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HUGGINS, William Henry
1875 - 1928 (53 years) Has 4 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
1842 - 1913 (71 years)-
Name HUGGINS, William Henry Birth 1875 Nettleham, Lincolnshire, England 
Gender Male Death 1928 Holbeach, Lincolnshire Person ID I1255 Edgoose Last Modified 31 Jan 2026
Father HUGGINS, John, b. 1837, Timberland, Lincolnshire, England d. 1888, Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire, England (Age 51 years) Mother GIBSON, Ruth, b. 1842, Brant Broughton, Lincolnshire, England d. 1913, Holbeach Registration District, Lincolnshire (Age 71 years) Marriage 1864 Newark Registration District, Nottinghamshire Family ID F232 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family MOULES, Patience Edgoose, b. 1874, West Walton, Norfolk d. 1929, Holbeach, Lincolnshire (Age 55 years) Marriage 1903 Wisbech Registration District, Cambridgeshire Family ID F778 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Jan 2026
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WILLIAM HENRY HUGGINS 1875-1928
William Henry HUGGINS was born in 1875.
(GRO June Q 1875 Lincoln 7a 485)
From the 1891 census of Bridge Road, Sutton St. Mary, Lincolnshire:
Ruth HUGGINS, head, widow, aged 49, baker and grocer, employer, born at Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire;
*William H. HUGGINS, son, aged 16, grocer's assistant, born at Nettleham, Lincolnshire;
Albert A. HUGGINS, son, aged 6, scholar, born at Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire;
Ada M. HUGGINS, daughter, aged 18, born at Nettleham, Lincolnshire;
Kate F. HUGGINS, daughter, aged 6, scholar, born at Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire;
James BURGESS, boarder, single, aged 18, baker's assistant, born at Hunstanton, Norfolk;
Edith RHODES, servant, single, aged 20, general domestic servant, born at Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire.
(RG12/2567/53/9)
(grocer, baker, insurance agent in 1901)
He married Patience Edgoose MOULES in 1903.
(GRO September Q 1903 Wisbech 3b 1275)
In 1905 his sister Ada Mary HUGGINS married William Frederick EDGOOSE (1873-1954).
From the 1911 of Bridge Road, Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire:
*William Henry HUGGINS, head, aged 35, married, baker & grocer, employer, born at Nettleham, Lincolnshire;
Patience Edgoose HUGGINS, wife, aged 36, married 7 years, no children, assisting in the business, born at West Walton, Norfolk;
Mary MOULES, relative, aged 68, widow, household duties, born at West Walton, Norfolk;
Caroline Elizabeth BRUNTON, visitor, aged 21, single, school teacher, born at Tittleshall, Norfolk;
Hilda WILKINSON, servant, aged 15, single, general servant domestic, born at Gedney Drove End, Lincolnshire.
(RG14/19519)
The death of William H. HUGGINS aged 53 was registered in 1928.
(GRO March Q 1928 Holbeach 7a 456)
NOTE:
The EDGOOSE/HUGGINS connection:
1) In 1903, William Henry HUGGINS, sister of Ada Mary HUGGINS, married Patience EDGOOSE MOULES, daughter of the Mary EDGOOSE who had married Joseph MOULES at West Walton in 1871.
2) Ada Mary HUGGINS married William Frederick EDGOOSE, illegitimate son of Mary's sister Ruth EDGOOSE, two years later.
3) The only close point of contact between the HUGGINS and EDGOOSE familes appears to have been the village of Nettleham in Lincolnshire where Ada Mary and William Henry HUGGINS were born and where William Frederick EDGOOSE was boarded out - at least in 1881. Whether a possible friendship formed before 1881 when they were just eight years old endured into adulthood is not proven.
(revised 30.10.2012)