Issue of William Bigge and Melior Roper. Issue of Samuel
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: 98 MORPETH DEANERY . - MORPETH WARD , W. D. Issue of William Bigge Issue of Samuel Bigge and Melior Roper . and Barbara Watts . VII.- ) . WILLIAM BIGGE , 1. SAMUEL Bigge , eld . son & heir , living 1685 , in which year he sold Clees Hall , and the manor . eldest son , was 13 years 2. JEMIMA Bigge , married to John Bruce , of Little Wenbam , in Suffolk , esq . and had issue . old in 1633 , & is supposed 3. ANNE BIGGE , died before 1693 . 4. THOMAS Bigge , died before 1698 . to be the same person as 5. WILLIAM Bigge , in the law , and settled at Lammarsh , in Essex , where he was buried on the Wm Bigge , who married 12th January , 1717 . Isabella Dent , as stated be 6. John Bigge , died before 1698 . low . 7. ELIZABETH BIGGE , buried at Alphamstone on the 22nd February , 1674 . 2. Edw . BIGGE , 2nd son . 8. HENRY Bigge , died before 1698 . No. 2. - 1. - William BIGGE , attorney at law , Newcastle upon Tyne , TISABELL DENT , daur . and co - heir of Thomas Dent , is described in certain family documents as of Hawkhurst , in Kent , and of Newcastle , gent . , by his wife Julian , t widow of of Furnival's Inn , London . Marriage settlement dated 28 Aug. 1666 . “ Mr James Metham , of Newcastle , ” who , in 1663 , Thomas Dent , his wife's father , divided his estates equally between his was possessed of property ir Heddon - on - the - Wall , two daughters , by which Mr Bigge acquired one quarter of Heddon - on - Willington , and part of North and South Gosford , the - Wall ( a moiety of which belonged to the earl of Carlisle ) , half of and Coldcoats , assessed together for county rate , in Darras Hall , half of Caistron and of the tithes of Wreighill , and part of that year , upon a rental of £ 319 .-- ( III . i . 322. ) East , West , and North Coldcoats . His wife's mother also purchased Thomas Dent , Isabell's father , by bis will , dated in Willington of sir Francis Anderson , of Bradley , after her husband's | 1657 , left his estates to his two daughters , Isabell , death , and left it equally between her two daughters . By his will , wife of Wm Bigge , and Julian , wife of John Hind which is dated 28 Feb. 1636 , be gave £ 1500 to his eldest son , and £ 1000 marsh , of Little Benton , and appointed his wife's to each of his other children . He died in March , 1690 , * and was buried son , James Metham , his executor and trustee . He in All Saints ' , Newcastle , on the 18th of that month , in a tomb which was buried at All Saints , Newcastle . Jas . Metham , he and Mr John Hindmarsh had provided as a burial place for them- gent . died 23 April , 1684 , and was buried near the selves and familles , and inscribed with the following memorial : - “ Wil- tomb of the families of Bigge and Hindmarsh , in lielmus Bigg , generosus , et Johannes Hindmarch , armiger , humanæ | All Saints ' church . ( M. 1. Brand's Newc . i . 365. ) sortis et fragilitatis memores , boc sibi suisque , Deo volente , supremum This Isabell bad the disposal of the estates which in terris posuerunt domicilium usque festum resurectionis nortuorum came by her , and settled them upon her eldest , and alta pace gaudendum . other sons , in succession ; and , failing them , upon “ Maxima noscere mori vitæ est sapientia , vivit her daughters . She saved much money in her « Qui moritur , si vis vivere , disce mori .-- 23rd April , 1684. " . widowhood . Brand's Newc . i . 385 . II . ) . JOHN Bigge , eldest son and heir , is 1. MARY BIGGE married Edward Collingwood , of Byker , grandfather of the late described as of the Temple , London , and of Edward Collingwood , of Chirton . Marriage settlement , dated 26 Sept. 1701 , con East Knoyle , in Wiltshire . By his father's veys the manor of North Dissington , a farm at Shipley , and lands at Byker , for will he was left in the custody and tuition securing jointure . of his father's “ loveing cousin John Bowles , 2. ANNE Bigge married Edward Ward , maternal ancestor of Mr Orde , of Nun of Shaftesbury , in the coun . of Dorset , esq . nykirk . Marriage settlement 3 Dec. 1761 , secures jointure on houses in Morpeth . By the same title he had also a farm at Hawkhurst , in Kent , and a copyhold farm at Rotherwick , Hants , which last named property was holden of Magdalene College , Oxford , and sold , not many years since , by c . w . Bigge , esq . for £ 500 . This John Bigge , in 1696 , purchased one - sixth part of the square of Spittal - fields , London , with the houses upon it , for £ 1696 . He married ANNE JACKSON , at Chester , in 1701 , and died in 1727 , at Bedlington , in the county palatine of Durham , n . c . S. and s . p . 2. JAMES BIGGE had houses in the Groat Market , Newcastle , anil € 1000 by his father's will . He died a minor , and unmarried . 3. Thomas BIGGE went to India as a sailor , and not being hrard TELIZABETH , daughter of Edward Hindmarsh , of the six of for a long time , and his brother John being in a state of luna - clerk's office , London , brother of John Hindmarsh , whose cy , his sisters received the rents of their father and mother's son John married Julian Dent . His father , in 1693 , pur estates ; but , after his return , the differences which arose between chased a moirty of the west moiety of Little Benton of him and them respecting the family property were settled by ar John and Elizabeth Hindmarsh , for £ 1260 , and an appu bitration in 1709 , but not finally confirmed without the inter - ity of £ 30 to the longest liver of the two , and settled this vention of an act of parliament , which was introduced into the half moiety and one - sixth part of Coldcoats upon her . house of lords Feb. 13 , and passed the house of commons 30 Mar. 1710 , and is entituled “ An act to enable trustees to recover the personal estates of Wm Bigg and Isabella Bigg , now vested in John Bigg , a lunatic , their son and heir , and executor of his father , for the payment of debts and legacies . ” — Jour . H. L. air . 63 . Jour . H. C. xvi . 390. ) He married about the year 1706 ; resided at Byker , near his sister Mary Collingwood ; and both he and his wife died there , and were buried in All Saints ' church . III . - 1 . WM BIGGE , TMary , daur . 3. Thos . Bigge , TELIZ . RUNDELL , 2. Edw . Bigge , bap . 2 June , 1708 ; was an attor of Benton , esq . bap . and at length married at Bath , sister of the late ney at law in Grey's Jon , London ; resided at Jes 25 Mar. 1707 ; mar- sole heir of Aug. 4 , 1763. Philip Rundell . mond ; purchased BRENKLEY , and died unmarried . ried 29 Jan. 1736 : Chas . Clarke , ( Newc . Cour . ) He 1. GRACE BIGGE . bap . 30 March , 1710 ; became the occurs as a proprie- ofovingham , was a mercer on Arst wife of sir Robert Carr , bart . brother of sir Wm Carr , of Etal . tor of collieries at esq . who was Ludgate - bill , and Sir Robert was a merrer on Ludgate - hill , succeeded to his brother's Little Benton , East an attorney built the White - title , and afterwards resided at Hampton , in Middlesex . By his first and West Heddon , & at law in house at Little marriage he had a daur . Elizabeth , marr . to sir Richard Glyn , father Heddon - on - the - Wall Newcastle , & Benton , where be of the present sir Richard Carr Glyn , bart . Şir Robert married , 2dly , in 1738 .- ( Peck's Mi purchased died in the year Miss Little , hy whom he had one daur . married to - Hammond , esq . nutes . ) He was bred the glebe 1791 . of Heyling , Surrey . A to the law , and one lands & tithes 2. MARY BIGGE , bap . Ap . 10 , 1712 , died at Rippon , unmar . in 1791 . of the six ' clerks in of Ovingham 3. ELIZABETH BIGGE , bap . May 24 , 1714 , also died upmarried , some chancery ; high she of the Addison family , which ) years before her sister Mary . riff of Northumb . in glebe and tithes , at his death , 1750 . He obtained became the inheritance of his daur . Mary , and at present are the propcrty of her grandson , C. W. by his wife the e - Bigge , esq . of Linded . She resided many years at Ovingham , where she died May 5 , 1750 .- ( Newcastle states of Stannington Courant , 1780. ) ( Over ) The following entries occur in a schedule of the writings of Mr William Bigge , given into the custody of Mark Browell , after his death : A bond from Peter Richardson , of Newcastle , gent . to William Bigge , of Furnival's Inn , London , gent . in £ 120 , dated 6 Feb. 1671 , with con . ditions , & c . A copy of Mr Wm Bigg's will and probate , dated 20 Feb. 3 Jac . II . The entry of his burial March 18 . William Bigge , attorney at London . " in All Saints ' register is “ 1000 , † Julian Dent , by will , 21 Nov. 1675 , gave to her son James Metham , all her lands , & c . at Darris - hall ; to her daughters Isabell Bigge and LONG HORSLEY PARISH . — PEDIGREE OF BIGGE , OF LINDEN . 99 Issue of William Bigge , esq . and Mary Clarke . Issue of Thomas Bigge and Elizabeth Rundell . and Ovingham , and purchased the parts of Little Benton which he did not inherit : also two - sixths of Coldcoats and Witton , in the parish of Rothbury . He also added considerably to Benton House , and dying there , June 30 , 1758 , aged 51 , was buried at All Saints ', Newcastle . Numerous letters between him and Mr Ridley , of Heaton , showed that they were in constant and confidential correspondence , and strongly attached to each other . He left behind him the character of hav ing great quickness and sagacity as a man of business , and joyous spirits and high convivial powers as a companion .