Following are notes on some on the family tree of whom information is available; except for comparatively recent generations occupations have been extracted from parish records of baptisms, marriages and burials (where shown) and/or censuses 1841/81. Sequence as family tree; short marginal lines divide families.
As to possible but unconfirmed relationships see Other Early Wigods, Devon-Dorset-Somerset Relationships or Somerset,early Relationships..
According to the Bath & Wells diocesan consignation book for 1605 Thomas was ordained priest by the Bishop of Exeter on 9th. April, 1574, and had served the curé of Langford Budville, a chapelry of Milverton, since around 1585, although he had no licence so to do. The consignation book for 1613 indicates that he also held the curé of adjoining Thorne St. Margaret by license of Richard, Archbishop of Canterbury, dated 10th. September, 1605. He continued with both curacies until his death in 1641 at the age of 100 years; his wife, Alice, died in the same year at the same age.
The information above, as to ordination, conflicts with Exeter diocesan records, which show that on the stated date Thomas was ordained deacon in the parish church of Newton Ferrers (about 10 miles South-east of Plymouth); there is no trace in the Exeter records of ordination to the priesthood.
A short history of Langford Budville church (St. Peter's) by M. McDermott (1972) shows Thomas as curate there from 1598, and contains the following:
In 1614 the churchwardens purchased an hour glass "for the preacher", but this seems to have become somewhat of an irrelevance by 1623 ... for in that year Thomas Wygood (or Wigwood), the curate, was rebuked by the archdeacon's court for not giving the required monthly sermons! Wygood ... was also reprimanded in 1623 for failing to catechize the children of Langford Budville.
Many early wills, including that of Thomas, were destroyed in a German air raid on Exeter in 1942, but a record of his worldly goods (a legal requirement of the times) survives, as follows:
'The inventorie of all and singular the goods and chattles of Thomas Wigwood of Langford Budveild in the Countie of Somersett Clarke lately deceased valewed and indifferently priced the 25th day of Januari Anno Domini 1640 by John Budd and George Bicknell as followeth:
|
£ |
s |
d |
|
£ |
s |
d |
His wearinge apparrell |
4 |
0 |
0 |
Puter dishes & Candlestickes |
i |
0 |
0 |
One feather Bedd & Bedstedd therunto belonginge with the furniture |
iiii |
x |
0 |
Five silver spones |
i |
0 |
0 |
One board Cheast & Truncke being in the Hall, with a furme with other smale implements |
i |
x |
0 |
Corne & hay |
i |
vi |
0 |
One Amore Cubbord & a board more |
0 |
x |
0 |
One cowe |
iiii |
0 |
0 |
One Livery Bedsted the bed with furniture belonginge |
i |
x |
0 |
One pig & two flitches of bacon |
i |
x |
0 |
Fower coffers & a preasse |
0 |
x |
0 |
Pultre |
0 |
5 |
o |
Aples |
0 |
v |
0 |
One chattle |
vi |
0 |
0 |
Two Bedsteds & beds with the furniture therunto belonginge with other smale things |
i |
x |
0 |
One paire of aple potts one raireof Dungpotts one paire of crockes S panniers |
0 |
vi |
0 |
Seaven barrells two hogsheads and a halfe hogshead |
1 |
0 |
0 |
Bookes |
1 |
0 |
0 |
Vaults and pailes |
i |
x |
0 |
Five wedges |
0 |
iiii |
0 |
One hutch & bracke with boards |
0 |
x |
0 |
All other things not mentioned nor priced |
0 |
v |
0 |
Fower Brasse Crockes with brasse pans skillats & Cauldrons |
iii |
0 |
0 |
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|
|
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Sumrna Huius Inventarti xxxvi xi o
(Administration granted at Milverton on 5th February, 1640, to Alice Wygood, executrix)
Described as "Clarke" (i.e. clergyman) in burial record, and as "clerk, Langford Budvil" in the Calendar of wills and administrations in the court of the Archiencon of Taunton (ed. E.A. Fry, 1912); no record of his ordination has been found, or of the parish or parishes in which he might have practiced. It is not clear whether he served as curate at Langford Budville, but his signature appears in the parish register for 1640 and 1651, possibly as churchwarden. As in the case of Thomas, above, his will was destroyed in 1942.
His possible connection with the 1646 Ilchester election and parentage of Margaret Wigwood who married at Hartley Wintney, Hants, in 1664 are dealt with in Other early Wigods (1990). Mary Wigwood, John's widow, appears in the index of those granted hearth tax exemption 1670/4, exemption being granted when a house was not of greater annual value than £1 and the occupier possessed no land or goods to the annual value of £10.
According to a rates list for 1704 a comber (serge manufacture). In 1711 party to an agreement by six users to share the cost of maintaining a well at Langford Budville owned by Jepp Clarke.
Marriage, and baptism of Mary, are from Devon IGI; other children probably born in Devon, although an Anne Waygood, married at Kenton in 1721 (57, Appendix A) could have been his widow.
Carpenter in 1758, buried from Wellington Workhouse.
Buried in wool.
Marriage recorded from Boyd s index, location stated as Wellington, but not in parish register or bishop s transcripts.
Yeoman.
Husband yeoman.
Some doubt as to husband's surname, alternatives Moxey,Otterry, Merry.
Husband a widower of Bridgwater.
Illegitimate child, Richard, c 21.12.1749 Milv, bu 17.1.1750 Milv.
Farmer at first marriage, labourer second; wives could have been sisters.
Husband yeoman.
Mother's name not shown in baptismal record, assumed to be Joan.
Baptised as daughter of James/Mary, buried as daughter of James/Joan.
Yeoman, wife from Nynehead, married by license.
Yeoman.
Marriage at 60 and children 10 to 13 of Appendix A could relate. Cont.)
Went through marriage ceremony 4.4.1777, repeated 7.4.1777. Explanatory note in register says, "The banns having been published or Good Friday, and it being, after their marriage, found contrary to Act of Parliament passed in 1747 thought necessary that their marriage should be solemnised a second time. No record found of children.
Marriage at 65, Appendix A, could relate, but note also Joan c 30.11.1760, this Section.
No trace of a Thomas burial between the two dates; a double baptism would explain - the first was the only one in the family at Iverton. Burial and birth dates for wife Mary and those for wife of Edward c 22.1.1758 (this Section, below) may have been transposed.
Husbandman, living with wife (only) at Langford Budville in 1841
Carpenter/sawyer. His son William was baptised in Exeter in 1795, and he appears to have been a witness to the marriage of W. Wyatt and Sarah Clogg, both of The Close, at Exeter Cathedral in the following year. A resister of children bound or assigned by Overseers &c. of the parish of Cockington (Torquay) records "9 April, 1803, Edward S Waygood to John Tully, farmer". (shades of Oliver Twist!) Whether there was any connection is impossible to say but if there was the junior Edward should have died before1811; there is no record of a relevant death from 1837. It was unusual at this time for a child to have two Christian names, but if his parents were Edward and Chary Simons this might explain the "S" . As regards Mary's burial and birth dates see Thomas 4.7.1762 above.
See note above re Joan c 2.5.1756, Joan's brother Edward, above, 3-had links with Exeter and she is probably the more likely candidate.
Marriage not traced, and not included in indexes of Somerset & Dorset and Bristol & Avon Family History Societies. A Wrington burial, 27.4.1793, of an unnamed Waygood, daughter of James and from Bristol no doubt relates.
Mother of illegitimate child c 8.11.1793 Wrington, name obliterated by blot in register but appears to be Betty.
Marriage at 70, Appendix A, may relate.
Marriage at 72, Appendix A, could relate, but there were other Waygoods in the area around this time.
Death at 118, Appendix A, could relate, but could equally refer to Robert c 11.5.1823, Section 8, age at death unknown. Otherwise no further trace found of Robert or wife Martha, or any children.
Thomas and wife of Langford Budville parish at marriage.
Husbandman, 1843.
Could be a delayed baptism but no entry to indicate this.
Agricultural labourer/farmer, wife Mary wool sorter. Family homes Langford Budville 1841/61 in 1861 in part of the Vicarage. Ephramin lodging with William and Elizabeth Perry .at Langford Budville 1871 .
Labourer, husbandman, sawyer. Living at Langford Budville with son John (the second) in 1841, at Pilesthorne, Wellington, 1861, described as a pauper (blind), died in Wellington Workhouse.
Birth at 21 Appendix A, could refer.
Husband Widower
Agricultural labourer, lived at Thorne St. Margaret from around 1827, at Fry Cottage 1841.
Agricultural labourer, farmer, wife Elizabeth agricultural labourer 1851. Family homes at Sand Street, North Street, Swifts Cottages and Silver Street, Milverton.
Manservant at Vicarage, Milverton, 1841, coachman at Castle House, Enmore, 1851, innkeeper there 1856, at Wood Street, Milverton with wife Jane and stepdaughter Emma 1861, with his wife at Park Cottage Milverton, 1871. Park Cottage left to Jane .or her lifetime, thereafter to go to her son (Abel's stepson) William. In 1881Jane and Emma were at Wiveliscombe Road, Milverton, Jane died in Wellington Workhouse. Jane's father, John Dryer, was a hatter.
Burial not traced, all siblings baptised at Langford Budville.
Labourer. With his nephew John (section 5, who was baptized at the same time) emigrated to Australia on the barque/ship Westminster, 610 tons, which sailed from Plymouth 17th April 1841, and arrived Port Phillip 30th July (names of both recorded as Wiigwood, although the baptisms were in the Waygood name). Charles went to work for Dr. Thompson of Geelong, and John for Mr. Bright of Melbourne, both for £25 per annum with rations. Elizabeth and Sarah Holway (baptized Langford Budville 1822 and 1824) sailed at the same time and found work in Melbourne as house servants at £15 per annum and rations ("The Somerset Years", Florence Chuk).
Death at 119, Appendix A, could relate in this case or to Elizabeth c 22.3.1789 (Sec 2) or b 28.8.1808 (Sec.3).
Labourer, wife Elizabeth employed in wool factory1841 and 1861, living with son Edward1871, "on parochial relief". Not traced on 1851 census. Family home Langford Budville.
Labourer, husbandman, wife Mary worker in woollen factory in 1841, her father James weaver. Family home at Langford Budville.
Buried "in wooling".
Note on burial record says "killed with a cart wheeler".
Worked in woollen cloth industry, as serge fuller, folder, wool labourer, Mary his wife was working in the industry in 1841, and as a burler in 1851 and 1861. Family homes Langford Budville 1841, "Five houses", Wellington, 1851/61, Robert alone at Tonedale 1871/81.
Labourer 1841, serge tucker 1851, woollen factory worker 1861, wife Rebecca burler. Living in Wellington at marriage, family homes Higher Gundenham, Langford Budville, 1841, Payton Village Wellington, 1851, Rockwell Green 1861, Westford Farm, Wellington, 1871.
Husbandman at marriage, wife, Frances, daughter of William, husbandman. Agricultural labourer 1841/51/61, pauper 1871, invalid 1881. Family homes at Nynehead 1841/61, Acre Cottages, Wellington, 1871/81. Frances servant at marriage, washerwoman 1871, laundress 1881.
Plasterer/tiler. Baptism not traced, probably born Bristol (see James c 22.2.1767 this section, above). His widow, Mary, was servant nurse living with Charles Standerwick, Draper, family and other servants at West Street, Banwell, in 1851.
Plasterer/tiler/glazier/painter. Baptism not traced, see note above re his brother Charles born 1786. Family homes West Street, Banwell, 1841, Church Street, Banwell, 1851. A Sarah Eliza Waygood, widow, married Samuel Lovett, widower, soldier R.A., at Banwell on 16.5.1857, one of the witnesses being James's daughter Martha Elizabeth, Sarah's father was named as James Hurditch, yeoman. In spite of the record of James's marriage showing that his wife had been Eliza Maishman there is little doubt that Eliza and Sarah Eliza were the same person. The 1871 census shows Sarah Ibiza Lovett, widow, 71, dressmaker born Churchill, to have been living at Church Street, Banwell, with Fanny M. Waygood, her granddaughter, 20, of no profession, born Clifton. See Jane Vowles c 22.9.1822, Sec.14. Eliza Maishman's birthplace is recorded as Dinghurst, which is part of Churchill.
Husband, Henry, a cordwainer (shoemaker) had been married previously to her sister Mercy. They sailed for Australia from Liverpool on 4th August, 1852, in the American ship Ticonderoga, 1089 tons, with their children Mary Ann (22), John (17), Mary (15) and Cornelia (9), James (19) having reached Australia the previous year in the Statesman, 874 tons. The Ticonderoga took only 90 days to reach Port Phillip, but during that time 100 of her passengers, including Henry, were buried at sea, most having died of typhus; 82 more deaths occurred in quarantine after landing. (Voyage details from "The Somerset Years" by Florence Chuk).
Kept a lodging (guest) house at 5, Somerset Place, Clifton, Bristol, from 1863 or earlier until 1880, and at 10, Canynge Road, Clifton in 1880. In 1871 her sister Mary (Garland), widow, nurse, was living with her, also a Thomas Waters, nephew, widower (32), "sale publican" born Bristol (unidentified) and a Frances M. Lane, unmarried annuitant (74) born Middlesex. In 1881 Jane and Mary were living at 3, Granby Hill, Clifton, the former's occupation being shown as dressmaker. The local directories are misleading in that they describe Jane as Mrs.
Baptismal record of son John Samuel shows parents as Maurice/Elizabeth. The deaths at 122 and 125 of Appendix A may relate to children of Morris born before 1837.
See sister Ann above.