Rev. John "The Elder" Terry

Rev. John Terry

• Birth: ABT. 1555 in Long Sutton, Hampshire, England
• Death: 10 MAY 1625 in Stockton, Wiltshire, England
• Burial: Stockton, Wiltshire, England
• Father: Stephen Terry b: ABT. 1530 in England
• Mother: Alice Cannar b: BET. 1530 - 1537 in England

Marriage 1 Mary White b: ABT. 1570 in England Married: ABT. 1590 in England. She was the daughter of John White and Isabel Bawle.

Children

• 1. Stephen Terry b: BEF. 20 AUG 1592 in Stockton, Wiltshire, England
• 2. John Terry b: BEF. 1 NOV 1593 in Stockton, Wiltshire, England
• 3. Samuel Terry b: BEF. 6 JUL 1595 in Stockton, Wiltshire, England
• 4. Josiah Terry b: BEF. 25 MAY 1597 in Stockton, Wiltshire, England
• 5. Nathaniel Terry b: BEF. 11 NOV 1599 in Stockton, Wiltshire, England
• 6. Stephen Terry b: 25 AUG 1608 in Stockton, Wiltshire, England

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John attended Winchester and was a fellow at New College, Oxford in 1576, obtaining his BA Nov. 12, 1578, and MA Jun. 15, 1582. Appointed Rector of Stockton, Wiltshire in 1590, serving until his death.The following memorial appears in the church at Stockton:

If men should be silent, this stone shall speak the due praise of God's grace in John Terry, lately a faythful, paynful, vigilant and Fruitful Minister of God's truth in this Church of Stockton. He was born of substantial parentage at Long Sutton, in Hampshire: bredde a well deserving Member of New College in Oxford; Freely presented to this charge by the Right Rev. Bishop of Winchester, An. Dom. M.D.X.C., and now in his ripe age of LXX. An. Do. M. DC. XXV., May XXX, sleepeth happily in the public Cemetery of this Church, till the last trumpet shall awake him to a joyful resurrection in Christ:

• He lived, he learn'd, he wrat, he tought,
• Well, much, truly, duly, he brought
• Hoame the lost sheep, which Christ's Blood bought,
• Against Hell's power he stoughtly Fought.
• Terrae Terra datur, Caelum sed spiritus ornat,
• Mundus habet famam, lusa Gehenna fremit.

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