Possible CP Correction - Abigail Heveningham, wife of Sir George Digby

[Mayt...@aol.com]

Dear Newsgroup,

For sometime now I have pondered the CP entry for Abigail Heveningham wife of
Sir George Digby being the daughter of Sir Arthur Heveningham. I believe her
to have been SISTER to Sir Arthur and daughter to SIR ANTHONY HEVENINGHAM
(.d. 1557) and Mary Shelton.

I cite the following as evidence :

1. Abigail must have been born prior to 1557 (the death of Sir Anthony
Heveningham). This would put her in the right time frame for being the wife of
Sir George Digby and mother of Sir Robert Digby.

2. Sir George Digby died in 4th Februray 1585/6

3. Their eldest son, Sir Robert Digby was born about 1575

4. It is stated by Burke's Peerage (1880) and other sources that Abigail
was the daughter of Sir Arthur Heveningham, Knight-banneret of Ketteringham.
I can find no reference to Sir Arthur being a Knight-banneret but Sir Anthony
Heveningham certainly was.

5. The Heveningham pedigree in "History and Topography of Ketteringham" by
Joseph Hunter F.S.A., a Keeper of the Public Records states this Abigail to
be the daughter of Sir Anthony and Mary Shelton and wife of Sir George Digby
of Coleshill. It also shows the other Abigail, daughter of Sir Arthur
Heveningham as having married Sir Augustine Pettus.
.

6. The Shelton pedigree in the Visitation for Suffolk state this Abigail
to be the daughter of Sir Anthony Heveningham and Mary Shelton, and the wife of
Sir George Digby.

7. SIR ARTHUR HEVENINGHAM, did have a daughter named Abigail who was
baptised
at Ketteringham on 20 September 1592. (Source: Ketteringham Parish
Registers).

8. Abigail, the daughter of Sir Arthur Heveningham (bap. at Ketteringham
20 Sept. 1592) married Sir Augustine Pettus 27 December 1608 at Ketteringham,
Norfolk. (Source: Ketteringham Parish Registers amd Visitation for Norfolk:;
Pettus Family). On the 9 October 1623 this Abigail, married secondly Richard
Moseley, Esq., of Ousden in Suffolk.

9. Heueningham Pedigree (c.1637) in the Norfolk Records Office Ref: HMN
7/290. 772 X 7 (MF/RO 629/6) states Abigail, daughter of Sir Arthur Heveningham
to have married Sir Augustine Pettus.

Therefore, I suggest that Abigail Heveningham, wife of Sir George Digby of
Coleshill was the daughter of Sir Anthony Heveningham and not Sir Arthur
Heveningham.

I await your comments.

Rose

[WJho...@aol.com]

Sounds reasonable to me.
I've made the correction in my files that Abigail Heveningham was the
daughter of Anthony, not Arthur.

Do you have any source that gives you parameters on Abigail's birth?
BEF 1559 would allow her to be posthumous, and I think you had specified that
her father was born 1507 and her mother Mary Shelton in 1512. Is that
correct?

Will Johnson

[Mayt...@aol.com]

In a message dated 28/04/05 21:58:23 GMT Daylight Time, WJho...@aol.com
writes:

> Do you have any source that gives you parameters on Abigail's birth?
> BEF 1559 would allow her to be posthumous, and I think you had specified
> that
> her father was born 1507 and her mother Mary Shelton in 1512. Is that
> correct?
>

Sorry, Will no I don't. I assumed she must have been before 1559 (the year
of Sir Anthony's death) but, of course, she could have been born posthumous.
As I understand it , the dates of birth for Sir Anthony and Mary Shelton are
as you state. They must have married sometime after 1540 as in 1536 and 1540
Mary Shelton is said to have received gifts from Mary Tudor who for a time
lived in the Shelton household. The dates of the gifts are: Jan 1536-7, Jan 1540
and I have an unconfirmed date of 1546 for their marriage.

Rose

[grt...@aol.com]

Do you think the inscription on the tomb would be incorrect? Presumably the tomb was inscribed relatively shortly after burial. See this link for the inscription.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FTEUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA250&dq=sir+arthur+heveningham+ketteringham&hl=en&sa=X&ei=56SKUJTpMO2z0QWP34GgCQ&ved=0CE4Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=sir%20arthur%20heveningham%20ketteringham&f=false

[Vance Mead]

I know this is an old post but I have come across a record in the Court of Common Pleas, Trinity term 1573, that states clearly that Abigail Heveningham was the daughter of Anthony Heveningham, knight:

Norwich. Richard Swyft, of Norwich, grocer, by Cuthbert Brereton his attorney, (jump to middle of third line) versus George Dygby, of Colteshull, Warks, esq & Abigail his wife, formerly Abigail Heveningham, daughter of Anthony Heveningham, knight, defunct, for a debt of ten pounds.

Second entry:
http://aalt.law.uh.edu/AALT5/Eliz/CP40no1318/bCP40no1318dorses/IMG_0662.htm

[wjhonson]

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office: Deeds DEEDS
Catalogue Ref. ER 2 Deeds Stratford-upon-Avon FILE - Stratford-upon-Avon - ref. ER 2/22 - date: 5 October 1591 [from Scope and Content] Award by Sir Foulke Grevill, knt., and Raffe Sheldon, Thomas Morgan, and Edward Holte, esqs., arbitrators between the bailiff and burgesses of Stratford upon Avon and John Edgeock and Richard Clarke, executors, of the will of Sir John Hubaud, knt., Lady Abigale Digbie, daughter of Sir Arthur Heveningham and widow of Sir George Digby, Raffe Hubaud, esq., and Anthony Nashe, gent., to the effect that.

[Vance Mead]

According to Knights of England, both Anthony and Arthur were knights, but Arthur was not a knight and not deceased in 1573:

https://archive.org/details/knightsofengland02shawuoft/page/112

Arthur was knighted in 1578, so he could not have been "knight, defunct" in 1573.

[Vance Mead]

Award by Sir Foulke Grevill, knt., and Raffe Sheldon, Thomas Morgan, and Edward Holte, esqs., arbitrators between the bailiff and burgesses of Stratford upon Avon and John Edgeock and Richard Clarke, executors, of the will of Sir John Hubaud, knt., Lady Abigale Digbie, sister of Sir Arthur Heveningham and widow of Sir George Digby,

http://collections.shakespeare.org.uk/search/archive/er222-stratford-upon-avon-5-oct-1591-file/view_as/list/search/everywhere:heveningham/page/1

It doesn't say daughter. it says sister.