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. Sequence as family tree, short marginal lines divide families. Read with Addendum to Section 1 of the family tree, referred to hereafter as Addendum.
As to possible but unconfirmed relationships see The Waygoods of Somerset - Update of March 1993. According to Bath & Wells diocesan consignation book for 1605 Thomas was ordained priest by the Bishop of Exeter on 9th April, 1574, and had served the cure of Langford Budville, a chapelry of Milverton, since around 1585 although he had no license so to do; the consignation book for 1613 indicates that he also held the cure 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 later in the same year, at the same age.
The information above, as to ordination, conflicts with Exeter diocese 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 Exeter records of ordination to the priesthood.
A short history of Langford Budville Church (St. Peter's) by M. B. 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 Vigwood), 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:
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£ |
s |
d |
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£ |
s |
d |
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His wearinge apparrell |
4 |
o |
o |
Vaults and pailes |
i |
o |
o |
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One feather Bedd & Bedstedd with the furniture thereunto belonginge |
iii |
o |
o |
One hutch & bracke with boards |
o |
x |
o |
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One board Cheast & Truncke being in the Hall, with a furme with other smale implements |
i |
x |
o |
Fower Brasse Crockes with brasse pans skillats & Cauldrons |
iiii |
o |
o |
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One Amore Cubbord & a board more |
o |
x |
o |
Puter dishes & Candlestickes |
i |
o |
o |
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One Livery Bedsted the bed with furniture belonginge |
i |
x |
o |
Five silver spones |
i |
o |
o |
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Fower coffers & a presse |
o |
x |
o |
Corne & hay |
i |
vi |
o |
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Aples |
o |
v |
o |
One cowe |
iiii |
o |
o |
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Two Bedsteds & beds with the furniture thereunto belonginge with other smale things |
i |
x |
o |
One paire of aple potts one paire of Dungpotts one paire of crockes & panniers |
o |
vi |
o |
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Seaven barrells two hogsheads and a halfe hogshead |
i |
o |
o |
Pultre |
o |
5 |
o |
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One pig & two flitches of bacon |
i |
x |
o |
One chattle |
vi |
o |
o |
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Bookes |
i |
o |
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All other things not mentioned nor priced |
o |
v |
o |
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Five wedges |
o |
iiii |
o |
Summa Huius Inventarii |
xxxvi |
xi |
o |
‘(Administration granted at Milverton on 5th February, 1640, to Alice Wygood, executrix).'
Thomas died at 1 pm, 14,1,1641, the date of marriage at Langford Budville of his granddaughter Anne; it is interesting to consider whether, at 100 years old, he might have officiated, it seems unlikely that the ceremony would have proceeded immediately after his death.
See Addendum.
See Section 16 notes.
See Addendum.
See Addendum and earlier notes. Described as "Clarke" (i.e. clergyman) in burial record, and as "clerk, Langford Budvil" in calendar of wills and administrations in the court of the Archdeacon 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 he was church warden there in 1640, 1650 and 1651 (records not available 1653/9, Civil War 1642/8). As in the case of Thomas, above, his will was destroyed in 1942. Mary Wigwood, his widow, appears in the index of those granted hearth tax exemption 1670/4, exemption being given where a house was not of greater annual value than £1 and the occupier possessed no land or goods to the annual value of <10.
and Andrew bu 16,5.1730. See Addendum. According to a 1704 rates list the latter was a comber serge manufacture , and in 1711 party to an agreement by six users to share the cost of maintaining a well at Langford Budville owned by Jepp Clarke.
Included in error - see Addendum.
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.
mother of 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.
baptized as daughter of James/Mary, buried as daughter of James/Joan.
yeoman, wife from Nynehead, married by license.
yeoman.
See Section 18 notes.
went through marriage ceremony 4.4.1777 and 7.4.1777, note in register says, "The banns having been published on Good Friday, and it being, after their marriage, found contrary to an Act of Parliament passed in 1747 .... thought necessary that their marriage should be solemnized a second time". No record found of children.
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 Milverton. 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 register of children bound or assigned by overseers &c. of the parish of Cockington (Torquay) records, "9 April, 1803 Edward S. Waygood to John Dully, farmer" (shades of Oliver Twist!). Whether there was any connection is impossible to say, but if there was the junior Edward would have died before 1811; 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 Mary Simons this might explain the "S". As regards Mary's burial and birth dates see Thomas c 4.7.1762 above.
See Addendum. The child, Jane, does not appear on the family tree.
mother of illegitimate child c 8.11.1793 Wrington, name obliterated by blot in register but appears to be Betty.
Marriage at App. C 565 or 567 could relate, but also see Marys c 31,1.1767 (Sec. 16) and 23.5.1779 (Sec. 17).
See Addendum, James c 28.2.1777.
Marriage at App. C 569 could relate, but see John c 17.3.1732 (Sec. 16).
See Addendum, Robert c 23.7.1775.
See Addendum. In 1801 conviction for stealing anything of greater value than 12d (old Pence) was still subject to the death penalty, and at Assizes in Taunton in spring of that year sixteen prisoners were so convicted, seven reprieved were probably of eighteen sentenced to transportation for seven years. The remaining nine, including Robert, were hanged together on 15th April at Stone gallows, near Taunton (Stone refers to locality and not structure as is sometimes supposed).
Robert's offence was breaking open the house of G. Hancock, who kept the turnpike gate at Milverton, and stealing a canvas bag containing £30 and upwards; those of his companions in misfortune were (a) by threats causing 30 loaves of bread to be disposed of at a reduced price of 10d each (2 offenders), (b) stealing a sheep (3 cases), (c) stealing a cart mare, (d) stealing two heifers and a steer, (e) housebreaking and stealing a trunk containing lace and other articles.
In anticipation of public disorder, which did not materialize, horse and foot soldiers attended the execution. The victims were driven from prison seated on their coffins and guarded by mounted dragoons; as ropes were placed around their necks the cart was driven away from under them, leaving them suspended. A report says all nine behaved very penitently, the gaol chaplain's notes show Robert confessed his guilt. There were bread riots in 1801 . (sources "Somerset Stories" by Robin Bush, and Sherborne Mercury)
Thomas and wife of Langford Budville at marriage.
husbandman.
could be 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 Vicarage. Ephraim lodging with William and Elizabeth Perry at Langford Budville 1871.
labourer, husbandman, sawyer. Living at Langford Budville with son John (the second) in 1841 and alone 1851 at Pilesthorne, Wellington 1861, when shown as pauper (blind), died in Wellington Workhouse.
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 for her lifetime, thereafter to go to her son William (Abel's stepson). In 1881 Jane and Emma were at Wiveliscombe Road, Milverton, Jane died Wellington Workhouse. Jane's father, John Dyer, was a hatter.
Probably double baptism of same child, since there is no trace of a burial between the two dates, earlier baptism the only one in family not at Langford Budville. Labourer. With his nephew John (Sec. 6, baptised at same time) emigrated to Australia on the barque/ship Westminster, 610 tons, which sailed from Plymouth 17th Aprils 1841, and arrived Port Phillip 30th July (names of both recorded as Wigwood, although baptisms were recorded in the Waygood name). Charles went to work for Dr. Thompson of Geelong, and John for Mr. Bright of Melbourne, both for L25 per annum with rations. Elizabeth and Sarah Holway (baptised Langford Budville 1822 and 1824) sailed at the same time and found work in Melbourne as house servants at t15 per annum and rations ("The Somerset Years", Florence Chuk).
See Addendum James c 28.2.1777. App. C 623 could relate in this case or to Elizabeths c 22.3.1789 (Sec. 2) or b 28.8 1808 (Sec. 3).
labourer; wife Elizabeth employed in wool factory 1841 and 1861, and living with son Edward 1 71 "on parochial relief". Not traced on 1851 census, family home Langford Budville.
labourer, husbandman, wife Mary worker in woollen factory 1841, her father James, weaver, family home at Langford Budville.
buried in wooling.
burial record says, "Killed with a cart wheeler".
Worked in woollen cloth industry, as serge fuller, folder, wool labourer, wife Mary worked in the industry in 1841, and as a burger 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's father 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/painter, widow Mary labourer 1841 Wrington and servant nurse living with Charles Standerwick, draper, family and other servants at West Street, Banwell in 1851. Charles's year of birth derives from stated age of 53 at 1839 burial, while the Addendum shows that his attributed parents James c 22.2.1767 and Jane Edney, married in 1788; the alternatives are that (a) the stated age was not correct, (b) he was illegitimate, or (c) James and Jane were not his parents. The only apparent although unlikely alternative parents would have been John c 8.9.1733 (Sec. 1e) and his second wife. Parentage attributed to James and Jane because of virtual identity of occupations of Charles and their confirmed son James c 9.10.1791 Mells (Addendum and next item); baptism of Charles not traced, probably born in Bristol.
Plasterer/tiler/glazier/painter/plumbers c 9.10.1791 Mells (Addendum). Family homes West St., 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 Eliza 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 1080, 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.
See Addendum. Baptismal record of son John Samuel shows parents as Maurice / Elizabeths deaths at App. C 625 and 626 may relate to children of Morris born before 1837. In 1851 Morris, tailor, was at 10, Westbourne Street, Pimlico, with Elizabeth and John Samuel, and was still there in 1856. With them in 1851 were John Richards, 28, carpenter, and Isaac Richards, 20, plumber, both born Great Gidding, Hunts., shown as brothers of head of household, probably brothers‑in‑law. Elizabeth's age shown on 1851 census as 44 and on deaths index in 1873 as 76.
See sister Ann above.
See sister Jane above.