The Wigleys
Daniel Wigley (1813-1876), was the son of William and Mary Wigley, from a family which had been settled at Belbroughton, Worcestershire, since at least the seventeenth century.
Family tradition always referred to Daniel as a Staffordshire Ironmaster but certainly by the time he settled in Newington, Surrey, and married a local girl, Margaret Newland, he was a boilermaker.
Daniel & Margaret had six surviving daughters and one son. Four of these daughters emigrated to Canada in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The second daughter, Maria Elizabeth (1843-1920) married Thomas George Newman (1840-1933). Their eldest son, Samuel Hugh Newman (1872-1966) married his first cousin, Louisa Harriet Mitchell, whose mother Mary Ann Mitchell was Maria's sister. After she was widowed, Mary Ann remarried John William Newman (1854-1904), nephew of Thomas George Newman. In 1970 Samuel George Newman(1901-1970), himself the son and grandson of two Newman-Wigley marriages, took as his third wife, Doris White, daughter of Maria's youngest sister, Harriet Wigley.
