Robert Bigsby Sr (1764 - 1825)

Born 12 Oct 1764 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Dorothy (Spencer) Bigsby — married 10 Oct 1793 in Chapel of Austerfield, Bawtry, Yorkshire, England

Husband of Sophia (Bray) Bigsby — married 17 Jan 1805 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

Descendants

Died 14 Feb 1825 at age 60 in his residence, Castle Gate, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

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Biography

Solicitor, Registrar of the Archdeaconry of Nottingham, which office he held for 31 years, of St Peter's Church, Nottingham.

Early years

In 1787 he visited America where he was regularly the guest of George Washington.

Marriages and family

On 10 October 1793 at the Chapel of Austerfield, by Rev Edward Mason, Junior Minister, he married 1ly his cousin, Dorothy Spencer. Witnesses were Henry Heaton and (the bride's sister) Mary Spencer. They had one daughter. She died in 1799.

In 1805 he married 2ly Sophia Bray and they had one son and one daughter.

Death and burial

He died on 14 February 1825. He was buried in the Bigsby family vault at St Peter's Church, Nottingham.

Sources

Obit 1825, GM.

'Recollections of Rev Richard Taylor' and genealogical notebooks, compiled by (his great-grandson) Cranleigh Harper Barton, which form part of the Cranleigh Barton Bequest, Whanganui Regional Museum, New Zealand (1975).

Registers of the Chapel of Austerfield [1]