General Notes

Hugh Sargent must have been born about the year 1530. He died Feb. 23,1595/6. (buried 1st of March)."
Unverified information suggests that Hugh's father was "John Sargent b. 17 Dec 1504 Oxfordshire m.   Ca 1524 Elizabeth in Courteenhall and that their ancester was probably Adam Le Serjaant, a burgess of Bridgenorth, Shropshire, England.
Possibly died 1595
Courteen Hall parish records go no further back than 1538. Probable that info on Hugh's ancestors would be as SARIANT, variation of Sargent. Hugh was haberdasher and drapper. Info may be in Guild records for Northamptonshire that period. Hugh probably born in East Hadden, Northamptonshire, circa 1530.

Very extensive data is published in volumes 71, 74, 75, of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, under their "Genealogical Research in England," "Gifford-Sargent," which provide exceptional complete lineages back to the Middle Ages, and Royal Lines.

From "Sargent Genealogy" Aaron Sargent 1895:

"Hugh Sargent (Sariant), the earliest known ancestor of the family lived in Courtenhall, County of Northhampton. Courtenhall was the inheritence of the Wake family which traces its descent back to Hereward the Wake, to a time anterior to the Norman Conquest... Prefixed to the first volumn of the parish register, which begins in the year 1538, and folded to its size, is a large piece of parchment, on which is transcribed many pedigrees. One of them is the family of Sargent... The rector of the church, Rev. Archibald Wake (1895), says, "The parchment show that the family were in Courtenhall in 1554, and were of gentle blood; and possible the Sargents were in the parish before a Wake entered it."

Margaret, wife of Hugh Sargent, was daughter of Nicholas and Agnes (Masters) Gifford, of the Abbey of St. James, which was a western suburb of the town of Northhampton. This abbey was a religious estate of considerable note, founded before the year 1112, by William Peverel, natural son of William the Conqueror, and to which he (Perverel) gave forty acres of land. It is called St. James end.

SOURCE NOTES:
Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists, 6th Edition,
Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing  County 1988.

Hugh Sargent, of Haddon and later of Courteenhall co. Northampton,Gent., born probably abot 1530, died 28 Feb 1595/6, and was buried at Courteenhall 1 Mar 1595/6. He married abt. 1554 ( the exact date of this Marriage is not known, as the parish registers of Duston,co. Northampton, where the marriage undoubtedly took place, do not begin until the latter part of the seventeenth century.)Margaret Gifford, born abt1535, dau.of Nickolas, Gent, and Agnes (Maister) of St. James near Northampton....Children...i.Elizabeth,bapt.30 june 1555/6; m.june 25 1576 Thomas Flynte...ii.Anne...iii.Nicholas, bapt.1 aug 1559, m. june 25, 1593 Elizabeth(-)Clark,Widow of John....iv.Roger b.about 1560....v.Mary bapt.30 May 1565; m. 5 May 1602 W. Osborn of Hanslope,co. Bucks.....vi.John bapt. 25 April 1566, buried at Courteenhall 10 Dec 1614; m.20 Nov.1602 Joyce Church,bapt. at Courteenhall 21 Dec.1574, buried there "a poor woman," 14 May1643,dau. of Henry and Marie. Six Children, for whom Vide supra,p.58,footnote....vii.Jane, bapt at East Haddon16 June 1567 m.28 Oct1606 ArthurClarke , alias Boterell, of Stony Stratford, co.Bucks....viii.Alice,bapt. at East Haddon 8 May 1659; m. at Norhtampton, 6 Oct 1597 George Coles of Northampton.....ix.Richard.....x.Thomas...xi.George, bapt. at

courteenhall 2 April 1573....xii. Magdalen, bapt. at Courteenhall 9 July 1574...xiii. Robert, bapt. at Courteenhall 30 Oct 1575....xiv. Michael, bapt. at Courteenhall 27 DEc 1576....xv. Dorothy, bapt. at Courteenhall 8Feb 1758/9; d.Oct 4, 1602 "being delivered of bd nine daies before"........