Mann and Boggis

Pauline Cooper, from Sydney, has added a comment to the original posting about the Mann family.

Biggs and Tweed families

For the last year I have been researching part-time the Big/ Bigg/Biggs/Bygges families from around Glemsford, Stanstead, BSE, Lavenham, Preston, Nayland amongst a few Villages.

I already had about 800 Descendents from my Bigg =Tweed Tree, then I found about 900 on Ray Long's Cosford Database.

I have collated the IGI entries, Ancestry's Parish and Probate Records, Boyds Marriage Indexes and the NBI. I have also trawled the web for info and contacted just about every Bigg researcher on Genes Reunited and Rootsweb World Connect Project.

Lots of people have added to the info I have and I have been able to add more from the Censuses and able to make quite a few new links.

However there are still lots of loose ends.

So if anyone has any Bigg connections I would be happy to hear from them

I also wish to ask if you know of any way of finding out a persons 'Trade' before 1800. I have a Samuel Bigg Born Abt 1761 Stanstead and two of his sons, Ambrose and William Bigg(s) were ' Cutlers' and it would be nice to find that this was the trade of the father.

- Clif ( London )

(Contact Clif in the usual way via me, or add a comment here.)
SC

Strutt and Scott

It's something of a novelty to be reaching back to the 16th Century on these pages.

Donna Bailey (email address with me, as always) has asked me to add this search request.

I am trying to identify the correct parents for Julian/Juliann SCOTT who married John STRUTT on 21 Oct 1578 in Glemsford.

I think she may be the daughter of Richard and Joan SCOTT m. 8 Oct 1556 in Glemsford, but I have
only found evidence of children Dorothy & Joan (twins) and William for this couple.

I am also looking for the parents of Joanne IPSWICH who married Ambrose BIGGS on 3 Jun 1576 in Glemsford.

I also have an elusive HALLS family that aren't from Glemsford but are in the area. William HALLS married Margery BIGGS on 13 May 1628 in Glemsford.

They had a daughter Anna in 1629 in Glemsford and also a daughter Rebecca in 1641 in Hartest (my direct line). This is a very large gap between children so I am assuming there are more children baptised in nearby parishes.

If anyone can help me with any of these families I would love to hear from them.

Thanks for the posting, Donna.

Steve Clarke