Higgins of Trent

[mark foot]

I have been unable to find when and where in 1917 George Higgins died. Also was he buried at Trent. I think it very likely. However he was a policeman and lived for many years at Tatworth, Somerset where his wife and a couple of their children were buried.

Thank you for any help. It appears the OPC for Trent has retired.

Mark

[mark foot]

George was born 1837 at Bradford Abbas.

[CaroleW]

Presume he is the 80yr old died Dec qtr 1917 Sherborne?

[CaroleW]

Died 12th October according to probate entry
https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/#wills

[mark foot]

Many thanks Carole. You have once again been helpful. I just need to discover where he is buried.

Thank you once again,

Mar?

p.s. I assume he must have had some money if there was probate?

[CaroleW]

Have you had a look at the entry?  Chief Constable William Higgins was one of the executors and his married daughter Bessie Hansford the other.  He left just under £1100

Bessie only married in 1914 so was around 48/49 then.  Living in Wiltshire in 1939.  Toy boy husband

[mark foot]

Thank you and you are correct about marrying a toy boy. Bessie gave birth to my grandmother Margaret in 1902. She was unmarried even though her father and a brother were policemen and uncle a chief constable.

Bessie's brother Charles just vanishes in around 1883 and believed drowned. Very interesting family. Thanks Mark

[CaroleW]

You probably already have all this but here goes anyway

Charles was baptised 1.11.1866 as Charles Paul Higgins but was born Dec qtr 1863

George & Charlotte (Ring/King) only married March qtr 1863 but 1871 shows a 10yr old son George b Dorset

Freebmd has him as Ring but GRO has surname as King  Born June qtr 1860 Sherborne - no mmn so illegitimate

Charles birth reg has mmn  as Ring as do later births

1861 has Charlotte as Ring - not King

[mark foot]

Many thanks and although Charles witnessed a will at sols in Chard in 1883 that is the last that I definitely know about him.
Although in 1889, the George (illegitimate) killed his partner in Tredegar and then killed himself at the scene of the crime. At the inquest it mentioned a brother visited from America some 4 years before to help sort him out. I assume Charles and may have drowned on his return.
A family with history!
Thank you again,

Mark