Joe, I have some comprehensive notes on the PIGOTT family associated with Abingdon, Cambs, from as early as the 1460s. They are too detailed for me to send as an e-mail, so I will confine myself, initially, to establishing the point at which Granado became a family name, & provide details of the sequence of Granado PIGOTTs of that place in a later communication. A hard copy of these notes, without exemplification of the series of P.C.C. Wills (downloaded later from the British National Archives web-site for a modest fee), was lodged by me with the Mormons in Salt Lake City on a visit in 2001. John PIGOTT, b ca 1608, a son of John PIGOTT, Sr (bur 1617), of Abingdon, by Ann HALL (daur of Henry HALL of Gretford, Lincs, by Margaret ELMES); he compounded for delinquency, 22 Nov 1645, his estate then worth 203 pounds per annum, with a wife & 7 children; he presented William WALTON to the Rectory of Abingdon, Dec 1662, with the surety of Henry PIGOTT of Abingdon; his will, dated 23 Apr xxvii Charles II (dating from the execution of the father, Charles I) 1675, proved P.C.C., 14 Jul 1679, making property bequests to sons Granado & Francis. John married at Barkway, Herts, 3 Feb 1630, Frances CHESTER (daur of Sir Robert CHESTER of Royston & Cockenhatch, by Ann CAPEL; & a grand-daughter of Edward CHESTER of Royston by his wife Katherine, daur of Sir James GRANADO, Knt Equerry to Henry VIII); her will dated 10 Nov 1679, widow of Abingdon Pigotts, proved P.C.C., 16 Dec 1679, naming sons John, Granado & Francis, & daughters Mary & Margaret. They had issue, including the 7 living in 1645: 1. Ann PIGOTT, bt Croydon-cum-Clapton, Cambs, 13 Dec 1631. 2. John PIGOTT, bt Croydon-cum-Clapton, 25 Oct 1632; bequest in his mother's will, 1679; died before Sep 1682, s.p.; marr Dorothea (-?-); her will proved P.C.C., 4 Sep 1682, citing her late husband's will, dated 28 May 1680 (probate not yet found). 3. Robert PIGOTT, bt Croydon-cum-Clapton, 25 Oct 1633; died young. 4. Robert (II) PIGOTT, bt Croydon-cum-Clapton, 6 Sep 1634. 5. Mary PIGOTT, bt Croydon-cum-Clapton, 7 Nov 1635; named in her mother's will, 1679. 6. Henry PIGOTT, bt Croydon-cum-Clapton, 2 Dec 1636; bur Abingdon, 1665. 7. Margaret PIGOTT; named in her mother's will, 1679, & in her sister-in-law's will, 1682. 8. Ann PIGOTT; married Edward RADCLIFFE; both named, with a living child, in her father's will, 1675. 9. Elizabeth PIGOTT; bur Abingdon, 21 Feb 1667. 10. Granado PIGOTT, b ca 1649-50, the first of a long succession of Granado PIGOTTs of Abingdon. Inherited Abingdon. More to follow. 11. Francis PIGOTT; named in father's will, 1675, with provision for him to succeed his brother Granado on failure of issue; named in mother's will, 1679; named in sister-in-law's will, 1682. John's grandfather, as far as I can determine, was Henry PIGOTT, of Abingdon, whose Administration, dated 1588, mentioned a "will" dated 21 Jun 1587, apparently "contested"; marr 1stly, Margaret RICH (daur of Sir Richard RICH, Lord Chancellor, by Elizabeth GYNKES), probably the mother of John Sr; Henry marr 2ndly, Alice WEDGWOOD, who died s.p.; he 3rdly, Denise BOSSEVILLE, whose will was dated 1592, a Widow. Do any List members know what circumstances led to the "Administration" of Henry PIGOTT's "contested" will in 1588? This might prove to be very interesting! This family bore Arms - "Sable, three pickaxes Or" with, in later years, a "Canton Ermine." These, unadorned, were the Arms carried also by the great PIGOTT families associated with Melmorbey & Coverdale Yorks, & of the later families associated with Doddershall, Little Horwood, Grendon, etc, in Cambs & Bucks. They differ from the Arms of the other great PIGOTT family of Cheshire & Shropshire, namely - "Ermine, three fusils conjoined in fess, Sable." The variation on these Arms that was carried by the PIGOTT family of Dysart, Queen's Co, Ireland, was the "crescent Or" on the centre fusil, for difference, the crescent being the cadency mark for the 2nd son. There is a suggestion that these different Arms (Heraldic Arms were not much in use before the 12th century), may indicate the separation of these two branches from perhaps as early as the Conquest, 1066. Some research suggests two brothers from Argentan, near Seez, in Normandy, fought at the Battle of Hastings, & that their father Richard de PICOT, past the age for battle, came over several years later to assist administration in the north, near Chester. Regards, Chris PIGOTT, Potts Point, N.S.W.