Jeggo References in Boyd's Marriage Index for Essex

Boyd's Marriage Index is an index to English marriages taken from copies of parish marriage registers, Bishop's Transcripts (BT) and marriage licences (ML), for the period 1538 to 1840 (when statutory registration began).  It was principally the work of Percival Boyd, MA, FSA, FSG (1866-1955) and his staff.  It was made at his expense between 1925 and 1955, and has since been expanded.  The coverage of Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Essex is almost complete.

A copy of the Essex index is held in the Essex Record Office.  It contains records of over 200,000 Essex marriages (over 400,000 names).  374 of the 405 ancient parishes (92%) have been indexed.  Obvious abbreviations are used for common Christian names.

Seg*, Sig*, Sag*

• both Siggers and Jiggers have been found in Bocking parish registers, and can be difficult to distinguish, and
• someone has pencilled in to the index for Males 1750-99 that three Jaggers have been indexed as Saggers,

Numbers of occurrences of the various names are given at the foot of the page.