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Wife Sarah BIGELOW
Born: 29 Sep 1659 - Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts
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Mother: Mary WARREN (1624-1691)
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Wife Alice BIGGE
Born: Abt 1546 - biddenden, Kent, England
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Died: 13 May 1593 - Tenterden, Kent, England
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Wife Dorothy BIGGE
Born: Abt 1542 - biddenden, Kent, England
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Wife Elinor BIGGE
Born: Abt 1546 - benenden, Kent, England
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Wife Elizabeth BIGGE
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Wife Elizabeth BIGGE
Born: 1540 - benenden, Kent, England
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Father: Robert BIGGE (1505-1548)
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1 F Mary BIGGE
Born: Abt 1576 - Cranbrook, Kent, England
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Spouse: John BETTS (Bef 1576-1620)
Marr: 26 Dec 1600 - Cranbrook, Kent, England
Spouse: Tom BRIDGER ( - )
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3 M John BIGGE
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General Notes for Child Mary BIGGE
Her parentage is controversial; I have two sets reconstructed from the same set of wills and so forth of the Bigge family of Kent. The family were clothiers.
I've adopted James as teh father as the primary parents because I've seen the argument for how it was derived; the argument for the other parentage exists. The Bigge family traces back nearly to 1400 through their wills, in the Cranbrook area. They seem to have always been clothiers, fairly well off.
The parents of John Bigge, clothier of Cranbrook, Kent, have not been identified. John Insley Coddington (NEHGR, Oct. 1938) said John "may well have been a descendant of Richard Bigge of Cranbrook, clothier, whose will, dated 4 November, 24 Henry VIII [1532], and proved 5 Aug. 1533 (P.C.C., 5 Hogen), was printed in Emmerton and in Waters' `Gleanings,' p.11." The author has examined the wills of that Richard Bigge and his son Gervase, and leans toward John, the son of Richard's son James, as the best candidate. However, James is not known to have had a daughter Elizabeth, and did have a daughter Susanne. James did have only two other known children, named John and Mary.
According to one breakdown, one individual had the following children.
+ 2 i. John2 Bigg.
+ 3 ii. Elizabeth Bigg.
+ 4 iii. Mary Bigg.
2. John2 Bigg (Parent of John1) (#1687) birth date unknown. His remains were interred August 13, 1605 in Cranbrook, Kent, England.(2)
He married Rachel Martin September 14, 1583 in Tenterden, Kent, England.(3) (Rachel Martin is #1686.) Rachel was born before June 17, 1565 (chr. date) in Lydd, Kent, England. Rachel was the daughter of James Martin and Joan Adam. Rachel died circa 1647 in Dorchester, Suffolk Co, MA. She was christened June 17, 1565 in Lydd, Kent, England.(4) Rachel's estate was probated November 17, 1646 in Suffolk Co, MA.(5)
John was employed at as a clothier. John's estate was probated October 30, 1605 in Consistory Court, Canterbury, Kent, England.(6)
One of John's sons mentioned "my Aunt Mary Bridger of West Peckham and her two sons, Robert and Thomas Betts"; in his will.
Some of the sources cited are:
. John Insley Coddington, Bigge Family, note, (Boston, MA: NEHGS, Oct 1938), NEHGR, Vol. 92, pp. 395-8 (hereafter cited as Coddington, NEHGR v92, Bigge Family).
3. Elizabeth French, 'Parish Register of Tenterden, Kent,' NEHGR V.66, (Boston, MA: NEHGS, Jan 1912), Vol.LXVI, pp.57-8 (hereafter cited as NEHGR v66:57, Tenterden Parish Register).
4. Coddington, NEHGR v92, Bigge Family.
5., cites printing in NEHGR V.5 pp.300-1.
6.extracts will at Consistory Court of Canterbury, V.39 Folio 196.
9. Douglas M.A. Richardson, 'Further Data on English Origins of the Ensign Family,' TAG, (TAG, Apr 1984, pub.1985), The Amer. Gen., Vol.60, No.2, pp.97-100 cites Cranbrook Parish Registers, photocopy from (hereafter cited as Richardson, TAG:60, Further Ensign Family); and John Brooks Threlfall
10. Richardson, TAG:60, Further Ensign Family, cites Cranbrook Parish Registers, photocopy from/I>; and John Brooks Threlfall
11. NEHGR V.38 p.61 extracts will, Archdeaconry Court Vol.70 Leaf 482
12. Richardson, TAG:60, Further Ensign Family, cites Cranbrook Parish Registers, photocopy from/I>; and John Brooks Threlfall
13. NEHGR V.38 pp.60-1 extracts will, Consistory Court Vol.51 Leaf 115
14. Coddington, NEHGR v92, Bigge Family.
26. John Insley Coddington, Betts Family, note, (Boston, MA: NEHGS, July, 1938), NEHGR, Vol. 92, pp. 296-301 (hereafter cited as Coddington, NEHGR v92, Betts Family).
27. John Insley Coddington, 'Parish Register of West Peckham, Kent,' NEHGR V.92, (Boston, MA: NEHGS, July 1938), Vol.XCII, p.298 (hereafter cited as W. Peckham Reg. NEHGR 92).
28. Ibid.
The Bigge family were one of the wealthier clothier families of Kent. A large number of the family came to New England.
Husband John BIGGE
Born: Abt 1560
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