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Daniel HIGGS/HEGGS & family

DaveHam9

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Hello,

Daniel Heggs & Jane Cooke
Marriage: 9 Jun 1822 Anstey,​ Leicester

I'd like a look up please for the family in 1841 and 1851.

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Hi Dave

Some similarity....

1841
Name: Whyborough Eggs
[Whyborough Higgs] Leicestershire

Civil Parish: St Margaret With Bishops Fee
Hundred: Leicester Borough
County: Leicestershire
RD: Leicester
Sub-RD: East Leicester
HO107; Piece: 604; Book: 12; Folio: 5; Page: 2

Whyborough Eggs 15
Jane Eggs 6 [b. Leicestershire]

The image has the following:
Jho or Tho Cooke, 65
Ann [ do ] 20
Possible separator
Eleanor Dudgeon, 20
Possibly Ann Jane, 4 mo
Possible separator
Whyborough
Jane

All look to be in the same building - Bradford Street.

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New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896
Name: Whyborongh Higgs
[Whyborough Higgs]
Birth Year: abt 1828
Age: 29
Arrival Date: 1 Apr 1857
Vessel Name: Fitz James
Origin Location: Belfast, County Antrim, Ireland
[Image has her birth place as Leicester, Occ: Nurse. Parents Daniel & Jane both dead]

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Thanks Geoff.

That's two daughters. All we know is that parents Daniel & Jane had died by early 1857.

Marriages Dec Qtr 1853
Scoffield John Murcott Leicester 7a 402
Heggs Jane Hannah Leicester 7a 402

SCOFFIELD John 24 Plumber and Glazier Kingwimford ? [Kingswinford] Worcester Edward & Milesan ? [Millicent] at Loughborough CE Both None Good None £4 RR per Whyborough Hicks [Higgs]
Jane 25 - Leicester Leicester Daniel & Jane Dead CE Read Sister Whyborough Hicks at Coc ? Barney's Sarth ? /8hon ? £4 RR per Whyborough Hicks [Higgs]
 

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So that is looking as though both parents died before 1841.

Jane ended up in Australia but another sister Maria remained in England.
 

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