KEKEWICH. The following was taken from: Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries, Volume 8, 1914 1915, part 2, pp90 92.
The above publication is in the library of the Society of Genealogists, Charterhouse Buildings, London and were copied by Eardley Bryan in December 1990.
EXMINSTER. Dedication to Saint Martin.
...The Kekewich monuments include memorials to:
William Kekewich, Esqr., 1799: Susannah, relict of William Kekewich 1833; Elizabeth, their daughter, 1808; Robert, their son, 1833.Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Kekewich, Esqr., and wife of the Revd. J.H.Brading, 1820.
Elizabeth, wife of Robert Kekewich, 1847.
Samuel Kekewich, 1822, Salome, his beloved wife, 1844.
Agatha Maria Sophia, wife of Samual Trehawke Kekewich, 1836.
Charlotte, wife of Trehawke Kekewich, 1880.
George Granville Kekewich, late of Summerlands, Exeter, 1857; George Kekewich Esqr., his father, Judge in the colony of Cape of Good Hope.
pp 91 92.
...A memorial has been recently erected in the church to the memory of the late Mr. Justice Kekewich, the work of Mr. Herbert Read, sculptor of Exeter. It is a tablet of marble and alabaster inscribed:To the Glory of God and in loving memory of the Right Hon. Sir Arthur Kekewich, Privy Councillor, for 21 years judge of the High Court of Justice, second son of Samuel Trehawke Kekewich, Esqr. of Peamore. Born 26th July 1832, died 22nd November 1907.
Arms: Argent, two lions passant in bend sable, between two cotizes gules.
The south window in Peamore aisle was erected by the tenantry of Samuel Trehawke Kekewich in memory of his third son, Lewis Kekewich, Lieutenant in Her Majesty's 20th regiment of infantry, who "entered the army June 1854, landed in Crimea with the allied forces, fought for his country at the siege of Sebastopol, was wounded at the battle of Inkermen." In 1855 he died of fever at Corfu, and was buried there. The glass in the window is of very inferior quality, but it has a figure of St. Martin, patron of the church, upon it, and the scene of his dividing his cloak with the beggar, the soldier saint is most fittingly chosen as a memorial for this young soldier, who was only 18 years of age at his death.
p 137.
The family of Kekewich, which has been settled in Devon and Cornwall since the fifteenth century, came from Lancashire and Shropshire, the founder of the family being Sir Piers Kekewich, Knight.
Devon Notes and Queries, Volume 6, 1910 11.
p. 66
...In 1680 Ezekiel Steed married by licence Frances, daughter of Lieut Col George Kekewich, Governor of St Mawes Castle for the Parliament and sometime MP for Liskeard.
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