Ockbrook's church was subsidiary to that of Elvaston, and Ockbrook
and.Elvaston were closely tied until the early 17th century, according to J
W Harman, writing of medieval Ockbrook. This must have held true for the Piggin
family itself. There was a John Piggin of Ockbrook,
who died in 1594, and a John Piggin of Elvaston,
who died in 1591. It is assumed they were cousins of some degree, and the affairs
of their families were plainly linked, for example in the trust board created
by the 1621 will of William Piggin.
According to his will, the Elvaston John had four sons: William, Elias, Thomas and Richard. Final identification of them in other documents can only be
conjectural. However it would seem that two of the sons, Elias and William, moved to
London to make their fortunes as plasterers, perhaps after being apprenticed to a relation, William Piggin of London.
It is probable that only Thomas and Richard continued to farm in the
Elvaston area. Thomas died without leaving a valid will in 1625.
John Pigen
Elvaston
Will
1591
September 10 [See also
Phillimore
Calendar, page
308:
record 2]
- son in law Robert Toke/Jennings and to his
two children ...
- son William
- son Ellic
- daughter Katheren
- son Tho.
- daughter Mary Pygen
- daughter Ane Pygen
- son Richard and his four children
- wife Ales
[Executor]
Overseer: Richard, son
[Inventory £38:15:0d]
38 li. 15 s.
[Archive]
Lichfield Record Office
Thomas Piggen
Elvaston
Inv
1625
[Grant 1625-06-04]
[Inventory £36:17:0d]
by John Richardson and William Piggin,
xxxvj li xvij b
[Archive]
Lichfield Record Office
[Presumably same as that referred to in
Phillimore
Calendar, page
475
(Thomas Piggin, administration 1625, record 295)]
Richard Piggin -1639 of Thulston
Richard, who had been described in 1591 as having four children,
and who owned land in one of the Elvaston villages, Thulston, was probably the
longest-lived of the sons. He was sufficiently well off in 1637, two years before
he died, to expand his own landholdings.
Richard Piggin
Thurlaston
Will
1640
yeoman
- trustees William Turner and Richard
Brooke
- possession of land called "Smalley Croft
alias Elvaston Close"
- son William and Frances his wife
- his sons Richard, Ellis, John,
- daughter Elizabeth
- Anne
- Sarah
- son Richard (occupying messuage in Loscoe
(Heanor))
- his daughters Eliz and Dowglas
- son Thomas
- his daughters Ellin and Frances
- Mr Alexander Stanhope, s. Sr. John Stanhope
knt. dec. (bequest)
- Margaret Cowley wife of Robert Cowley
(Aston on Trent) (bequest)
[Signature 1639-09-17]
[Probate 1640-12-11]
[Archive]
Lichfield Record Office [Tina has a photocopy.
See also
Phillimore
calendar, page
479]
Will of Thomas Piggen of Elvaston, inventory by John Richardson and William Piggin [Archive]
Derbyshire Record Office Lichfield Record Office [See also Phillimore Calendar, page 308: record 2] - date: 1625
Bargain and sale by John Richardson, senior, of
Thulston, gent., and John Richardson, junior, to Richard Piggin,
elder, of Thulston, yeoman, for £60, of the Flatte Close at Bellitonfoote,
in Elvaston High meadow including Fourteene Reddy Swathes, 3 roods [rods]
arable in Greeneway field, land in Gotte field, Atrathorne field, Bellytonfeild
[abuttals given] [Archive]
Derbyshire Record Office D518M/T106 - date: 1623 (Stanhope)
Deed of exchange between (1) John Richardson of
Thulston, gent., and Edward and Thomas, his brothers, and (2) William Turner
of Derby, Richard Brookes of Ellvaston, gents, and Richard Piggin
of Thulston, yeoman. For consideration of £24 Richardson gives Smalley
Crofte, Elvaston, to Turner and Brookes, who give him seven lands, warranted
by Piggin [Archive]
Derbyshire Record Office D518M/T111 - date: 1637/8 [index date, not document
date](Stanhope)
Will of Richard Piggin
of Thurlaston, owner of Smalley Croft alias Elvaston Close, names sons William
(with Frances his wife and Richard, Ellis and John, his sons), Richard (occupying
land at Loscoe) and Thomas [Archive]
Derbyshire Record Office Lichfield Record Office - date: 1639, proved 1640
[second copy of document above].
William Piggin I
The line of several men named William Piggins at Elvaston appears to have been descended from
Richard. William Piggin I inventorized his uncle Thomas's estate in 1625 and
died himself in 1647, with William II listed as administrator of the estate of William I.
William Piggin
Elvaston
Adm
1647
[Grant 1647-05-28]
administration to Frances Piggin de Thurlaston, wid. d. Willm.
Piggin.
Marked by Frances and Wm. Piggin
[Inventory £140]
by Edw. Potter, Edw. Tonge, Wm. Piggin
[Archive]
Lichfield Record Office
[See also
Phillimore
Calendar, page
480]
Comparative table of William Piggen's land according
to various deeds and surveys, 1623/4 - 1730 [Archive]
Derbyshire Record Office D518M/E29
- date: circa 1750? (Stanhope)
William Piggin II and his brother Elias Piggin
Early Elvaston appears to have been a prosperous farming community.
Charles Cox's Three Centuries of Derbyshire Annals (1890) contains an
interesting account (volume II, page 275), based on 60 now-lost documents in
the old Derbyshire record room, of the "court leets" of the three manors in
Elvaston parish in the period 1687-1697. William Piggin is listed by Cox as a juror of the
court leet of April 13, 1695. Cox did not reproduce the rolls of all 76 freeholders,
but stated that they had been preserved for 1687-1692 and 1694-1696, and it
is presumed that the Piggin name was on these documents.
Free and Voluntary Present (a tax) of 1661: Elvaston payers:
William Piggin: 1 shilling and sixpence
[Archive]
National Archives
Covenant by William Piggen, elder (presumably
William II), of Elvaston, yeoman, with Edward Ward of Thulston, gent., and
Elias Piggen of Thulston, yeoman, in consideration of marriage between
William Piggen, eldest son of William Piggen elder, and Elizabeth, daughter
of James Jennings yeoman, of Foston, and of £60 from William to William
senior, to stand seised of Smalley Croft with barn, Foofin flatt, Little bostacks,
the Hardisses (2 clo.), 3 acres in High Meadow, 3 acres arable in Goty field
and Hathorne tree field, 2½ acres land in Bellington field, and ½
acre in Breachfield, to uses: one moiety to William Piggen elder, for life
remainder to his wife Sarah for life, remainder to William Piggen younger
and legitimate male heirs, remainders to elder William's 2nd, 3rd and 4th
sons, John Richard, and Thomas; second moiety to younger William for life,
remainder to wife Elizabeth for life, remainders to legitimate heirs and then
as first moiety. [Two copies] [Archive]
Derbyshire Record Office D518M/T124-5 -
date: 1680 (Stanhope)
Sarah Piggin
Elvaston/Thulston
Will
1691
widow
- son in law Edw. Robbins of Elvaston
- son in law John Smedley
- daughter in law Eliz. wife of William
Piggin
- daughter in law Anne wife of John
Piggin
- daughter in law Anne wife of Tho.
Piggin
- sister Ellen Henshaw of Weston, widow
- grandchildren Eliz. and Margaret daughters
of William Piggin
- grandchildren Mary and Elizabeth daughters
of John Piggin and Sarah younger daughter of John Piggin
- Charles, Benj., Geo. and Sarah Wilson,
children of my daughter Alice (now Smedley) and Anne, John, Thomas
children of Alice and John Smedley
- Tho., Edw, Anne, Sarah Robbins children of
Edw. and Sarah Robbins and Mary daughter Edw and Sarah Robbins
- Tho., John, Sarah, Dorothy, William,
Rebecca Chambers children of Elizabeth Chambers of Thulston
widow
- Elizabeth and William children of Anne
North (Sutten Bonnington)
- daughters Alice Smedley, Sarah Robins,
Elizabeth Chambers, Anne North
- sons William, John, Richard, Thomas
- cousin William Osborne of Derby, clerk and
his wife Rebecca and child Anne, Margaret, William, James,
Alice
- kinsman Jacob Osbourne of Elvaston
- Sarah Stenson daughter of Edw. Coxen of
Normanton, my sister Mary Coxen of Normanton
- Edw., Anne, Elizabeth Perkins of Nottingham
children of my sister Tho. Piggin's wife by a former husband and
Sarah and William children of my son Thomas Piggin
- Anne Middleton widow Clenne of
Chelaston
- Elizabeth Boy of Elvaston widow
- Anne Stevenson widow
- Sisley Thrushly of Elvaston widow
- Anne White of Amberston widow
- Jane Bornford of Amberston widow
- To Ellen Cripple
[Executor]
Residue to son Richard Piggin - sole executor
Overseers: Wm. Osborne of Derby, clerk, Edw. Robbins, Jacob Osborne of Elvaston
[Signature 1690-01-22]
[Archive]
Lichfield Record Office
John Piggin
Derby
Will
1695
April 26, baker
property in Derby St Mary Gate
- eldest daughter Mary
- daughter Elizabeth
- daughter Sarah
- wife Anne
[Inventory £130]
(about)
[Archive]
Lichfield Record Office
Ellis Piggin
Elvaston
Adm.
1698
[Grant 1698-10-21]
to Anne his widow
[Inventory £160]
(about) by Rob. Johnson and Wm. Gregg
[Archive]
Lichfield Record Office
Terrier and survey of one moiety of inclosed land in Elvaston and Thurlston belonging to Anne Piggin and Samuel Fox of Derby [Archive]
Derbyshire Record Office D303/26/1 - date: 1714
Anne Piggin
Thurlston
Will
1719
April 7, widow
- daughter Sarah Johnson
- daughter Rachel Gregg
[Archive]
Lichfield Record Office
Probate of will (5 May 1705) of Anne Piggin of
Thulstone, widow, leaving messuage and lands in Thulstone to daughters Sarah
Johnson and Rachell Gregg, each half to be divided among their children
after their death; Sarah and Rachell each to pay £50 as verbally directed
by Anne. Copy (1729) of counsel's opinion (1719) [Archive]
Derbyshire Record Office D518M/T150-1
- date: 1719 (Stanhope)
Lease and release by John, second son of Robert
Johnson of Burrowash, to Robert's eldest son Joseph, yeoman, and wife Sarah,
for £35, of third of moiety inherited under Anne Piggin's will
[Archive]
Derbyshire Record Office D518M/T156-7 - date: 1721/2 (Stanhope)
Mortgage by lease and release by Joseph of Burrowash,
yeoman to Samuel Robinson of Nottingham, baker, for £120, of moiety
of messuage in Thulston in Anne Piggin's will (16, 17 Jan 1722/3).
Lease and release of messuage by Johnson and Robinson to Thomas Stanhope
of Elvaston, esq., for £120 to Robinson and £367 10s to Johnson
(23, 24 Dec 1723) [Archive]
Derbyshire Record Office D518M/T158-161 - date: 1722-3
(Stanhope)
Lease and release by Robert Johnson of Borrowash,
yeoman, wife Sarah and youngest son Francis, chandler, to Joseph, their
eldest son, of one third of moiety of Thulston messuage claimed under Anne
Piggin's will [Archive]
Derbyshire Record Office D518M/T152-3 - date:
1720 (Stanhope)
Deed to lead the uses of a fine from Isaac Borrow
and Dorothy Allat to Hugh Bateman for the use of Anne Piggen, of
the manor of Litchurch, [Archive]
Derbyshire Record Office D5369/3/13-14 - date:
1717 (Borough/Borrow Family Papers, see A2A)
Release [lease missing] of a messuage in the Market
Place in Derby, near Leather Lane, the executors of the will of Anne Piggin
to the Mayor and Burgesses of the Borough of Derby, 28 Sep 1731 [Archive]
Derbyshire Record Office D5369/25/38
- date: 1731 (Borough/Borrow Family Papers, see A2A)
Lease and release confirming the above conveyance
by Anne Piggin's granddaughters (now of age and having received their
legacies), 4-5 Oct 1738 [Archive]
Derbyshire Record Office D5369/25/39 - date:
1738 (Borough/Borrow Family Papers, see A2A)
Anne Piggin
Derby
Will
1727
April 5, widow
- son in law John Bloodworth the elder of
Derby, framework knitter
- grandson John Bloodworth junior
- granddaughter Mary Bloodworth
- granddaughter Elizabeth Bloodworth
[Executor]
trustees John Bloodworth the elder, John Noten of Derby framework
knitter, Bery: Bilson/Wilson of Derby maltster - also executors
[Witnesses]
John Higgs, Joseph Colvert, John Hipes
[Archive]
Lichfield Record Office
William Piggin III
Lease and release by John Stanhope of Elvaston,
esq., to Edmund son of Edmund Jaques of Elvaston, gent deceased, William
son of William Piggin of Elvaston, yeoman, Edward Robbin of Elvaston,
yeoman, William son of William Holland of Elvaston, yeoman, Jacob, second
son of James Osborne of Elvaston, yeoman, John son of Ellys Piggin
of Thulston, yeoman, William Soare of Ambaston, yeoman, William, a son of
John Trowell of Ambaston, yeoman, in consideration of £100 from Dame
Anne Ellys of Wyham (Lincolnshire), widow, daughter of Sir John Stanhope
of Elvaston, deceased, of Endow Flatt, meadow and pasture, in Elvaston,
on trust to pay schoolmistress in Elvaston to teach six girls to read and
work. Mistress and pupils to be nominated by Alexander Stanhope of Derby
for life, then by John Stanhope and heirs, but by minister and churchwardens
if no nomination within three weeks [Archive]
Derbyshire Record Office D518M/T130-1
- date: 1684 (Stanhope)
Probate of will of William Piggin of Elvaston,
yeoman; leaving Smalley croft close with barn, orchard and yard to wife
Ruth for life, remainder to eldest son William; all other Elvaston property
to William charged with £26 each to son Thomas and daughters Sarah
and Hannah; one third of personal estate to Ruth, £29 to Thomas, £25
to son John, £19 to Sarah, £14 to Hannah, residue to William
[Archive]
Derbyshire Record Office D518M/T164 - date: 1729 (Stanhope)
William Piggin
Elvaston
Will
1729
April 22, yeoman
- wife Ruth
- eldest son William
- son Thomas
- daughter Sarah
- daughter Hannah
- son John
[N.B. possession of Smalley Croft - in will of Richard Piggin 1640 Elvaston]
[Witnesses]
W Turner, John Severn, Elizabeth Steesn
[Inventory £39.3.8]
by Rob. Rolleston and John Coxon
[Archive]
Lichfield Record Office
William Piggin IV
Mortgage by demise for
1000 years of two Hardhurst closes (6 acres 30 perches), Fowfin Flatt (2 acres,
2 roods [rods]) Little Bostock (3 roods [rods]) Smalley croft and barn (1
acre, 2 roods [rods] and 20 perches) and lands in Elvaston fields by William
Piggin of Elvaston, yeoman to William Turner of Derby, gent. for £140
at 7% (9 May 1729); by Piggin to Charles Stanhope of Elvaston, esq., for £150
(25 Sep 1730); lease and release to make tenant to precipe and declare uses
of recovery of lands, for £160 5s in addition to £165 mortgage
debt of Piggin to Stanhope, to Stanhope, except for Smalley croft to Piggin
widow, mother of William, for life, remaider to Stanhope (7, 8 Sep 1732)
[Archive]
Derbyshire Record Office D518M/T167-170 - date: 1729-32 (Stanhope)
The location of the above property may be shown on a very early Elvaston map (DRO
D4996/6/66 (link broken!)) in Derbyshire Record Office, which shows the Stanhope estates in about 1776. Jean Eckersley says an older map is hanging on a resident's dining room wall which may date from before 1765. For some views of modern Elvaston, see Garth Newton's Ilkeston Cam pages.
[Archive]
Derbyshire Record Office D4996/6/66 - date: circa 1776 (Stanhope)
