Anne Fleming and Catherine Jennis Anne Fleming and Catherine Jennis Anne Fleming (1723 - 16 January 1796) and Catherine Jennis are buried together in their vault in Wiveton parish church in the English county of Norfolk, at the foot of the steps to the communion table. At the foot of the steps to the communion table inside the St. Mary's Church in Wiveton, there is the memorial tablet to Anne Fleming. The inscription says: "Near this monument and in the same vault with the remains of her much respected friend Mrs Catherine Jennis is interred the body of Mrs Anne Fleming, spinster, daughter of John
Anne Jane Thornton Anne Jane Thornton Anne Jane Thornton (1817–1877), also spelt Ann Jane Thornton, was a 19th-century adventurer from Donegal who in 1832 posed as a boy to go to sea, in pursuit of a lost lover who had gone to the United States. She continued her career as a seaman until her arrival in London in 1835, when she was interviewed by the Lord Mayor of London. She later wrote a book about her adventures. Born in Gloucestershire, in the west of England, in 1817, Thornton was the daughter of a prosperous shop-keeper. According to the "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography",