Allen Family

I have nearly completed my survey of the Allen family in 19th Century Glemsford - accessible by clicking on the title to this posting.
I am particularly fascinated by the material that Bernie Allen has sent me which focuses on the memories of his father Wilfred, who was born in Glemsford in 1881, but I hope the trawling of the Censuses proves worthwhile too.
Please, please let me know if you spot any errors, or can extend the search and its findings.

SC

The Bigg Family

Merv Aitken has contacted me from New Zealand:

During my browsing I came across the Glemsford Family History website edited in
2005 by Steve Clarke. I am currently researching a part of the BIGG family from the
1600-1700 period, and was interested to see that Julie Pierson had several entries
asking for information re this family.

Unfortunately there was no email address on any of her entries. Would it be possible
for you to provide me with a current address? -- or even a suggestion as to how I could
contact her.

I would also be most interested to make contact with anyone else in your group,
who has an interest in the BIGG family.

Unfortunately, because of changes in my system ("Wot system?" I hear you cry), I do not have an up-to-date address for Julie. If you can help, contact me and I'll forward details to Merv.

SC

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