18 Aug 2023
Wife: Elizabeth Rickard
Born: 1811 in Cornwall 1 Father: Mother:
Husband: Robert Charles Higham Married: 1830 in Cornwall 2
Born: ABT 1806 in Cornwall Census: 1851 in Cornwall (see note 1) Occupation: 1851 Shoemaker Census: 1861 in Cornwall (see note 2) Occupation: 1861 Boot & Shoe Maker Father: Mother:
M Child 1: Thomas Rickard Higham Born: ABT 1831 in Cornwall Census: 1851 in Cornwall (see note 3) Occupation: 1851 Shoemaker Census: 1861 in School Lane, Trumpington (see note 4) Occupation: 1861 - 1864 National Schoolmaster and Organist Occupation: 1864 - 1871 Schoolmaster & Registrar of Births and Deaths Census: 1871 in Mickleton, Gloucestershire (see note 5) Died: 1910 in USA 3 Wife: Sarah Withers b. ABT 1832 d. 1911 Married: 1857 in Cornwall 1 Wife: Elizabeth Derrett Married: 1885 in Gloucestershire 4 (see note 6)
M Child 2: Joseph Rickard Higham Born: 1838 in Cornwall 4,5 (see note 7) Census: 1851 in Cornwall (see note 8) Census: 1861 in Cornwall (see note 9) Occupation: 1861 - 1871 Boot & Shoe Maker 6 Resided: 1864 - 1865 in Church Street, Trumpington 6 Census: 1871 in Somerset (see note 10) Wife: Jane Searle Tippett b. 1838 Married: 1861 in Cornwall 4 (see note 11)
Sources: (1) Higham family website. (2) Ancestry Select Marriages. (3) Ancestry family tree. (4) FreeBMD website. (5) GRO index. (6) Newspaper report.
Event Notes Note (1) Age 44, born Falmouth. Shoemaker, with wife Elizabeth and 8 children Note (2) Age 62, born Falmouth. Boot & Shoe Maker, with wife Elizabeth and 6 children Note (3) Age 19, born Crowan, with family. Shoemaker Note (4) Age 29, born Crowan. National Schoolmaster and Organist, with wife Sarah Note (5) Age 39, born Crowan. Schoolmaster & Registrar of Births and Deaths, with wife Sarah and 4 children Note (6) Sep 1885 Dursley 6a 360. The marriage register for Wotton under Edge is online at ancestry.co.uk. Thomas Rickard Higham, age 48 Widower, Tutor, father Robert Charles Higham. Apparently a bigamist Note (7) Sep 1838 Helston 9 114 mothers surname Rickard Note (8) Age 12, born Crowan, with family Note (9) Age 23, born Crowan. Boot & Shoe Maker, with family Note (10) Appears as Thomas Highman: age 32, born Crowan. Boot & Shoe Maker, with wife Jane and 5 children Note (11) Sec 1861 St Columb 5c 170. Husband in index as Joseph Henry Higham Copyright © Trumpington Local History Group 2023 Email TLHG Return to TLHG introduction page Name Index