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Descendants of
Benjamin Piggins of Castle Acre, Norfolk
* (place and date unknown)
% Ann Blythe (1753-1808) 1776
+ (place and date unknown)
John Piggins
* March 1779
% Elizabeth Hannah Tuck (1784-1860) (mother of William) 1808/01/28 at West Newton (his address Appleton-with-Flitcham)
% Sarah ---? (mother of Richard)
+ 1862
William PIGGINS, agricultural labourer
* 1809, West Newton, Norfolk
~ 7 April 1809
% Mary FARROW (1815-1847), 12 October 1836 at Flitcham, Norfolk
% Dinah ELBY (c1815-1892) in 1858b?
1881 census: living at Newton House, West Newton ("Piggings")
+ 28 October 1881 "aged 72" at Flitcham
I. Anne
* c1836 Flitcham (no document, but possibly recorded with surname Farrow)
II. John
~ 11 June 1837, Flitcham
% Mary Anne Cordy, 1871, Freebridge Lynn district
+ 1 August 1906 "aged 67"
III. Charles
~ 7 April 1839, Flitcham
+ (not in 1851 census)
IV. James ("Piggen"), iron miner
* 1840c Freebridge Lynn, ~ 6 September 1840 Flitcham,
% Margaret Sayer, 1867/11/16 Flitcham (Freebridge Lynn district)
one ch + inf: James William Piggins 1868-69
migrated to Skelton in Cleveland during the 1870s; living at Skelton at 1881 census; living at Boosbeck (Cleveland) at 1891 census
+ 1915/1916a, Guisboro, aged 75 ("James Piggins")
A. Sarah Margaret
* 1869d, Freebridge Lynn ("Piggens")
census 1881: birthplace Flitcham
she does not appear in 1891 census: fate unknown (but a "Sarah Margaret Piggin" married at Rotherham in 1896: any connection?)
B. Ruth Elizabeth
* 1875a, Guisborough ("Piggens")
in 1881 census: birthplace Lingdale
% George Hewling (1869- ) 1895
> Tweedy descent
V. Hannah ("Piggen")
* 1842b Freebridge Lynn, ~14 May 1842 Flitcham,
% (1861, Downham district)?
+ ?
VI. Margaret ("Piggen")
* 1844b Freebridge Lynn, ~ 23 June 1844 Flitcham
her abode in 1880: London
+ ?
A. John William
~ 17 May 1880 (mother not married)
VII. Robert
* 1846a, Flitcham
% Sophie Grimes (1849-1944), 1867, Freebridge Lynn
+ before 1881 (she remarried 1883)
A. James, sergeant in Army Service Corps 1892-1910 (WO97-5692)
* 1868c, Freebridge Lynn
+ 27 September 1910, Flitcham, "aged 42"
B. JOHN Henry
* 1870b, Freebridge
farm foreman,
used to play piano accordion at dances
% Bertha E. Hines (1875-1944) 1894
+ 1930
C. HERBERT George, gardener
* 28 Sept 1875 Freebridge Lynn
% Ethel B.C. Maskell (c1880-1947) 1902, Guisboro
2 children died:
  • Elsie M. 1917-
  • Arthur G. 1919-
% Nellie Jones (1887-1979), 1948 Cleveland
+ 1970d, Cleveland
connection unclear:  
William Mustard M.
* 1881/82 location unknown
% --- Robinson? 1905, Hartlepool
two ch + inf:
  • William 1906-
  • Alfr. Miller 1907-
+ 1954
evident grandson of William: William
* 1867b Wandsworth
+ 1945 Fulham
(this from the fact that he was at West Newton at time of 1881 census)
Ann
* 1811
+ 1827
John
* 1814
% Margaret Cordy 1837/01/21 at West Newton
+ 1838 (killed by a wagon passing over him)
Richard PIGGINS, shepherd, then garden labourer (son of John and Sarah)
~ 1 May 1820 in West Newton, Norfolk
% Elizabeth --- (1822-1997 ) 1842
1861 census: West Newton; 1881 census 15 Alexandria Cottage, West Newton
died ?
I. Hannah
~ 4 October 1843, Flitcham (birth record not located)
A. Anna
~ 25 December 1868, mother not married. Birth registry record not located.
II. Emma
~ 15 June 1844 ("Emily"), Flitcham
Birth record not located, perhaps identical with:
Emily "Piggens" * 1845b, Freebridge Lynn
+ 17 January 1930 ("Emma, aged 84"), never married (death record not located)
III. Robert
* 1847b, Ingoldsthorpe, Docking district
IV. Eliza
* 1852a, Dersingham, Docking district
% Edmund (aka Edman) Grimes
In 1871, Edmund (23) and Eliza (20) are living in the Alexandra Cottages with Richard and Elizabeth Piggins, Eliza's parents. + 1873 in childbirth
V. Thomas Neale, said to have worked for the Royal Household (gentleman's groom at 1901 census)
* 1853, Dersingham (1854a, Docking district)
% Mary ---, 1886, Freebridge Lynn
+ (1923, "aged 67", Willesden)?
A. Edith Mary E.
* 1890b, Marylebone
% --- Hughes, 1913
+ ?
B. George Edmund
* 1894a, Marylebone
% --- Berry, 1917
% --- Attewell, 1921, Basford
lived Willesden
+ 1953a, Ealing
C. Frederick Neal
* 1897a, Marylebone
% Florence M. Beaven, 1921
+ 31 May 1944b, Willesden
VI. William
* 1856c, Dersingham, Docking district
VII. Anne (Anna)
* 1862c, West Newton, Freebridge Lynn
III, V or VI would be father of: O. John
* 1871b, Freebridge Lynn district
+ 1930d, aged 59, at Henstead
Mary
* 1823
+ ?
Richard
~ December 1780
Robert
~ June 1786
James
~ October 1789
William
~ May 1792
% Gabriella ---
+ ?
Elizabeth
* 1838
Joseph
* August 1795 (died same month)

The above chart is largely based on research by Brenda Dodsworth, whom I would like to thank for kindly sharing her findings. This compilation done: 19 July 1991, with changes in 2001 and 2002.

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