Sarah Coysh (c. 1742 – 1801) was the heiress to the estates of the Coysh, Allen, and James families. Her marriage to

John Rolls John Rolls (27 February 1735 – 8 September 1801) was a native of Bermondsey, Southwark, London, Surrey, England. A member of the Rolls family of The Grange in Bermondsey and The Hendre, Monmouthshire, he married heiress Sarah Coysh. T ...

(1735–1801) illustrates one of the methods by which the renowned Rolls family of Monmouthshire, Wales, and

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, England, accumulated and improved their properties and advanced their social rank during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. By 1830, her son

John Rolls of The Hendre John Rolls of The Hendre (20 October 1776 – 31 January 1837) was a native of Bermondsey, in Southwark, London, Surrey, England. A member of the renowned Rolls family of The Hendre at Llangattock-Vibon-Avel near Monmouth, Monmouthshire ...

in Llangattock-Vibon-Avel, Monmouthshire, near Monmouth, had made the estate his country seat and undertaken the first of several expansions of the mansion. By 1892, two expansions later, his grandson John A Rolls had been elevated to the peerage and had become Baron Llangattock of The Hendre. At the turn of the twentieth century, following the mansion's fourth enlargement, the family was honoured with a visit from the future

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and Queen Mary, then the Duke and Duchess of York. The royal visit included a ride in the automobile of Lord Llangattock's son

Charles Stewart Rolls Charles Stewart Rolls (27 August 1877 – 12 July 1910) was a British motoring and aviation pioneer. With Henry Royce, he co-founded the Rolls-Royce car manufacturing firm. He was the first Briton to be killed in an aeronautical accident wit ...

, future aviation pioneer and co-founder of

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St Mary Aldermary, City of London

St Michael, Highgate

Southwark Cathedral

St Giles, Camberwell

St Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey

St Mary's Priory Church, Monmouth

{{DEFAULTSORT:Coysh, Sarah 1740s births 1801 deaths History of Monmouthshire Year of birth uncertain 18th-century English women 18th-century English people Rolls family