The RIGBY Family from County Durham, England
Thomas RIGBY, a Pitman (Miner) married Eliza Elizabeth CURSON in the Wingate Grange Church Easington Durham on the 7 April 1851, just after the 1851 Census.
The 1861 England Census shows Thomas and Elizabeth RIGBY living at 347 Davisons Row, Wingate, between Durham and Hartlepool. Thomas' occupation is listed as Green Grocer. Three daughters were living there with them, Mary Jane Rigby, aged 10, (Born C.1851), Alice Rigby, aged 5, (Born C.1856) and Elizabeth Rigby, aged 1, (Born C.1860), all born Wingate.
Thomas and Elizabeth Rigby are not listed in the 1871 census, but we find that their elder daughter, Mary Jane, 20, has married Andrew THOMPSON, a coal miner, born 1845 in Alnwick, Northumberland and they are living at 73 Seghiorn St, Wingate Colliery, with Mary Jane's three sisters, Elizabeth Rigby, aged 10, (Born C.1861) Isabell Rigby, aged 8, (Born C.1863) and HANNAH, aged 3, (born C.1868). HANNAH RIGBY is not found on the 1881 Census, but a HANAH THOMPSON is, at Stranton, Durham; she may have taken her older sister Mary Jane's married name.
There is death entry for Thomas RIGBY for 1870, and a burial for his wife, Elizabeth in May 1870 at Wingate. Burials, Easington District - Record Number: 10275.2,Location: Wingate Grange, Church: Holy Trinity,Religion: Anglican, 3 May 1870 Eliza Elizabeth Rigby, age: 41
On Isabella’s birth certificate 16th of August 1862 Thomas’ occupation was given as Green Grocer, but Annie says he was a miner on her marriage certificate to George Gaudin in 1889, then he was an Artist when she died in 1916! The family passed down the story that Annie was an orphan and was adopted by the Rigby circus family. When she decided to come to New Zealand she was outfitted with three sets of new clothes by her adoptive parents.
Our elusive Annie Rigby's birth certificate has now been found by the grand daughter of Mary Jane. Her birth was registered under Hannah RICKABY, born 26 October 1867 at Wingate, Easington, Durham to Thomas RICKABY, Greengrocer and Elizabeth CURSON. The birth was registered by Elizabeth on the 6th of December 1867. The baptism is on durhamrecordsonline:
Baptisms, Easington District - Record Number: 87267.0 Location: Wingate Grange Church: Holy Trinity, Religion: Anglican 1 Dec 1867 Hannah Rickarby, daughter of Thomas Rickarby & Eliza.
Ann RIGBY, a general servant, emigrated to Port Chalmers, New Zealand on the in Bombay in1884 and married George GAUDIN, a widower in 1889 and they lived up the Wilkin River at Makarora,Otago. Six children were born over the next ten years and Annie died at the early age of 48 in Dunedin in 1916 and was buried at Andersons Bay Cemetery.
The 1861 England Census shows Thomas and Elizabeth RIGBY living at 347 Davisons Row, Wingate, between Durham and Hartlepool. Thomas' occupation is listed as Green Grocer. Three daughters were living there with them, Mary Jane Rigby, aged 10, (Born C.1851), Alice Rigby, aged 5, (Born C.1856) and Elizabeth Rigby, aged 1, (Born C.1860), all born Wingate.
Thomas and Elizabeth Rigby are not listed in the 1871 census, but we find that their elder daughter, Mary Jane, 20, has married Andrew THOMPSON, a coal miner, born 1845 in Alnwick, Northumberland and they are living at 73 Seghiorn St, Wingate Colliery, with Mary Jane's three sisters, Elizabeth Rigby, aged 10, (Born C.1861) Isabell Rigby, aged 8, (Born C.1863) and HANNAH, aged 3, (born C.1868). HANNAH RIGBY is not found on the 1881 Census, but a HANAH THOMPSON is, at Stranton, Durham; she may have taken her older sister Mary Jane's married name.
There is death entry for Thomas RIGBY for 1870, and a burial for his wife, Elizabeth in May 1870 at Wingate. Burials, Easington District - Record Number: 10275.2,Location: Wingate Grange, Church: Holy Trinity,Religion: Anglican, 3 May 1870 Eliza Elizabeth Rigby, age: 41
On Isabella’s birth certificate 16th of August 1862 Thomas’ occupation was given as Green Grocer, but Annie says he was a miner on her marriage certificate to George Gaudin in 1889, then he was an Artist when she died in 1916! The family passed down the story that Annie was an orphan and was adopted by the Rigby circus family. When she decided to come to New Zealand she was outfitted with three sets of new clothes by her adoptive parents.
Our elusive Annie Rigby's birth certificate has now been found by the grand daughter of Mary Jane. Her birth was registered under Hannah RICKABY, born 26 October 1867 at Wingate, Easington, Durham to Thomas RICKABY, Greengrocer and Elizabeth CURSON. The birth was registered by Elizabeth on the 6th of December 1867. The baptism is on durhamrecordsonline:
Baptisms, Easington District - Record Number: 87267.0 Location: Wingate Grange Church: Holy Trinity, Religion: Anglican 1 Dec 1867 Hannah Rickarby, daughter of Thomas Rickarby & Eliza.
Ann RIGBY, a general servant, emigrated to Port Chalmers, New Zealand on the in Bombay in1884 and married George GAUDIN, a widower in 1889 and they lived up the Wilkin River at Makarora,Otago. Six children were born over the next ten years and Annie died at the early age of 48 in Dunedin in 1916 and was buried at Andersons Bay Cemetery.
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