Name	Suckling daughters 1589
Date	1589 - 1589
Gender	Female

There is a monument to a former mayor of Norwich (in 1572 and 1582), Robert Suckling (who died in 1589) with he and his (first or probably his second) wife represented as kneeling figures either side of a prayer desk (Good, 2004; Pevsner and Wilson, 1997, 231). There are four sons behind Robert Suckling and five daughters behind Mrs Suckling (Norwich Churches, 2006).

Sir Robert Suckling (1520 to 1589) was a mercer, who attained the rank of sheriff in 1564, a burgess in parliament in 1571 and 1586 and was mayor in 1572 and 1582. His father Richard is recorded as being a baker and alderman. Robert was married twice: first to Elizabeth Barwick (died 1569) and secondly to Joan Cardinal. Robert held an estate at Woodton but also lived in Suckling House on St Andrew's Street (Norwich Churches, 2006).

Suckling daughters' (five) garments:

Very high-wired hair; smocks; partlets with standing collars; low, scoop-necked bodices with shoulder wings and deep waist trim to point at centre front; (possibly separate) sleeves with cuffs; stiff, horizontal figure-of-eight-pleated wheel top to farthingale petticoats; daughter on far right has small, loose, flat-pleated ruff.