Mike Hagger

Mike was born in 1944 to the sound of doodlebugs droning overhead.  He is married to Gill.  They have no issue.

His father was Peter Charles Richards Hagger (1916-1991), and the line comes through from Lavender Hagger (1767-1853) and Elizabeth Field (1776-1837), who lived their lives in Therfield and Kelshall.  Lavender was a Dissenter.  Much of Mike’s tree is on the web site www.hagger.org - this site is owned by Martin Hagger.

Mike is a native of Barnet in North London, but he and Gill have lived for over 35 years in Twickenham.  They are nicely placed for easy access to the rugby ground and to a most beautiful part of the River Thames.

Mike still works as a part time within the cable industry, with both UK and European clients.  Despite his extra free time, his pile of disorderly family history papers seems to get larger rather than smaller.  

Family History research has occupied Mike, on and off, for the best part of 30-35 years, and he looks today at the Internet and marvels at how much he achieved in those long-off days of dusty offices and pencil and paper.  His greatest triumph was to find that the family jokes about “De Quincey” had a basis in reality and a direct place in his Hagger line.

As well as Family History and rugby, he follows cricket, venerates the steam locomotive, likes fine wine and malt whisky (or is it “likes the steam locomotive, and venerates fine wine and malt whisky”?), gives local history tours to friends, and avoids gardening.  Some of his time is taken up by acting as a volunteer tour guide at Twickenham rugby stadium, which brings him into contact with a wide range of UK and overseas visitors.  He likes to recount the story of the first time he was allowed to give  a tour on his own - only one visitor arrived, and he was Japanese gentleman  speaking absolutely no English!!