Home Gallery Links Research Sources The Author 21st Century

City of Lincoln Waites

William Wigley or Wiggsley

1719, 1755 - 1756 & 1762

14 January 1719

• "A Kalindar for a Waite
• Inō William Andrews
• William Wiggsley - nomine contradicente" (elected - name unopposed)
• (ref: L1/1/1/7, page 68)

It seems very likely that this is the same William Wigley that was chosen as a Wait again in 1755 and 1756.

• Note from Dr. Alan Radford, of Leeds Waits:
• "'Inō' before a surname is 'John'. I have an example of its use in the York Assembly Rooms account books in the 1730s, listing a payment to Inō Midgeley, who I know from Blind Jack's autobiography to be John Midgeley, one of the Leeds Waits. I think it's a fairly standard abbreviation."

• Back to: 'Names of Lincoln Waits'