Joanna Bonella, AKA Jane Bonnell, was the wife of Samuel Bonnell, a member of the British Parliament during the 1600's. The couple's English surname appears as the feminine "Bonella" for Mrs. Bonnell, and the masculine "Bonellus" in the reference to her husband in the inscription, which is entirely in Latin. Although Mrs. Bonnell's age at the time of her death is not given, her monument bears a coat-of-arms described in a 1902 genealogy-heraldry book as "defaced" and "impaling a chevron between 3 pelicans in their piety".
Joanna Bonella, AKA Jane Bonnell, was the wife of Samuel Bonnell, a member of the British Parliament during the 1600's. The couple's English surname appears as the feminine "Bonella" for Mrs. Bonnell, and the masculine "Bonellus" in the reference to her husband in the inscription, which is entirely in Latin. Although Mrs. Bonnell's age at the time of her death is not given, her monument bears a coat-of-arms described in a 1902 genealogy-heraldry book as "defaced" and "impaling a chevron between 3 pelicans in their piety".
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