File:The church of St Giles on the Hill, Norwich - C18 memorial (geograph 2063994).jpg

English: Church of St Giles on the Hill, Norwich, Norfolk, mural monument to William Offley (1692-1767), Doctor of Medicine (the eldest son of Rev. William Offley, Rector of Middleton Stoney, Oxfordshire, by his wife Susanna), sometime a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He married Maria Nuthall (1700-1776) a daughter of Benjamin Nuthall, Esq. Text based on: www.norwich-heritage.co.uk/monuments [1]: He studied diseases at King's College, Cambridge. The memorial testifies that he was a happy, sincere man well-known for alleviating poverty and worshipping God He was also a good husband and father. He is quoted as being 'free of superstition' (thus a good Protestant). St Giles was formerly the "Harley street of Norwich" where the local physicians lived and practised many also worked at the nearby Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.

Argent, a cross flory azure between four Cornish choughs proper (Offley) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.749 "Offley of the City of London and Putney, Surrey, granted 1588"; also of Offley of Norton Hall, Derbyshire) impaling: Argent, a shacklebolt sable (Nuthal of Cattenal, Cheshire & Nuttall of Nuttall Hall, Holcombe/Tottington, Lancashire) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.743). Compare with arms of Nuttall Baronets (cr 1922) of Cheshire: Or, on a pile sable between in base two roses gules barbed and seeded proper a shacklebolt of the field (Montague-Smith, P.W. (ed.), Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories Ltd, Kingston-upon-Thames, 1968, p.604). The Nuttall Baronetcy, of Chasefield in the Parish of Bowdon in the County of Chester, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 22 June 1922 for Edmund Nuttall. He was head of Edmund Nuttall Limited, civil engineering contractors, of Manchester. The Black Knight in Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe bore A fetterlock and shacklebolt azure.

Text based on: www.norwich-heritage.co.uk/monuments [2]:

The monument is described by Pevsner ("Buildings of England, Norfolk") as being "by no means Rococo in spiritedness it is violently Rococo in composition i.e. demonstrativley assymetrical". The symbolism is typical of the decoration adopted in the High Baroque monuments of the 17th century incorporating such features as cherubs, urns, a lamp and drapery. The monument is almost identical to that of Dame Anne Astley (died 1768) in St Peter's Church, Melton Constable (per Pevsner, see image [3]), da. of Christopher Milles of Nackington, Kent, wife of Sir Edward Astley, 4th Baronet[4]. The urn symbolises death "although this is offset by the lamp with its promise of immortality and the winged angel's head with it's promise of resurrection". "The curtain is drawing a veil over Williams life, where books show that he was very studious (the lamp placed on them possibly suggests also that he frequently "burned the midnight oil" whilst studying them). The Olive branch not only bears witness to the fact that he promoted Peace and harmony but also is reference to his profession as a healer".

John Burke, Genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, 1838, re: "Nutall of Kempsey House": "The name appears often as written as Nutthall and the family then resided at Nutthall Hall (in the manor of Tottington), near Holcombe. ... Robert Nuttall, of Bury, merchant, purchased, in 1736, the Bridge Hall estates from Lord Sempil and the Clives, and left a son and heir, Thomas Nuttall, esq. an eminent Dutch merchant". Nuttall Hall (demolished after 1945), Ramsbottom, 1.4 km east of Holcombe and 5.5 km north of Bury (Manchester) in Lancashire, now the site of Nuttall Park, a pleasant public park beside the River Irwell within walking distance from Ramsbottom's East Lancashire Railway Station. Leisure facilities include football pitches, and tennis courts.

Text per: 'Townships: Tottington', in A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 5, ed. William Farrer and J Brownbill (London, 1911), pp. 143-150 [https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lancs/vol5/pp143-150

The family took its name from Nuttall, originally Nuthough or Nuthaw, on the bank of the Irwell. Roger de Noteho was a defendant in a Bury mill case in 1256; Final Conc. i, 120; and Richard son of Thomas de Notehoh had a grant of land; Towneley MS. DD, no. 864. Richard de Notehogh in 1332 contributed to the subsidy in Bury; Exch. Lay Subs. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), 33. James Bury in 1479 complained that some of his cattle at Gooden and Woodroad had been taken by Henry and Geoffrey Nuttall of Bury, Charles Nuttall of Tottington, and others; Pal. of Lanc. Writs Proton. file 19 Edw. IV, b. There were two branches of the family established in Tottington—Nuttall of Nuttall, and Nuttall of Tottington Hall. Of the former family was Richard de Nuttall, who in 1408 leased to his son William all that land called Nuttall (Nothogh) in Tottington, with the buildings thereon, lately leased to Henry de Nuttall; Ormerod, Parentalia, 40. Henry son of a later Richard Nuttall of Nuttall in 1491 acquired Gollinrod in Walmersley; ibid. 41. From the court rolls it appears that Richard Nuttall died in 1510 holding four messuages, 120 acres of land, &c., Charles being his son and heir. In October 1537 Charles Nuttall made a settlement of his lands in Little Holcombe; and in 1549 he made a further settlement, Richard his son and heir, being a party. In 1561 Richard Nuttall, whose heir was his son Charles, made a lease of certain land. Charles Nuttall, gentleman, was buried 8 Mar. 1604–5; Charles Nuttall of Holcombe, 1 Aug. 1613; and Richard Nuttall of Nuttall, 20 Jan. 1616–17; Bury Reg. Charles Nuttall of Nuttall was a freeholder in 1600, and another Charles contributed to the subsidy in 1622; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), i, 248, 162. He was living in 1624, and Blome names the family in his list of Lancashire gentry in 1673; Ormerod, op. cit. 41. 'The estate passed from this family, probably by marriage, to Miles Lonsdale, of Field House, Esq., about the year 1698, and was conveyed by his descendant and representative, Ann, only child of Henry Lonsdale, Esq., about 1790, in marriage to the Rev. Richard Formby of Formby, LL.B., by whom it was sold to Mr. Grant'; Raines, in Notitia Cestr. ii, 30, 32. Of the Tottington Hall family was Ralph Nuttall, who according to the court rolls died in 1530 holding two messuages, 6 oxgangs of land, and a third part of 64 acres called Roodland in Tottington, with common of pasture in Alden; also a messuage, &c., in Deardenfield. Thomas Nuttall, his son and heir, was admitted on a fine of 20s. Emmot, widow of Giles Nuttall, perhaps of another family, occurs in the roll of 1541. Thomas Nuttall of Tottington was a freeholder in 1600, while Ralph Nuttall contributed to the subsidy of 1622; Misc. (Rec. Soc. Lancs. and Ches.), i, 248, 162. From the Bury Registers it appears that Thomas Nuttall, gentleman, was buried 19 June 1609; and Thomas Nuttall of Tottington 12 Oct. 1614. These are probably the father and son who head the Nuttall pedigree recorded in 1664–5; Dugdale, Visit. (Chet. Soc), 222. A further account of this family will be found under Oldham; they are now represented by the Radclyffes of Foxdenton.