Birth: 2 March 1864 Bromley, Middlesex, UK
Father: Charles Snow Biggs 1814-1883
Mother: Frances Johnson [Biggs] 1826-1869
Christening: Unknown
Marriage: 27 March 1887 St Thomas, Stepney, Middlesex, UK
Wife: Elizabeth Clark 1867-1925
Death: February 1951 Southern Grove Lodge, Southern Grove, Limehouse, London, UK
Burial: 14 February 1951 City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery, private unconsecrated grave 10898, Bromley, London, UK.
Charles Richard John Biggs 1887
Edwin Biggs Circa 1890
Harry Nathaniel Biggs 1891-1951
Florence Elizabeth Biggs 1893
Violet Biggs [Barnes] 1894-1976
Mabel Biggs [Judd] 1896-1974
Ernest Enoch Biggs 1898
George Biggs 1901-1983
Grace Biggs 1902-a1911
Ivy Lilian Biggs 1904
Albert James Biggs 1906-a1939
Birth of Nathaniel Biggs in FreeBMD in April-June 1864 in Poplar (1c 583).
His brother was born in Bromley, Middlesex in 1866.
His mother died in Poplar in 1869.
In the 1871 census as Nathaniel Biggs aged 7, born in Bromley Middlesex, and living with his widowed father (Charles), three brothers (Albert, Joseph and Enoch), sister (Mary), uncle (Ebenezer) and his wife (Mary), and two nephews (Charles and Jacob) at 11 Sherwood Street, Bromley St Leonard, London.
His father married Matilda Tubb [Howell] in Whitechapel on 5 Jun 1872.
I cannot locate the family in the 1881 census.
His father died at 18 George Street, Poplar in 1883.
Marriage of Nathaniel Biggs and Elizabeth Clark in FreeBMD in January-March 1887 in Mile End (1c 652).
Entry in Ancestry London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932 for the marriage of Nathaniel Biggs aged 23, father Charles Snow Biggs, and Elizabeth Clark on 27 March 1887 at St Thomas, Stepney, Tower Hamlets."Page 242 1887 Marriage solemnized at St Thomas Church in the Parish of Stepney in the County of Middlesex No. 483 Twenty Seventh March 1887 Nathaniel Biggs aged 23, a Bachelor and Carman of 45 Jubilee St., father Charles Snow Biggs, a Cooper, and Elizabeth Clark aged 20, a Spinster of 54 Emworth St., father John Thomas Clark, a Boilermaker. Married in the Church of St. Thomas according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns [...] in the Presence of Richard Chambers Clark [who made his mark] and Amelia Clerk".
His first two sons were born in Millwall in 1887 when he was a carman living at 29 Havant Street and in 1889 when he was a carman living at 4 Auguste Street.
In the 1891 census as Nathiel Briggs (sic - on the original) aged 29, born in Bow, Middlesex, a cooper, and living with his wife (Emma), and three sons (Albert, Charles and Harry) at 2 Union Place, Stratford, West Ham, Essex.
His first two children were born in Polar in 1893 and 1995, son in Stratford, Essex in 1891, and the next two in Limehouse in 1897 and 1898 when he was a labourer in one and a cooper in the others living at 95 Thomas Street.
There are seven entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Nathaniel Biggs addresses 92 Suffolk Street, All Saints, Poplar, Tower Hamlets from 1994 to 1996, and 95 Thomas Street, Limehouse, Tower Hamlets from 1897 to 1901.
In the 1901 census as Nathaniel Biggs aged 39, born in Bromley, London, a cooper, and living with his wife (Nathaniel), four sons (Charles, Edwin, Ernest and Harry) and three daughters (Florence, Mabel and Violet) in three rooms at 95 Thomas Street, Limehouse, London.
There are eight entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Nathaniel Biggs address 95 Thomas Street, Limehouse, Tower Hamlets from 1901 to 1911.
In the 1911 census as Nathaniel Biggs aged 48, born in Bromley, a cooper, and living with his wife (Elizabeth), four sons (Albert, Earnest, George and Harry), and five daughters (Florence, Grace, Ivy, Mabel and Violet) in four rooms at 95 Thomas Street, Limehouse, E.
There are twentfour entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Nathaniel Biggs address 95 Thomas Street, Stepney, Tower Hamlets from 1912 to 1939, other occupants Elizabeth Biggs (wife?) from 1918 to 1924, Ernest Enoch Biggs (son?) in 1920 and 1921, George Biggs (son?) from 1922 to 1927, Albert Biggs (son?) from 1930 to 1939, Grace Biggs (daughter?) from 1930 to 1932, Ivy (daughter?) from 1930 to 1933, and May Biggs (daughter?) in 1938 and 1939.
His wife died at 95 Thomas Street, Limehouse on 5 March 1925.
In the 1939 England and Wales Register as Nathaniel Biggs born 2 March 1863 (sic - on the original), widowed, a cooper (retired), and living with Albert James Biggs (son?) at 95 Thomas Road, Stepney, London.
There are six entries in Ancestry All London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Nathaniel Biggs address 20 Farrence Street, Limehouse, Stepney, Tower Hamlets in 1945, other occupants Ivy Biggs (daughter?) and Phoebe Miles, and South Grove House changing to Southern Grove Lodge in 1950, Southern Grove, Limehouse, Mile End Old Town, Stepney, Tower Hamlets from 1946 to 1950 together with very many others.
Death of Nathaniel Biggs in FreeBMD in January-March 1951 aged 96 in Stepney (5d 915).
Two entries in Ancestry London, England, City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery Registers, 1841-1966 for Nathaniel Biggs aged 86 in London buried on 14 Feb 1951 in one 14 December 1951 in the other. "Page 1190 Burials in the Year 1951 in the City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery Eastablished under Stat. 4th Victoria, c. 63. [...] 10898/5 Nathaniel Biggs No. 1 of St George in the East Hospital on 14.2.51 aged 86 ys" and Register of Private Graves 1920 - 1966 "10898 Grave 10 feet deep unConsecrated Sq 5 6 ft 6 x 2 ft 6 3 March 1925 S: 10942/10896 Miss Violet Biggs 95 Thomas St., Limehouse Elizabeth Biggs 58 5/3/25 44979 Nathaniel Biggs 86 14/2/51 Now 7".
There are twentyfive entries in Ancestry Public Member Trees for Nathaniel Biggs.
Note Poplar was transfered from Middlesex to London in 1889. Note also that the Bromley refered to above is now called Bromley-by-Bow.
Nathaniel Biggs was the father of George Biggs, husband of Emily Guth, aunt of Joan Mary G Mehrtens, wife of Raymond Ian Croucher Frampton, my first cousin.
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