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His London mark of 1763 (Grimwade No 3459) is difficult to distinguish from that of Thomas Wallis II 's marks of 1792 onwards (Grimwade No 2975) . Usually date of item is the only good indication.

23th December 1755- Thomas Wigan of Bristol and Sarah his wife took William Brimblecombe apprentice (Brimblecombe entered a London mark as bucklemaker 11th June 1762) .

Fined for substandard buckles in London during the 1763 -1769 period.

22nd February 1785 - London Gazette - Issue 12624
Thomas Wigan the Younger of the City of Bristol, Banker, Goldsmith, Silversmith, Dealer and Chapman is declared bankrupt

17th May 1788 - London Gazette - Issue 12991
Thomas Wigan the Younger of the City of Bristol, Banker, Goldsmith, Silversmith, Dealer and Chapman was to get his certificate in his bankruptcy.

26th October 1793 - London Gazette - Issue 13586
Thomas Wigan the Younger of the City of Bristol, Banker, Goldsmith, Silversmith, Dealer and Chapman is declared bankrupt.
AGAIN !
He appears to have made a habit of it !

1 June 1790 Thomas Wigan Gentleman of the City of Bristol will proved at London. Sons Thomas and Edward both Goldsmiths mentioned. Reference: TNA PROB 11/1193/16

Some details of Thomas Wigan, the Younger:

Bankrupts

Jan. 25 Thomas Wigan the younger, of Bristol, banker, goldsmith, and silversmith.

Source: The London Magazine - April 1785


Bankrupts

October 29

Thomas Wigan of Bristol, goldsmith.

Source: The Universal Magazine - November 1793



Julia Bainbrigge James, the subject of this memoir, was born in India, at Cawnpore, in the Bengal Presidency, on the 23rd day of January, in the year of our Lord, 1815.

She was descended from John James of Shelwick, in Herefordshire, who died in 1762, at the age of eighty-two. His son, William James, of Bristol, belonged to a Society of Herefordshire gentlemen, and was their president in the year 1775. For it is recorded in that year that " the gentlemen of Hereford met their president, William James, Esq., at his residence, and proceeded to the Parish Church, St. Philip and St. Jacob. The Earl of Surrey was elected president for the ensuing year." This William James married Elizabeth, daughter of Edmund Evans, of Upper Bonsall, in Derbyshire. Her brother Thomas was a banker in Derby and the ancestor of the well-known Derby bankers of that name.

Edmund Evans, mentioned above, was the son of Anthony Evans, of Winster, an old Derbyshire market town, not far from Matlock, by his wife Hannah Feme, a sister and co-heiress of Edmund Feme of Bonsall. The Femes were seated at Parwich and elsewhere in Derbyshire, and trace their descent from one William Feme, who was slain in battle, in France, in the reign of Edward III. Through the Feme marriage, a considerable amount of property passed to the Evans', and with it a long line of descents from the Gells, Hoptons, Beresfords, and other old Derbyshire families.

William James had four children, three sons, Edmund Evans, who died in 1771, aged twenty-three, William, who died in the East Indies in 1777, aged twenty-five, and Samuel, of whom we shall speak presently, and a daughter, Elizabeth Mary, who became the wife of Thomas Wigan, goldsmith and banker, of Bristol.

Source: Mrs. Wightman of Shrewsbury: The Story of a Pioneer in Temperance Work - Rev. James Michael John Fletcher - 1906