Birth: About 1486 Headley?, Hampshire?, UK
Father: Thomas Figg (Figge, Fyge) b1470-1536
Mother: Margaret ? b1470-a1525
Marriage:
Wife: Gilian ? b1511-1569
Death: August 1581 All Saints, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Burial: 3 September 1581 All Saints, Headley, Hampshire, UK
Jolyan (Gyllyan, Jehan, Julyan, Julyane) Figg (Fyge) [Chette (Chett, Chitty)] b1524-a1545
Richard (Rychard) Figg (Fygge) b1526-1564
Thomas Figg (Fyge, Fygg) b1527-1596
Jane Figg (Fygg) [Voller (Valler, Vallowar, Valloware)] b1529-1558
Rose Figg (Fygge) [Denyer (Denyerr)] b1529-a1544
Anne (Ann) Figg (Fygge) [Chase] b1536-a1560
That Rychard is the father of Richard and the other children is only a guess. There is an extra complication that a Rychard Fygg married a Joane Harding in the IGI on 10 September 1554. This is a month before his son's wife died and 15 years before his wife died.
There is an entry in the Winchester Pipe Rolls for a fine of 13/4 for Richard Figg for a messuage in Stanford, lately of Thomas Figg in 1536.
There is an entry in the Survey of the Tithing of Headley in 1552 for Richard Figg at Hatch House in Standford. Richard Figg did then hold a messuage with a garden and certain customary lands called Hatch house in Stanford, containing forty akers lying together in nine closes of arable land and two Mores in the north part of Hatch lane , and extends towards the north between the land of Sir TG’s[?] tenants on the west part, and Pitt lane on the east part, and abutteth upon the land of William Drake , Roger Yaldinge and John Hethe with the north part, by the rent by the year of viii s x d and for release of suite of court with tithe money vii d — in the whole nine shillings and five pence. 1 mess & xviii acr terr
Entry in Headley Burials for Rychard Fygg on 3 September 1581 'at the age of 95 years as he told me'. There is also an entry in Headley Wills with the same information adding a fuller living at Hatchhouse in Linford [Ref: Philip Brooks].
There is an entry in Headley Burials for Gilian Figge, wife of Richard, on 5 November 1569.
There is an entry in Headley Treasures for Hatch House: Farmhouse & Barn C16/17: Hatch House Farm, Headley Road, Lindford. Restored and enlarged. 2 storeys. Timber-framed with coursed and random stone infilling. Old half-hipped tiled roof. Modern lattice casements and French windows. Large stone barn converted into dwelling. Barn adjoining house at right-angles is converted into a hall with a gallery at one end. Original farmyard is laid out as a terraced garden.
There is a note in the Winchester Pipe Rolls for 1583 that Thomas Figge inherited Richard Figg's land in Stanford. In 1598 there is a fine of 13/4 for George Quinell heir of Richard Figge for land in Stanford. I cannot trace this connection.
Richard Figg was my eleventh great grandfather.
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