Mary Loggon
Mary Loggon married Henry Richmond at Great Grimsby, in the church of St James, on the 22nd of January 1740/1, and across the seventeen years that followed she bore the ten children whose baptisms fill the Grimsby register — among them William, born in the winter of 1746/7, through whom this line descends. She was, by her name, of a Grimsby family.
Loggon is an uncommon Lincolnshire surname, and Mary's own parentage is not yet established — the rung above her waits to be climbed. A namesake, “Eleanor Loggon, widow of Grimsby,” married in the same church a few years after Mary's own wedding, her entry a little further down the same leaf: kin of some degree, and a thread to follow. Mary appears to have died about 1757, after the birth of her last children, the twins George and Margaret; within two years her husband had married again.
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The Loggon line — an uncommon name
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Mary's maiden name comes straight off her marriage entry — “Henry Richmond & Mary Loggon”, Grimsby St James, 22 January 1740/1 — read at full resolution, the spelling plain: Loggon, with the double g. The Loggons were a long-established Grimsby family, at St James since the 1570s — so her people are here to be found, though an uncommon name in a town of its own recurring Marys and Annes brings its own puzzles.
- A likely father: John Loggan. A John Loggan was raising a family at St James in Mary's day — his daughter Ann was baptised there in 1720, among a run of Loggan children through the early 1720s. And two women who married at St James alongside Mary — Anne Loggon (1739) and Eleanor Loggon, a widow (1745) — have the look of her sisters. It is a promising shape, not yet a proof: more than one Loggon man was fathering children in the town, and Mary's own baptism (c.1715–20) is not in the indexes. To do: work the Grimsby St James baptism register leaf by leaf for “Mary, daughter of John Loggan”, and John's own marriage; the neighbour parishes (Clee, Cleethorpes, Waltham) if she is not there.
- Eleanor Loggon, widow of Grimsby, married Edward Clark in the same church about 1745, her entry on the very leaf of Henry and Mary's wedding. Her first husband — a Loggon — may be Mary's brother or uncle. A thread worth pulling.