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My Bygrave Family |
The name Bygrave is a toponymic, surname, which is derived from nearby geographical features. It has Anglo-Saxon origins and arising in Hertfordshire were it is most likely they held lands and a family seat at Bygrave.
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Originally the surname was derived from the Old English word biggrafau which meant dweller by the ditch. There are records of a Leommaer Bygrave prior to the Norman Conquest (circe 1015) and the family still held the land at the taking of the Domesday Book - the land consisted of a village and a mill from the Bishop of Chester.
Current research identifies the earliest known ancestor of our Bygrave line as being Robert Bygrave of
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Sandon in Hertfordshire in the mid 1500s. My
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branch of the family finds itself in the West Indies in the late
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1700s. Robert's 5 great granddaughter Jane Bygrave emigrates to Australia in 1853.
Biographies exist for the follow Bygrave Family Members
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The Bygrave ancestry goes back 14 generations and biographies exist for some members as indicated by links
Robert Bygrave and Agnes Welche
Robert Bygrave and Anna Perman
Robert Bygrave and Avis
George Bygrave and Elizabeth Carrington
Robert Bygrave and Elizabeth Galer
Robert Bygrave and Esther Tomlinson
Thomas Bygrave Esq and Hannah Sill
Jane Bygrave married Thomas Davis (aka William George Walker)
Louisa Jane Davis married Patrick McDermott
Emily Louisa McDermott married Sydney Walter Jessop
Esmond Earl Jessop
My Mother
Ann Bygrave married Rev John Andrew McCammon Trew
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