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    Digges, Thomas

    Male 1610 - 1687  (77 years)


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    • Name Digges, Thomas 
      Born 1610  Of Chilham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Male 
      Died 1687  Chilham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Person ID I08714  My Genealogy

      Family Abbott, Mary,   c. 2 Feb 1611, St Stephen Coleman Street London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Oct 1692, Chilham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 81 years) 
      Married 17 Nov 1631  St Stephen Coleman Street London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
      Family ID F02669  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Notes 
      • In 1639 the Chilham Castle estate passed to Thomas Digges (Sir Dudley's eldest son) who married Mary, daughter of Sir Maurice Abbott. Of Sir Dudley's character we know plenty, but, of his son, we have only a contemporary description as “a melancholy cracked man”. In 1687 Thomas bequeathed the estate to his only surviving son, Leonard Digges, who married Elizabeth Mary, daughter of Sir John Osbourne of Chicksand, Bedfordshire....
        From: 'Parishes: Chilham', The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 7 (1798), pp. 263-292. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63418 Date accessed: 11 May 2011.

    • Sources 
      1. [S00123] St Stephen Coleman Street London Parish Registers (Film No.0375013).