George Dod of Penders End and later Highfields
c
1602 to 27 February 1661
DOD00091
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1602
George Dod was the son of William
and Eleanor Dod of Highfields (DOD00081) and may have been born in 1602.
George Dod, of Highfields,
formerly of Penders End, Shropshire, born 1602, married 1632, Dorothy (died
1702, aged 92), daughter of Edward Greenly of Titley Court, Herefordshire (see
that family) and died 1660, leaving issue (Burke, John and Burke,
Sir Bernard (1836)(Eighteenth Edition, 1972), Bellyse
Baker of Highfields in Burke’s Landed Gentry, Volume 3, pages
35 to 38).
1632
George married Dorothy, daughter
of Edward Greenley of Titley Court, Herefordshire.
They lived at Penders End until he
inherited Highfields from his unmarried brother in 1656.
1652
William’s elder son was Thomas,
who made his will in 1652. In this will he, being unmarried, left Highfields to
his brother, George of Penders End, Buerton, on condition that his father shall
continue to live there (Baker, J Bellyse
(1982), Highfields,
Audlem: Sixteenth Century Home of the Dod and Baker Families, Audlem
District History Society, page 7).
(Original Will of Thomas Dod of Highfields, 9 April
1652, Baker Records, 9)
1654
(Deed between George Dod of Highfields and William
Dod 10 May 1654, Baker records 10).
(William Dod of Buerton to George Dod of Highfields regarding
the will of their brother Thomas Dod, late of Highfields dated 1654, Baker
Records, 11 and 12)
(Two old Papers on the Dod owners of Highfields,
Baker Records 18)
1656
Thomas Dod died.
William had sold his Buerton
estate to George for £200, in 1643 and George presumably built Penders End,
which is not mentioned in that document. It seems likely that William made
Highfield over to Thomas at about the same time. (Baker, J Bellyse (1982), Highfields, Audlem: Sixteenth
Century Home of the Dod and Baker Families,
Audlem District History Society, page 8).
Portrait of George Dod (Highfields)
1660
After the Restoration in 1660,
George Dodd, mentioned in the petition and now of Highfields, was Head
Constable of Nantwich, collecting a subsidy for Charles II. The Dods of this
period appear to have displayed many of the characteristics of the Vicar of
Bray! (Baker, J Bellyse
(1982), Highfields,
Audlem: Sixteenth Century Home of the Dod and Baker Families, Audlem
District History Society, page 9).
George did not outlive his father;
the estate passed to his only son, also George, who was to own Highfields for
the next 67 years. (Baker, J Bellyse
(1982), Highfields,
Audlem: Sixteenth Century Home of the Dod and Baker Families, Audlem
District History Society, page 9).
1661
George Dod died in 1660 or 1661
and was buried at Audlem on 27 February 1661 (St James Audlem Parish Records).
