When Dorothy Heigham was born in 1598, in Barrow, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, her father, Sir Clement Heigham, was 27 and her mother, Anne Appleyard, was 18. She married William March on 3 July 1638, in Barrow, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom.
English: habitational name from any of the places called Higham (Lancashire, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire, Warwickshire, Essex, and Kent) or from Heigham in Norfolk. Most of the placenames derive from Old English hēah ‘high’ + hām ‘village, homestead’, though the Norfolk placename may come from Old English hecg ‘hedge’ or hecc ‘hatch, gate’ + hām.
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