Founder and Abbess of Barking. Probably used the manor in what is now Battersea Park. Sister of Saint Erkenwald. Died after 686.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Saint Ethelburga / Aethelburh
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Millennium Cross at Battersea manor
The Batterea 'manor' at this time was an area mainly laid out as strip fields...
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St Katherine Coleman
The standard spelling of this Katherine seems to be with a 'K' not a 'C', and an 'e' in the middle, not an 'a'. Existed from at least 1346, rebuilt probably in the 15th century, survived the Great ...
Father Jack Holden
From St James's we learn that on the porch wall of St James' Church (whose spire you can see just to the east of Father Jack's plaque) is a board which lists Jack Holden as the vicar of the Church ...
First synagogue after resettlement
A house in Creechurch Lane was converted to a synagogue for the Sephardi Jews (Spanish and Portuguese)Â which opened in 1657. This was enlarged but the increase in numbers quickly made a purpose-bui...
Prior John Redington
Prior of the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in the 14th or 15th century.
Edmund William Richardson
Company Secretary of the Planet Building Society. c.1871 he demolished the old Friary House and built the present house in which he lived until his death. British History Online details some prop...

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