Anne Wemyss

Anne Wemyss (or Wemis) was buried in the east cloister of Westminster Abbey. A small oval white marble tablet was erected for her in the south choir aisle near the door into this cloister. The tablet is surmounted by a lozenge of the arms of Wemyss and Bargrave and the inscription reads:

Neare these steps lieth the body of Mrs Anne Wemyss, daughter of Dr Lodowick Wemyss (some time Prebendary of this cathedral) and of Mrs Jane Bargrave his wife, who departed this life the nineteenth of December in the sixty seventh year of her age 1698

The title of Mrs in this case means mistress as she was not married. Another of their daughters Jane, married Thomas Cockman. Ludovick was probably a son of Sir James Wemyss of Fife and was educated at Cambridge and St Andrew's. He was appointed a prebendary, or canon, of the Abbey in 1631 and remained at Westminster until about 1645. He was buried at St Andrew's church, Holborn in London in 1659.