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Birth Date: About 1580

Death Date After 1608

I have not found any personal information relating to Grygory; but by working backwards from the baptism record of his daughter, Rebecca and the burial of wife Margery, the surnames of which in the records of St Mary's Church in Great Chart are written as Hennam¹⁸, we know of his existence and can put his year of birth with reasonable certainty between 1570 and 1580. Margery would also fit into this date range. We can be certain, however, that these 9 x Great Grandparents of mine were born during the reign of Elizabeth 1. They would have been in their childhood during the attempted attack on our country by the Spanish Armada in 1588.

I have reached the conclusion because of the rarity, as discussed earlier, of the name and the similar speech sounds of Engham and Hennam (particularly if, which is highly probable in this rural community, the initial H is dropped), that Grygory was related to the Engham family in Singleton, Great Chart. W L King in his later work of about 1909 seems convinced this is the case and I quote his actual words as written in ' A Pedigree of the Family de Fynes' when referring to Grygory's descendants. -"This was a yeoman branch of the ancient house of Engham of Woodchurch, spelt in old deeds and charters Engham, Hengham, and Edingham. (See Cox’s Mag. Britan., p 1130.) Mr Lambert Larking, late Secretary of the Kent Archaeological Society, acquainted the family with this information, and his custody of the Twysden Muniments gave him unique sources of information, as the Twysdens formerly lived at Chelmington in Great Chart ¹⁷"

Around the time of Grygory and Deborah’s marriage (c1605), we have it from Hasted (refer to earlier account) that Sir Edward Engham vacated the ancestral home in Singleton Manor after a continuous occupation by the family from about 1433, when Henry VI was on the throne. The four generations, from great grandfather to great grandson apparently made up 329 years in total age and the respective lords of the manor had been referred to and were known as "the Old Gentlemen of Kent.¹⁷"

Parish records began during Elizabeth's reign; they are now generally only accessible to researchers as microfilm copies. The entries on many of the pages are virtually on top of each other in very small handwriting, making it extremely difficult if not impossible to read; quite a number of the pages are also in poor condition.

The first recorded christening at St Mary's, Great Chart was in 1558, but there were no Hennams to 1566; there are Hammons during this period, but I have no evidence to link the names and therefore have to conclude they are of a different family .The entries from 1567 well into the 1600's are practically illegible and this could account for the absence of Grygory. There is a remote chance that a closer scrutiny of the original record book, if allowed by Centre of Kentish Studies (CKS), may find him. Although I have found a burial date in the Parish Church records for his wife Margery, I have so far been unable to find one for Grygory.

Spouse: Margery

Birth Date: About 1580

Burial Date: 19 Dec 1631

Burial Place: Great Chart Kent

Margery and Grygory were probably married during the early years of the reign of James I, about the time of the Gunpowder Plot. We can infer this from the date of the christening entry in St Mary's Church for their daughter, Rebecca in 1608. I have not found an entry, again probably because of the poor condition of the records, for son Gregory, so we can not be sure whether he was older or younger than his sister. It is, of course, quite possible that Margery and Grygory were married in a different parish, particularly if her family were not Great Chart residents.

Marriage Date: About 1605

Children: 2 i Gregory