Family
He married twice.
1 Cecilia Crofts (16??-1638) in 1636, a maid of honour to Queen Henrietta Maria with a son:
- Henry Killigrew (bapt 16 April 1637 St Martin's-in-the-Fields)
2 Charlotte de Hesse (1629–1716) in 1655; with children:
- Charles Killigrew (born cir 1656)
- Thomas Killigrew (the younger) (1657–1719), who had one successful play, called Chit-Chat (1719)
- Robert (Roger) Killigrew (born 17 September 1663)
- Elizabeth Killigrew (born 3 July 1666)
His second wife and their 3 sons were naturalised in an Act of Parliament in 1683.
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