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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
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.
Children:
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
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
Son of William Brigg of Heptonstall
He married Marion Speight.
Children:
- who were illegitimate born before Thomas and Marion
married – and
Children:
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
He married Unknown.
Children:
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]
Brigg, Abraham Ref 412-815 Brigg, Abraham Ref 412-395
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 Brigg, Arnold Douglas Ref 412-1474 
Brigg, Edmund Ref 412-493 Brigg, Isaac Ref 412-959 Brigg, Jeremiah Ref 412-968
Lydia was the daughter of Edmund Barker of Otley
Brigg, Jeremy Ref 412-2796
so that her life was despaired of
Brigg, Jeremy Ref 412-1402
Brigg, Jeremy Ref 412-1555 Brigg, John Ref 412-1401
Brigg, John Ref 412-2402 Brigg, John Ref 412-816 Brigg, John Ref 412-958 Brigg, John Ref 412-1556
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
Brigg, John Ref 412-9570 Brigg, John del Ref 412-1325
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
Brigg, Richard Ref 412-663
Brigg, Thomas Ref 412-2455
Brigg, William Ref 412-722
Brigg, William del Ref 412-850
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
Page Ref: MMB942
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