Bridget Grenville

W.J.E.W. Corrected spelling from Granville ti Grenville.
Sir Thomas Higgons married firstly in about 1647, Elizabeth, dowager Countess of Essex, widow of Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex and daughter of Sir William Powlett of Edington, Wiltshire. They had two daughters and she died in 1656 being buried on 16 September 1656. He married secondly by licence dated 11 Nov. 1661, Bridget Leach, widow of Simon Leach of Cadleigh, Devon, and daughter of Sir Bevil Grenville of Stow, Cornwall, and had three sons (George, Thomas and Bevil) and three daughters. She died in 1692.[1][3]

The family changed the spelling of its name in 1661 from "Grenville" to "Granville", following the grant of the titles Baron Granville and Earl of Bath

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Grenville-178

Sources

• "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, Family Search (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N53T-KR6 : 11 February 2018, Bridget Grenville, 30 Jan 1630); citing KILKHAMPTON,CORNWALL,ENGLAND, index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 897,356.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Higgons
• 1. History of Parliament Online - Higgons, Thomas
• 3. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Higgons, Thomas". Dictionary of National Biography 26. London: Smith, Elder & Co.