File:Abbess Roding - St Edmund's Church - Essex England - Lawrence George Capel Cure wall monument.jpg

English: St Edmund's Church, Abbess Roding, Essex, north wall of nave, marble wall monument to Rev. Lawrence George Capel Cure (1833-1912) and his wife, Augusta Elizabeth Smith (1830-1915), a daughter of Sir Charles Joshua Smith, 2nd Baronet, of Suttons, Stapleford Tawney, Romford, Essex

Heraldry

Gules, a chevron argent between two roses in chief or and in base a fleur-de-lis of the second (Cure) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.252 "Cure of w:Blake Hall, (Bobbingworth), near Ongar, Essex") quartering Erminois, a greyhound courant sable between two barrulets gules (Baker) (Or, a greyhound courant between two bars sable "George Baker of London & Baker of Tenterden, Kent (1573)" (Not however arms of Baker Baronets of Sisinghurst, Kent (cr.1611): Azure, three swan's heads erased argent). Edward Hasted: "HERNDEN, formerly spelt Heronden, was once an estate of considerable size in this parish (Tenterden, Kent), though it has been long since split into different parcels. The whole of it once belonged to a family of the name of Heronden ... at length one part of this estate was alienated by one of this family to Sir John Baker, of Sissinghurst, whose descendant Sir John Baker, 3rd Baronet (died 1661), died possessed of it in 1661 (Edward Hasted, 'The hundred, town and parish of Tenterden', in The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 7 (Canterbury, 1798), pp. 200-219 [1]); Papworth, John Woody, Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.I, London, 1874, p.114, "George Baker of London, Surgeon to Queen Elizabeth I"; with field argent, "Baker of Orset Hall, Essex", Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.42) all impaling Sable, a fess cotised erminois between three martlets or (Smith) (w:Spencer-Smith baronets of Suttons, Stapleford Tawney, Essex) (Sable, a fess cotised wavy between three martlets or (Burke, 1884, p.936 (top), "Smith of Suttons, Essex, Bart (1824)")

Genealogy

Source: Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.541 "Cure of Blake Hall":

• George Cure I (c.1661-?), upholsterer to the Prince of Wales, married (circa 1684) Margaret Baker (d.1723) (ancestry unrecorded)
  • George Cure II, son, married Catherine Payne, a daughter of Capel Payne of Westminster;
    • (George Cure III, eldest son, of Eversley, Berkshire)
    • Capel Cure I (1726-1816), 2nd son, who in 1789 purchased Blake Hall; High Sherriff of Essex in 1799; he married Joanna Coape. He invested in the 'Belvedere' plantation - producing rum and sugar - in Saint Thomas Parish, Jamaica. An 1804 estate map demonstrates that Cure had extended the house and organised new planting for the gardens at Blake Hall. (per Wikipedia)
      • Capel Cure II (1797-1878), of Blake Hall, High Sheriff of Essex in 1830, married Frederica Cheney, eldest daughter of Robert Cheney of Badger Hall, Shropshire;
        • (Rev. Edward Capel (1828-1891), 4th son, Rector of St George's Hanover Square, Chaplain to the Queen and a Canon of Windsor);
        • Rev. Lawrence George Capel Cure (1833-1912) (5th son), Rector and Patron of Abbess Roding, Essex, who married Augusta Elizabeth Smith (1830-1915), youngest daughter of Sir Charles Joshua Smith, 2nd Baronet (1800–1831), of Suttons, Stapleford Tawney, Romford, Essex (w:Spencer-Smith baronets The Smith, later Hamilton-Spencer-Smith, later Spencer-Smith Baronetcy, of Tring Park in the County of Hertford, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 11 June 1804 for Drummond Smith, with remainder to the heirs male of his niece Augusta Smith (daughter of his eldest brother Joshua Smith, of Stoke Park, Wiltshire), wife of Charles Smith, MP, of Suttons, Essex, a descendant of Robert Smith, of Ilminster)