Children of Sir John Lawrence and Grissell Gibbons:
  1. Sir John Lawrence 11 May 1610 - 1658 at Chelsea   2nd Baronet
             birth date from the Parish record of Chelsea Old Church [film SLC in FHC]
          he is who restored the inscription of the  monument of Sir Thomas More
        married ca 1646 May Hempson   buried 11 Oct 1664  at Chelsea
                2nd dau of Sir Thomas Hempson of Taplow.
  2. Robert Lawrence  5 June 1611 - emig. ca 1638 - died aft 19 Oct 1682
           when he witnessed the Quaker wedding of John Scott and Elizabeth Belson 
        married Elizabeth ?
             lived at Lawne's Creek, Isle of Wight to Nansemond Co, VA
  3. G-------- Lawrence 7 February 1613 - [son]  dy?
   4. Frances Lawrence ca 1615 - 8 Nov 1685 dsp
              buried at Chelsea
  5. W------ Lawrence 15 October 1617 - [son]  dy?
  6. Marmaduke Lawrence 17 Aug 1619 - dy
  7.  Debbie Lawrence [daughter] 10 April 1621 - dy?
  8. Grissel Lawrence ca 1622 - bef 1 April 1701
          married Isaac Lawrence 1614 - 25 March 1684
                    (of Chelsea and later of Shurdington) 
               interred on 31 March 1684 at Badgeworth, Gloucestershire, England
  9. Sampson Lawrence
            Richard Mundy "Middlesex Pedigrees" 1914
 10. Krissa Lawrence {daughter] 14 Feb 1627 -
 11. Anne Lawrence 24 June 1629 -
 12. Henry Lawrence ca 1631 - 14 Oct 1661
           On a black marble on the floor of the Lawrence Chapel at Chesea:--Sacred to the memory of Henry Laurence, Turkey merchant, youngest sonne of Sir John Laurence, Knt. & Baronet, who dyed in the 30th year of his age, the 14th of October 1661.

     Here rests ye weary Marchant, having tri'd
     And finding this world's trafflick vain delite
     That empty trifle, and hee's got to trad
     In th' other world for gaines which never fade;
     Thence you shall see when he acquits this urne
     Of everlasting crownes a brave returne;
     The stock of goodness he imbarkt before
     Ensures him there an hundred fold and more. 
^from

   Note: The film record was very difficult to read - badly strached as well as small and crowded together.
But I Sally did make out the baptisims of Jno., Robert, G--- , W---, Marmaduke was unmistakable, Debbie was very plain, Krissa, and Ann.   The others were probably there but I tired of looking at that point and failed to look for burials  or marriages as time ran out for the evening. 

Will of Sir John Lawrence dated October 18, 1638,  probated  21 Jan 1638/9.
I, Sir John Lawrence of Delefords and Iver, Bucks Kt. and Bt.,
 desire to be buried in my Chapel at Chelsea. 
All my interest in the Parsonage of Dorking, Surrey, which I, with my brother-in-law Richard Colville, purchased of Richard Hollman, to my sister Martha Jackson, widow, and she be dead at my decease same to her daughter Martha. 
300£ to my eldest daughter, Ann Lawrence; 
200£ to my second daughter Frances Lawrence; 
bequests to servants;
 all my interest in 7010£ which long since I recovered my judgement of Anne Babington, executrix of Vry Babington, dec., in H. M. Court of Exchequer due me from the estate of Robert Bromley, dec. Of what can be recovered 1/2 to my eldest son John Lawrence and the other moiety to my younger children. 
100 marks towards the finishing of my house at Iver. 
Rest of personal estate to my younger children, Anne, Robert, Frances, Grissell, and Henry, those age 21 to be paid soon as possible and the others to be paid at 21 or marriage. 
All portions of my younger children to amount to 900£ apiece and all my houses and land at Chelsea to provide this. 
* * * The settling of wife's estate has cost me more at this date than double the value of her inheritance, were it to be sold. The legacies of 5000£ which I have given her younger children is more than double the value of her estate after her decease. 
Wife Dame Grissell to sole extrx. provide she shall settle within 12 months after my death all her estate in lands and tenements on her eldest son John Lawrence and heirs male and in default of same to son Robert Lawrence, etc. 
Witnesses Pugh Flood, clarke; Samuel Forest, John Hynde, Martha Jackson, Rice Thomas 

  In "Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland", it is stated that the second son of Sir Robert Lawence and Margaret Holden of Lancashire was Thomas Lawrence who was the father of Arthur Lawrence and that Arthur was the ancestor of John Lawrence, esq., of Delaford in Iver, Bucks, and of Chelsea, Middlesex, who was created a Baronet in 1628. 

 Grandchildren of Sir John Lawrence:

  Sir John Lawrence 11 May 1610 - 1658, Chelsea  and May Hempson had:
   1. Sir Thomas Lawrence, Bart   ca 1645 - April 1714 Chelsea
        went to Maryland with Lionel Copley and was Secretary of the Colony, and President of the Council. On May 7 1694, he became Acting Governor of Maryland until Governor Nicholson arrived. Sir Thomas died and was buried at Chelsea in April 1714.  He was the last to hold the title.
        married Lady Lawrence who was buried 2 November 1723 in the old church.
         a. Anne Lawrence  died bef 1714
         b. Thomas [or John] Lawrence died bef 1714
   2. Martha Lawrence ca 1643 -
          married Thomas Moore

  Children of Robert Lawrence 5 June 1611 & Elizabeth his wife
1. George Lawrence ca 1635 - (lived Nansemond Co, VA)
2. John Lawrence ca 1637 - ca 1700
        married Mary ?
3.  Robert Lawrence Jr. 1639 - 1720
          married Jeane Sanders, widow of Henry Gay
?4. Thomas Lawrence
?5. Richard Lawrence
?6. Henry Lawrence
         married Elizabeth Edey
note: ? are included in the compilation of Hugh Buckner Johnston 

 Children of Grissel Lawrence and Isaac Lawrence
  1. William Lawrence  dsp at London, England
  2. Margaret Lawrence  dsp
  3. Rev. Thomas Lawrence  1655  - Jan 1690/91  dsp

  Sources: G. E. C., ed., Complete Baronetage, (London: Willima Pollard & Co.,1902 
       Hugh Buckner Johnston's Lawrence Family manuscript
           John B Boddie's "17th Century Isle of Wight" and HSF
   also - "Lawrence Family of Virginia" by Joseph D Lawrence
              "Genealogy of  Jesse M Lawrence"

Chelsea in 1738, from a print of Thomas Priest of Chelsea
"the village in olden times was grouped round its riverside church"

        
left: the chained books in Chelsea Old Church
right: pulpit and canopy formerly in Chelsea Old Church

Chelsea Old Church in 1760 (after Chatelaine)
sketch by Beaver

 
Chelsea Old Church -another artist's impression
included in Borer's "Two Villages"

the chapels
    
Lawrence Chapel           More Chapel 1528   

  
Sir Thomas More's Monument
It is an altar-tomb, set against the south wall of the chancel, erected by More himself  in 1532. 
The Tudor arch has a cornice ornamented with foliage, with his crest -- the Moor's head -- in the centre. The spandrils, decorated with vine-branches, bear the shields of himself and his two wives, the first of whom is here buried. More wrote her epitaph himself in Latin of course. It seems that More had included in his inscription to his first wife  the word  'haereticisque" (given in Weever's copy 1631) which Sir John Lawrence  in 1644  in repairing the inscription had omitted and a blank now stands in its place. 

 
Chelsea Old Church 1890

There are many other monuments to notable people in the old church of Chelsea.
All that could be deciphered in 1890 were given with complete inscription 
in the Appendix of Mr. Alfred Beaver's book "Memorials of Old Chelsea"

 
Chelsea Old Church, after the bombing of 16 April 1941
"the west end of the church had dissolved into a pile of rubble"
[the two chapels were made of stone - the body of the church was of red brick]
It was agreed that Chelsea Old Church be rebuilt on its old foundations as a new parish church.
It was rebuilt on the general plan of the old one. In July 1950 the More Chapel was reopened for services. The chancel and the Lawrence Chapel were restored and rededicated a few years later and by May 1958 the new church was reconsecrated. So much of Chelsea Old Church today is only a few years old.
from"Two Villages" by Mary Cathcart Borer 1973

   
photo by Paul E Lawrence 2000

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