Judith (Ivye) Prater
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Judith (Ivye) Prater (abt. 1551 - 1578)

Judith Prater formerly Ivye
Born about in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, Englandmap [uncertain]
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 1572 in West Kington, Wiltshire, Englandmap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 27 in West Kington, Wiltshire, Englandmap
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Biography

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:

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
Above these verses, in the Limbe, thus;
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:

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]
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.

Sources

  1. Harvey, William, The Visitations of the County of Oxford Taken in the Year 1566, Volume 5 (London: Harleian Society, 1871) p.260. Online at google books Lineage.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Aubry, John, Aubry's Collections for Wiltshire, Part 1 (London: J. Davy, Queen Street, Seven Dials, 1821) p.20. Digitized by and online at Google Books Oxford, Ivie Chapel
  3. Will of Thomas Ivye: "England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858" The National Archives; Kew, Surrey, England; Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Series PROB 11; Class: PROB 11; Piece: 81 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry au Record 5111 #900310 (accessed 18 October 2021) Will of Thome Ivye of Weskkington, Wiltshire, England, granted probate on 21 May 1593. Died Abt 1593.
  4. Marriage: "Bristol, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812"
    Bristol Archives; Bristol, England; Bristol Church of England Parish Registers; Reference: P/Dy/R/1/a
    Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry au Record BristolParish #90171432 (accessed 18 October 2021)
    Elizabetha Ivye marriage to Anthoniy Prator on 10 Nov 1585 in Dyrham, St Peter, Gloucestershire, England.
  • The Royal Descents of Judith Ivye, Wife of Anthony Prater by: Thomas Benjamin Hertzel




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I have added the category for West Kington and moved the profile to the new category as part of the England project.
posted by Hilary (Buckle) Gadsby

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