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Additional facilities have made it possible to "round-up" to 1940 births and marriages on St. Catherine's House indexes; Somerset/Dorset links have been established and a "Dorset Supplement" covering a further 500 or so descendants and Wives of descendants of Thomas born 1540/1 is in preparation.
Early Wigods &c. A Johanne Wygod of Portland, who paid the lay subsidy of 1332, is the likely ancestor of Portland residents who became Wiggette &c. Barwick registers record (in names Wiggot(t) or Wygott unless otherwise shown)
Baptisms - 1566 Alce, daughter of Aymos; 1571 Margaret and 1577 Elizabeth, daughters of George
1607 Margerie Wygate, daughter of John.
Marriages - 1566 George and Margarett his wife;
1594 Elizabeth and Richard Tucke;
1596 Alice and Isaake Mychaell;
1607 Joane and Gyles Sharlock;
1620 Margaret and John How.
1590 Alice, 1592 Alice, 1605 George, 1612 Margaret, widow, 1619 John (With whom the male line appears to have ended).
Edith baptised Curry Rivel 1607, died there 1608, her mother's name could be Jane or Jone.
More individuals with ecclesiastical connections:
1166/77 Berkshire Gilibertus Wigod, a clerk of the Bishop of Worcester, presented by Osbert, Abbot of Lyre Abbey, to Jocelin, Bishop of Salisbury, for the churches of Shinfield and Swallowfield (Cartulary of Carisbrooke Priory - Dom. S.F. Hockey).
1230/35 Isle of Wight Galfrudus Wigod holding land from the Domus Dei (God's House), Southampton, an Augustinian priory-cum-hospital (Cartulary of God's House, editor J.M. Kaye).
1293/1328 Southampton Willelmo Wygod witness signatory to tenancy charters (Cartulary, God's House).
Barwick, above, has common boundaries with East Coker and Yeovil, and is separated from Preston Plucknett only by the latter; Crewkerne, Drayton, Curry Rivel, Limington, Ilchester and South Petherton are all within 12 miles. Geography and the shared use of a small range of Christian names are clear indications of connection, although in the absence of records speculation is the only option .
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Henry W.J. Waygood, 43, Emmbrook Road, Wokingham, Berks., RG11 1HG |
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Rhona J. Hunter, 4, Somerset Road, New Barnet, Herts., EN5 1RN |
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Barbara Cool, 44563, Kaneohe Bay Drive, Kaneohe, Hawaii, 96744. |
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Ronald L. Wigood, R.R., Acton, Ontario, L7J 2M1, Canada. |
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John K. Waygood, 2, Corfe Way, Broadstone, Dorset, BH18 9NE. |
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died 1 pm, 14.1.1641, 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.
Now he is known to have been baptised in 1614 there is no doubt that he was the former Royalist soldier involved as canvasser in the Ilchester election. Confirmed he was churchwarden in 1640, 1650 and 1651 (records not available 1653/59, Civil War 1642/48).
In 1801 conviction for stealing anything of greater value than 12d (old pence) was still subject to death penalty, and at Assizes in Taunton in Spring of that year sixteen prisoners were so convicted, seven reprieved were probably of the 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 &c. In anticipation of public disorder, which did not materialise, horse and foot soldiers attended the executions. 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 drawn 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). Robert c 11.5.1823 (Sec. 8a ) emigrated, making it likely that App.A 118 relates to an unregistered child.
Death attributed to son James c 26.7.1807 relates to James c 17.2.1808 (Dorset).
Additional occupation painter, widow labourer 1841. Now date of marriage of James b t766, c 22.2.1767, is known, and in absence of baptismal details, Charles's parentage must be reviewed. His year of birth derives from age 53 at 1839 burial, and alternatives are (a) age was not correct, (b) he was illegitimate, (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 b 1792. Further son of Charles, i.e. George b 1829 Wrington, covered in the later update of Notes on Individuals 1990 Section 13. (Prob. M.W.).
in 1851 tailor at 10, Westbourne Street, Pimlico, with Elizabeth and son John Samuel, still there 1856. With them in 1851 were John Richards, 28, carpenter, and Isaac Richards, 20, plumber, both born Gt. Gidding, Herts., shown as brothers of head of household, probably in-laws. Elizabeth's age shown on 1851 census as 44 and on deaths index in 1873 as 76.
Records of family are confusing. Elena also appears as Ellen, John George shown, after infancy, only as George, Hannah Louisa c Anne Louisa, m Louisa. Albert Charles did not use his second name and Charles was shown on census as Albert. Elena, Charles (1842) and Francis apparently not baptised, Albert baptised after father's death. A William signed the register entry of Hannah Louisa's marriage, probably having "given away the bride". The death in 1921 in Erith, Kent (age shown 79) of a John Adam William (birth not registered) is recorded in the name William, and the fact that John George had a son registered at birth as Adam William and at death as William makes it likely that J.A.W. was a child of William 1812. J.A.W., age shown as 40, m 22.11.1879 at Crakehall, Yorks., Susan Sturdy (1838 - 1911 Crakehall), his father shown as William, baker, (it is not possible to say whether William 1812 ever followed this occupation). J.A.W. and Susan were gentleman's servants at marriage, and in 1911 he was a retired butler, Susan's father John Stephen, joiner; no children. Ernest Harris (App.A 31) was born at 14, Gloucester Street, Queen Square, Holborn, London, on 8.6.1870, parents Frederick, baker, and Lucy, formerly Smith (no trace of Frederick's birth or marriage or later trace of any of them in national indexes, unless App.A 83 relates to a second marriage of Lucy). Albert used family names William, Ellen and Louisa for three of his children, and Fred for a fourth, and it seems that Ernest's father could also have been a child of William 1812. Hannah Louisa's marriage and Ernest Harris's birth were both in the London area, where Elena had died earlier - could Frederick have been identical with Charles@ Albert (1842), of whom there is no later trace? The "baker" occupations might indicate a J.A.W./Frederick link. The foregoing indicates the difficulty, in some cases, of making the right connection.