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The Devon/Dorset/Somerset relationship.

The current Devon IGI (a far from complete overall record of baptisms and marriages) lists two Wigwoods (1712/3) end nineteen Waygoods/Weygoods (1721/1815). The Wigwoods and six of the Waygoods &c. are in the Somerset family tree, and although the others (of whom only one was an adult male) are thought to have Somerset connections, they are recorded, with others, in Appendix A, in absence of sufficient identification.  The only other males (2), children of the unidentified adult, died in infancy, so that if there were no more the Devon line would have ended.

The births of only thirteen Waygood children were registered in Devon between 1037 and 1913 - their fathers were born outside the County. The only Waygood in the current Devon & Cornwall telephone directory is the widow of a husband born in Wellington, Somerset.

The absence of early records makes it impracticable to do anything more than speculate upon a Somerset/Dorset link, the possibilities could include the following, viz:

(a)                   Thomas Wygod, rector, Wootton Fitzpaine (near Lyme Regis), from 1349, under the patronage of the Fitz Payne, whose Somerset estates at Carlton Mackrell and Cary Fitzpaine were within a few miles of the Crewkerne and East Coker areas in which other Wigods were following the same calling around the same time.  Was Thomas, Perhaps, the son of Richard (Crewkerne) and brother of John (East Coker)?

(b)                    Migration from Crewkerne and/or Yeovil areas, which are adjacent to the Dorset boundary.

(c)                    William and Emanuel, the 1641/2 Dorset protesters; were they unrecorded descendants of Thomas Wigood, the Langford Budville curate?

Nothing has been found to indicate a link in the opposite direction, and apart from the Devon Domesday priest the earliest Wigods have been located in Somerset. The St. Catherine's House index of births (1837-1913) shows the approximate proportions of descendants from the two groups to be Somerset 5, Dorset 2.