Records of William Rigg on Ancestry

Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of William Rigg in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for William Rigg and the Rigg Genealogy

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Rigg Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Rigg family tree.

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Rigg Family History Databases

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Some Famous People called William Rigg

William Rigg

The Ven. William Harrison Rigg, DD, MA (1 November 1877 – 2 May 1966) was an Anglican priest and author.He was born into an ecclesiastical family on 1 November 1877 and educated at Harrow and Hertford College, Oxford. curacies at St Mary's, Lewisham and St Alfege, Greenwich. He held incumbencies at Christ Church Bermondsey, Christ Church Greenwich and Beverley Minster, becoming a Canon of York in 1933. He was the Vicar of St Mary Magdalene's Church, Launceston from 1936 to 1945; and Archdeacon of Bodmin from 1939 to 1952.

He died at Tunbridge Wells on 2 May 1966.

Source: William Rigg, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

William Rigg (politician)

William Rigg (1 January 1847 – 3 November 1926) was an English-born Australian politician.

He was born in Liverpool to joiner George Rigg and Sarah Barclay. The family moved to New South Wales around 1852, and Rigg attended Christ Church School until the age of fifteen, when he began working in the office of the Illawarra Steam Navigation Company. He eventually rose to become chairman of the Board of Directors of the company, and also founded the Clyde Engineering Company. He was six times Mayor of Newtown and served as an alderman for twenty-three years. On 17 September 1873 he married Elizabeth Gregg, with whom he had six children; he later married Harriett Westbrook in England around 1884 and had a daughter. In 1894 Rigg was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Newtown-St Peters; he was generally considered a Free Trader. He held the seat until his defeat in 1901. Rigg died at Darlinghurst in 1926.

Source: William Rigg (politician), Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia

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