Christening date 01 May 1757 (Bushbury, Staffordshire) daughter of George & Sarah Bedson
Marriage license says she was of Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.
John married Martha Bedson 30 Jun 1785 in St John the Baptist, Hillingdon (Uxbridge, London)
Her daughter Jane Roberts commissioned a gravestone in her honour.
BIRTH 1757 Bushbury, Metropolitan Borough of Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England
DEATH 1823 (aged 65–66) Chelsea, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Greater London, England
BURIAL St Mary the Virgin Churchyard Mortlake, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Greater London, England
Mortlake Churchyard, St Mary the Virgin, Mortlake (also known as Mortlake Parish Church) London, England, Greater London
Brief Description Having become neglected, the churchyard was restored as a garden in the 1980s and is now maintained by the Friends of Mortlake Churchyard.
History Mortlake was a medieval village, and the first church recorded was a chapel erected in 1348 near the Manor House. St Mary's Church was built on the present site in 1543. The original parish burial ground was a piece of land next to the old chapel that had been given by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1383. St Mary's churchyard was enlarged in 1725/6, in 1742 and again in 1799. It was closed to burials in 1854. The maintenance of the churchyard became the responsibility of the local council in the 1920s.
