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THE PIGG/PIGGOTT FAMILY

 

Outline Descendant Tree

At least with this family they stayed in one place for a reasonable amount of time to make it possible to trace them back a few years!

My Gt.Grandfather Frederic Bradley married Eliza Piggott 29th August 1867 at St Lukes Church, Cannock.

There had been mention by some present Bradley family members that 'Piggott' had originally been 'Pigg'. This is verified on Eliza`s birth certificate where she is registered as Eliza Pigg born to Francis Pigg and Sophia Pigg, formerly Tredwell (again different spelling of Treadwell on occasions). Eliza was born on the 5th March 1844 at Stivichall, Coventry, and she had a younger brother John born 1845 in Furness, Lancs., and younger sister Mary Sophia born 1847 in Leek, Staffs.

John married Julia A Suffield (see Suffield connection below re John`s Aunt Mary Ann Pigg) but there were no children. John was Piggott at birth and born in Furness, Lancs. in 1845. Therefore this branch of the Pigg family changed to Piggott sometime between March 1844 and August 1845. In 1881 they lived at Spring Street, Wolverhampton Road, Cannock and he was in the coal and brick business. In the census Kate, Julia`s sister, and Maud Bradley (niece, age 8) were there also. 1901 they are living at 340 Moseley Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham.

Mary Sophia married Charles Henry Twynam a solicitor. They had three children, Mary Mercedes, Henry and Anne. Mary married Thomas Maurice Bostock and they had three children Thomas, Steven and Dorothy. The younger Thomas was a Captain in the Royal Engineers and died in Akora, India whilst engaged in night bridging operations over Kabul River. It is believed from Cousin Eliza`s notes that Dorothy married a Mr Stokes. Henry became Sir Henry Twynam, diplomat in Asia.

Eliza`s father Francis was born in 1820 in High Street, Watford, Herts. He married a widow a few years older than himself, Sophia Bourne nee Tredwell in Marylebone, London in 1843. Sophia was from Droitwich. She had three children from her 1st marriage to Thomas Bourne (or John!). Daughter Elizabeth married Henry Worton Elliott and they had four children, two of whom appear to have married members of the Pain family and another a Charlie Walters. Henry Elliott acted as Executor for a few Tredwells.

Francis` occupation on his marriage was an accounts clerk. On Eliza`s birth certificate he is classed as 'Gentleman'. On the 1871 census he is living in Hednesford, Staffs and is a merchant of some sort (possibly coal). The next time he is mentioned as being in 'Coal and Brick' in 1881 still in Hednesford. By this time he is a widower, Sophia having died in 1873. 1891 census Francis is still in Cannock and has numerous members of his family with him. Francis died in 1898 age 78, in Erdington, Warwks.

Francis was born to Joseph and Elizabeth and was one of ten children. Joseph was a stonemason in Watford. Francis` older sister Eliza married Joseph Gumbley, again in Marylebone in 1846. It appears some of the Piggs had moved to London at that time. Joseph and Eliza Gumbley had one daughter Elizabeth who remained a spinster.

Francis` older brother Joseph also was a stonemason, obviously carrying on the family business. He remained in Watford and died in 1867, having kept the name Pigg. Joseph married Eliza Hedges and they had four children: 1 Emma (married Henry Howard and had 10 children and lived in Somerset, (can`t find this family after 1891)), 2 Eliza (housekeeper to her uncle Francis), 3 Joseph (married Ellen Santry and had 1 stepdaughter, 2 sons and a daughter (lived in Putney 1881 and Berkhamstead 1891)) and 4 George, also a stonemason (married Emily Howard and had one daughter Margaret). It is possible Henry Howard and Emily Howard were brother and sister.

Francis had five younger sisters, one of whom, Mary Ann appears to have married 3 times. First to Thomas Charles Wheatcroft (12 years younger and a Surgeon) in 1869 in Cannock. Secondly to Mr Henry Suffield in 1874 at Penkridge (17 years younger! and whom I now know to be brother to Julia Suffield married to John Piggott - Julia, Henry and Kate were 3 of 7 children born in Ireland to William Henry Suffield MD and Ellen Maguire). Henry was also a surgeon and possibly in partnership with Wheatcroft. Henry died in 1877.  In 1881 she was a widow living in Claughton on the Wirral with her spinster sister Sarah. Mary Ann then married for the third time to Abraham Hodgson a merchant in 1883 in Birkenhead. He died in 1894 while they were living in Birkdale, Lancs. Mary Ann died in 1899 in Bebington on the Wirral.

The other sisters were Ann, Sarah (servant in Watford 1841, governess to the children of her Gt. Uncle William Tredwell in Worcs. 1851 and then companion to her sister Mary Ann), Maria and Catherine Jane.

There was also a younger brother Edward who married Mary Henderson and had two sons Ernest and Walter. At Ernest`s birth in 1857 the family name was Piggott. In 1881 Ernest was living with his wife, Clara, in Aston, Warwick, his father a widower and brother Walter. Ernest was a County Ct. Clerk. There was one daughter Gertrude in 1884. Walter married Emily Berridge 1889 in Leicester and they had 3 children, Charles, Cathleen and Elizabeth. They lived in Cannock, Staffs.

Francis` father Joseph was born in Bovingdon, Herts, in 1787. Joseph was one of seven siblings born to Joseph and Elizabeth (too many Josephs and Elizabeths!). Information gleaned from a local historian in Bovingdon, and monumental inscriptions intimates that as the gravestones for the Piggs and Norwoods were outside the tower door of the church (i.e. they are still there) the families would have needed to be reasonably well off to have afforded a gravestone in those days. Joseph Pigg (snr) was a churchwarden in 1769 and 1770. Joseph and Francis Norwood are listed as village constables about the same sort of time.