full text - Plant Family History Group

St Johns, Hanley, Staffs, which he held until 1849 when
he was presented to the vicarage of Weston upon Trent near
Stafford where he 1s now resident. Mr Plant has for many
years been one of the secretaries of the board of education
for the archdeaconry of Stafford and has publlshed
1. Some remarks on Mining Accidents (1851).
2. Parachlal Sermons preached at Weston upon Trent (1857).
3. An account of Weston upon Trent (1868).
He subsequently became Rural Dean of Stafford and Probendary of L&%eld.
He was married III 1863 to Antlonette Sarah, daughter of Mr Charles
Fourdrlner formerly of Chell, StaffordshIre.
The Fourdriners were orIgInally a Huguenot family who settled zn England.
The most notable member of the family was Cardinal John Henry Newman
(1801-1890) whose mother was a Fourdriner. He presented a bible to his
cousin Antoinette Sarah, wife of Samuel Plant, with an affectlonate
inscrlptlon on the title page.
The Rev. Samuel and Antoinette Plant had a large family including a
daughter, another Antoinette (1854-1938) who married the Rev. Phxlip Crick.
Philip and Antoinette Crick were the parents of two bishops one the Bishop
of Chester.
One of Samuel and Antoinette Plant's sons was a Charles Thomas (1856-1932)
who emigrated to Mexxo where he became one of the founders of the city
of Sabinas, Coqhulla. He married a Mexican and had a large family,
lncludlng Anita (b. 1907). She married in 1948, her second couszn
Noel Plant (b. 1899), an actor and sometime manager of the Strand Theatre,
London. Anita, her brothers and sxters, have numerous descendants with
exotic surnames - Zambrlno, Guillermo - Prleto, Txasot - among which Plant
stikes a sudden, almost bucolic English note.
Returning now to the family of John and Sarah Plant.
Members of the famxly were Interred 1x1 Sandbach Churchyard, lncludlng
the following:
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Here lieth the children of John and Sarah Plant
Mary d. 25.2.1820 6 months
Elzabeth d. 27.2.1822 infant
Elizabeth d. 10.3.1831 age 2 years
Henry d. 16.3.1831 age 8 months
Here also lie the remaxx of John, infant son of Thomas
and Ann Plant died 1 July 1850 age 4 months.
Also Ann wife of the above named Thomas Plant died
22 March 1857 age 31 years.
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