Thomas Lygon

• General Notes
  • Abbrev: LIGON-L Archives
    Text: A note regarding the Ligon book:
    "The Virginia Genealogist" Vol 22, 1978 - pp. 252-255
    Article by Michael J. Wood and Gary Boyd Roberts - "Four Thomas Lygons
    (Ligons) an abstract of New Findings"
    "Recently published Virginia materials, the originals of which Mr. Ligon
    and Mr. Boddie variously misinterpreted, allow us rather easily to unravel the
    confusion between the immigrant and his son, Col. Thomas Ligon of Henrico Co.,
    Va., his almost certain father and grandfather, and his son, are thus as
    follows:
    1. Thomas Lygon, second son of William Lygon and Eleanor Dennis of Madresfield, Worcestershire, lived in Elkstone, Gloucestershire (not Elston, Wiltshire), married Francis Dennis, a cousin, daughter of Hugh Dennis and Katherine Trye of Pucklechurch, Gloucestershire. As "Francisca Ligon ux' Thomas Ligon nuper de Elkeston, gen." she was fined 20 shillings for recusancy in 1592, Frances then a widow, was of Merson, Wiltshire, when she made her will on 17 Oct. 1622, but later lived with her son Thomas at Calouden and was buried in the adjacent parish of Sowe 30 Jan. 1724/5. (sic) Her will was proved by him 1 June 1625. Through a line that Mr. Roberts cannot confirm, and of one link of which he is dubious, John Trye (1513-1579) of Hardwick, Gloucestershire, an uncle of Frances Dennis, is charted by Gerald Paget as an ancestor of H.M. Queen Elizabeth the Quenn Mother.
    2. Thomas Lygon, farmer, of Stoke-by-Coventry and Calouden, Warwickshire, born ca. 1577, married (perhaps a second wife) 18 Aug. 1623 Elizabeth Pratt at Sowe, She was baptized at nearby Stoke-Biggin 10 Oct. 1602, daughter of Dennis Pratt. Thomas Lygon was buried at Sowe 20 dec. 1626. Administration on his estate was granted his relict Elizabeth 16 Feb. 1626/7 Elizabeth was buried at Sowe 19 Aug. 1631.
    3. Thomas Lygon, baptized at Sowe, Warwickshire, 11 Jan. 1623/4, is almost certainly the immigrant Col. Thomas Ligon of Virginia, surveyor and burgess of Henrico county. He made his will 10 Jan. 1675 and administration was granted his widow and executrix, Mary, 16 March 1675/6. He married ca. 1650 Mary Harris, born ca. 1625, daughter of Thomas Harris (born 1587) and Adria, perhaps Gurganey. Col. Ligon surveyed an area called "Mawburne" or Malvern Hills in Henrico county (in England Malvern Hills are very near Madresfield) and at least once acted as an agent for Sir William Berkeley, governor of Virginia, his almost certain second cousin. His children were Thomas Jr., William, Joan, Richard, Mathew, Hugh and Mary, named undoubtedly after himself (Thomas Jr.), his wife (Mary), his sister (Joan), two of his
    father's brothers (William and Richard) and his father's maternal grandfather, Hugh Dennis of Pucklechurch. Nothing can be found to document a later English career for Thomas lygon, born 1623/4, and no other Thomas is unaccounted for and of the right age to be the immigrant."
    Quality: 1
    Note: From: <Carlsonlw@@aol.com>
    Subject: Re: LIGON-D Digest V99 #4

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