FGEB V9p7 The name Dylyngham (sic) first appears in the surviving Dean records in the year 1448, when a Thomas Dylyngham is mentioned in a land grant relating to lands in Bolnhurst, Pertenhall, Keysoe, and Dean. There is no proof that this was the grandfather of John Dillingham. Winthrop Alexander pg 3 "The earliest record of a Dillingham was found in the list of ‘intrantes’, or persons admitted as inhabitants, in Canterbury, when John Dillyngham, tailor, at Westgate in 1433 and 1434, paid an annual fine or license of four pence. The earliest connected records which enable us to establish anything like a pedigree are found in Bedfordshire in the latter part of the sixteenth century. The family then appears in the Parish of Deane, in the northeastern extremity of that county, and evidently must have been located there for many years, being landowners and people of prominence." [DILLIN.GED]

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