Mary and Adria Lucy

Mary and Adria Lucy, wife and daughter respectively of Edward Lucy, are buried in the north aisle of the nave of Westminster Abbey, near the wall memorial to Martha Price, Mary's sister. The gravestones in the nave were taken up in 1834 and the floor re-laid and only two small lozenge stones now mark their graves although these are mostly worn away. The Latin inscription on Adria's stone was recorded and can be translated:

Here lies Adria Lucy daughter of Edward Lucy (of the ancient and noble Lucy family of Warwickshire) and Mary Mayers of London, grand daughter of Martha Price and lies beside her, aged 16. She died 19th day of June 1681

Mary was buried on 15th January 1709 and was a daughter of John Mayer and his wife Martha (daughter of Thomas Chapman, citizen and leather seller of London and half sister, by her mother, of Dame Mary Strutt). She appears to have been Edward's second wife. Their son Joseph died young. Bequests in her will were mainly to the children and grandchildren of her sisters Martha (Price) and Dorothy (Lovell).