Mary Wigmore

Brief Life History of Mary

Mary Wigmore was born in 1840, in Ireland. She married John Higginson on 9 January 1862, in St. Nicholas, County Cork, Ireland. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Knighton, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom in 1891 and Ightham, Kent, England, United Kingdom in 1901. She died in 1926, in Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 86.

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Family Time Line

John Higginson
1826–1886
Mary Wigmore
1840–1926
Marriage: 9 January 1862
Alice M Higginson
1863–
Ethel A Higginson
1865–1940
Helen Sophia Higginson
1866–
John Wigmore Higginson
1867–1928
George Higginson
1868–
Charles William Higginson
1869–1870
Ernest Edward Higginson
1872–1913
Mabel Higginson
1873–1936
Agnes Higginson
1875–
Beatrice Higginson
1877–

Sources (23)

  • Mary Higginson in household of John Higginson, "England and Wales Census, 1871"
  • Mary Wigmore, "Ireland Marriages, 1619-1898"
  • England & Wales, Death Index - Mary Higginson, Deceased 1926

World Events (8)

1843

Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.

1845

The Irish Potato Famine. Many Irish emigrate to America. Irish population drops from 8 million to 6 million due to death from starvation or emigration.

1868 · Abolition of Public Hangings at Newgate

On May 26, 1868 the Capital Punishment Act was put into action. This made it so that public hangings no longer existed at Newgate in London.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from Wigmore in Herefordshire, so named from Old English wicga in the sense ‘something moving, quaking, unstable ground’ + mōr ‘marsh’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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