Bridget Pigot

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 156:40, she was daughter of Bartholomew Pigot of Aston Rowen, Oxfordshire, England and widow of Thomas Banister of Brokden. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁵⁸
Bridget's will, dated 1 Mar 1600/01, asks to be buried in Gisburne parish church next to her husband. She mentions her son Michael Lyster, son Martin Lyster, son-in-law, Thomas Southworth, Esq., son-in-law John Lacye, Esq. and his wife "Ellinge," her son Matthew Lyster, daughter, Rosamond Southword, niece, granddaughter Bridgett Southworth, step-daughter in law Elizabeth Tempest, and Edmund Lister, her "son departed"

Memorials of an Ancient House : a History of the Family of Lister or Lyster, p.180

Bridget married William Lister Esquire, son of Christopher Lister and Ellen Clayton ^197,158.^,1525 (William Lister Esquire was born about 1512-1524 in Thornton-le-Moors, Chesire, England, died After 1 Sep 1582 and before 4 Oct 1582 in Thornton-le-Moors, Chesire, England ¹⁵⁸ and was buried on 4 Oct 1582 in Gisburne, England ¹⁵⁸.)