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Any sightings of the Biggs family who ran the Waggon and Horses at Haddenham around 1960? Husband Bill (William Peter), Wife Vera (nee Smeaton), daughters Jennifer and Lynda.

To protect this family's privacy, would anyone who has any information on this family, please contact Redroger by Personal Message.

Is this  family who migrated to Oborne early in the 18th century the same family  as the Luffman family who lived in Maperton Somerset during most of the 17th century? Please cross reference with my posting on the Somerset board.

Apparently given their geographical locations it is apparent to me that ALL the people shown as SUFFMAN on the 1911 census should in fact be LUFFMAN. I believe this to be due to a capital copperplate L being taken as a capital S by a transcriber who was unfamiliar with this script which was very common in the early 20th century. I have reported the errors, and await developments. The important general point for all researchers is the copperplate L.

During the 18th century the Luffman family lived in the Dorset villages on Oborne,Sherbourne,Stourton Caundle, Purse Caundle,Gillingham and the Somerset parishes of Henstridge, Milborne Port, Cheriton (N&S) Charlton Horethorne, Horsington, all of which were owned by the Digby family of Sherborne Castle. Does anyone know whether they were in service to the Digbys, or rented land from them as tenant farmers? They are often described as Yeomen in the Parish registers

Several of my father's ancestors on both sides were shown as village carriers or carters. Would they be classed as travellers. So far as I know they had adresses they used as a base.