Edward Higgins (1545 - 1631)

Born 7 Sep 1545 in Worcester, Worcestershire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Julian (Meals) Higgins — married 1598 in England

Died 14 Mar 1631 at age 85 in Hertfordshire, England

Biography

Gustav Anjou Fraud

Vol 46 (1915) of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, published an account of Richard Higgins' forbears. It named Edward Higgins and Julian Meals as his parents and his birth 1 Aug 1603.^[1] This pedigree was repeated as one of two possibilities in Richard Higgins by Katharine Chapin Higgins.^[2] In 1924 Katherine Higgins published a supplement to the first Book.^[3] In it she states "The pedigree quoted from Mr. Monnette, although given out in good faith, is a fraudulent compilation." She goes on to explain why it was fraudulent. Included as part of the fraud was information from the notorious Gustav Anjou.^[4]

Alleged:

Birth 7 Sep 1545 Hertfordshire, , England

Death 1610 Langley, Cheshire, , England ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 46, pages 390-391
2. ↑ Higgins, Katherine Chapin. Richard Higgins : a resident and pioneer settler at Plymouth and Eastham, Massachusetts, and at Piscataway, New Jersey, and his descendants, 1918, pp 15, 16, 17.
3. ↑ Higgins, Katherine Chapin. Supplement to Richard Higgins and His Descendants. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Printed for the Author, 1924) p. 5
4. ↑ Reference in the 1918 book to Anjou is made on p. 389
5. ↑ The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 46, pages 390-391

Acknowledgments

• This person was created through the import of Smith-Hunter.ged on 10 March 2011.
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• Thanks to Eryn Hibbert for starting this profile.
• This profile was edited by Tom Bredehoft 9/3/2013
• Thank you to Kay Martin for creating WikiTree profile Higgins-2311 through the import of Martin-Rowe Family Tree.ged on Oct 22, 2013