Richard Hougham

1574 - 1606  (32 years)

• Name	Richard Hougham
  Baptized	1574	Ash, Kent, England   [1]
  	St Nicholas
  Born	5 Jun 1574	Ash, Kent, England
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	gentleman
  Died	8 Oct 1606	Ash, Kent, England
  Buried	8 Oct 1606	Ash, Kent, England
  	Ash Church
  Notes	Richard is recorded in Knights Visitation 1619 as son of Michael. He was baptised in St Nicholas Ash 4 June 1574. He is recorded in Knights Visitation of 1663 as the husband of Elizabeth Saunders, Solomon his son and Henry his grandson. He is recorded in the will of his father Michael, he is recorded in the will of his mother Edith. He is recorded in will of daughter Ann as father. He is recorded in register of burials in Ash Church 8 Oct 1606. He is buried in South Transept. A marble memorial surmounted by the coat of arms [including three elephants heads on a chevron] is on the wall and a brass memorial plate on the floor marks the place. The plate reads "Here lieth buried the bodies of Michael and Richard Hougham, sonnes of Michael Hougham. Michael died in July 1594 and Richard died October1606. Richard married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Saunders, by whom he had three sonnes, Michael, Edward and Solomon, and one daughter named Ann, all livinge. They were men both of a tall stature and comely persons, besides were well esteemed among all sorts of people, both for their vertuous lives and also in thheir younge years for there good and thriftie government, not of themselves onlie but also they were a good stay in the parish among their neighbours. This stone was laid by the appointment of them who were exec to their wills viz Thomas Paramor, now mayor of Canterbury, who married Ann Hougham, their sister, Mr Serles Hawket and Valient Austin, their uncle" The mural memorial reads Near unto this monument lyes the Body of Richard Hougham, Gen Late of Weddington of the Parish and Elizabeth - his Wife, who was the daughter of Edward Saunders of Norton nere Sandwich Gen w said Richard & Elizabeth had Issue 3 Sonnes and on Daughter (viz) Michael, Edward, Solomon and Ann The aforesaid Michael and Ann are also interred here. This Monument was erected accord- ing to the last will and testament of the aforesaid Ann Hougham de- ceased, who was baptized the 17th of January Anno Dmii 1601 and de- parted this natural life the 9th of June 1661. If grace and vertue could have deified Here is interred a maide who nere had did Her charity on earth, that put her love On Heaven fitt only for the Saints above Let theise frayle ashes a memento be Her life a pattern and a legacy." A Corner of Kent--J.R. Planche see also http://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Libr/MIs/MIsAsh-Sandwich/01.htm Michael inherited Weddinton and continued the Ash family, Solomon established the Sandwich family . "In Peter le Neve's Church Notes we read: "There are in this church four monuments of the St. Nicholas', whose wives are here expressed in pale with their husbands;" and the first mentioned is "St. Nicholas and Engham," which we have been unable to discover. A Corner of Kent --J.R. Planche - [page 404]: ... the name, like those of Paramore and Hougham, is still found amongst the labouring classes and in the humbler ranks of the community. But "apprenticeship doth not extinguish gentry," and the poooorest and lowliest members of these ancient English families may have the barren satisfaciton of writing the proud motto of "Fuimus" under the excutcheon they have inherited from ancestors who owned the broad acres they now till, in the times of the Plantagenets and the tudors." Another history says that Richard died of the plague at Sandwich and as no one with plague was allowed to be buried in a church they hedged the law a bit by putting him in a doorway in St Marys church Sandwich after bricking up the doorway into the church first, then pushing hi s remains in next. They bricked up the outside so he was buried neither inside or outside th e church. This story is better attributed to Solomon the son of Richard.
  Person ID	I2113	Roy~Royes | Hougham, Luther-Royes
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2021

  
  

  Father	Michael Hougham, of Ash,   b. 1531, Ash, Kent, England ,   d. 1583, Weddington, Ash, Kent, England  (Age 52 years)
  Mother	Edith Austen,   b. 11 Sep 1539, Adisham, Kent, England ,   d. 2 Apr 1613, Northbourne, Kent, England  (Age 73 years)
  Married	30 Oct 1555	Adisham, Kent, England
  Family ID	F724	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Saunders,   b. 1572, Northbourne, Kent, England ,   d. 9 Jun 1661, Ash, Kent, England  (Age 89 years)
  Notes	There were four children - see The Hougham/Huffam Family Tree links
  Children	1. Michael Huffam,   b. Bef 6 Jun 1596, Ash, Kent, England ,   d. Abt 1647, Ash, Kent, England  (Age ~ 50 years) + 2. Solomon Hougham,   b. 1599, Weddington, Ash, Kent, England ,   d. 27 Nov 1658, Sandwich, Kent, England  (Age 59 years)
  Headstones		Richard and Elizabeth Hougham and family, 1661 Memorial erected in Ash church according to the will of Ann Hougham to her parents Richard and Elizabeth (Sanders) Hougham, her three brothers Michael, Edward and Solomon, and herself
  Last Modified	15 Feb 2014
  Family ID	F726	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Baptized - 1574 - Ash, Kent, England Born - 5 Jun 1574 - Ash, Kent, England Died - 8 Oct 1606 - Ash, Kent, England Buried - 8 Oct 1606 - Ash, Kent, England  = Link to Google Earth
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• Sources

  [S36] St Nicholas Ash baptisms.