Expectations dashed - Bourne Lincolnshire
Memorial - "Sacred to the memory of James Digby of Red Hall == and this parish esquire . A deputy lieutenant of this county who died August 7th 1811 aged 76 years
In this church are also deposited the remains of his parents James son of Kenelm Digby of North Luffenham in the county of Rutland esquire and Elizabeth his wife.
The youngest and only survivor of their numerous issue Henrietta Pauncefoot ++ as a tribute affectionate regard and grateful respect caused this monument to be erected"
James was the 2nd son of James Digby 1751 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/8P56HJ & Elizabeth Warwick His elder brother who had inherited the North Luffenham estates & Digby House died unmarried after selling his inheritance to Gilbert Heathcote.
His younger brother George dsp 1797 has a memorial here www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/B41u2r
James m1 Mary Green dsp of Dowsby
He m2 1796 Katharine dsp 1836 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/87Q065 sole heiress of Rev Humphrey Hyde, vicar of Bourne & rector of Dowsby.
James was 60, Katherine was 23.
James was the last male of the North Luffenham branch and it was expected by law his estates would be inherited by his nephew John Digby Fowell of Blackhall & Diptford Devon, heir of his elder sister Mary. But by his will made shortly before his death James, contrary to the expectations of his nephew who had taken the name of Digby in anticipation, having left his widow comfortably off, he left his estates to his younger sister Henrietta Pauncefort d1822 ++ who in turn bequeathed them to her son Philip Pauncefort Duncomb.
There is evidence that James was a man of frugal habits, spending little, and the publication of his will prompted one newspaper to report that “the penurious manner in which he lived little accorded with the immense property he has left, which is supposed to be a little short of £200,000”
== Red Hall, on Katharine's death was leased to various tenants and even used as a private boarding school for young ladies until sold in 1860 to the Bourne and Essendine Railway Company for use as the station booking office and stationmaster’s house. When the railway closed in 1959, the hall became redundant but was in a poor state of repair. It was offered for sale at £1 but there were no takers and there was another attempt to pull it down after being condemned in several quarters as “a totally useless building”. In 1962, however, Bourne United Charities stepped in and acquired the freehold and over the next 10 years restored it. As a result, the Red Hall reopened in 1972 for public use and as offices for the BUC - Katharine's ghost is said to haunt it.) www.bourneunitedcharities.co.uk/red_hall.php - Abbey church of St Peter & St Paul Bourne Lincolnshire
Expectations dashed - Bourne Lincolnshire
Memorial - "Sacred to the memory of James Digby of Red Hall == and this parish esquire . A deputy lieutenant of this county who died August 7th 1811 aged 76 years
In this church are also deposited the remains of his parents James son of Kenelm Digby of North Luffenham in the county of Rutland esquire and Elizabeth his wife.
The youngest and only survivor of their numerous issue Henrietta Pauncefoot ++ as a tribute affectionate regard and grateful respect caused this monument to be erected"
James was the 2nd son of James Digby 1751 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/8P56HJ & Elizabeth Warwick His elder brother who had inherited the North Luffenham estates & Digby House died unmarried after selling his inheritance to Gilbert Heathcote.
His younger brother George dsp 1797 has a memorial here www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/B41u2r
James m1 Mary Green dsp of Dowsby
He m2 1796 Katharine dsp 1836 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/87Q065 sole heiress of Rev Humphrey Hyde, vicar of Bourne & rector of Dowsby.
James was 60, Katherine was 23.
James was the last male of the North Luffenham branch and it was expected by law his estates would be inherited by his nephew John Digby Fowell of Blackhall & Diptford Devon, heir of his elder sister Mary. But by his will made shortly before his death James, contrary to the expectations of his nephew who had taken the name of Digby in anticipation, having left his widow comfortably off, he left his estates to his younger sister Henrietta Pauncefort d1822 ++ who in turn bequeathed them to her son Philip Pauncefort Duncomb.
There is evidence that James was a man of frugal habits, spending little, and the publication of his will prompted one newspaper to report that “the penurious manner in which he lived little accorded with the immense property he has left, which is supposed to be a little short of £200,000”
== Red Hall, on Katharine's death was leased to various tenants and even used as a private boarding school for young ladies until sold in 1860 to the Bourne and Essendine Railway Company for use as the station booking office and stationmaster’s house. When the railway closed in 1959, the hall became redundant but was in a poor state of repair. It was offered for sale at £1 but there were no takers and there was another attempt to pull it down after being condemned in several quarters as “a totally useless building”. In 1962, however, Bourne United Charities stepped in and acquired the freehold and over the next 10 years restored it. As a result, the Red Hall reopened in 1972 for public use and as offices for the BUC - Katharine's ghost is said to haunt it.) www.bourneunitedcharities.co.uk/red_hall.php - Abbey church of St Peter & St Paul Bourne Lincolnshire