Coleshill's "Saint" John remembered

Over 300 years after Coleshill's 17th century "saint" left the town, a distant relative visited to see where he served as vicar under the patronage of the Digbys.

Jeremy Kettlewell, pictured with wife Kathy, discovered a link while tracing the Kettlewell family history.

Jeremy, like his ancestors, hails from Yorkshire, and is the great, great, great, great, great, great grandson of William Kettlewell, who some have believed to be a brother of vicar John Kettlewell (below).

John's character has been described by much later commentators as saintly, beautiful and sweet, and" invaluable to the excellence of any cause which he espoused".