FGEB vol IX page 8. There is evidence that John’s wife, Joan, was the daughter of an Oundle mercer, Richard Olyff, as a legacy from Olyff was the subject of a dispute. When John Dillingham, yeoman, prepared his last will and testament, ("being whole in mind and sick in body"), on the 19th August 1540, he made bequests to his 8 sons, Thomas, William, John, Henry, Walter, Robert, Richard and Humphrey, and daughter Alice, in addition to "the child that my wife is great with." (This turned out to be his second daughter, Agnes.) At present, all but three of the known U.K. Dillingham lines can be traced directly to John and Joan. [DILLIN.GED]

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