John Lingwood of Braintree

Biography

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The first who settled in Essex was John Lingwood, resident at Braintree in 1571: he had three sons and two daughters; of whom Geofrey, the eldest son, marrying Elizabeth, daughter of John Sibthorp, of Great Bardfield, had several sons and daughters, of whom William, his eldest son, was a student in Barnard's-inn, and, in 1629, made escheator-general for the county of Essex, to king Charles the first. He died in 1665, and his son William, by his first wife Mary, daughter of Thomas Wilson, of Jenkins, in this parish, was the purchaser of Stisted Hall: he was of Gray's- inn, bred to the law, and many years in the commission of the peace for the county. He had three wives, but died in 1700, without surviving offspring, leaving this estate to Elizabeth, his third wife, daughter of John Jones, esq. of Chiswick; and this lady dying in 1719, bequeathed it to John Saville, esq. counsellor-at-law ...

GEDCOM Note

2 AGE 57-58

References

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Lyngwood-1