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Margaret Lygon (Talbot) - Burial of Margaret Talbot Lygon

Started by Charles Frith on Sunday, March 31, 2024
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Margaret Talbot Lygon, buried in St John the Baptist Churchyard. Bromsgrove, Bromsgrove District, Worcestershire, England,,,, was NOT the wife of John Baker. Sir John, John of Mancroft or otherwise. Upon her crypt is written these words.....Here lyeth the body of Dame Margaret's Lygon daughter to the aforesaid John Talbott and sister to this Dame Bridget Talbott that lieth heard and wife to Sr Arnould Lygon of Beauchampes Coort Shee decesed February the 24th Anno Domini 1632.............indicating that Sir Arnold was still alive.......Margaret is buried here with her father, her mother, her sister and her brother........

The marriage of John Baker to Margaret Talbot (or Taulbett as the record is written... indicating she was never married prior otherwise she would have been listed as Margaret Lygon......was not his Margaret Talbot..... and I strongly doubt it was the John Baker of Mancroft.........given the distance.....

Given the timeline of the 1585 marriage in Sedgely, and given the home location (Sedgeley to Mancroft which is 80+ miles).. this marriage to our John makes no sense....what the 80 means is in 1580;s a horse and one ridge could go approximately 5 miles perday....maybe 10 if you want to kill your horse.......that means travel would be almost 16 days......in good weather which England doesn't often have.

Margaret Lygon is your 18th cousin thrice removed.

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