Hi to all Leggett family history researchers. This blog site is now up and running and I welcome you all to submit messages linking to either 1) the different spellings of the name 2) the countries where your Leggett's area 3) any other subject matter relating to your family history research.
If anyone knows of any family reunions please paste them on this blog site.
Look forward to communicating with you all.
Regards
Les Leggett, Manchester, England
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Hello Les,
Thank you for posting this site. My family has speculated for most of my life as to our history or where we came from. My name is James Douglas Leggett and I live in Morgan Hill, Ca, USA. I was born in Klamath Falls, Oregon in 1976 - my father being Ernest Warren Leggett, Jr., and his father Ernest Warren Leggett, Sr.
All I have ever heard about my family heritage is that they thought we originated in France under Liggett - but there was a story that one of my great grandfather's changed his name during the American Civil War to 'Leggett'. That is all I know. I don't know my great grandfather's name and neither my Father or Grandfather are around any more to ask. Thank you for taking the time to make up a link for our family heritage. There is a great comfort that can come from knowing ones origins. God Bless you.
If the original spelling of your name was Liggett it may be that you have links with Ireland. That spelling of the name was centred around Northern Ireland.
I did hear of an instance of a Liggett family that emigrated to America and on arrival at New York the authorities spelt the name Leggett instead of Liggett, so they kept the Leggett spelling as all their papers were in the spelling Leggett.
If you happen to find any more of your ancestors please let me know and I will see if I can find any information for you.
Regards,
Les
Thank you,
I will find out what I can and get back to you shortly.
Jim
Hello Les,
We have corresponded before but I did not know you had this site. As you know I was researching the family history of Leggetts of Suffolk and as I have just been to Laxfield I would like to give you some corrections to the information you already have. I would like to be able to send corrections to you and so if you would like to e-mail me back I can send more details to you. England was cold and damp but we managed to walk the Laxfield Churchyard and view the tombstones and also managed to obtain information from their war memorial in town which was helpful. Best wishes, Carol Frayne
Hi Carol,
I seem to have an old email address for you as my emails to you are being returned undelivered. Can you contact me via the Leggett website. As it has been some time since we communicated you may not have my new personal email address neither.
Thanks,
Les Leggett
Hi Les,
I hope you can help me. The family story is that my Great Grandfather Walter Leggett was orphaned at birth by both parents and was brought up by an Aunt called Sarah Sills in Suffolk. His father had been a Boot and Shoe Maker.
I have found Walter living with a Sarah Sills when he was a child in the 1881 Earl Soham, Suffolk Census. I have also found him living as a Grandson in the family of William Leggett and Emma Crane in the 1871 Earl Soham Census. William [4444] and Emma [4216] appear in Tree 21. William is recorded as a Master Shoemaker in the 1871 Soham Census.
On Walter’s Marriage certificate his Father is recorded as William Leggett (dead) with no profession.
I can find no reference to a birth for a Walter in 1867/1868. From his death certificate I know he was 68 by or on 15/02/1937.
The mystery is who were the mother and father of Walter Leggett. Was it William [4444] recorded as his Grandfather in the Census, or his Son William [4221] who could possibly have been 13 when Walter was born.
If you have any ideas how I can progress this investigation, I would be very grateful.
Best Wishes,
Julia Tredgett
Hi Juliat,
Your Walter may be the Walter Leggatt (note spelling ...att) birth registered at Plomegate ref 4a 648 in March quarter 1868.
I think you may have to get his birth cert to find his parents as I also cannot find his parents from census returns.
Please let me know what you find out and I will see if I can link his parents to any other Leggett's.
Regards,
Les
Hi Les,
Thank you very much for sending the reference for Walter Leggatt born in 1868. I received the certificate and he was born to an Anna Leggatt on 25th February, 1868, in Earl Soham. There is no Father on the cert. There is an Anna Leggett living in Earl Soham in the 1851 Census with Mother Emma and Father William, as in Tree 21. I am fairly confident that this is my GGrand Father's Mother as the Sills family are living close by in the 1851, 1861 and 1871 Census. In 1881 Sarah Sills, whoom the family story says brought him up is Housekeeping at 'The Lodge' Earl Soham where Walter is a Page Boy. In the 1871 Census Walter is shown as a Grandson living with William and Emma. I can't find a trace of Anna after 1851 in the Census, so it will be a matter of searching Marriage and Death Registers to try and find her. I hope you agree I should consider I have found my GGGrand Mother. Please let me know if you are interested in details of the descendants of Walter for your tree.
Best Wishes
Julia Tredgett
Hi Julia,
Great news that you have found the details of Walter. I will do some searching to see if I can find Anna. I would welcome any information you have on the descendents of Walter, if you can send them to me by email that would be great.
Kind regards,
Les
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Hi Les
I think you contacted my family some years ago, sorry for the delay, but now the kids are married...
My grandfather was Frederick William Leggett b1884 and married to Edith G Kitson. He told us about our oddly named ancestors before I ever found them in the records!
The earliest definite is John,bC1820,Wickham Skeith,Gislingham. A blacksmith, he married Hannah Gibbs in 1840 and they had: Ellen May,HannahCharlotte, Malvina Harriet, Diana Delilah?, Debra Isabella,Leopold Lester,Lorenzo Phylander,Thomas Clifford and Frederick John (ggf)
The family ended up in Eye and John is listed in Whites as Blacksmith. hannah died(1866) and he married Delilah Knights and had Herbert Edwin.
There are 2 possible earlier connections, but only because of location and occupation. I can't actually find records linking them: William b1789, married Frances and William bC1755, married Pleasance Cook.
Do these ring any bells or have you any suggestions about where I should go next?
Many thanks
J4C
Hi J4C,
Sorry I don't have your name.
I remember contacting someone about this line many years ago. I have since done a large amount of research on it. I have it back to a John Leggett who married Margaret Silsby at Gislingham 2nd Oct 1787. The John who married Hannah Gibbs was the son of William Leggett b1788 who married Francis. This william was the son of the above John & Margaret.
The William & Pleasance (Cook) are from another family of Gislingham Leggett's who are most likely connected but as yet I have'nt found the link. I have this other line back to William Leggett born c1668 in the Thwaite area. I also have other lines that I have not as yet been able to connect.
If you can give me your email address I can send you files with everything I have on these lines. If you send it via the contact page on www.leggettfamilyhistory.com it will be kept private.
Regards,
Les
Re Tree 17, William & Jane Stroud
Their 2nd son was William chr 1786, & married Hannah Blackman at Walberton,
Sussex. Three of their children
Charles chr 1814 Apr 14,
George chr 1816 Mar 24
Ruth chr 1818 Jan 25
Ruth mar George Booker
all three families emigrated to Canada sometime between 1835 & 1840
and lived at various addresses in
Ontario.
Hello Les,
I did not know that you had this website. Today I was reading a letter from you written in 1985 when I contacted you about my Leggett/Leggatt family. At that time you sent a copy of an old chart to me, I still have it. My Leggetts were in the Brighton and Portsmouth areas before emigrating to Australia. I finally got them sorted out. Nice to know that you are still carrying on the good work. Thank you, June R. Maitland.
Hello Les,
I did not know that you had this website. Today I was reading a letter from you written in 1985 when I contacted you about my Leggett/Leggatt family. At that time you sent a copy of an old chart to me, I still have it. My Leggetts were in the Brighton and Portsmouth areas before emigrating to Australia. I finally got them sorted out. Nice to know that you are still carrying on the good work. Thank you, June R. Maitland.
Thanks June.
I did have a Leggett website until a few years ago, had many problems with computer software and viruses and a number of people threatening legal action because i had their fsmily tree on it. Wasn't worth the hassle so took it off the www. This blog was a spin off from it to see how this worked. Left it running but don't promote it. If you want to contact me direct by email it is lesandjanet@btinternet.com nice to hear from you again.
Regaards, Les
Les, I am having great difficulty in posting to this blog. Do you have a direct e-mail link?
Hackaliah "Leslie" Leggett, son of William L Leggett line
Thank you !
sftwind1@aol.com
Hi Les
I am a descendant of your`s, and i would like to contact you via e-mail. In a nutshell, Frederick William Leggatt was my Great Uncle, his sister is my great grand-mother, my grandfather being Frederick Clayton.
I would love to hear from you, e-mail address is katyburnham1@yahoo.co.uk
Thank you & regards
Hello Les,
I am Gary Liggett here in the USA. I am trying to make a detailed family Tree. As far as I can see my 4th great grandfather came here from Ireland around 1836 Samuel Leggett were he changed the name to Liggett any info would be great thanks.
Gary.liggett@gmail.com
Hello Les
I have read your story about the graveyard that was demolished to build a Tesco you say that some of the people were interned in a mass grave . I am looking for the burial records of my grandmother a Mary Ann Foulds nee Lindsay as far as I know her d and my grandfather George Foulds were Wesleyan or non conformists I have been doing my family tree for the past 8 years
and wold love to know where they were buried I have their death certificates but cannot find where they were buried and have no family to ask I have a feeling that they might have been buried I the said cemetary please could you tell me where I need to contact to find if they were some of the people buried in the mass grave and where about it is .
Mary Ann Foulds nee Lindsay born Dysart fife Scotland 1873 abt died 8th January 1924 at 30 church Street Middleton
George Foulds born 14th May 1874 Castleton died 1945 1 church street Middleton
Any help with the history of said areas and the churchyard would be greatly apprecated
sue patch
Hello Les
I have read your story about the graveyard that was demolished to build a Tesco you say that some of the people were interned in a mass grave . I am looking for the burial records of my grandmother a Mary Ann Foulds nee Lindsay as far as I know her d and my grandfather George Foulds were Wesleyan or non conformists I have been doing my family tree for the past 8 years
and wold love to know where they were buried I have their death certificates but cannot find where they were buried and have no family to ask I have a feeling that they might have been buried I the said cemetary please could you tell me where I need to contact to find if they were some of the people buried in the mass grave and where about it is .
Mary Ann Foulds nee Lindsay born Dysart fife Scotland 1873 abt died 8th January 1924 at 30 church Street Middleton
George Foulds born 14th May 1874 Castleton died 1945 1 church street Middleton
Any help with the history of said areas and the churchyard would be greatly apprecated
sue patch
Hello Les
I have read your story about the graveyard that was demolished to build a Tesco you say that some of the people were interned in a mass grave . I am looking for the burial records of my grandmother a Mary Ann Foulds nee Lindsay as far as I know her d and my grandfather George Foulds were Wesleyan or non conformists I have been doing my family tree for the past 8 years
and wold love to know where they were buried I have their death certificates but cannot find where they were buried and have no family to ask I have a feeling that they might have been buried I the said cemetary please could you tell me where I need to contact to find if they were some of the people buried in the mass grave and where about it is .
Mary Ann Foulds nee Lindsay born Dysart fife Scotland 1873 abt died 8th January 1924 at 30 church Street Middleton
George Foulds born 14th May 1874 Castleton died 1945 1 church street Middleton
Any help with the history of said areas and the churchyard would be greatly apprecated
sue patch
Hi Les u had a question about the Cheethamhill Documentary that you made. Where can I email you the question?
I had a question***
Hi there, Les, and all fellow LIGGETTs, My name is Steven Delmas Liggett, son of Robert William Liggett who was the son of Enoch Liggett who was the son of John Thomas Liggett, who was the son of Judge Enoch Liggett, who was the son of Thomas Liggett (who moved from SW Virginia to Liberty, MO), son of John Ligget who I believe immigrated (perhaps with his father James Alexander Ligget) from Derry, N Ireland. I went over to the Public Records Office of N Ireland in Belfast a few years ago to try and find any sources that could validate that John and James Ligett were my relatives who immigrated to the colonies circa 1780 and found a parchment in their resources that says that "By order of the Court of King George II, John Ligget is declared an outlaw and his land was given to William King". I figure (but have only speculations) that William King kept this parchment just in case things didn't work out for John in the colony and he came back for his land! Due to all the "Troubles" many church records were burned and due to all the rains in N Ireland (making it the Emerald Isle!) the gravestones are mostly eaten up by the moss. So, other than this parchment, I ran into the proverbial brick wall! But, before I get run over by a bus or something, I've written a book based on my findings with any speculations that I might have clearly identified as such. I'd be glad to share this with anyone who might have an interest as a pdf if they would like. Just email me at: Sliggett2000@yahoo.com. I have sources for everyone back to John Ligget so I'm sure up til that point, but need help before that.
I am Steven Delmas Liggett, son of Robert William Liggett, son of Enoch Liggett (King City, MO) , son of John Thomas Liggett, son of Judge Enoch Liggett (who moved to Alanthus Grove, MO), son of Thomas Liggett (who moved to Liberty, MO), son of John Ligget (who established Liggetsville (near Wytheville), SW Virginia from Derry, N Ireland. I can't seem to find who John's parents were, but found a parchment at PRONI (Public Records Office of Northern Ireland) in Belfast that states that King George II declared James Ligget an outlaw for the unpaid debts he owed and gave his land to a William King. My theory is that James is John's father and that they took off for the colonies. William King must have kept the parchment in the family just in case things didn't work out in the colonies for James and John and he came back to reclaim his lands. I've written a book about my family history and could send it to whomever is interested in it as a pdf file via Dropbox. Just write to me at: Sliggett2000@yahoo.com. And I'd love to know (since much of the records were burned during the "Troubles") any records that could tie together my Northern Irish family with my US family.
Hi Everyone,
Just found this blog. I am researching mr family roots which all seem to originate from Belton in Axholm (early 1500’s) through to Gislingham 1600’s. Does anyone have information back this far?
Regards
Tim Leggett (Australia)
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