WIGAN, Edward (Grimwade p.701)

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19th April 1791 - Edward Wigan had his petion to be elected to the Livery rejected by the Goldsmiths' Court of Assistants. Reasons unknown, but Wigan got himself elected instead to the freedom and livery of the Cutlers by redemption in October 1791.


8th January 1795 - London Gazette of 10-14 March 1795 :237
"The partnership between Edward Wigan, Samuel Goodbehere, Robert Watts and John Wright carried on under the name of Watts, Wright and Co , Wholesale Linen Drapers No 17, Poultry is this day by mutual consent dissolved ."

22nd March 1814
Death of Edward Wigan . Gentleman Magazine March 1814:309 records
" In Highbury Terrace [Islington] aged 56 Edward Wigan Esq a partner in the respectable firm of Goodbehere, Wigan & Co, Goldsmiths in Cheapside; 24 years one of the representatives in Common Council fot the Ward of Cheap; and late Lieutenant -Colonel of the West London Militia .. .. .. .. He had for some time been afflicted with a severe ashma.. .. "

30th March 1814
Buried at St Mary's Church, Islington

19th April 1814
Will of Edward Wigan, late Lieutenant Colonel of His Majesty's Royal West London Militia of Saint Mary Islington , Middlesex proved at PCC (PROB 11/1555)

NOTE
Leslie Southwick " London Silver Hilted Swords .....etc " p 121-123 has a good account of partnership of Goodbehere, Wigan & Bult in all its manifestations

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Link to a copy of the Militia (City of London) Act 1820, that gives some further information regarding Edward Wigan and his family:

See section XLI: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo ... view=plain


Edward Wigan's commission in the London Militia can be seen at: viewtopic.php?f=75&t=30798

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Some detail of the Wigan family:









































Source: Visitation of England and Wales - Volume 13 - Joseph Jackson Howard and Frederick Arthur Crisp - 1905

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The above pedigree provides two vital pieces of evidence for the long held belief that Edward Wigan (Grimwade p.701) was the son of Thomas Wigan of Bristol(Grimwade p.719).
Firstly the information that his mother was a Sarah . The apprenticeship of William Brimblecombe in 1755 mentions a Sarah as the wife of Thomas Wigan.
Secondly the information that Edward Wigan was married on 11 April 1782 to Jane Bond at Michael's in Bath , Somerset. This link to the West Coubntry also suggests that Edward may been in the Bath /Bristol area in 1782 , which may provides a reason for the long delay in his taking up his freedom of the Goldsmiths' until 1786.