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Title: Joyce Curzon ( Mrs Lewes ) : Lichfield Marian Martyr
Post by: AnthonyRYates on Tuesday 18 June 19 11:31 BST (UK)

Must go to Lichfield soon to visit Erasmus Darwin House and also to find out more about my cousin Joyce Lewes ( nee Curzon ) who was burnt at the stake in Lichfield Mkt Place in Dec 1557 as a Protestant Martyr in the bad days of Bloody Queen Mary. ( there's a memorial to her in Mancetter Church , Atherstone ).

Is there a marker or plaque in the market place to Joyce or the martyrs in general ?  I found somewhere forgotten in the internet  a very blurry photo of a painting of Joyce at the stake in a white dress with Lichfield Cathedral behind.  Does anybody know where this painting is ? I'd like to take a better photo of it.

 ( Also have family links to Tamworth & Elford )  ----- Anthony , Leicester

Title: Re: Joyce Curzon ( Mrs Lewes ) : Lichfield Marian Martyr
Post by: hepburn on Tuesday 18 June 19 15:58 BST (UK)

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ny9/   There's this.

Title: Re: Joyce Curzon ( Mrs Lewes ) : Lichfield Marian Martyr
Post by: hepburn on Tuesday 18 June 19 16:02 BST (UK)

https://www.revolvy.com/page/Joyce-Lewis?source=folders

Title: Re: Joyce Curzon ( Mrs Lewes ) : Lichfield Marian Martyr
Post by: AnthonyRYates on Tuesday 18 June 19 22:23 BST (UK)

Thanks Lots , Miss Hepburn ,

I knew the Revolvy stuff and have read Foxe's on cousin Joyce but the pic of the Mkt Place plaque is great , must look out for that when I visit Lichfield ( last time was 1977 ! )

                   ... Anthony , Leicester