'Rigby2'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Rigby of Chowbent, Rigby of Manchester, Rigby of Oldfield

                               
FMG starts with 2 brothers whom we show as sons of ...
?? Rigby
1. Roger Rigby of Chowbent
  m1. _ Crompton
  A. son
  B. daughter
  m. _ Crompton
  m2. _ Mort (dau of Nathan Mort of Chowbent, sister of John)
  C. John Rigby of Warrington or Chowbent
  m. Sarah Taylor (dau of John Taylor)
  i. John Rigby (b 01.01.1747, dsp)
  ii. Edward Rigby, Mayor of Norwich (b 27.12.1747, d 1821)
  m1. Sarah (coheir of John Dybal)
  a. Sarah Rigby
  m. Jehosaphat Postle of Pony
  b. Mary Rigby
  m. James Beevoe of Norwich
  m2. _ Palgrave (dau of William Palgrave of Yarmouth)
  c.+ other issue - Edward, Roger, 4 sons (d infant), Justina, Gertrude, Matilda, Ann, Jane, Elizabeth
  iii. Sarah Rigby
m. Caleb Hillier Parry of Bath (d 09.03.1822, MD, son of Joshua of Cirencester (cleric))
  a. Charles Henry Parry of Bath (MD)
  m. _ Bedford (dau of William Bedford of Elmhurst)
  b. Sir Edward Parry (navigator)
  m. (23.10.1826) (Isabella Louisa) Stanley (dau of Sir John Stanley of Alderley, Bart (later 1st Lord))
  c. daughter
  m. _ Garnier
d. (Elizabeth) Emma Parry (d 22.03.1818)
  m. (21.05.1808) Sir John Eardley Wilmot, 1st Bart (b 1783, d 1847)
  e. Caroline Parry
  m. Joseph Martineau
  f.+ other issue (d unm) - daughter, Gertrude
  iv. Elizabeth Rigby (d 1836)
  m. Joseph Bunney of Newbury
  D. daughter
  m. James Noble 'of Lancashire'
  i. Hannah Noble (b c1759, d 28.08.1801)
m. (25.09.1777) Daniell Gaskell of Clifton Hall (b 28.09.1746, d 28.05.1788)
2. John Rigby of Manchester, Atherton & Oldfield
  m1. Rebecca Crompton (dau of Joshua Crompton)
  A. John Rigby (dsp)
  m. Anne Maltby
  B. Ann Rigby (d unm)
C. Elizabeth Rigby
  m. Thomas Maltby of Norwich & Germains
m2. _ Mould
  D. William Rigby of Manchester & Oldfield
  The following comes from FMG (vol 1, MS75, Touchet).
  m. Mary Touchet (d c1803, dau of John Touchet of Manchester & Broomhouse)
  i. John Rigby (d infant)
  ii. William Rigby of Oldfield (d 1824)
  m. Eliza Philips (dau of Thomas Philips of Sedgley)
  a. William Rigby
  b . Mary Rigby
  m. (sps) Sir John Murray ('Lord Murray', Lord of Session)
  c. Elizabeth Rigby
  m. (11.1822) Edward Jeremiah Lloyd of Manchester (dsps)

Main source(s): FMG (vol 3, MS490, Rigby)
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