Joe, I intend to by-pass today's challenge, for the moment at least! I have a lot of information on the very large group of PIGOTT families, particularly in Buckinghamshire, & who descend from the Sergeant-at-law Thomas PIGOTT or his near relations. These PIGOTTs are not of my connection, so I had been leaving it up to some-one of that descent to make a posting, & am fairly sure there are a number about, with some in America. They comprise the much vaunted "Doddershall" branch. But it hasn't happened - and so, I bite the proverbial bullet. I owe a debt for the following to the usual sources - Visitation pedigrees; Chetham & Surtees publications; BURKE & other's Commoners, Landed Gentry & Baronetage; etc. But I owe a particular debt to Godfrey BRAMHALL, of Higham's Park in London when I last communicated with him back in the 1990s, who inspired my re-think into this branch with his illuminating research, privately published. And I am emboldened by Matt THOMPKINS' recent research into the Bucks - Yorks supposed connection, claimed in the "Doddershall Pedigree", and his clear quite independant establishment of proofs, where some of mine & Godfrey's research had begun pointing to "evidentiary difficultes" in the "established" pedigrees. Any advice on errors will be gladly received. ___________________________________________________________________ THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE PIGOTTS. Arms - "Sable, Three Millpicks, Argent." Richard PIGOTT, of Little Horwood, Co Buckingham (hereafter Bucks); formerly thought to have been a son of Geoffrey PIGOTT of Melmorby, Yorks, but this is now known to be incorrect - instead son of a family well established in Bucks, as yeomen farmers, for at least several generations (see Matt THOMPKINS's earlier contributions); in possession of the Manor of Bechampton, Bucks, by 1453; appointed Escheator for the Counties of Buckingham & Bedford, 4 Nov 1455; said to have been Steward to the Estates in Bucks of the Duke of York, & to have been slain with him at Wakefield, 1461; marr 1stly, Alice FINNELL (daur of Richard FINNELL of Winslow, Bucks); issue: 1. Robert PIGOTT, b ca 1430 (?), son & heir; of Whaddon, Bucks. See [A] below. Richard marr 2ndly, Joan DAYRELL (daur of Paul DAYRELL of Lillingston Dayrell, Bucks, Esq); she married 2ndly, Richard FORSTER, Gent; she was recorded in the Close Rolls (27 Mar 1492) in a "...release & quitclaim on Wolfe's Manor, & lands & tenements in Bechampton, Galcote, Bucks, to Joan FORSTER, late the wife of Richard PIGOTT, her son John PIGOTT..." & several others; she is said to have "taken the veil" in her widowhood; further issue: 2. John PIGOTT, b ca 1650 (?); of Beachampton, Bucks. See [C] in later e-mail. [A] PIGOTT OF WHADDON. Not a lot is known about Robert PIGOTT of Little Horwood; probably laid charges against Richard HEYTON of Totynho, Bucks, 23 Jan 1486; involved with John EDY, of Stony Stratford, in the sale of land in Yardley Gobion, Northants, 1489; prob named in a pardon dated 12 May 1492, concerning his non-appearance before the justices on a debt of 100s. to Robert PIGOTT; died ca 1493; marr, probably 2ndly, Margaret GIFFORD (daur & sole heiress of John GIFFORD of Whaddon, Bucks, by Margaret WOOLEY); issue: 1. Richard PIGOTT, b ca 1460 (?); perhaps named in a grant, dated at Westminster, 24 Sep 1685, "...King's servant, yeoman of the guard, for service in foreign parts and on this side, of the office of keeper of the Park of Potenhall, Co Surrey, with the precincts of the forest of Wyndesore, for life..." 2. Robert PIGOTT, b ca 1464 (?); marr, perhaps 2ndly, Isabel DOGGETT (daur & sole heiress of Henry DOGGETT of Aston Rowant, Co Oxon); her writ of diem clausit extremum dated 17 Oct 1491; issue: a. Richard PIGOTT, b ca 1480 (?). b. Robert PIGOTT, 2nd son, when heir to his mother, 1491; of Aston Rowant, Co Oxon; marr Eleanor PUTTENHAM (daur of William PUTTENHAM of Penn, Bucks, by Anne HAMPDEN); issue: i. Bartholomew PIGOTT, b ca 1500; of Aston Rowant. See [B] below. ii. Leonard PIGOTT, b ca 1504; died s.p. iii. Andrew PIGOTT, b ca 1506; died s.p. iv. Edmund PIGOTT; died s.p. v. Sybell, b ca 1508; marr Robert HALSIE, of Farnborough, Warwickshire. 3. Thomas PIGOTT, b ca 1460 (?); of Horwood & Whaddon; Serjeant-at-Law. See [D] in later e-mail. [B] PIGOTT OF ASTON ROWANT. Bartholomew PIGOTT, b ca 1500; granted the Manor of Ickford, with Edgcroft & lands of the Godstow Nunnery, 1538; named in a License dated 15 Aug 1555, with William LENTHALL, esq, and others, granting Peter DORMER rights over property in Chartlon & Newbottle, Northants, formerly belonging to the Monastery of Dunstable; said to have died 1558, but poss his will pr P.C.C., 1573, of Whitfield, Gent (unless instead the son); marr Julyan LENTHALL (daur of Thomas LENTHALL of Latchford, Co Oxon); issue: 1. Bartholomew PIGOTT, of Aston Rowant; marr Eliza STRETELEY (daur of John STRETELEY of Whyfeld, Co Oxon); issue: a. Eleanor PIGOTT, bt Aston Rowant, 3 Jun 1564. b. Richard PIGOTT, bt Aston Rowant, 15 May 1570. c. Elizabeth PIGOTT. Other PIGOTTs bapt Aston Rowant may have been Bartholomew's, or instead his nieces or nephews - Isabella, bt 1 Jun 1562; Margaret, bt 24 Nov 1564; Augustine, bt 25 Oct 1565; Henry, bt 9 Nov 1565; William, bt 20 Apr 1569; & Ann, bt 10 Apr 1572. 2. Nicholas PIGOTT; marr Elizabeth BECKINGHAM; issue: a. William PIGOTT. b. Edward PIGOTT. c. Mary PIGOTT. d. Ann PIGOTT. e. Elizabeth PIGOTT. 3. Richard PIGOTT, b ca 1529 (?); B.A., Oxon, 13 Feb 156-61; fellow of Oriel College; M.A., 22 Mar 1564-65; Principal of St Mary Hall, & "...a grave master of Oxford University"; died before Jul 1613. 4. George PIGOTT, b ca 1531 (?); went abroad, in the Irish Service; recommended by the Lord-Deputy 6 Mar 1595; sent with two other Captains & 300 men to join Sir Richard BINGHAM against 2000 rebels in Connaught, 14 Aug 1595; Captain of Foot, of a "...forward company with 18 pike & 28 shot" in County Mayo, 31 Mar 1596; his company cashiered, with that of Capt NEWELL, due to his death, ca Apr 1596; lately slain in Connaught, with 20 yeras service, 7 Apr 1596; his widow Elizabeth & 7 children were subject of a submission by the Lord Chancellor of Ireland to Lord BURGHLEY, 3 May 1596, & another from Sir H. WALLOP, 7 May 1596; at least one daur made a marriage in Ireland, suggesting the family settled there. 5. Thomas PIGOTT; b ca 1533 (?); marr 1stly, Ann ATKINSON; issue: a. John PIGOTT, eldest of several sons. b. Ann PIGOTT. c. Frances PIGOTT. d. Annabella PIGOTT. e. Eleanor PIGOTT. 6. Bridget PIGOTT; marr 1stly, 1555, Thomas BANESTRY of Brogden; marr 2ndly, William LYSTER of Craven, Yorks, with issue 2nd marr. 7. Ann PIGOTT: marr Robert TEMPEST, of Yorks. To be continued. Regards, Chris PIGOTT, Potts Point, N.S.W.