Nick Kingsley

Birch of Wretham Hall This family were settled as farmers and nailmakers in the villages north of Birmingham by the 16th and early 17th centuries. They were kin to the Birch family of Birch Hall, Manchester (who, although an ancient family, will not be th... See more

Bill of Farley Hall Many landed families owe their status to one or two individuals who have brought the family game-changing wealth or power through their abilities in politics, the law, the armed services, or industry. Not so the Bills, whose rise into ... See more

Biggs of Stockton The Biggs family were yeomen farmers in south Wiltshire who leased gradually increasing areas of farmland in the 17th and early 18th centuries, chiefly from the Earls of Pembroke. From 1681, Tristram Biggs (d. 1721) was tenant of one of ... See more

The origins of this family are unusually obscure. The genealogy below begins with Thomas Biggs (d. 1795), but the name Biggs occurs on a list of settlers in Ireland in 1642-46, and a John Briggs ( sic ) is said to have had a grant of Castle Biggs, an esta... See more

Bigge, later Selby-Bigge, of Benton Hall and Linden Hall This family was probably distantly related to the Bigg (later Bigg-Wither) family of Haines Hill etc. who were the subject of a previous post , but the parentage of William Bigge (1638?-90), with wh... See more