667

Canterbury

Wighard, priest, selected for office of Archbishop, sent to Rome for consecration, died of plague on point of return ("Anglo-Saxon England", Peter Hunter Blair).

1042/66

Various locations

Wigod of Wallingford, minister (i.e. senior clergyman) and regis pincerna (King's butler), witness signatory to various charters, including one in which Edward the Confessor directed "his kinsman Wigod" to transfer land to Westminster Abbey on his behalf, and another in favour of Giso, Bishop of Wells (Anglo-Saxon Charters (ASC)).

1052

Leicester

Wigotus monk, of Thorney Abbey, Cambridgeshire, witness signatory to charter conveying land to Crowland Abbey, Lincolnshire (ASC).

1060

Westminster

Wigodus de Lincolne, witness signatory to charter conveying land to Ramsey Abbey, Huntingdonshire (ASC).

11th Cent.

Winchester

Wigod, lay brother at Hyde Abbey (Register and martyrology of the New Minster and Hyde Abbey, Winchesters ed. W. de Gray Birch).

1185

Warwickshire

William Wigot, Warwickshire Templars (British Academy, Records of Social & Economical History, Vol.IX).

1255

Shropshire

John Wigod on the Hundred Rolls (Rotuli Hundredorum).

1330

Kent

Henry Wygewode. King orders sheriff of Kent to release Henry, who was charged with adhesion to Edmund, late Earl of Kent, and to restore his lands Sc. (Close Rolls).

1337

Tower of London

Alice Wygodes, pardoned at request of queen Philippa, having been convicted of sheep stealing in Essex because she was then of too tender age for judgement (death?) to be executed upon her (Patent Rolls).

1338

Sandwich Kent

Richard Wygod and other residents. Resolution of dispute over ship and cargo (Close Rolls),

1411

Stowe, Glos

John Wygot, owed 40 shillings by John Filyppes (Patent Rolls, Westminster).

1444

Leicestershire

. Robert Wygot. Pardon parented to Thomas Smith alias Chestur, indicted for stealing two horses, valued together at t5 shillings, the goods of Robert, of Thorpe; and of any consequent outlawry (Potent Rolls, Westminster).

1612

London

Thomas Wygod/Wygood/Weygod married Alce Collyns (her second) in 1612 at St. Peters Cornhill, and was buried there by night (plague?) in 1624. His will refers to a sister, Elizabeth (Dyer), at Amersham Bucks., cousins Henry Lever and Henry Fotherby, and a daughter, Mary. By occupation a cook, and shown as "Freeman of the Coocks'. He and Elizabeth could have been unrecorded children of Thomas born 1540/1 (the curate); see next item re possible Dyer connection. (The population of England a Wales at this time was around 5,000,000 only).

1664

Hartley Wintney, Hants

Margaret Wigwood married Thomas Dyer (see previous item). Margaret is the only Wigwood located outside Somerset and Devon, and there are no others on Hampshire IGI. Could there have been a name link with Thorne St. Margaret? **