Crabtree_Fry_Rigg_Ancestry

Thomas Rigg, father of John Rigg. John Rigg is the Grandfather of Dennis, Olive & Doris’s and Margaret Alice Rigg’s (Doris’s Grandmother) Father

ALL the Riggs lived in Todmorden very close together, see true view Arial Map of their homes.

Thomas Rigg died about age 60. He had 12 Children; he had 5 children with his first wife Alice whom died shortly after 1861 Census at about 35 years old. Thomas remarries to Sarah and has a 7-year-old daughter, Sarah Ann, by the next 1871 Census. Thomas has 7 children with Sarah and one boy, also named Thomas, that dies before he’s 10 yrs. old.

The Census online doesn’t ge back further than 1841, so I can’t research Thomas Riggs Parents ( Doris’s Great Grandfather). It’s possible that they were buried at S. Mary’s Todmorden. This is a list of Rigg burials from 1813 to 1815

1841 Census: Each year the birthdates may alter a year or two.

Address: Canteen St, Todmorden, Stansfield Parish, Yorkshire

  1. Thomas Rigg age 25, Born 1816 Yorkshire England Labourer (Doris’s Great Grandfather)
  2. Alice Rigg age 20, Born 1821 Yorkshire (Doris’s Great Grandmother)
  3. William Rigg age 4 Born 1837
  4. Hannah Rigg Age 2 Born 1839
  5. Hannah Rigg age 15 Born 1829 Cotton Frame (Tester ?) This must be a relative

1851 Census

Address: Canteen St, Todmorden, Stansfield Parish, Yorkshire

  1. Thomas Rigg age 35, Born 1816 Yorkshire Stone Mason
  2. Alice Rigg age 33, Born 1818, Yorkshire (DIES before the next census.)
  3. William Rigg age 14, Born 1837, Yorkshire (Sca??inger Cotton)
  4. Hannah Rigg age 12, Born, 1839, Todmorden, Doffer- working at age 12
  5. John Rigg age 10 Born 1841, Todmorden (Doris’s Grandfather)
  6. Betty Rigg age 5, Born 1846, Yorkshire
  7. Alice Rigg age 8 months, Born 1850, Yorkshire

1861 Census Thomas Rigg re-married to Sarah Rigg

Address: 12 Canteen, Todmorden, Stansfield Parish, Yorkshire

  1. Thomas Rigg age 45, Born 1816, Yorkshire. Stone Mason
  2. Sarah Rigg age 34, Born 1827, Beverley, Lancashire, Stansfield Parsh
  3. John Rigg, age 18, Born 1843, Yorkshire, Stone Mason
  4. Betty Rigg age 14, Born 1847, Yorkshire, Spinner Cotton
  5. Alice Rigg, age 10, Born 1851 Yorkshire, Doffer Cotton (WORKING at age 10)
  6. Sarah Ann Rigg, age 7, born 1854, Yorkshire
  7. Thomas Rigg, Age 4, born 1857, Yorkshire [Thomas probably died before the next Census)
  8. Bentley Rigg, Age 2, born 1859, Yorkshire
  9. Rachel Rigg, age 2 Months, born 1861, Yorkshire

1871 Census Thomas Rigg is now 55 and still a Stone Mason. Their Son, Thomas Junior, does not show up in the 1871 census and probably died before he was 10) Their other son, John Rigg has moved and married Esther and had Margaret Alice Rigg (Doris’ Grandmother). Click here to see to see 1871 Census for John & Esther with child Margaret Rigg

Address: 9 & 11 Kitson Wood Rd., Stansfield Parish, All Saints ,Harley Wood, Ecclesiastical District, Yorkshire

  1. Thomas Rigg age 55, Born 1818, Yorkshire. Stone Mason
  2. Sarah Rigg age 42, born 1829, Yorkshire
  3. Alice Rigg age 20, born 1851, Yorkshire Throttle (sp?)Spinner (Cotton)
  4. Sarah A Rigg, age 17, born 1854, Yorkshire, Cotton Weaver
  5. Bentley Rigg, age 11, born 1860, Yorkshire, Doffer in Cotton Mill (WORKING age 11)
  6. Rachel Rigg, age 10, born 1861, Yorkshire, Scholar
  7. Albert Rigg, age 4, born 1867, Yorkshire,
  8. Leah Rigg, age 3, born 1868, Yorkshire

1881 Census Thomas Rigg has died as Sarah is listed as a widow.

Address: 5 Kitson Wood Road. Yorkshire

  1. Sarah Rigg age 52, born 1829, Yorkshire Housekeep
  2. Alice Rigg, age 30, born 1851, Yorkshire. Cotton Spinner
  3. Albert Rigg, age 14, Born 1867, Yorkshire, Cotton Weaver
  4. Leah Rigg, Age 13, Born 1868, Cotton Spinner

Many of Thomas children worked at a mill. Since they lived on Canteen street it’s reasonable to expect they worked in Canteen Mill.

Pictures and text with kind permission from Todmorden and Walsen Website. 

canteen mill 1885

Lydgate and Canteen Mill about 1885

 

 

Situated in the Burnley Valley at Lydgate, Canteen Mill is really an Industrial Estate comprising many small businesses. The name of Canteen apparently arose from it being the name of a beerhouse, the Old Canteen Inn, which stood by the side of the road facing the river in the first part of the 19th century. The inn gave way to progress when a small weaving shed was built on its site about 1830. By 1848 there were several buildings on the site, each housing differing businesses, and by 1850, the whole area was becoming a hive of industrial activity. From this, a large residential population developed, with rows of streets of small houses for the factory workers, plus a plentiful supply of shops and public houses

 

 

 

 

canteen mill weaving shed

 

 

 

canteen chimney 1928In 1928, the mill chimney received some attention. .The picture, which was taken in 1928 when, Harold Hollinrake, was at the top. Harold is descended from Robert Hollinrake who prospered so well from the room and power innovation

Weaving shed at Canteen Mill,

 1928, the mill chimney

 

 

canteen shed

All that remains of the old weaving sheds

Canteen Mill EstateCanteen Mill Estate, consists of many business’s now.Much of the old estate is demolished, with new units in place. A Working Men's Club was there for a long time, but this is now a curtain and blind shop. Many of the surrounding streets have either gone or been shortened, but the site remains a multi-use industrial estate to this day, and some of the original buildings are there.