Born at Trowbridge, Wiltshire.
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1841 Census
Back Street, Trowbridge.
George Bigwood, 40.
Deborah Bigwood, 40.
Six children shown, including 9-year-old Henry.
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1851 Census
Back Street, Trowbridge.
George Bigwood, 54.
Deborah Bigwood, 54.
Four children shown, including 15-year-old Henry, Carpenter, and a Servant.
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Enlisted at London on the 22nd of August 1854.
Age: 19.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Carpenter.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 21st of May 1855.
Served Eupatoria.
Discharged, "by purchase", from Cahir on the 13th of June 1859. Payment of £30.
Served 4 years 288 days.
Conduct: "good". In possession of one Good Conduct badge.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol and the Turkish medal.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
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1861 Census
Church Street, Trowbridge.
Deborah Bigwood, 64, widow, Keeper in a cook shop.
Four children shown including Henry, 25, a journey Carpenter and joiner, and one boarder.
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1871 Census
Church Street, Trowbridge.
Joseph and Mary Marshman, and Henry Bigwood, 35, lodger, unmarried, Carpenter.
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[RM: A man of this name is registered as dying in the Melksham (Trowbridge) district in the quarter of June 1880, aged 45.]
Census information for 1841, 1851, 1861 & 1871 kindly provided by Chris Poole.