Judith Ivye was born c.1550 in Wiltshire [citation needed] or Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire[citation needed] to Thomas Ivye and his second wife, Elizabeth Mallet.[1]
She married Anthony Prator c.1571 at Wiltshire, England.[2] He was named as "my son in law" in the 1593 will of Judith's father Thomas. [3]
Judith Ivye Prator died on February 6,1578.[2] She is buried in the Ivye section, South Aisle of West Kington Church.[2] Anthony Prator had a stone carving placed in the wall above Judith's tomb. This stone has a carving of Anthony and his coat-of-arms with symbols of his wife's family's coat-of-arms. It shows her father as Thomas Ivye and descendancy from Delamare, and Judith as being the 4th-born child.
The stone is in the Ivye chapel but it is not possible to see the inscription in the stone which covers her tomb as a wooden floor was added so that the church could be properly heated. The stone under the floor boards reads:
Above these verses, in the Limbe, thus;
- Rest in the Lord most loving wife,
- Thy daies are spent and gonne,
- Thy husband's race and end of life
- shall be, God knoweth how soon.
- Though death hath doon the worst he can
- to part us twayn a space,
- yet time will come to meet again
- in heaven that joyfull place
- with bitter teares thy husband spake
- these words upon thy toombe
- his hand did write, thes vers did make,
- to show in time to cum
- how faithfull thou has been to me,
- and haddest six children dear,
- within six yeare a marvell to see
- all borne one time of yeare
- the seventh also in like manner,
- if death had not them lett,
- borne had been as the other wear,
- at midsummer time direct.
- Alas how should it chance so bad
- to littil babes so young,
- to tell in time what losse they had
- bi nature whence they sproung
- but God is he who givith life
- and he that takes away
- let us therefore avoyd all strife
- and geve ourselves to pray.
- Thy children's names if men would know,
- which God hath geven to thee,
- behold are written here below in the order as they be.
- Thomas, William, Elizabeth, Ferdinando, George, Thomas
- Here lieth Judeth Prator, the wife of Anthony Prator, Gentilman, daughter unto Thomas Ivie, Esqr., who died the sixth day of February, Anno Domini 1578. [2]
There is an effigy located in the wall of the chapel directly above Judith's tomb, which shows a full life size carving of Anthony, his coat-of-arms, his six children, and the following eulogy:
7 years later Anthony Prater married the widow of Judith's brother, Ferdinando Ivye. Her name was Elizabeth Winter.[4] Also of note: Ferdinando Ivye died before his father and it was his brother, George Ivye, who became the heir of the Ivye family. He was a Knight for the King.
- Oh mi dear children marke what I saye,
- Your mothers bones truli are wrapt here in clay
- her soule no doupte, to heaven is gone thither
- Wher we most joyfully shall meet alltogether
- the Lord be you guide, the Lord be your strength
- and give you his special grace to die in him at length
- you gentell readers remember you end
- be true unto such whom faithfull you find
- let this be example and tell hit abroad
- how faithfulli this woman died in the Lord.[2]
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