Everard Digby Esquire

  General Notes:

Sir Everard Digby
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Sir Everard Digby
BIRTHunknown
DEATH16 Jan 1509
BURIAL
St Peter Churchyard
Tilton-on-the-Hill, Harborough District, Leicestershire, England
MEMORIAL ID147770041 · View Source

MEMORIAL
PHOTOS 3
FLOWERS 2
Family Members
Parents
Everard Digby
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Jacquetta Ellis Digby
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Siblings
Thomas Digby
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John Digby
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Simon Digby
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Children
Everard Digby
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Flowers • 2
In loving memory of my 1st Cousin 16x removed
Left by Deborah O'Connor on 20 Aug 2018
Rest in Peace my 15th Great Grandfather
Left by Debra Bronaugh Cunningham on 8 Jul 2018
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His name was first Tilton then in 1256 change it to Digby.Sir Everard change it to Tilton

Information Found, taken from History of the Tilton Family In America by Francis Theodore Tilton Vol - 1 1927 On May 14 1861, Kenelm Henry Digby, Esq, Of England, In a letter to General William S Tilton, of Boston, says: we have a Parchment In our Family which states that Tilton Church was founded by our Family 1190.... the Digbies who fell at Towton (1461) were called de Tilton and Sir Everard Digby of Tilton and Drystoke, who died 1509, Is the last who Bears the Name of Tilton."
The early Norman Tower of Tilton Church was built In 1190; the spire In 1380, the South Aisle In 1390 and the Clerstory In 1490. The Church was built by the Family In the Sixteenth Centry. It Is now High- Episcopalian.
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3rd Great Grandparents '97 [our ancestor] Everard DIGBY Esq Esquire was born 1440 in Stoke Dry, Rutland, England. He died Feb 1509 in Stoke Dry, Rutland, England. Everard married Jacquetta ELLIS on 1463 in Stoke Dry, Rutland, England. Jacquetta ELLIS was born 1445 in Combe Raleigh, Devon, England. She died 1483 in Stoke Dry, Rutland, England.

Sources:

http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=13313950

http://coplepast.blogspot.com/2010/11/grey-launcelyn-digby-lynde-locke.html

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hwbradley/aqwg3008.htm#73809

http://www.digbygpl.com/index.html

http://chelmsleywoodpastandpresent.lefora.com/2010/06/29/chelmsley-wood-lay-ion-the-manor-of-coleshill/

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hwbradley/aqwg30

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence: Colehill Warwick England.

Everard married Jacquetta Elleys, daughter of Sir John Elleys and Alianor / Eleanor Russell, in 1463 in stoke Dry Rutland England. (Jacquetta Elleys was born in 1445 in Combe Raleigh Devon England, died on 9 Jun 1496 in stoke Dry Rutland England and was buried St Andrew's Church Yard in Rutland England Find A GRave #136295974.)