In addition to containing some general information, this page is an aid to navigating the website and is intended to guide visitors in their initial explorations. The site map, on the other hand, is intended for visitors who are already familiar with the website and provides a quick means of getting from any page to any other in a couple of mouse clicks.
Date Formats and the Calendar Change 1751
| b | born/birth | m, + | married/marriage | d | died/death |
| bap | baptised/baptism | bur | buried/burial | occ | occupation |
| res | place of residence | ~ | approximatel(y) | nk | not known |
| q1, etc | 1st quarter, etc | poss | possibly/possible | prob | probably/probable |
| GRO | General Register Office | FRC | Family Records Centre |
Some of the 'original' data described below is not original in the strictest sense. Some are indexes to, or transcriptions of, truly original data, such as parish registers or registers in the custody of district registrars. Perhaps what we have called 'original' should have been called 'external'. Nevertheless, all are well established sources for family historians. Entries are checked where time and money permit.
Censuses of England & Wales - The information is tabulated
in a form close to that of the original enumerators' books. (The
latter are usually available in record offices in microfilm form.
Not original in the strictest sense, but not subject to transcription errors.
Fingerprints, maybe, but 'finger trouble', no!)
1841 - The neighbouring Essex parishes of
Bocking, Castle Hedingham, Gosfield, Halstead, Shalford, Sible Hedingham,
Stisted and Wethersfield completely searched. Isolated references
(located by other means) in Great Warley (Essex) checked.
1851 - The neighbouring Essex parishes
of Bocking, Braintree, Gosfield, Great Maplestead, Halstead, Little Maplestead,
Pebmarsh, Stisted completely searched. Isolated references
in Fairsted and Great Warley (both Essex) checked.
1861 - The neighbouring Essex parishes of
Bocking, Braintree, Gosfield, Halstead, Sible Hedingham and Stisted completely
searched. Isolated references in Fairsted, Great Dunmow and Great
Saling (all Essex) checked. The entry for Charles and Sarah Jeggo
and family in Flamstead, Hertfordshire checked. Complete search of
Holdenhurst, Bournemouth, Hampshire locating Charles's aunt Sarah and sister
Maria.
1871 - Sheriffhales searched and Charles
& Sarah Jeggo and family found in the part that is in Shropshire.
A couple more entries found using an index have been checked, but no other
systematic searches have been carried out as yet.
1881 - The first census to have a national
surname index. The whole census has been transcribed and indexed
by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (the LDS Church - the
Mormons) and is available on a set of CD-ROMs, which also includes the
census of Scotland. The index and transcriptions have been used to
provide what is hoped to be a complete list of Jeggoes in the census. Some
entries have been checked in the microfilms.
1891 - Sheriffhales searched and Charles
& Sarah Jeggo and family found in the part that is in Shropshire.
Many other entries found using an index have been checked, but no other
systematic searches have been carried out as yet.
1901 - The first online census, with notoriously
inaccurate index and transcriptions which are gradually being corrected.
Coverage of Jeggoes is complete within the limitations of the index.
The images of the enumerators' books have been used for the actual details,
rather than the transcriptions.
Certificates - of Births,
Marriages
and Deaths - issued by either the GRO
or a District Register Office.
They cost at least £7 each, so people only buy them if it would
cost them more to obtain the information some other way, from a parish
register, for example. If you have any certificates containing relevant
information not present on the website, please pop a photocopy in the post
to me, or scan and email it.
Electoral Registers - just Ashtead, Surrey, at the moment, researching my great-uncle Fred, gardener.
Essex Burials Index - an index to burials recorded in parish registers; this page contains its own introduction. I have also searched the National Burials Index, available on CD-ROM, but did not find any information in addition to what I already had.
The Family Register - a photocopy rather than a transcription - the record of the births of the children of Charles & Sarah Jeggo from their family Bible.
GRO Indexes - this top-level page contains introductory material, which contains some statements about accuracy of these not strictly original records. Nevertheless, they are frequently relied on by family historians because the information is free, whereas the underlying certificates are not. The data is tabulated in GRO Births, GRO Marriages and GRO Deaths.
Huguenot Records - The Huguenot Library (of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland) contains well indexed transcriptions of registers of Huguenot churches and other records, and has been searched for references to surnames which might be variants of Jeggo.
International Genealogical Index, or IGI - this is a well-known website (www.familysearch.org). It has been searched for early (pre 1710) Jeggo and Jegon/Jiggon references, which have been sorted by county and date and tabulated.
Nonconformist Registers - There are events in the GRO Indexes in Halstead registration district which are not recorded in Halstead or Gosfield parish registers, so a search of registers of nonconformist churches has been started, in Halstead.
Parish Registers - We have searched extensively the registers of three Essex parishes (Bocking, Gosfield and Halstead), each of which has its own page, as do Castle Hedingham and Sible Hedingham. The page Jeggo References in Other Parishes starts with a list of contents, parishes either in Essex or connected with Charles & Sarah Jeggo and their descendants.
Wills - there are two pages, for Jeggo and Jegon. The latter are included because one of the possibilities under consideration as the origin of the Surname Jeggo is that it is a variant of Jegon or Jeggon.
Gosfield (Essex) Family Groups (1695 - early 1900s) - Most of the families on this page can be linked together to construct a single plausible family tree with Thomas and Elizabeth Jig(g)oe at the head, but this requires many assumptions for which we have no evidence as yet. All modern Jeggoes have many ancestors on this page.
Jethro Jeggo (~1868-1938) & descendants - Jethro's father died young and his family left Gosfield and moved to Northumberland in north-east England. Jethro himself moved to South Wales and brought up his family there. This page has been constructed with information and assistance from Jethro's descendants.
Other Family Groups (Essex: ~1700 - early 1800s) - Matthew Jeggo (16??-1759) of Wethersfield and three other groups in Essex almost certainly descended from him. This line appears to have died out.
Penny Jeggo's tree - Penny's great-grandfather, Frederick William Benjamin Jeggo, moved from away Bocking, to Epping, much nearer to London. He has many descendants, scattered all over the world. His son Percy Jeggo had a large enough family at St. Albans, Hertfordshire, to warrant a separate webpage, and two of Percy's sons, Leslie Jeggo (St. Albans) and Fred Jeggo (Australia) also have their own webpages. Frank David Jeggo (another of FWBJ's sons) and descendants also have their own webpage. Much of the information on these pages has been contributed by Penny and other correspondents named on the relevant pages.
Sible Hedingham (Essex) Family Groups (~1600 - ~1700) - these family groups have been constructed from the results of searching two Sible Hedingham parish registers covering the period 1560 to 1745. The Gosfield Jeggoes could well have come from this parish just to the north.