Many thanks for the info on Lester - very interesting. I am sure most people with the Pigott or Piggott surname, have been asked if they are related to Lester. My reply is normally "Lester had a gg but I only have one g" Jill Pigott PIGGOTT-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: PIGGOTT-D Digest Volume 06 : Issue 30 Today's Topics: #1 "Jack" PIGGOTT, Lester's brother? [Joe Bissett #2 Re: [PIGGOTT] "Jack" PIGGOTT, Lest [cgpigott ] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from PIGGOTT-D, send a message to PIGGOTT-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. To contact the list administrator, send mail to PIGGOTT-admin@rootsweb.com. ______________________________Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:08:57 -0500 From: Joe Bissett <jbissett@txdirect.net> To: PIGGOTT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: "Jack" PIGGOTT, Lester's brother? HI List, I found this on another list. Anyone 'fess up to the Lester PIGGOTT line?? :-) I guess you have to take the bad with the good. Joe Source: NORCAL-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Sac Bee March 1906 The Evening Bee Sacramento, Cal. Thursday, March 1, 1906 page 6 Believed to Be Jockey's Brother WILLOWS (Glenn Co.), March 1 - Fred JACOBS, one of the men implicated in the burglary of Fred TODT's saloon at Germantown last Friday, was given a preliminary hearing yesterday before Justice of the Peace PROUIX, and was bound over to the Superior Court for trial. His bonds were fixed at $1000. Although the fellow gives the name of Jacobs, he is said to be no other than "Jack" PIGGOTT, a brother to the celebrated jockey of that name, and to Annie PIGGOTT, the pickpocket, known to the Police Departments of many bid cities. The other suspect says his name is Albert NELSON. He will be tried before the Justice of the Peace on Friday, and will probably be bound over, as the evidence is the same in both cases. Both are hard looking men, and from their actions under fire are believed to be experienced in the ways of criminals and Criminal Courts. ______________________________Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:19:34 +1000 From: cgpigott <cgpigott@bigpond.com> To: PIGGOTT-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PIGGOTT] "Jack" PIGGOTT, Lester's brother? Lester Keith PIGGOTT, the famous English jockey, was of family which had origins, I believe (from a brief look at his biography in a bookshop some years ago), in Cheshire, probably around Congleton. He was born 5 Nov 1935, probably at or near Newbury, son of Keith & Iris PIGGOTT; and grandson of Ernest PIGGOTT (a Steeplechase jockey) by Margaret CANNON (from a Google.search). His father Keith was a jockey; his grandfather Ernest's brother was Charles PIGGOTT, Trainer. Lester married in 1961, Susan ARMSTRONG, by whom he had a daughter Maureen PIGGOTT(who marr William HAGGAS); & by one of his staff members, Anna LUDLOW, he had a son Jamie. Lester also fell foul of the law - he was imprisoned in 1987 after a conviction for a "white-collar" crime - tax evasion; he served 366 days of a 3 year sentence, & was stripped of his O.B.E. - but I do not see an immediate connection to the "Jack" PIGGOTT of California in 1903. However, there was a Massie HARPER, Licensee of the Lion & Swan Hotel, Congleton, ca 1890s, whose grandfather (un-named) was Lester PIGGOTT's gt-gt-grandfather (also un-named). In the English Census of 1881, at Nantwich, Cheshire, there was enumerated a family headed by Thomas PIGGOTT, Head, Marr, 51, Hotel Keeper, b Bartherton, Cheshire, with his wife Alice, 41, & 5 sons & a daur, incl John, 12, Charles, 6, & Ernest, 2. In the 1871, this same family were at Woore Hall, Salop (or perhaps instead Staffs), where Thomas was named Thomas Massie PIGGOTT, 41, Farmer, with wife Alice, 29, with 4 sons & a daur. The MASSIE connection here is probably significant. Ernest PIGGOTT married at Stockbridge, (Hants/Wilts), June qtr, 1903, to Margaret Kate CANNON, so his Sept qtr 1878 birth in Nantwich is not inconsistent with the above details. Thomas Massie PIGGOTT marr at Nantwich, Cheshire, March qtr 1862, Alice WOODWARD. In 1851, Thomas M. PIGGOTT, 21, was enumerated, with 2 sisters, res with their parents at Batherton Hall, Cheshire - George PIGGOTT, Farmer, 63, b Wisaston, Cheshire, & his wife Elizabeth, 63, b Wybunbury, Cheshire. So, it is quite possible that the "Jack" PIGGOTT of your query could have been the John PIGOTT, aged 2, with parents, 1871, & aged 12, ditto, in 1881, but not with widowed mother Alice in 1891 (at Crown Inn, High St, Nantwich, with family George, 28, Frederick, 27, Alice, 18, Charles, 16, & Ernest, 12), & at age 22, quite capable of looking after himself. And this possibility is further supported by the fact that Ernest PIGGOTT did win the Grand National Steeplechase in 1912, so perhaps by then he had already achieved the status of a "celebrated jockey." Chris PIGOTT, Potts Point. --------------------------------- Inbox full of spam? Get leading spam protection and 1GB storage with All New Yahoo! Mail.