05 February 2022

George HUGILL (joiner of Stockton-on-Tees)

St. Thomas's Church
(photos by Judy Webster, 2005)
On this day 178 years ago (5 Feb 1844), at St. Thomas's Church, Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England, George HUGILL married Jane BLACKBURN.

George was probably a brother of my 2x great-grandmother Mary HUGILL, who had married John PEACOCK in the same church in 1836. George HUGILL, a joiner of Stockton-on-Tees, was the executor for John's will, but unfortunately that document doesn't specify their relationship.

In census returns, the birthplace of Mary PEACOCK nee HUGILL (born c.1813) and George HUGILL (c.1816-1817) is shown as Hull, Yorkshire.

Today I ordered the certificate for George and Jane's marriage in 1844. I want to know whether George gave the same details then as he did when he married again (as a widower) in 1858, to Helen WRIGHT. According to the 1858 certificate, George was a son of Joseph HUGILL, a joiner.

George HUGILL and Jane BLACKBURN had three children:

* John George HUGILL died from burns at the age of 9 (see Carlisle Patriot, 14 Jan 1854).

* Frederick HUGILL (1846-1926) was a watchmaker and jeweller. He and his wife Elizabeth ROBINSON moved to Bangor in North Wales, but their five children were born in the Stockton area - Jane (she married George William EWART), George Frederick, Helen, Elizabeth and Florence.

* William HUGILL, born 1849. I have not yet researched him.

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This is my Week 5 post for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. Amy Johnson Crow has challenged us to do something with the family history information that we've gathered. Even if I don't always stick to the suggested themes, I'll try to post something here each week.

(This post first appeared on https://judy-webster.blogspot.com/2022/02/george-hugill-joiner-of-stockton-on-tees.html)