This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HSDBAIB/1419.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Kev: With the extra info you've provided, I'm 95% positive that your Louisa A was a RIGG and not a RIGGS. - Registering births was compulsory in the UK from 1875 onwards, and there's no Louisa RIGGS indexed (as I'm only researching RIGGS, I've no data for RIGG births, I'm sorry); - you say her son Robert's death record shows her as a RIGG of Bradford (Yorkshire); - RIGGS is predominantly a surname from the South-West of England (Dorset, and also the adjacent counties of Devon and Hampshire), whereas RIGG is a surname from the North (Westmorland, Lancashire and Yorkshire).