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)).

1O52

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

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

1166/77

Berkshire

Gilibertus Wigod, a clerk of the Bishop of Worcester, presented by

Osbert, Abbot of Lyre Abbey, to Jocelin, Bishop of Salisbury, for the churches of Shinfield and Swallowfield (Cartulary of Carisbrooke Priory, Dom. S.F. Hockey).

1185

Warwickshire

William Wigot, Warwickshire Templars (British Academy, Records of

Social & Economi­cal History, Vol. IX).

1230/35

Isle of Wight

Galfridus Wigod holding land from the Domus Dei (God's House), Southampton, an Augustinian priory-cum-hospital (Cartulary of God's House, editor J.M. Kaye).

1255

Shropshire

John Wigod on the Hundred Rolls (Rotuli Hundredorum).

1293/1328

Southampton

Willelmo Wygod witness signatory to tenancy charters (Cartulary, God's House).

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 &c. (Close Rolls).

1337

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

1338

Sandwich, Kent

Richard Wygod and others, 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 granted to Thomas Smith alias Chestur, indicted for stealing two horses, valued together at 15 shillings, the goods of Robert, of Thorpe; and of any consequent outlawry (Patent Rolls, Westminster).

1612

London

Thomas Wygod/Wygood/Weygod married Alce Collyns (her second) in 1612 at St. Peter 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 could have been the Thomas baptised 1575 Drayton, and Elizabeth an unrecorded child of Thomas 1540/1 - see next item re possible Dyer connection (population of England & Wales at this time around 5,000,000 only).

1664

Hartley Wintney

Margaret Wigwood married Thomas Dyer (see previous item). Margaret is the only, Wigwood located outside Somerset, Devon and Wiltshire, and there are no others on Hants. Hampshire IGI (as mentioned on previous page Thomas 1540/1 was curate at Thorne St. Margaret).