Bridget (Wilsford) Digges (abt. 1520 - abt. 1579)

Born about 1520 in Cranbrook, Kent, England

Ancestors

Wife of Leonard Digges — married 1540 in Cranbrook, Kent, England

Descendants

Died about 1579 at about age 59 in Cranbrook, Kent, England

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Biography

Bridget was the daughter of Thomas Wilsford of Cranbrook, Kent and Elizabeth Culpeper. She married Leonard Digges.^[1][2][3] They had the following children:

• Thomas,^[1][2] who was a mathematician and a Member of Parliament^[3] born about 1564^[4]
• Sarah, who married someone with the last name Martin and John Weston^[1][2] and who was baptised at Wootton, Kent on 10 August 1548^[5][6]
• James,^[1][2] baptised at Wootton, Kent on 26 September 1549^[7]
• Daniel,^[1][2] baptised at Wootton, Kent on 20 November 1551.^[8]
• [[Digges-85|Mary, who married someone with the last name Barber^[1][2]
• Anne, who married William Digges^[1][2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), Vol. II, pp. 81-82, DIGGE£S 12, Google Books
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. III, pp. 104-105, GRANDISON 11
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry by Stephen Johnston for 'Digges, Leonard', print and online 2004
4. ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry by Stephen Johnston for 'Digges, Thomas', print and online 2004, revised online 2009
5. ↑ "England, Kent, Canterbury Parish Registers, 1538-1986," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGNJ-5JC9 : 12 March 2020), Sarah Digge, 10 Aug 1548; from " Kent, Canterbury Archdeaconry Parish Registers Browse, 1538-1913," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d); citing Baptism, Wootton, Kent, England, United Kingdom, Citing Canterbury Cathedral Archives, England
6. ↑ W Bruce Bannerman. The Visitations of Surrey, 1530, 1572 and 1623, Harleian Society, 1899, p. 217, Internet Archive
7. ↑ "England, Kent, Canterbury Parish Registers, 1538-1986," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGNJ-DM4T : 12 March 2020), James Digge, 26 Sep 1549; from " Kent, Canterbury Archdeaconry Parish Registers Browse, 1538-1913," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d); citing Baptism, Wootton, Kent, England, United Kingdom, Citing Canterbury Cathedral Archives, England
8. ↑ "England, Kent, Canterbury Parish Registers, 1538-1986," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGNJ-VCX5 : 12 March 2020), Daniell Digge, 20 Nov 1551; from " Kent, Canterbury Archdeaconry Parish Registers Browse, 1538-1913," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d); citing Baptism, Wootton, Kent, England, United Kingdom, Citing Canterbury Cathedral Archives, England

• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, entry by Agnes Mary Clerke for 'DIGGES, LEONARD (d. 1571?)', Wikisource
• Wilford family arms (jpg file): http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=4850837a-3175-47be-aff1-26f62444f66b&tid=57520188&pid=808