Col. Francis Billingsley
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Born - 1595
Married - 1616
Died - 1646
Interred - St Calxius, Astley Abbots
Married - Eleanor Kerry daughter of Thomas Kerry & Marie Hopton of Binweston. Eleanor died in 1665.
Killed at St Leonard’s , Bridgnorth. A Plaque in St Leonard’s used to hold his sword (recently stolen).
( A report that Joseph Instone gave the Col.’s sword to his descendants in 1884)
Sword of Col. Francis Billingsley at St Leonard’s Bridgnorth. (sword has since been stolen)