Founder and Abbess of Barking. Probably used the manor in what is now Battersea Park. Sister of Saint Erkenwald. Died after 686.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Saint Ethelburga / Aethelburh
Commemorated ati
Millennium Cross at Battersea manor
The Batterea 'manor' at this time was an area mainly laid out as strip fields...
Other Subjects
St Luke's Church - Charlton
Mentioned as early as 1077, the present church was built with funds left by Charlton House's owner Sir Adam Newton. Spencer Perceval is buried here.
Rev. John Newton
A slave-trader turned preacher and abolitionist. Born Wapping. Began his ecclesiastical career at Olney in Buckinghamshire where he wrote the words to 'Amazing Grace' and published the hymn in a ...
Friars of the Holy Cross, Crutched Friars
Their odd name is just a corruption of 'Crossed', a reference to the red cloth cross which they wore on their garments. The Crutched Friars House in the City was founded at the end of the 13th cen...
Lucy Phillimore
We think this lady must be the Lucy Phillimore referenced in the 1922 Seeking My Roots, on page 279-280: "Lucy was born at 42, Clarges Street, London, about five minutes before 8 o'clock p.m., on W...
Metropolis Chapel Building Fund Association
Established under the leadership of Alexander M'Aulay to ‘promote the erection of commodious chapels in suitable situations in and around the metropolis, to assist in the enlargement of existing ch...