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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Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
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.
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.
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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