Frobisher Bay for the English navigator Sir Martin Frobisher, who, during his search for the Northwest Passage in 1576, became the first European to visit it. Until Hall's voyage in 1861, the Bay was thought by Europeans to be a strait separating Baffin Island from another island. The first Church of England service recorded on North American soil was a celebration of Holy Communion at Frobisher Bay in the last days of August or early September 1578. The Anglican Church of Canada's Prayer Book fixes the day of commemoration as September 3. The chaplain on Frobisher's voyage was " 'Maister Wolfall (probably
Thomas Beaumont (died 1614) Anno 1622. "And Mary, one of the Daughters of the aforesaid Lady Ashbornham, was likewise buried in this Church, November 25. 1619. "She died a Virgin on Whitsunday, An. Dom. 1622. about 18 years of Age; and having at her Death a Spiritual Combat with Satan about her Salvation, wherein she prevailing most chearfully, departed from Earth to Heaven, to be married to Christ Jesus, the Lord of both." Thomas Beaumont (died 1614) Sir Thomas Beaumont (1576 - 1614) was an English Member of Parliament for Leicester. His father, Nicholas Beaumont of Coleorton was also an MP and his mother,