'Bigg2'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Bigg (Bygges or Biggs) of Lenchwick, Biggs of York, Tooker of Moorgate

                               
John Bygges of Standish Sherborne & Radford, Glloucestershire (a 1475)
1. Thomas Bygges
  m. _ Bruyis
A. John Bygges of Standish Sherborne & Radford
  m. _ Butler (dau of John Butler of Gloucestershire)
  i. Thomas Bygges or Bigg of Lenchwick, Worcestershire (b 1506-7, d 25.06.1581)
  m. Magdalen or Maud Hoby (dau of William Hoby by 1st wife, sister of Sir Philip)
  a. Sir Thomas Bygges or Byggs or Biggs or Bigg of Lenchwick (d 04.05.1613)
  m. Ursula Throckmorton (dau of Clement Thorckmorton or Throgmorton of Haseley)
  (1) Sir Thomas Bygges or Byggs or Biggs or Bigg of Lenchwick, Bart (b c1577, dsp 11.06.1621)
  m. Anne Witham (dau of William Witham of Leadstone, m2. Sir John Walter)
(2) Catherine Biggs
  m. Michael Fox of Chacmobe or Chaucum
  (3) Ann Biggs
  m. John Wright of East Mayn
  (4) Elizabeth Biggs
  m. Thomas Freme or Freame of Lippyate (Lippeat)
  (5)+ other issue - Edwards, Clement, Samuel, Mary
  b. Philip Bygges or Biggs or Bigg of Aldington, Worcestershire
  m. Hester Morton
  (1)+ issue - Uriell, Thomas, Henry
  c. Elizabeth Bygges or Biggs or Bigg
  m. Francis Dynley of Charlton (b c1550, d 27.10.1624)
  ii. Anne Bygges
  m. John Skudamore of Thropston

 

 

Much of the following was first shown within Tucker03 on 14.01.22. It was moved here to facilitate expansion.
William Biggs of Shalford, Essex
1. Matthew Biggs (b c1610, a 1655, vicar of St. Martin's Coney Street, York)
m. Frances Sherwood (dau of John Sherwood of Cambridge)
  A. Matthew Biggs of York (b c1630/35, d 02.04.1722)
  m. Mary Blitheman (dau of William Blitheman of New Lathes by Elizabeth, dau of Sir John Stanhope)
  i. Matthew Biggs of Rotherham (b c1672, d 03.02.1436, )
  m1. Catherine Tooker (b 1668, bur 29.01.1725, dau of Charles Tooker of Moorgate in Rotherham, sister/heir of John)
  a. Tooker Biggs, later Tooker of Moorgate
  m. Frances Buck (dau of Samuel Buck of Rotherham by Jane, dau of William Aislabie of Rotherham)
  (1) Samuel Tooker of Moorgate (b c1737, d unm 22.12.1806, recorder of Doncaster)
  (2) Frances Tooker
  m. Thomas Woodcock of Norwich
  (A) Catherine Woodcock (b c1756, d unm 04.10.1819)
  (B) Jane Woodcock (b c1762, d 08.02.1824)
  m. Richard Holden of Moorgate
  (i) Jane Isabella Holden
  m. Charles James Hoare (vicar of Blandford, son of Henry of Mitcham)
  (3)+ other issue - John (b c1734, d 1740), Jane (d unm)
  m2. Bridget Beau of Sproatley (d 05.03.1736, widow of Arthur Palmer of Sheffield)

Main source(s):
(1) For upper section (uploaded 06.12.10) : Visitation (Worcestershire, 1569, 'Biggs'), BEB1841 ('Bigg of Lenchwick')
(2) For lower section (uploaded 01.06.26) : 'The History and Topography of the Deanery of Doncaster' (Joseph Hunter, vol 2, 1831, 'Pedigree of Tooker of Moor-gate', p25) with some support from 'Hallamshire: The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield' (Joseph Hunter, 1819, 'Pedigree of Mounteney', p228)
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