Thomas PADDY senior would have been born c. 1620-1640, that is, before 1645 when the first baptismal records from Meriden survive. He married Lydia in c. 1658, with their first child baptized in 1660. No marriage record has been found to date.
The couple had 8 children.
Some legal documents:
- Conveyance dated 21 Dec: 1670, by Major Rawbone of Allesley, cooper, to Thomas Launder of the same, gent. and Thomas Paddy of Meriden, miller. Wit: John & Edm: Brownell, Wm Abell, John Taylor. Seal. in paper.
- On 29 Sep 1681, he took out a lease for 21 years from Henry Mathew of Murcutt Hall esq, of a messuage, 3 parcels of land therewith, Bawdens Meadow, land between the mill and the footbridge, and the water corn mills called Murcutt Mills, with the Water etc. with various conditions re fishing, floods etc. A schedule of goods, implements and tools belonging to the mill was attached to the lease. He was described as: "Thomas Paddy the elder of Meriden Heath, miller".
By 1800 Meriden Heath was a farm with outbuildings. It is now known as Heath Farm. It's possible that this was Thomas PADDY junior's farm described in the probate inventory of 1729.
Lydia died in 1703 and Thomas in 1706.

