Hi List, I received the following reply from Matt Tompkins to my invitation to join our list. It looks to me like his kind offer will be of interest to certain of our list members. I know it is to me. Please contact Matt directly with your request. Joe >Alas, I don't actually have any Piggott ancestry - I'm a historian >and my interest in the Piggotts of Buckinghamshire derives from >their links to the villages I am studying - Great Horwood in north >Bucks and Chalfont St Peter/Hedgerley in south Bucks (next door to >Beaconsfield) in the 15th and 16th centuries. The Piggotts of >Doddershall, one of the great old gentry families of Buckinghamshire >(they still live in the manor house they built in Doddershall in the >1520s) originated in Little Horwood, next door to Great Horwood, in >the medieval period and owned land in Great Horwood itself. > >Incidentally, if any of your list members is descended from the >Doddershall Piggotts, or one of the other branches of the family who >lived in Little Horwood, Whaddon, Beachampton, Waddesdon and other >places around north Bucks and the neighbouring counties in the 16th >and 17th centuries, I can prove that the family's claim to be >descended from the medieval Pigots of Clotherholme, outside Ripon in >Yorkshire, is false - they actually descended from a family of >peasants living in Little Horwood since at least the early 14th >century. I'd be happy to email a paper I've written setting out all >the evidence to anyone who would be interested. > >Regards, > >Matt Tompkins Joe Bissett, PIGGOTT/CUMMISKEY List Administrator/Rootsweb I use America's Book CDs in my genealogical research to access otherwise unavailable primary source material. http://www.abcd-usa.com/ I support the Godfrey Memorial Library. http://www.godfrey.org/ Proud to be a member of LostCousins! http://www/LostCousins.com