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Joseph Robinson Piggin
* 1800/09/28 Sheffield
% Ann --- (Source: for her name and his birthplace: the 1851 census. She hailed from Preston in Lancashire.)
In 1851 he was a bootmaker employing 9 men and 2 women
+ 1858b Wolverhampton
his connection to the Bulwell family was not re-discovered until 2002
Frederick, bootmaker, of The Potteries, Staffordshire
born c.1825, Worcester St. Johns
married Jane Westall 1848c at St Johns, Wolverhampton. She apparently died 1855b at Wolverhampton and this may have prompted him to leave Wolverhampton.
possibly remarried 1857b: in 1881 census his wife is named as Ann (approx birthdate 1837, probable death at Wolstanton 1892a)
one child (of this putative second marriage) died in infancy:
  • Leonard Joseph
    * 1859d, Stoke-on-Trent
    + 1866b, Wolstanton, aged 6
living at 5 Queen Street, Wolverhampton at 1851 census
living at 26 Market Place, Wolstanton at 1881 census
died 1893a March 15, Wolverhampton, aged 68
Administration: £358
I. Frederick Joseph, potters manager
* 1849c, Wolverhampton
% Ada Saunders nee Hobson, 1880 Stoke-on-Trent (daughter Frances' marriage cert gives surname as Hobson!)
1881 census shows him living at Swadlincote, Derbyshire, a potter's foreman, with no children yet
+ 1931a, aged 81, Portsmouth
A. Ethel Ada (or was she daughter of William?)
* 1883c, Burton
% --- ---, 1909 Stoke-on-Trent ("Ada Piggin")
+ ?
B. Frances Jane
* 1886b May 14, Burton, ~ 1890/07/27 Woodville
% Earl St. Clair Muir, 1911/12/20, Neepawa, Manitoba, CANADA
+ 1982
C. Millicent Emily
* 1890c, Burton, ~ 1890/07/27 Woodville
% --- Taylor, 1917 Ashby-de-la-Zouch
+ ?
II. Ellen Jane
* 1851c, Wolverhampton
% Charles Jervis (c1854- ), "engineer" fitter, later keeper of the Swan Inn, Elder Road, Coleridge, in 1886, Wolstanton
1891 census: living at 12 Church Street, Tunstall
+ ?
III. Henry Greenbank
* 1852c, Wolverhampton, emigrated to United States
This was around 1878, the family thought, but the Ellis Island website gives an arrival of Henry Piggin, aged 41, in 1894 in New York: was this a second trip out after a home visit?
% Isabella Woodhead (1862-1951)
+ 1926 April 27 (at Trenton, NJ?). Admin: £155 in England
A. Ellen "Nellie"
* 1870s/1880s Trenton, NJ
% Alfred Barlow
+ ?
B. Emily
* ?
% John Brian
+ ?
C. IsaBELLA
* ?
% Edward Cox
+ ?
D. Cecelia
* ?
% William Fitzpatrick
+ ?
E. Henry Greenbank jr.
* 1888
% Elizabeth Remine
+ 1973
IV. William of Elder Terrace, Grove St, Burslem, Staffs (1881 census) and 49 Rose Street, Hanley, Staffs (1908)
* 1853d, Wolverhampton
% Mary Ann Hopkins 1874, Stoke-on-Trent ("Margaret A." per 1881 census?)
+ 1914b May 14, Stoke-on-Trent, aged 60: Will: £185
A. Beatrice
* 1877b, Wolstanton
% --- ---, 1901 Stoke-on-Trent
+ ?
B. Emily
* 1879b, Wolstanton
% --- ---, 1898 Stoke-on-Trent
+ ?
C. Ellen Jane
* 1881 Wolstanton
% --- ---, 1903 Stoke-on-Trent
+ ?
D. Frederick Charles
* 7 September 1893, Stoke-on-Trent
% Gertie Edge 1916, Stoke
+ 1980a, Stoke
VI. Emila Ann
* 1857d, Stoke-on-Trent
% --- ---, 1879, Stoke-on-Trent
+ ?
VII. James Greenbank
* 1862a, Stoke-on-Trent
% Emma ---, 1885 Stoke-on-Trent
+ 1935, aged 73, Stoke-on-Trent
Frederick James
* 1887c, Clifton
possible death: 1918a Stoke on Trent
VIII. Sarah Greenbank
* 1864d, Wolstanton
% --- ---, 1887 Wolstanton
+ ?
IX. Ann Elizabeth F.G.
* 1869d, Wolstanton
% Henry Caton, 1891 Wolstanton
+ ?
Henry Frederick Piggin Caton, inventor
* 1892c Stoke on Trent
% --- Goodwin 1915c
+ ?
X. Joseph Frederick
* 1872c, Wolstanton
% --- ---, 1896 Stoke-on-Trent: probably parents of SF (following)
+ 1952b, aged 79, Don Valley
A. Samuel Frederick
* 1908c Wolstanton
% Elizabeth Proudman, 1930
+ 1940
XI. Leonard William, pharmacist
* 1874c, Tunstall, Wolstanton reg district
% Marian Beech (c1878-1940), 1899, Wolstanton
+ 1938a March 1, Stoke
Will: £2607
A. Reginald
dentist in Alsager
* 26 Aug 1902, Wol
% --- Moulton, 1936
+ 1978
B. Marian Gertrude
* 1906d, Wolstanton
% --- Thomas, 1931
C. Leonard William, chemist
* 1909a Wolstanton
% --- Burnley, 1935 Sheffield
lived at Collingham
XII. Samuel Procter
* 1879c, Wolstanton
% --- ---, 1903 Wolstanton
+ 1931a, Stoke/Trent

Nellie, who emigrated separately to Trenton, NJ, cannot be clearly identified, but is either IV.C or:
Ellen
* 1901 Stoke-on-Trent
% --- Sharman, 1923, Stoke-on-Trent

Nellie of Trenton
% Albert Clark
% Thomas Tittensor

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