Study News
As you will see on the first page we have had two meet ups this year of Hagger researchers, mainly with a Therfield connection. Those of you interested in Therfield will find plenty of useful data on Martin Hagger’s site www.therfield.net.
We have fairly recently finished cross indexing a good number of over four hundred entries in The Times newspaper featuring Hagger’s to our main database and loading them into the database. One family that came up a considerable number of times was the Hagger’s of Liverpool who were solicitors, one of their names was Joseph Leyland Hagger, born in 1867 in the West Derby registration district. It would be good to hear from somebody descended form Joseph or who knows something about the family. I did mention this family in the last Newsletter but have not heard from anybody, hence a mention again this time.
Another fascinating family that we know a fair bit about is that of Lavender Hagger born at Therfield in 1767, Mike Hagger who has helped a lot with the study is descended from Lavender and in the DNA tests it looks as if Lavender’s branch is connected to that of Henry Hagger also born in Therfield in about 1804. The really fascinating part of the history of this branch is that Lavender’s grandson Thomas married Elizabeth Wright and then moved to Todmorden where they had five children and registered them as de Quincey and not Hagger, they then moved back south to Stevenage and Barnet and had three more children registered as Hagger’s. Why the move to Yorkshire and why register the five children as de Quincey. Any ideas?
I am very grateful to Mike Hagger for this picture of the children of Vivian Wright Hagger the first of Thomas’s children to be registered as a Hagger. The children are Alfred, Vivian, John, and Julian. Mike believes the picture was taken in about 1896/7.
A task nearing completion is having extracted over 1,000 Hagger entries form the probate index from 1858 to 1990 we are trying to cross reference them to entries in the GRO Death Index file prior to loading them all into our master database. Currently we have over 30,000 entries in our database.
Plea
We still need lots more data on Hagger’s, when we refer to Hagger’s we mean Hagger
and the various variants including -
If you have data please contact Peter Hagger.
We would also be delighted to receive digital images.
