The Tree - Person Sheet
The Tree - Person Sheet
NameAnne Bucchus 
Birth1738
Death2 Jul 1814
BurialWest cloister of Westminster Abbey, London
FatherJohn Bacchus (1699-1781)
MotherGrace Willis
Misc. Notes
Name, year of birth, christened at St John’s Smith Square Westminster London, date of death, date and place of marriage, from the “Devis Family Tree” kindly shared by Julie Bourke (nee McColl) received in the post on 3 May 2017. This information is based on original research, including that of Wills, by Linda Burge and Julie Bourke. Linda is the great-great-granddaughter of Emma Frances Devis b. 1814. Julie is the great-great-granddaughter of Emma Frances Devis. Brian of nzolivers.com is a x3-great grandson of Emma Frances Devis.
Julie writes in the Tree, “Anne Forster (have Will) extremely weathy, no issue bequests in her will of jewellery, diamonds, amythersts etc., mostly to Griffin family.
Buried in the west cloister of Westminster Abbey, as per a webpage that Julie Bourke (nee McColl), in an email dated 28 April 2017, directed Brian of nzolivers.com to:
http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/john-and-edward-willis
[Julie is the great-great-granddaughter of Emma Frances Devis b. 1814. Brian of nzolivers.com is a x3-great grandson of Emma Frances Devis]
In the west cloister of Westminster Abbey, just before the steps up into the Church, is the grave of John Willis, Abbey carpenter, his son Edward and niece Ann. The inscription is quite faint but reads:
"Here lyes the body of Mr John Willis, Carpenter to this Collegiate Church who died the 28 of December 1736 aged 37 years. Also of Mr Edward Willis son of the above Mr John Willis who died July 6 1780 in the 44th year of his age. Also Ann Foster niece of the above John Willis who died July 2 1814 in the 76th year of her age"
He was carpenter at the Abbey from 1733. His brothers were Thomas, Edward and Jonathan and his sisters Anne (Ward) and Grace (Bacchus). His wife Jane (Hayward) was buried with him on 22 December 1744 aged 48. She resided in Tufton Street, at the back of the Abbey. Their son was William (who died before his mother), and their daughters Elizabeth and Ayres. Posthumous son Edward was baptised at St John the Evangelist Westminster and died unmarried. Ann was the wife of Nicholas Foster (Forster).
Julie writes in the Tree, “Anne Forster (have Will) extremely weathy, no issue bequests in her will of jewellery, diamonds, amythersts etc., mostly to Griffin family.
Buried in the west cloister of Westminster Abbey, as per a webpage that Julie Bourke (nee McColl), in an email dated 28 April 2017, directed Brian of nzolivers.com to:
http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/john-and-edward-willis
[Julie is the great-great-granddaughter of Emma Frances Devis b. 1814. Brian of nzolivers.com is a x3-great grandson of Emma Frances Devis]
In the west cloister of Westminster Abbey, just before the steps up into the Church, is the grave of John Willis, Abbey carpenter, his son Edward and niece Ann. The inscription is quite faint but reads:
"Here lyes the body of Mr John Willis, Carpenter to this Collegiate Church who died the 28 of December 1736 aged 37 years. Also of Mr Edward Willis son of the above Mr John Willis who died July 6 1780 in the 44th year of his age. Also Ann Foster niece of the above John Willis who died July 2 1814 in the 76th year of her age"
He was carpenter at the Abbey from 1733. His brothers were Thomas, Edward and Jonathan and his sisters Anne (Ward) and Grace (Bacchus). His wife Jane (Hayward) was buried with him on 22 December 1744 aged 48. She resided in Tufton Street, at the back of the Abbey. Their son was William (who died before his mother), and their daughters Elizabeth and Ayres. Posthumous son Edward was baptised at St John the Evangelist Westminster and died unmarried. Ann was the wife of Nicholas Foster (Forster).