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Family and Education
b. c.1606.Ashmole, Antiquities, i. 48. educ. appr. Merchant Taylor, London.M. Davies and A. Saunders, The Hist. of the Merchant Taylors’ Co. (2004), 217. m. (1) 6 Sept. 1633, Fidelia Milner (bur. 13 Nov. 1646), ?2s. 2da.;St Ann Blackfriars, London par. reg.; St Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx. par. reg. ff. 19v, 58v; PROB11/296/44. (2) 3 May 1647, Anne (d. by 1672), da. of Francis Thriscrosse, Clothworker, of St Benet Fink, London and wid. of Roger Colman (d. 1639), Grocer, of London, 2s.St Anne and St Agnes, London par reg.; PROB11/181/165; PROB11/252/96; St Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx. par. reg. ff. 49, 58v; PROB11/340/168; PROB11/296/44; LMA, COL/CA/01/01/071, ff. 16v-17, 25v-26. d. 5 Aug. 1659.Ashmole, Antiquities, i. 48.
Offices Held

Local: overseer, St Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx. 1641. Sept. 1652 – d.J. Parton, Some Acct. of the Hospital and Par. of St Giles in the Fields (1822), 358–9. Commr. militia, Westminster 2 Dec. 1648. Sept. 1652 – d.A and O. J.p. Mdx.; Wallingford Nov. 1658–d.C231/6, pp. 245, 413. Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, Mdx. and Westminster 28 Aug. 1654;A and O. oyer and terminer, London 20 Nov. 1654–d.;C181/6, pp. 77, 357. Mdx. 20 Nov. 1655, 11 Oct. 1658;C181/6, pp. 130, gaol delivery, Newgate gaol 20 Nov. 1654–d.;C181/6, pp. 77, 357. sewers, Mdx. and Westminster 10 Jan. 1655–d.;C181/6, pp. 69, 245. London 13 Aug. 1657;C181/6, p. 256. assessment, Mdx. 9 June 1657;A and O. London militia, Mar. 1658.CSP Dom. 1657–8, p. 330.

Military: capt. (parlian.) St Giles’s coy. Red trained band, Westminster by 1643; maj. by 1645; lt.-col. by 1648.L.C. Nagel, ‘The militia of London, 1641–1649’ (PhD thesis, King’s College, London, 1982), pp. 109, 302; Parton, St Giles in the Fields, 359.

Religious: elder, eleventh classis, London 20 Oct. 1645, 26 Sept. 1646, 29 Aug. 1648.A and O.

Civic: alderman, Castle Baynard ward, London 1653 – 57; Cripplegate ward 1657–8.Beaven, Aldermen of London, i. 95, 133. Sheriff, London 1653–4.LMA, COL/CA/01/01/066, f. 386.

Central: commr. security of protector, England and Wales 27 Nov. 1656.A and O.

Parlimentarian
BIGG, Walter (c.1606-59), of St Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx.
: Mdx.
Volume
Commons 1640-1660
Web Title

BIGG, Walter (c.1606-59), of St Giles-in-the-Fields, Mdx.

Will
19 Apr. 1659, pr. 4 Oct. 1659.PROB11/296/44.
Estates
owned property in St Giles-in-the-Fields and at Wallingford, Berks.; owned land at Great Staunton and Grafham, Hunts.PROB11/296/44; VCH Hunts. ii. 362, iii. 60, 63.
Oxford 1644
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