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Bridget Digges (Wilford)

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Birthplace: Hartridge, Cranbrook, Kent, England
Death: January 1598 (73-83)
Cranbrook, Kent, England
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Sir Thomas Wilford, Sr. and Elizabeth Wilford
Wife of Leonard Digges, Esq, of Woolton Court
Mother of Sir Thomas Digges; Maria Barber; Sarah Weston; Anne Digges; James Digges and 1 other
Sister of Sir James Wilford, MP; SIR Francis Wilford and Lady Elizabeth Clarke
Half sister of Thomas Wilford, MP and Cicely Sandys

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About Bridget Digges


According to genealogist Douglas Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry (2011), Leonard Digges was married to Bridget Wilsford (or Wilford) - not 'Bridget Sarah' - of Cranbrook, Kent, daughter of Thomas Wilford and Elizabeth Culpeper. They had six children: the noteworthy scientist Thomas, James, Daniel, Mary (who married a man with the last name Barber), Anne, who married William Digges (a cousin, perhaps?) and Sarah, whose first husband's last name was Martin, her second husband was John Weston, interesting: a Weston was involved with the Mayflower, possibly a member of the same family.


References

  1. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition ... page 82. < GoogleBooks >
  2. The visitation of Kent : taken in the years 1619-1621 by John Philipot, Rouge Dragon, Marshal and Deputy to William Camden, Clarenceux by Camden, William, 1551-1623; Philipot, John, 1589?-1645; Hovenden, Robert, 1830-1908; Harleian Society. Page 65. < Archive.Org >
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Bridget Digges's Timeline

1519
1519
Hartridge, Cranbrook, Kent, England
1540
1540
Digges Court, Barham, Kent, England
1598
January 1598
Age 79
Cranbrook, Kent, England
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