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Memorial to Sarah Custance (1717-1787), a daughter of John Custance (d.1752), of Weston Hall, Norfolk (which he purchased in 1726), Mayor of Norwich in 1726, (Source: Alumni Cantabrigienses) (by his wife Sarah Hambleton, a daughter and co-heiress of John Hambleton of Banham, Norfolk) (Source: Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.548 "Custance, late of Weston") and widow of Anthony Norris (1711-1786). "Anthony Norris was a noted antiquarian and made a major contribution to the history of Norfolk by researching and recording church notes and other historical materials relating to various towns and villages. Norris’ MSS, a handwritten document, is kept in the iron bound chest in St Nicholas’s Church, North Walsham. (Source: https://battleofnorthwalsham1381.wordpress.com/the-account-of-anthony-norris/). Anthony died in June 1786 and was buried in Barton Turf Church, where survives his mural monument (see image [1]). See portrait of Anthony Norris, engraving by W. C. Edwards from a painting by Thomas Bardwell (1704-1767) at Scottow Hall[2]. Both parents were predeceased by their only child John Norris (d.1762) "eminent for his virtues and abilities". Anthony Norris was the 2nd son of Rev. Stephen Norris , Rector of Felthorpe and Felmingham, in Norfolk. He attended school in Norwich, then aged 15 matriculated at Caius College, Cambridge, followed by legal training at the Middle Temple (Source: Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates ... edited by John Venn[3]). Sarah Custance (1717-1787) had one brother, Hambleton Custance (1715-1757) of Weston Hall, who had a son and heir John Custance (1749-1822) of Weston, a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber, who married Frances Proctor, 2nd daughter of Sir William Beauchamp Proctor, 1st Baronet, of Langley Park, Norfolk; see portrait of John Custance (1749-1822) "Mr and Mrs John Custance of Norwich and their daughter Frances" by William Beechey (1753-1839), in the Georgian Dining Room at Strangers’ Hall, Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery[4]. The daughter Frances Anne Custance went on to marry Robert Marsham of Stratton Strawless. John Custance had two sisters (nieces of Sarah Custance and mentioned on the monument), including Dame Susanna Custance, wife of Sir Thomas Durrant, 1st Baronet, of Scottow Hall in Norfolk.