It seems unlikely that proof of links between the early Somerset Wigods &c. already listed will be forthcoming, but a preponderance with close Church connections, and a concentration of the great majority in the Yeovil/Ilchester/Langport/Crewkerne area, appear to place family connections beyond reasonable doubt.
As hinted earlier, there may have been a father son relationship between Richard, parson at Eastham Chapel, Crewkerne, 1311/3, and Thomas and John, rectors of Wootton Fitzpaine End East Coker.
On the same basis, supported by identical surname spelling (Wigwood/Wygwood) it could well be that curate Thomas who heads the family tree, was the son of John, parson/rector at Curry Rivel and Limington. The 1584 burial of Martin Wigood, and use by the curate of the alias Martin at his ordination as deacon (the only discovered occasions when the name appears prior to 1895) may detract from this theory, but equally could indicate Somerset parentage. On the meagre information available (ages are not shown in the burial entries), Martin, Richard (Wigood/Wyewood/Whygood) and Julian (Wigwood/Wygood) all buried Crewkerne, could have been brothers or sons of John, or of other relationship.
**see notes on Thomas (b 1540/1), Section 1.
The 1568 and 1575 baptisms at Drayton (only a mile from Curry Rivel where John was installed as parson in 1566), in names which duplicate those Of curate Thomas and wife Alice, would seem to support the probabilities of (a) a father/son relationship between the two clerics, and (b) Thomas having fathered the Drayton children. Thomas's Devon ordination in 1574 may confuse, without necessarily being contradictory As for the child Thomas see earlier and later comments on possible relationship with the London cook and Margaret married at Hartley Wintney.
The Curry Rivel scene of Jane Weagood's "misdeeds" of 1607 and 1612 suggests a link with rector John, probably her grandfather (Curry Rival parish records available from 1653 only, Jane's daughter's baptism traced in Dwelly's transcripts). The Ilchester canvasser, John Wigwood, is another likely descendant of rector John, who died in 1577 while the incumbent of adjoining Limington. Elizabeth the 1656 South Petherton grave-robbery witness could be yet another, or the canvasser's wife (no trace of Weygoods &c. found in South Petherton parish records).
John Wigwood, clerk, who died at Langford Budville in 1661, has been assumed to be the son of curate Thomas, no record of his baptism having been found. His four known children, the first named Thomas, were baptised at Langford Budville, 1643/51, and he seems to have been churchwarden there in 1640 and 1651. No information has been forthcoming as to where he might have followed his calling as clergyman, and it is more than possible that he was the Ilchester canvasser, of whom there is no later trace if this is not so, the name agrees precisely. Ilchester parish records date from 1650 only.
The burial of Charles and Mary Weagood (probably husband and wife) in Langford Budville in 1675, may be an indication that Charles, too, was a son of the curate; other potential children have already been named, and Jane could also qualify. No children of Charles found in Somerset records.
A search of available pre-1600 parish registers for the general Yeovil, Ilchester, Langport, Crewkerne area, produced no family items not already covered above (i.e. at Crewkerne and Drayton).