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The Hagger One Name Study
Although we always refer to our One Name Study as the ‘Hagger Study’ we cover the various variants of the Hagger name, like Haggar, Hagar, Hager and also those with an ‘s’ on the end.
The study continues to expand and we now have over 38,000 records in our main database. This does not include the records we are still preparing for transfer like the entries from the British Library Newspaper Database of 19th Century Newspapers, this will give us another 500 records. Our database has now been modified to allow loading of the 1911 census entries. Currently, we have the basic index information loaded and need to gather the full information and transfer it to the main database. The index has over 2,300 entries.
The pace of adding data is slow as we normally try to cross reference any new data and place people in appropriate families. We now have over 5,000 individuals indexed which normally means for these people we have placed them in a family or and we have more than one entry for them.
One task of collecting mass data which has just started, is that of trawling the IGI county by county for Hagger data. Eileen McIntosh is collecting the data and then before loading I am checking where possible for any connection with existing data. It is early days yet, but so far we have loaded Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire data.
Since the last Newsletter, we have had to move the hosting of the web site as my ISP – BT has withdrawn their free web hosting at Geocities. Hopefully this has been seamless to you all, but please do not try to use any link with Geocities in the address – stick to ones with www.hagger.info at the beginning and you should be okay. My blog suffered the same fate and I have not started a new one and not sure if I will.
One of the biggest families I have so far reconstructed is that of the Haggers of Bourn in Cambridgeshire (see page under Ancestors). This was a massive task with over 300 people fitted into the tree. I am most grateful to Julie Day for her help with this task. The first sight we have of this family was over the border at East Hatley in Bedfordshire, although folklore suggest they had originated in Bourn and were returning. What I would really like to do is get a surviving male Hagger of this family to undertake a DNA test so we can compare the results with those from Therfield only 13 miles away in Hertfordshire.
Currently I am working on entering the data regarding what I refer to as the ‘Preston Haggers’ who settled in Preston, Lancashire and descend from Richard Hagger who was born in Therfield, Hertfordshire in 1757 and married Elizabeth Rogerson in Lancashire; here most of the work has been done already by Tony Parker and Martin Hagger.
A great source of information for our project has been the Guild of One Name Studies Marriage Challenges. As you may know the GRO Marriage Indexes up to 1911 did not include spouse information. Marriage challengers take on a Registration District and attempt to find the full details of marriages between 1837 and 1991 for fellow Guild members. Recently, a fellow member found 32 out of 33 marriages in the Shoreditch Registration District and has provided me with the full details that appear on the marriage certificate. In total we have 1,851 Hagger marriages between 1837 to 1911 and we now have at least some detail on 706 of these, and Guild members have helped with over 480 of these.