Issue 12                      January 2011

Hagger Newsletter

Hagger One Name Study News

 

You may think that as it is over a year since I updated you with a Newsletter that nothing has been happening on the One Name Study, that I can assure you is just not true.  We have continued to add new data and build families.  Currently our database now has just under 40,000 record entries, which is an increase of about 2,000 in the past year.  Most of the records added have not just been loaded into the database, where possible, we try to cross reference any new data as we load it.  We now have over 6,000 people indexed which means that normally we have at least two entries for each of these people.  We also have 180 family trees in some state of reconstruction.  Having said that, we have an awful lot of data still to collect ,clean, load and cross reference.

 

Hagger / Therfield Get Togethers

 

Those of us interested in the Hagger name, or at least an interest in Therfield, try to get together twice a year at the Fox and Duck on the village green at Therfield.  The second Saturday in March we join the North Herts Village History Group for their annual meeting of lectures in Kelshall village hall and afterwards adjourn to the Fox & Duck for lunch and a good chat about Hagger matters.  This year we will gather on 12th March, drop me and email and I will let you have the details once I have them.

 

Then on the 3rd Saturday of June we gather on the Fox and Duck before visiting the Therfield Village Fete - this year it will be 18th June.

 

Please do try to come and join us.

 

New Book Featuring Hagger’s

 

A new book has recently been published  - Hertfordshire’s Icknield Way - 19th Century Marriage Frontier and Marriage Obstacle by Peter Bysouth.  This book is quite unusual as it is in fact the author’s dissertation for his Masters degree.  The book looks at the migration in connection with marriage in  Baldock, Royston and the villages between them and south of the Icknield Way.  The interest for those of us researching Haggers is that the surname which most commonly occurs in the these marriages are Haggers.

 

Hagger One Name Study and Facebook

 

We now have our own group on Facebook - so why not join it and share with others your Hagger snippets and photos.

 

New on Web site

 

Two new pages have been added to the Ancestors pages, the first on the most infamous Hagger  - Harold Hagger, the bigamist and murderer and the other on Thomas Hagger who was born in Therfield and became Thomas DeQuincy.

 

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