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Bridget Heydon

Female Abt 1480 - Bef 1554  (~ 74 years)


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  • Name Bridget Heydon 
    Birth Abt 1480  [1
    Gender Female 
    Death Bef 17 Jan 1554  [1
    Burial 17 Jan 1554  St. Margaret's, Paston, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Siblings 2 siblings 
    Person ID I21125  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
    Last Modified 13 Oct 2018 

    Father Henry Heydon,   b. of Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 20 Feb and 22 May 1504, Baconsthorpe, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Anne Boleyn   d. Abt 1510 
    Family ID F13042  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family William Paston,   b. Abt 1479   d. 20 Sep 1554, Paston, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 75 years) 
    Children 
     1. Anne Paston   d. Bef 1533
    +2. Erasmus Paston,   b. Bef 1508   d. Bef 6 Nov 1540 (Age < 32 years)
     3. Clement Paston,   b. Bef 1523   d. 18 Feb 1598, Oxnead, Norfolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 75 years)
    Family ID F13041  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 14 Sep 2021 

  • Notes 
    • The History of Parliament article about her son Clement Paston correctly calls her "da. of Sir Henry Heydon of Baconsthorpe", but the link on Henry Heydon's name mistakenly goes to Henry Heydon (<1507-1559) of Watford, Hertfordshire, once thought to have been a great-great grandfather of PNH's immigrant ancestor Francis Heydon (d. 1694). This is obviously chronologically impossible. The irony is that the William Heydon who was her actual father was a son of a man who changed his name to Heydon because he thought it sounded more upmarket, and who stole his arms from the Watford Heydon family of whom the Henry Heydon who d. 1559 was a member.

  • Sources 
    1. [S2166] Brad Verity, Edward I Descents for Erasmus Paston. 11 Nov 2015.