We are fur- 
ther informed that on his decease, his son, Joun THRESHER, who 
had been previously educated for the Bar, in which, it is intimated, 
he had earned some distinction for himself, came to reside in Brad- 
ford, and giving up his own professional pursuits, carried on in 
this town those commenced by his father, in which the well- 
being of others no less than of himself were concerned. He resided 
at Chantry House. He was the ancestor, on the female side, as 
the subjoined extracts from the family pedigrees will shew,’ of two 
gentlemen whose names are familiar to us, the one as the member 
for our County, the other as a resident for many years in our parish. 
10n the monument it is said,—‘‘Commercium ad Parochiam de Bradford et 
villas cireumjacentes peculiariter respiciens, (heu; priscam Anglice Gentis 
gloriam, vellus aureum), prosperis et honestis artibus excoluit, et sibi et patria.” 
2 Edward Thresher_Dionysia (d. of Richard Long 
of Collingbourne Kingston, 
Wilts.) 
John Thresher__Ellen d. of Henry Long of Melksham, 
(only son and by Ellen, sister and coh. of John 
heir.) Trenchard, of Cutteridge, Co. Wilts, 
Ellen_Sir Bourehier Wrey, Bart. 
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ons. Florentina__Richard Godolphin 
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* Rev. Edward Henry Whinfield_Ellen. 25 
a 2 daughters. Long, (of Rood Ash- 
ton, M.P. for Wilts.) 
Rey. Edward Turner Whinfield, Walter Long, M.P. 
(of Woodleigh, Bradford-on-Avon.) (of Rood Ashton.) 
