Mary HIGGIN

  General Notes:

Biography

Probably the widow of John Higgin, of Higgin Whiteley (q.v.), who died in 1826.

Election of a new director of the Atlas Assurance Office in place of John Higgin deceased 19/07/1826.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/16774
Will of John Higgin merchant of Hackney Middlesex proved 29/07/1826: John Higgin of Londonfield in the parish of Hackney. 'I give to my dear wife Mary Higgin in gratitude for her virtuous deportment and [illeg.] love and attachment to me' the freehold of their house in Londonfield, his 4 shares of £500 each in the Imperial Fire and Life Insurance Office and the 60 shares of £50 in the Atlas Life and Fire Insurance Office, and annuity of £800 per annum secured on estates in Jamaica'. Alludes to his sons Thomas (?) and Isaac, and to George Whiteley.

Died 1845 aged 84; Will of Mary Higgin widow of John Higgin late of London Street...and then of London Field (made in 1835) proved 30/01/1846. In the will she left her entire estate to her daughter Mary Higgin.

Sources

London Gazette, Issue 18263, 30/06/1826, p. 1619.

Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury PROB 11/1714.

PROB 11/2029/281.

Mary married John HIGGIN Esq. on 22 Jan 1787 in Finsthwaite, Lancashire, England. (John HIGGIN Esq. was born on 18 Apr 1754 in St. Thomas's, Hackney, Middlesex, England and died on 17 Jun 1826 in London-field, Hackney, London, England.)

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Bond:
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Lancashire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.

Original data: Lancashire Anglican Parish Registers. Preston, England: Lancashire Archives.

Marriage:
Source Information
Ancestry.com. England, Select Marriages, 1538\'961973 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.

Original data: England, Marriages, 1538\'961973. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.