Higgins family

[mark foot]

Thank you for your fantastic help. I have 2 questions regarding the Higgins.

1. Charles Higgins born 1841 in Bradford Abbas is rumoured to have died at sea. Where and when?

2. George Higgins his brother died in 1889 at Tredegar after killing himself and another. Where was he buried and are there any records apart from the newspaper report? Possibly an inquest report?
His father was also George a policeman at Tatworth and then Curry Rivel in Somerset and then moved to Trent which moved from Somerset to Dorset.

Very many thanks for any help that you can provide.

Mark

[KGarrad]

FindMyPast has a database of Deaths at Sea, 1781-1968?

Other records re the murder are likely to be at Gwent Archives?
http://www.gwentarchives.gov.uk/about-us/who-we-are.aspx

[mark foot]

very many thanks  Mark

[allibaker]

maybe you could try ordering the death certificate for george higgins? might give you some interesting info?
the only george higgins death registered in wales in 1889 is this one -
george higgins aged 36yrs death registered bedwelty monmouthshire june qtr 1889 vol 11a page 0070
regards
alli

[allibaker]

wonder if this could be daughter mary in 1861??
vicarage house
bradford abbas
GEORGE KING 28YRS WIDOWER AG LAB
MARY HIGGINS 17YRS LEATHER GLOVE SEWER BORN BRADFORD ABBAS
ANABELLA DUNFORD 27YRS LODGER GLOVE SEWER BORN
looks like her older sister on the 1851 was a glove sewer? a possibility maybe?
regads
alli

[mark foot]

Very many thanks. I did order a death cert for George Higgins about a month ago and eagerly await. I did incorrectly give the date of the wrong Charles as I am particularly interested in my gt grandmother's generation.
She was Bessie Higgins born Tatworth 1866. Oldest brother George was the murderer. Charles born 1864 disappears and family story was that he was drowned. Eliza Ann no knowledge,  James E no knowledge, Mary Jane married Jim Brown and moved to Seattle but no further details. William chief constable. Quite a mix!

[mark foot]

I wonder if anyone knows where George Higgins died and is buried? He spent his last years at Trent Mill, Trent, Dorset?
1837-1917

Many thanks  Mark

[KGarrad]

Probably buried at Trent churchyard?

Unfortunately, OPCDorset only has burial register until 1907.

N.B. Trent was in Somerset until 1896

[mark foot]

Just trying to tidy some odds and ends. Ellen Auguta died in 1879 aged 2 and wonder if she is the daughter of George and Charlotte Higgins of Tatworth? There is also a George dying in the Chard area in 1869 before the age of one. I wonder if he was named after his father George. I can not again find the parents name. Thanks for any help.  Mark