Stephen Joseph Solly of Pedding

Stephen Joseph Solly, or Stephen Solly the Younger, was born in 1520 in Ash, Kent, England. 

His parents were Stephen Solly (1490-1559)  and Christyan Harfleete (1494-1559)

He was a landowner. 

He married Margaret Elizabeth Hougham in 1547. Her great great grandfather was Richard de Hugham of Ash, Prior of Dover during 1350. Further back, Robert de Hougham was a knight who served William the Conquerer in 1066. William de Averanche of Normandy was his grandfather. The Hougham family tree goes as far back as the second century. A Hougham ancestor, Emina D'Avranches married Harrolager of Iceland (859-896). Other Scandinavian ancestors of Hougham include names such as Gold tooth Halfden (660-730) of Solor, Hedmark, Norway, King Yngvi-frey of Uppsala and Yngvi Turkey Frey, King of Sweden (193-274, Noatun, Sweden).

Their children included John Solly.

Stephen Solly's descendants include the Mayor of Sandwich, Kent, Richard Solly (1674-1731).

His parents both died in 1559. 

His life spanned the Protestant Reformation (1517-1648), Defence of the Seven Sacraments (1521), Conquest of the Aztec Empire (1521), Act of Restraint of Appeals (1533), the Spanish Conquest of Americas (1521-1533), the Ottomon-Habsburg Wars (1526-1791), Rise of the Mughal Empire (1526), Dissolution of The Monasteries (1536), The Execution og Thomas Cromwell (1540), Prayer Book Rebellion (1549), Wyatt's Rebellion (1554), Treaty of Edinburgh (1560), French Wars of Religion (1562), the Dutch Revolt (Eighty Years' War, 1567), the Improsenment of the Queen of Scots, Battle of Lepanto (1571), St, Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572), Anglo-Spanish War (1585-1604) and the defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588), Eighty Years' War (1568-1648), England's maritime expansion and explorations under Francis Drake (1577-1580), Unification of Japan (1590).

English Monarchs: Henry VIII, Edward VI, Jane, Mary I, Phillip, Elizabeth I

Sources:

1. "Margt Sollye, Buried in Kent, 11th March 1611: Kent, England, Tyler Index to Parish Registers, 1538-1874" [source: Ancestry]