Robert Feilden of Didsbury, JP

Inner Temole - Barrister at Law

• Burke, Bernard, Sir. A genealogical and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Great Britain & Ireland 6th ed. London : Harrison 1879. Vol I. page 550

From: A History of the ancient chapels of Didsbury and Chorlton in Mancester Parish by the Rev John Booker, M.A., F.S.A of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Curate of Prestwich. Printed for the Chetham Society M.DCCC.LVII.

- In the Parochial Chapel of Didsbury is a plain marble slab in the chancel bearing the following :

S.M of Robert Fielden Esq. many years a resident in this parish & an active Magistrate of the Counties of Lancaster & Chester who departed this life on the 6 th day of September 1830, aged 69 years.

Also of Ann his wife eldest daughter of Sir John Parker Mosley of Rolleston Park in the County of Stafford Bart, who departed this life on the 27 th day of March 1810, aged 47 years.

Also Sarah his second wife who died on 23 rd day of Janyl850, aged 84.

“ Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord :

Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours ; and their works do follow them.”

14 Chap. Rev. 13 ver.

Superadded to the inscription is a shield bearing the arms of Fielden : arg. on a fess azure three lozenges or, impaling (for Mosley) sa. a chevron between three mill-picks arg. Crest : a blackbird sitting upon an oak slip acorned ppr.