General Notes

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4  TEXT Date of Import: 14 Jan 2004


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DFGEB V9p7
The name Dylyngham (sic) first appears in the surviving Dean records inthe
year 1448, when a Thomas Dylyngham is mentioned in a land grant relatingto
lands in Bolnhurst, Pertenhall, Keysoe, and Dean.

There is no proof that this was the grandfather of John Dillingham.
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Winthrop Alexander pg 3
The following data relating to the family in England were compiled fromvarious sources, all of which are believed to be of good authority.
Printed parish registers, the publications of the Harleian Society,Nichols'  History of Leicestershire, Leicestershire wills, theVisitations of the several counties, Burke's General Armoury and variousother reliable publications were drawn upon, and personal investigation.was made in England by Mr. Henry Hartopp, of Leicester, a well knowngenealogist.

The earliest record of a Dillingham was found in the list of "intrantes"or persons admitted as inhabitants, in Canterbury, when John Dillynghamtailor, at Westgate in 1433 and 1434, paid An annual fine or license offour pence.

In the Visitations of Yorkshire, taken in 1563 in 1564, it is stated thatMargaret, "doughter of --- Dyllyngham of Cambrydgeshyre" married ThomasBennet of Newcastle. This marriage, from the context, probably dated backto 1500 or earlier.

The earliest connected records which enable us to establish any thinglike a pedigree are found in Bedfordshire in the latter part of thesixteenth century. The family then appears in the parish of Deane, in thenortheastern extremity of that county, and evidently must have beenlocated there for many years, being land owners and people of prominence.They seem to have spread into the other Midland counties of Leicester,Northampton, Hertford, Huntingdon and Buckingham, and after 1600 arefound farther south, in Middlesex, Norfolk and Southampton.