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    1. [PIGGOTT] A few more Piggott - Granado's
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    3. Some other articles that included the Granado Piggott name: Joshua Finch also came to Cambridge to settle, in about 1745, and it was to him that his cousin William left the iron business. Joshua prospered and became an alderman. His son Charles married a Sarah Smith whose uncle Mr Stanton was vicar of South Moulton, Northants and the couple had three daughters and a son, also Charles. In 1823 "Messrs Charles Finch and Son" subscribed £30 to the rebuilding of the Great Bridge at Cambridge. Charles snr was clearly one of the chief men of the town. With his brother Thomas Day Finch of Great Shelford, and John Mortlock and the rather grandly named Granado PIGGOTT, he was among the trustees appointed under the 1797 Cambridge to Abington Road Act. In 1812 he sat with John Cheetham Mortlock and Frederick Cheetham Mortlock on a Grand Jury re Mr Walsh MP robbing Sir Thomas Planer of £22,000, a juicy local scandal we may be sure. Another Piggott: The Lords of the Manor presided at Chilverton Elms in a mansion built by Peter Nepueu in 1640. This probably replaced a much earlier building, as, after the Norman Conquest, the Manor was held by a family who took the name of Hougham. One of this family, Robert de Hougham, fought with his King Richard I at Aeon in Palestine(?) Another member was associated with Stephen de P?ts, Constable of Dover Castle, 1165-1198. Yet another Richard de Hougham was Prior of Dover Priory, 1350-1351. Nepueu was a Frenchman who came to live in England after the Edict of Nantes, and there is a monument to his memory in Hougham Church. The occupants of the "Elms" during Ingram's lifetime were Robert Lacey up to 1746 - he was Sheriff of Kent in 1739, then Granado PIGGOTT (or Pickett) to 1749, Phineas Stringer snr. (1749-1759) and finally Phineas Stringer jnr. By 1825 the mansion was apparently unoccupied and falling into disrepair.

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