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RIGGALL, Marmaduke
1851 - 1927 (76 years) Has 6 ancestors and 11 descendants in this family tree.
1821 - 1912 (91 years)-
Name RIGGALL, Marmaduke Birth 15 Mar 1851 Warne, Beverley, Yorkshire 
Gender Male Death 8 Sep 1927 Spilsby Registration District, Lincolnshire Person ID I1222 Edgoose Last Modified 6 Feb 2026
Father RIGGALL, Robert, b. 1823 d. 1 Jan 1879, Ulceby, Lincolnshire, England (Age 56 years) Mother RIGGALL, Elizabeth (Betsy), b. 1821, Gayton-Le-Wold, Lincolnshire, England d. 2 Jun 1912 (Age 91 years) Marriage UNKNOWN Family ID F769 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 EDGOOSE, Harriet, b. 14 Nov 1858, Algarkirk Fen, Lincolnshire, England d. 5 Apr 1916, Ulceby, Lincolnshire, England (Age 57 years) Marriage 24 Nov 1891 Hathersage, Derbyshire, England Children 1. RIGGALL, Harriet Doris, b. 21 Apr 1893, Budleigh Salterton, Devon, England d. 9 Apr 1980, Edinburgh, Scotland (Age 86 years)2. RIGGALL, Paul Rigauld, b. 1894, Budleigh Salterton, Devon, England d. 1961 (Age 67 years)3. RIGGALL, Clara Valetta, b. 1896, Alford, Lincolnshire, England d. 1970 (Age 74 years)4. RIGGALL, Francis Edward, b. 1898, Rose Villa, Alford, Lincolnshire d. 10 Dec 1978 (Age 80 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F519 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
Family 2 HATTON, Sarah Annie, b. Between 1861 and 1864, Woolton, Lancashire, England d. 18 Jul 1884, Poole, Dorset, England (Age 23 years) Marriage 1880 Warrington Registration District, Lancashire Children 1. RIGGALL, Robert Marmaduke, b. 23 May 1881, City Of London, London, England d. 1970, Hendon Registration District (Age 88 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]2. RIGGALL, George Herbert, b. 1883 d. 1977 (Age 94 years) 3. RIGGALL, Annie Melita, b. 1884 d. Yes, date unknown Family ID F759 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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MARMADUKE RIGGALL 1851-1927
According to Frances Walker (quilters@patch26.freeserve.co.uk) he was born at Warne, Yorkshire, on 1 March 1851 and died on 8 September 1927.
He had red hair, a red beard and a very lively personality according to his granddaughter Margaret EDE. He died when she was ten years old.
His first marriage was to Sarah Annie HATTON in 1880.
(GRO June Q 1880 Warrington 8c 213)
She died in 1884 aged 22.
(GRO September Q 1884 Poole 5a 160)
Harriet COCKER married the Rev. Marmaduke RIGGALL, Superintendent of the Devon and Dorset Methodist Mission, at the Wesleyan Chapel, Hathersage, on 24 November 1891. The former mayor of Sheffield, Alderman W.J. CLEGG, escorted her up the aisle of the chapel, and her niece Mamie HINCHCLIFFE was present (The Bradwell Wesleyan Circuit Monthly Greeting No. 24 December 1891). The same publication recorded that Mrs. COCKER's subscription was £7.10.0 towards the income of the Quarterly Meeting.
(Harriet COCKER 32 years widow of Independent Means Bellevue, Outseats, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Hathersage, by licence. Witnesses: Wm. J. CLEGG, Robert W. RIGGALL, Mary Ellen HINCHCLIFF - Book 13 Page 61 District of Bakewell, Derbyshire). Marmaduke RIGGALL was described as of Budleigh Salterton, Devon, son of Robert RIGGALL deceased, a landowner and farmer.
(GRO 1891 Dec Bakewell 7b 1485)
The 1911 census of 67 Forest Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire:
*Marmaduke RIGGALL, head, aged 60, Wesleyan Methodist Minister, born at Warne, Yorkshire;
Harriet RIGGALL, wife, aged 52, married 19 years, 4 children (all living), born at Algarkirk, Lincolnshire;
Clara Valetta RIGGALL, daughter, aged 14, born at Alford;
Kate FLETCHER, servant, aged 20, single, general domestic servant, born at Whittlesea, Cambridgeshire;
Mary Ann Bates FLETCHER, servant, aged 16, general servant domestic, born at Whittlesea, Cambridgeshire.
(RG14/19117)
From Hill's Arrangements 1926:
"RIGGALL, MARMADUKE
Institution - D.
1872 Do. 1
1873 Malta Garrison 1
1874 Bradford-on-Avon 2
1876 London, Pres. As. 1
1877 Warrington 3
1880 London, Hinde St. 3
1883 Poole 3
1886 Supernum. 1
1887 Frome 3
1890 Blackheath 1
1891 Devon, &c., Mis. 4
1895 Alford 3
1898 Lincoln, Dt. Mis. 3
1901 Supernum. 4
1905 N. Derby Mis. 4
1909 Loughborough 2
1911 Supernum.
His death at the age of 76 was registered in 1927.
(GRO September Q 1927 Spilsby 7a 514)
From Methodist Obituaries 1928 Page 97:
"Marmaduke RIGGALL: born at Warne, near Beverley, March 15, 1851. His home was a centre of evangelical activity and strong Methodist influence. He entered the Ministry from the Alford Circuit at the age of twenty-one. On leaving Didsbury he wawawas appointed Chaplain to the garrison at Malta. He served in many circuits, both town and country, and finally settled as a Supernumerary in the circuit from which he entered the Ministry. His preaching was characterised by a strong evangelistic fervour. A man of unbounded activity, he was ever seeking to find the most effective methods of advancing the kingdom of God. He was particularly interested in the young, and was never happier than when he discovered in some young man the inststincts of a preacher, or found one whom he could bring forward as a candidate for the Ministry. He had a decided literary talent. He was always eager to use this to the furtherance of his work as a minister of the Gospel. In his later years much time was given to research in connection with the Wesley Historical Society, of which he was one of the founders. He bore much pain with great patience, and never lost his intense love and interest in the affairs of the Church and Kingdom in which he had laboured so faithfully. He entered on his eternal rest on September 8, 1927, in the seventy-sixth year of his age and the fifty-fifth of his ministry."
The Will of the Reverend Marmaduke RIGGALL of Malta House, Alford, Lincolnshire:
"I THE REVEREND Marmaduke RIGGALL of Alford in the County of Lincoln Supernumerary Wesleyan Minister hereby revoke all testamentary dispositions heretofore made by me and declare this to be my last will which I make this twenty fourth day of August one thousand nine hundred and twenty seven I appoint my sons Robert Marmaduke RIGGALL Paul Riggauld RIGGALL and Francis Edward RIGGALL and my daughter Clara Valetta RIGGALL (hereinafter called my trustees) to be the EXECUTORS EXECUTRIX AND TRUSTEES of my will I bequeath to my daughter the said Clara Valetta RIGGALL the legacy of one thousand pounds (free of duty) I devise and bequeath all my real and personal estate not hereby or by any codicil hereto otherwise specifically disposed of unto my trustees Upon trust to sell my real estate and sell and convert into money such part of my personal estate as shall not consist of money and stand possessed of the proceeds of such sale and conversion and of my ready money Upon trust after paying my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses estate and other duties payable on the proving of this my last will and the aforesaid legacy to pay and divide the clear residue thereof unto and equally between and among my sons Robert Marmaduke RIGGALL George Herbert RIGGALL Pauk Rigauld RIGGALL and Francis Edward RIGGALL and my daughters Harriet Doris MITCHELL and Clara Valetta RIGGALL And I hereby declare that in the event of any one of more of my said sons or daughters dying in my lifetime leaving a child or children him her or them surviving who shall live to attain the age of twenty one years then and in such case I direct that such child or children shall take (and if more than one equally between them) the share which his her or their parent would have taken under this my will if such parent had survived me IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand the day and year first above written - Marmaduke RIGGALL" - Signed by the above named Marmaduke RIGGALL as his last will in the presence of us both present at the same time who in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto set our names as witnesses - S HILDRED Clerk to Messrs Walkers & Owen Solicitors Alford - Mary Ann Bates FELL Alford Married Woman -
Proved 21 st December 1927
The gross value of his estate amounted to £10,633.10s.4d. The net value of his personal estate was £3,923.18s.11d.
(revised 29.05.2017)