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Notes for John Bigge and Rachel Martin

1584 Anna Bigge was baptized on August 16 at St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Kent, England. [1]

1584 Anna Bigg was buried on August 27 at St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Kent, England. [2]

1585 "Smale-Hoape Bigge" was baptized on August 29 at St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Kent, England. [3] [4]

1588 "Pacience Bigge" was baptized on May 5 in Cranbrook, Kent, England. [5] [6]

1590 "Elizabeth Bigge filia Johannis" was baptized on November 1 at St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Kent, England. [7]

1591/92 James Bigg was baptized on January 28 at St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Kent, England. [8]

1593/94 James Bigge was buried on January 12 at St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Kent, England. [9]

1594 "Rachell Bigg filia Johannis" was baptized on October 20 at St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Kent, England. [10]

1596/97 "Anna Bigg filia Johannis" was baptized on January 30 at St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Kent, England. [11]

1597 Anna Bigge was buried on May 16 at St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Kent, England. [12]

1598 "John Bigge filius Johannis" was baptized on June 25 at St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Kent, England. [13]

1598 "John Bigg a childe" was buried on December 18 at St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Kent, England. [14]

1600 "Marie Bigg daughter of John" was baptized on May 18 at St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Kent, England. [15]

1602 "John Bigg son of John" was baptized on December 19 at St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Kent, England. [16]

1604/05 Thankful Bigge was baptized on February 17 at St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Kent, England. [17]

1605 John Bigge, clothier, wrote his will on August 11. [18]

To my daus. Patience, Eliz. Rachel, Mary, and Thankful, 100 marks each, when 20 or on day of marriage.
To my wife, 100 marks and all my household stuff.
My exec. shall pay such money as is due to the execs. of my brother Scothford.
To my wife, £10/yr out of my lands for her dower.
I bequeath my house and land at Linton and Maidstone to my son Smallhope.
If my son John, at full age of 21, shall release his right to the house & land where I now dwell, then he shall have instead, the house and land at Linton and Maidstone, and my bequest of it to Smallhope is void.
Execs: my wife Rachel and my son Smallhope.
Wit: Wm. Plummer, Thos. Stone, Rich. Maitham.

1605 "John Bigge householder" was buried on August 13 in St. Dunstan, Cranbrook, Kent. [19]

1605 Thankful Bigge his [John Bigge's] child was buried on August 14 in St. Dunstan, Cranbrook, Kent. [20]

1605 The will of John Bigge was proved on October 20 (or 30) in the Consitory Court of Canterbury, vol .39, fol. 196. [21]


Footnotes:

[1] St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Parish Register, Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1559-1662, Kent Archives Office, P100/1/15, FHL film 2228373, image 30, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[2] St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Parish Register, Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1559-1662, Kent Archives Office, P100/1/15, FHL film 2228373, image 171, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[3] St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Parish Register, Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1559-1662, Kent Archives Office, P100/1/15, FHL film 2228373, image 31, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[4] FamilySearch.org, [FamilySearchRecord].

[5] St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Parish Register, Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1559-1662, Kent Archives Office, P100/1/15, FHL film 2228373, image 35, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[6] FamilySearch.org, [FamilySearchRecord].

[7] St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Parish Register, Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1559-1662, Kent Archives Office, P100/1/15, FHL film 2228373, image 39, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[8] St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Parish Register, Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1559-1662, Kent Archives Office, P100/1/15, FHL film 2228373, image 43, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[9] St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Parish Register, Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1559-1662, Kent Archives Office, P100/1/15, FHL film 2228373, image 180, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[10] St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Parish Register, Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1559-1662, Kent Archives Office, P100/1/15, FHL film 2228373, image 46, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[11] St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Parish Register, Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1559-1662, Kent Archives Office, P100/1/15, FHL film 2228373, image 49, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[12] St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Parish Register, Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1559-1662, Kent Archives Office, P100/1/15, FHL film 2228373, image 184, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[13] St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Parish Register, Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1559-1662, Kent Archives Office, P100/1/15, FHL film 2228373, image 51, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[14] St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Parish Register, Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1559-1662, Kent Archives Office, P100/1/15, FHL film 2228373, image 188, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[15] St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Parish Register, Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1559-1662, Kent Archives Office, P100/1/15, FHL film 2228373, image 53, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[16] St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Parish Register, Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1559-1662, Kent Archives Office, P100/1/15, FHL film 2228373, image 57, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[17] St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Parish Register, Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1559-1662, Kent Archives Office, P100/1/15, FHL film 2228373, image 60, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[18] Jules de Launay, ed., Abstracts of Cranbrook Wills Proved in the Diocesan Courts of Canterbury, 1396–1640 (Canterbury: Kent Record Collections, 1984), 355-356.

[19] St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Parish Register, Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1559-1662, Kent Archives Office, P100/1/15, FHL film 2228373, image 194, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[20] St Dunstan, Cranbrook, Parish Register, Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials 1559-1662, Kent Archives Office, P100/1/15, FHL film 2228373, image 194, [FamilySearchImage], [FHLCatalog].

[21] Jules de Launay, ed., Abstracts of Cranbrook Wills Proved in the Diocesan Courts of Canterbury, 1396–1640 (Canterbury: Kent Record Collections, 1984), 355-356.