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He or his son rebuilt Holdsworth House, Holmfield [1633].
He married Unknown.
Child: Abraham
Son of Abraham Brigg.
He was a clothier and a Halifax publican.
Question:
Does anyone know which pub this may have been?
He or his father rebuilt Holdsworth House, Ovenden.
In 1626, he paid composition.
In 1657, he sold the Holdsworth House estate to Henry Wadsworth, and moved to run an inn in Halifax.
Heywood comments that he was
He married Mary Oldfield.
Child: Jeremy
He was educated at Moorside School, Ovenden & Holy Trinity School,
Halifax.
During World War I,
he served as a Private
with the 3rd Battalion
Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment).
He died in the VAD Hospital, Whitley Bay [25th February 1916] (aged 20).
He was buried at the Whitley Bay (Hartley South) Cemetery
[Grave Ref: A C 223].
He is remembered in the Halifax Town Hall Books of Remembrance,
and on the Memorial at Holy Trinity Boys' School, Halifax
Halifax attorney.
On 11th April 1705, he married Mrs Mary Hall from Boothtown
He married Unknown.
Child: John
Son of Abraham Brigg.
Halifax attorney [1676-1710].
He was known for sending people to Halifax Gaol when they owed
nothing.
In 1697, he,
John Crabtree,
William Livesay and
William Midgley
were the 4 attorneys of the King's Bench in Halifax.
In 1679, he married Lydia Barker [1657-1726].
Children:
He married Martha.
In 1637, cases were brought before the West Riding Quarter Sessions
which involved
William Rookes,
and
Brigg
and his wife, Martha.
On 20th August 1637, Rookes assaulted Martha
He was fined 20/-
Later, Jeremy and Martha pleaded not guilty to charges
of assaulting Rookes on 10th September 1637.
The jury found that neither was guilty
His cousin, Edward Robinson, left land to Jeremy.
In 1608, he is listed in the Sowerby Greave List as owning a messuage
called Nether Field House, Sowerby.
He was a clothier.
He married Susan, aka Susanna.
Children:
After Jeremy's death, Susan married Isaac Farrer.
Susan and Isaac were jointly made guardians of young
Joseph who was not of age when his father died
This & associated entries use material contributed by Joanne Backhouse
He married a daughter of James Robinson.
Children:
Son of Isaac Brigg.
He practised at an attorney in Ovenden.
In 1621, he married Edith, daughter of John Hartley.
Child: John
He was Coroner for Ovenden [1640-1658]
He succeeded his father as Coroner for Ovenden [1658-1662].
He married Unknown.
Children:
On 14th August 1790, he was hanged at the Tyburn, York for
stealing – from the common at Carlton in the West Riding – 7 ewes, 7
lambs, 2 hogs, and 1 two-year-old wether, the property of William
Driver of Carlton, farmer
John married Joan de Stansfeld.
Child:
(possibly) John
On the orders of Sir John Pilkington, lands were seized from
a number of landowners and tenants in Calderdale in the 1460s and
1470s.
There is sufficient evidence that it is probable that the
listed in the Inquisition post mortem of Sir
John's son Edward, and which also appears in the
Inquisition post mortem of Sir John's son Robert Pilkington
as
were the lands of John del Brigg
This & associated entries use material contributed by Joanne Backhouse
After his father's death, his mother Susan married Isaac Farrer.
Susan and Isaac were jointly made guardians of
young Joseph who was not of age when his father died.
Joseph is listed in the 1624 Greave List as owner of Lower Field House.
In 1639, Joseph surrendered Lower Fieldhouse to Isaac Farrer
This & associated entries use material contributed by Joanne Backhouse
Son of William Brigg of Heptonstall
This & associated entries use material contributed by Joanne Backhouse
He married Marion Speight.
Children:
- who were illegitimate born before Thomas and Marion
married – and
Child: 6.
Richard
His wife (possibly) died in childbirth [of Richard], soon after their
marriage.
Thomas was buried at Heptonstall Church.
His will is recorded in Volume 2 [1545-1559] of E. W. Crossley's book Halifax Wills
This & associated entries use material contributed by Guy Briggs
He married Unknown.
Children:
This & associated entries use material contributed by Joanne Backhouse
He married Unknown.
Children:
To be buried where God will dispose, with my mortuary.
Item I bequeath to Isabell, Margaret and Alice my daughters to each
of the three, ten pounds.
Item I bequeath to Agnes, my daughter twenty marks.
I bequeath to the making of the bells at Heptonstalle [church] ten
marks.
I make my executors John del Brygge and William del Brigge, my
sons, by the oversight of Henry del Brygge and John del Wedehope.
Item I bequeath to the service of the Holy Cross in the chapel of All
Saints at Macclesfelde xs.
Proven November, 4, 1440 by John, son, power being reserved to Wiliam
Brigge, the other exor.
[Reg. Test ii 679]
This & associated entries use material contributed by Joanne BackhouseBrigg, Abraham Ref 412-815
Of Grindlestone Bank, Ovenden.
An early member of the Brigg family of Grindlestone Bank.
Brigg, Abraham Ref 412-395
Nicknamed: Prevailed.
a nightly drinker, usually called amongst them Prevailed for a
nickname, having drunk much, fed excessively, his wind stopt by that
time they could get him to bed, was buried at Halifax Feb 8 [1671]
Brigg, Abraham Ref 412-448
North House at Grindlestone Bank, Ovenden is
dated 1698 when Abraham Brigg and his family lived there
Brigg, Arnold Douglas Ref 412-1474
Son of Bertha & Herbert Brigg of 8 Valley Parade,
Bradford.
Brigg, Edmund Ref 412-493
Son of Jeremy Brigg.
Brigg, Isaac Ref 412-959
Of Ovenden.
Brigg, Jeremiah Ref 412-968
Aka Jeremy.
Lydia was the daughter of Edmund Barker of Otley
Brigg, Jeremy Ref 412-2796
A cloth dresser at Hipperholme.
so that her life was despaired of
Brigg, Jeremy Ref 412-1402
Son of John Brigg.
Brigg, Jeremy Ref 412-1555
He was a miller
Brigg, John Ref 412-1401
Of Field House, Sowerby.
Brigg, John Ref 412-2402
Aka Johannes Brygg.
Chaplain of the chapelry of Heptonstall.
He was executed on the Gibbet on 16th September 1544
Brigg, John Ref 412-816
He lived at
Grindlestone Bank, Ovenden around 1647
Brigg, John Ref 412-958
Aka Brigge.
Brigg, John Ref 412-1556
Of Clifton.
In 1671, he,
Thomas Holt,
Abraham Wadsworth and
Thomas Wawne
were amongst a number of local people who had
supported the RoyaThomas Holt,
Abraham Wadsworth and
Thomas Wawne cause in the Civil War and who
received a pension of 6/5d per year under a county-based
pension scheme set up in 1662 for
the reliefe of poore and maimed Officers and Souldiers who have
faithfully served His Majesty and His Royal Father in the late
[Civil] Wars
Brigg, John Ref 412-960
Son of John Brigg.
Brigg, John Ref 412-9570
A weaver of Southowram.
Brigg, John del Ref 412-1325
(Probably) the son of William del Brigg of Heptonstall, as given
in William's will dated 1440.
Joan was (probably) the daughter of Ralph de Stansfeld
2 messuages, 60a. land, 10a. meadow, and 20a. pasture in Langfeld,
late John Brig's
formerly John Brigg's
Brigg, Joseph Ref 412-3312
Son of Jeremy Brigg.
Brigg, Richard Ref 412-663
Of Heptonstall, with lands also in Wadsworth, Elland and Stainland.
Brigg, Thomas Ref 412-2455
Or Brigge.
Of Rough Head, Heptonstall.
Brigg, William Ref 412-722
Of Heptonstall.
Brigg, William del Ref 412-850
Of Heptonstall.
Will written Monday next before the feast of St Matthew the Apostle
and Evangelist 1440.
| Families |
See
Binroyd, Norland
See
Abraham Brigg and
Grindlestone Bank, Ovenden
See
Old Town
The Brigg family of Bank House, Warley Ref 412-3502 
The Brigg family of Binroyd Ref 412-3503
The Brigg family of Field House Ref 412-3504
The Brigg family of Grindlestone Bank Ref 412-3505
The Brigg family of Jumples Ref 412-3506
The Brigg family of Old Town Ref 412-3507
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Brigg surname Ref 412-1
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