The Name: Family Charts

This website contains worksheets summarizing research on the Piggin families of England. The charts below represent a hypothetical arrangement of all the known families into wider clans. The location labels below are clickable links, which lead you to another web page with more detailed information.

The largest and oldest group are to be found in the Midlands, recorded as early as about 1530, but the interconnections within the 14 families in this group remain unclear:

16th Century	17th Century	18th Century	19th Century
Elvaston DBY			Thulston DBY
Heanor DBY		Bulwell NTT	Nottingham NTT
			Potteries STS
Ockbrook DBY
	Crich DBY		Crich DBY
		Alfreton DBY
			Derby DBY
			Derby/New Zealand
		Stanton OXF
Stamford LIN
	Bottesford LEI		Gedney LIN
			Spalding LIN
			Wisbech CAM
			Australia
		Flitcham NFK
		Skeffington LEI	Skeffington LEI
			Scotland/USA
			Foleshill WAR

The Norfolk group of Piggin families has demonstrably been in existence since about 1580 and their origin may be independent of the Midlands group. Only DNA testing could conclusively establish if the Midlands and Norwich group are related:

16th Century	17th Century	18th Century	19th Century
	Parmentergate, Norwich
	Norwich (Millis)		Braintree ESS
			Halifax YKS
			East End LDN
			Norwich (shoemaker)
			Norwich (painter)
			Wandsworth LDN
			Swardeston NFK
	Burlingham NFK	Filby NFK	Hoveton NFK
			Martham NFK
	Salhouse NFK

Finally there is a group of stray families which cannot yet be connected in to the big picture:

			Fulham LDN
			Crediton DEV
			Bristol
			Totnes DEV
			Racine WI

Information is also given on similar, easily confused surnames in the records:

• The Pigeon family of Badsey, sometimes spelled Pigin
• The Pigou family, sometimes transcribed as Pigon