James Edward Huggins (1842 - 1888)

Born 26 Mar 1842 in Winchester, Hampshire, England

Ancestors

Husband of Victoria Caroline (Baker) Truefitt — married 10 May 1880 in Camberwell, Surrey, England

Descendants

Died 13 Oct 1888 at age 46 in Linen Hall Barracks, Dublin, Ireland

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Biography

QUARTER MASTER SERGEANT 1ST SOMERSET REGT^[1][2]

Timeline

1842-03-26: Birth of James Edward Huggins in Winchester, Hampshire, England.^[3]

1842-04-10: Baptism in the Roman Catholic church of Newport, Hampshire.^[4]

1842 – 1847: Lived on the island of Saint Helena during his father John Joseph Huggins' term of service there with the Royal St. Helena Regiment.

1861 census: Enumerated in the household of Clayton Palmer, sen., Schoolmaster, in Lyons Down Collegiate School, Chipping Barnet, Hertfordshire: James Huggins was age 19 years and employed as an Assistant and Usher.^[5]

1871: Corporal, serving with the 1st battalion of the 13th (First Somersetshire) (Prince Albert's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot in Gibraltar.^[2]

1876-10-08: Death of father, John Joseph Huggins, in the village of Allansville in the Muskoka district of northern Ontario, Canada.

1880-05-10: Marriage to Victoria Caroline Baker in Camberwell, Surrey.^[6]

1881 (early): Birth of daughter, Margaret Matilda Adelaide Huggins in Devon.

1881 census: ... shows James at age 35 (which is off by about 4 years), employed as an “O Room Clerk” at The Raglan Barracks, St Aubyn Devonport, Stoke Damerel, Devon. (This is the same address given for his younger brother, (Samuel) John, in that census.) The census enumeration was recorded as follows:

- James Huggins, Head, married, age 35, O Room Clerk; born at Winchester, Hampshire

- Victoria C., wife, married, 22, Soldier’s wife; born at Bedford

- Margaret M.A., daughter, 5 months, Soldier’s daughter; born at Devonport, Devon

- Census place: The Raglan Barracks, St. Aubyn, Devonport, Devonshire^[3]

1882-11-25: Birth of daughter, Beatrice Catherine Agnes Huggins, at Richmond Barracks, Dublin, Ireland.

1884 (3rd quarter): Birth of son, James, in Dublin.

1884 (4th quarter): Death of son, James, in Dublin.

1885-08-30: Birth of son, John Albert Edward Huggins, at Linen Hall Barracks in Dublin.

1887-06-23: Birth of son, Victor Alexander Huggins, at Linen Hall Barracks, Dublin.

1888-10-13: Death of James Edward Huggins in the Linen Hall Barracks.^[7]

Research notes

• The Huggins family of Glenarb townland in the parish of Aghaloo, county Tyrone, Ireland, has been researched to the early 1700s at the PRONI in Belfast and other archives. Further data input to this profile by Kilpatrick-1128 is pending.
• A Huggins-Burke family tree has been prepared and posted to Arborealis .~Kilpatrick-1128

Sources

Footnotes

1. ↑ Entered by Kairen Brooke-Anderson.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} 1871 Worldwide British Army Index - British Army Other Ranks & locations Transcription; JE Huggins, service no. 1719; rank: Corporal; unit or regiment: 1st Bn 13th (First Somersetshire) (Prince Albert's Light Infantry) Regiment of Foot; HQ location: Gibraltar; year: 1871; country: Great Britain; National Archives reference: WO 12/3091; period: 01/04/1871-30/06/1871; record set: 1871 Worldwide British Army Index - British Army Other Ranks & locations; category: Military Service & Conflict; subcategory: Regimental & service recordsl collections from: United Kingdom; transcribed by Roger E Nixon, copyright 2014; digital copies online at findmypast.co.uk (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2015-04-05, by subscription).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} 1881 England Census; James Edward Huggins with wife Victoria C. [née Baker] and daughter, Margaret M.A., in The Raglan Barracks, St Aubyn Devonport, Stoke Damerel, Devon; original record: The National Archives (UK), PRO ref RG11, piece 2203, folio 94, p. 4; microfilm copy held by the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah (FHL film no. 1341532 accessed by Alison Kilpatrick, 2003-11-07).
4. ↑ Roman Catholic Church, England; Jacobis [James] Huggins, born 26 March 1842, son of Joannis [John] Huggins and Margaritae [Margaret] Burke; baptised 10 April 1842 in the Roman Catholic Church in Newport, Hampshire; microfilm copy of original record held by the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah (FHL film no. 1037048), International Genealogical Index, batch no. C061571.
5. ↑ England 1861 Census; James Edward Huggins, Chipping Barnet, Hertfordshire (registration district: Barnet); original record: The National Archives, UK, PRO ref. piece 788, folio 56, page 51; digital copy online at ancestry.ca (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick 2012-03-24, by subscription).
6. ↑ London, England. Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921. James Edward Huggins, age 38, bachelor; O.R. Clerk, 1/13 Light Infantry; resident at Stoke near Devonport; son of John Huggins (dec’d), Colour Sergeant. Victoria Caroline Baker, age 24, spinster, resident in 5 Bonnamy Street; daughter of John Baker (dec’d), Sergeant Major. Married 10th May 1880 in Christ Church, parish of Camberwell, Surrey, according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church, after Banns, by James H. Hazell. Witnesses: D. Hearns[?], Sophia Baker. Original record: Church of England Parish Registers, 1754-1921. London Metropolitan Archives, London. Digital images online at ancestry.ca (accessed by Alison Kilpatrick 2017-11-10, by subscription).
7. ↑ Civil Registration of Death, Ireland; James Edward Huggins, Quarter Master Serjeant, died 13 October 1888, age 43 years, at the Linen Hall Barracks, Dublin, Ireland; cause of death: poisoning by cyanide potassium, suicidal; informant: Information received from Nicholas C. Whyte, Esq. Coroner for city of Dublin, Inquest held 15 October 88; original record: General Register Office of Ireland (Dublin), index entry: Dublin North RD, 4th quarter ending 31 December 1888, vol 2 pg 358; purchased by Alison Kilpatrick (2002) from the Office of the Registrar General, Joyce House, Dublin 2 (GRO ref. 18568).

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Kairen Brooke-Anderson for starting this profile. Click the Changes tab for the details of contributions by Kairen and others.