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| Brigg, Abraham | Ref 412-815 |
He or his son rebuilt Holdsworth House, Holmfield [1633].
He married Unknown.
Child: Abraham
| Brigg, Abraham | Ref 412-395 |
Son of Abraham Brigg. He was a clothier and a Halifax publican.
Question: Does anyone know which pub this may have been?
He or his father rebuilt Holdsworth House, Ovenden. In 1626, he paid composition.
In 1657, he sold the Holdsworth House estate to Henry Wadsworth, and moved to run an inn in Halifax.
Heywood comments that he was
a nightly drinker, usually called amongst them Prevailed for a nickname, having drunk much, fed excessively, his wind stopt by that time they could get him to bed, was buried at Halifax Feb 8 [1671]
He married Mary Oldfield.
Child: Jeremy
| Brigg, Abraham | Ref 412-448 |
| Brigg, Arnold Douglas | Ref 412-1474 |
He was educated at Moorside School, Ovenden & Holy Trinity School, Halifax.
During World War I, he served as a Private with the 3rd Battalion Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment).
He died in the VAD Hospital, Whitley Bay [25th February 1916] (aged 20).
He was buried at the Whitley Bay (Hartley South) Cemetery [Grave Ref: A C 223].
He is remembered in the Halifax Town Hall Books of Remembrance, and on the Memorial at Holy Trinity Boys' School, Halifax
| Brigg, Edmund | Ref 412-493 |
Halifax attorney.
On 11th April 1705, he married Mrs Mary Hall from Boothtown
| Brigg, Isaac | Ref 412-959 |
He married Unknown.
| Brigg, Jeremiah | Ref 412-968 |
Son of Abraham Brigg. Halifax attorney [1676-1710]. He was known for sending people to Halifax Gaol when they owed nothing. In 1697, he, John Crabtree, William Livesay and William Midgley were the 4 attorneys of the King's Bench in Halifax.
In 1679, he married Lydia Barker [1657-1726].
Lydia was the daughter of Edmund Barker of Otley
Children:
| Brigg, Jeremy | Ref 412-2796 |
He married Martha.
In 1637, cases were brought before the West Riding Quarter Sessions which involved William Rookes, and Brigg and his wife, Martha.
On 20th August 1637, Rookes assaulted Martha
so that her life was despaired of
He was fined 20/-
Later, Jeremy and Martha pleaded not guilty to charges of assaulting Rookes on 10th September 1637. The jury found that neither was guilty
| Brigg, Jeremy | Ref 412-1402 |
His cousin, Edward Robinson, left land to Jeremy.
In 1608, he is listed in the Sowerby Greave List as owning a messuage called Nether Field House, Sowerby.
He was a clothier.
He married Susan, aka Susanna.
Children:
After Jeremy's death, Susan married Isaac Farrer. Susan and Isaac were jointly made guardians of young Joseph who was not of age when his father died
This & associated entries use material contributed by Joanne Backhouse
| Brigg, Jeremy | Ref 412-1555 |
| Brigg, John | Ref 412-1401 |
He married a daughter of James Robinson.
Children:
| Brigg, John | Ref 412-2402 |
| Brigg, John | Ref 412-816 |
| Brigg, John | Ref 412-958 |
Son of Isaac Brigg. He practised at an attorney in Ovenden.
In 1621, he married Edith, daughter of John Hartley.
Child: John
He was Coroner for Ovenden [1640-1658]
| Brigg, John | Ref 412-1556 |
the reliefe of poore and maimed Officers and Souldiers who have faithfully served His Majesty and His Royal Father in the late [Civil] Wars
| Brigg, John | Ref 412-960 |
He succeeded his father as Coroner for Ovenden [1658-1662].
He married Unknown.
Children:
| Brigg, John | Ref 412-9570 |
On 14th August 1790, he was hanged at the Tyburn, York for stealing – from the common at Carlton in the West Riding – 7 ewes, 7 lambs, 2 hogs, and 1 two-year-old wether, the property of William Driver of Carlton, farmer
| Brigg, John del | Ref 412-1325 |
John married Joan de Stansfeld.
Joan was (probably) the daughter of Ralph de Stansfeld
Child: (possibly) John
On the orders of Sir John Pilkington, lands were seized from a number of landowners and tenants in Calderdale in the 1460s and 1470s. There is sufficient evidence that it is probable that the
2 messuages, 60a. land, 10a. meadow, and 20a. pasture in Langfeld, late John Brig's
listed in the Inquisition post mortem of Sir John's son Edward, and which also appears in the Inquisition post mortem of Sir John's son Robert Pilkington as
formerly John Brigg's
were the lands of John del Brigg
This & associated entries use material contributed by Joanne Backhouse
| Brigg, Joseph | Ref 412-3312 |
After his father's death, his mother Susan married Isaac Farrer. Susan and Isaac were jointly made guardians of young Joseph who was not of age when his father died.
Joseph is listed in the 1624 Greave List as owner of Lower Field House.
In 1639, Joseph surrendered Lower Fieldhouse to Isaac Farrer
This & associated entries use material contributed by Joanne Backhouse
| Brigg, Richard | Ref 412-663 |
Son of William Brigg of Heptonstall
This & associated entries use material contributed by Joanne Backhouse
| Brigg, Thomas | Ref 412-2455 |
He married Marion Speight.
Children:
- who were illegitimate born before Thomas and Marion married – and
Child: 6. Richard
His wife (possibly) died in childbirth [of Richard], soon after their marriage.
Thomas was buried at Heptonstall Church.
His will is recorded in Volume 2 [1545-1559] of E. W. Crossley's book Halifax Wills
This & associated entries use material contributed by Guy Briggs
| Brigg, William | Ref 412-722 |
He married Unknown.
Children:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Joanne Backhouse
| Brigg, William del | Ref 412-850 |
He married Unknown.
Children:
Will written Monday next before the feast of St Matthew the Apostle and Evangelist 1440.To be buried where God will dispose, with my mortuary.
Item I bequeath to Isabell, Margaret and Alice my daughters to each of the three, ten pounds.
Item I bequeath to Agnes, my daughter twenty marks.
I bequeath to the making of the bells at Heptonstalle [church] ten marks.
I make my executors John del Brygge and William del Brigge, my sons, by the oversight of Henry del Brygge and John del Wedehope.
Item I bequeath to the service of the Holy Cross in the chapel of All Saints at Macclesfelde xs.
Proven November, 4, 1440 by John, son, power being reserved to Wiliam Brigge, the other exor.
[Reg. Test ii 679]
This & associated entries use material contributed by Joanne Backhouse
| Families |
| The Brigg family of Bank House, Warley | Ref 412-3502 |
| The Brigg family of Binroyd | Ref 412-3503 |
| The Brigg family of Field House | Ref 412-3504 |
| The Brigg family of Grindlestone Bank | Ref 412-3505 |
See Abraham Brigg and Grindlestone Bank, Ovenden
| The Brigg family of Jumples | Ref 412-3506 |
| The Brigg family of Old Town | Ref 412-3507 |
| The Brigg family of Quickstavers | Ref 412-3508 |
| Surname |
| Brigg surname | Ref 412-1 |
Page Ref: MMB942
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