HEIGHAM, Roger (by 1515-58), of London.

Family and Education

b. by 1515, 2nd s. of Robert Heigham of Higham in Werneth, Cheshire by da. of one Hopwood of ‘the Cliffe’. m. (1) disp. 8 July 1539, Alice, da. of (?John) Edwards (?of London), 1s,; (2) Joan.Date of birth estimated from first reference. Vis. Essex (Harl. Soc. xiii), 62, 217-18; Vis. Cheshire (ibid. lix), 124; C142/113/73; PCC 49 Noodes; Fac. Off. Reg. 1534-49, ed. Chambers, 190; M. C. Rosenfield, ‘The disposal of the property of London monastic houses’ (London Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1961), 242. Heigham seems to have had only one child (William) although credited with a larger family in the Essex visitations and with a son John in that for Cheshire.

Offices Held

Gen. receiver and under steward, the Minories, London 11 July 1537; dep. chamberlain, Exchequer by 1553.E315/218, f. 83 gives 11 July 1537 as date of Minories appointment but, according to CPR, 1563–6, p. 419, he was already ‘under steward and collecto’ in 1536; Stowe 571, f. 6v.

Parlimentarian

HEIGHAM, Roger (by 1515-58), of London.

Main residence: London.

Author

S.R.J.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

HEIGHAM, Roger (by 1515-58)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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