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The family name Liggins can be traced back to the 7th century, where members of the family were living at a time when missionaries, some from Ireland and some sent directly from Rome, succeeded in firmly planting the Christian faith in the soil of Anglo-Saxon England.
The English family name of Liggins is classified as being of nickname origin. Surnames which are derived from a nickname are said to constitute one of the widest and most varied class of family names. This particular category encompasses many different types of origin. The most obvious are those names which are based on a physical characteristic or personal attribute of the initial bearer.
In this particular instance, the surname of "Liggins" is probably derived from the Middle English "Legg" from the old Norse "Leggr" meaning Leg and referred to someone with some malformation or peculiarity of the leg(s), or or one with particularly long, beautiful or well formed legs. Variants of the name "Liggins" include, "Legge", "Legg", "Liggen", "Liggings", and "Ligney".
One of the earliest references to this name or to a variant of it, is a record of one Robert Legge residing in Sussex, England in 1327.
The modern spelling of most English surnames is comparatively recent and is usually a phonetic rendering of the name which is found in parish registers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The family line with the name "Liggins" that this web site starts with, can be directly traced back to a marriage that took place in the seventeenth century on:
15th July 1867,
when William Liggins married Katherine George
Their son, Albert Henry Liggins was born on 29/6/1868, in Wellingborough, England, he married
Emma Bingle, from Stroud, Gloucestershire, on 12/11/1893
Their son, Bert Liggins, married Jenny (Jane) Johnson, twin sister of Harriet,
born June 1898, Northampton, England.
They had 5 children
Ronald Gilbert Milly Hilda Brenda