Born in Nottingham.
Enlisted at Liverpool on the 22nd of January 1855.
Age: 19.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Tailor.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 15th of July 1855.
Transferred to the 3rd Dragoon Guards at Dublin on the 24th of January 1857. Regimental No. 143.
Embarked for India aboard the "Warrior Queen" on the 4th of August 1857.
At Kollapore in March and at Sattora during May and June of 1858.
Embarked for England on the 15th of February 1861.
"On furlo", 1st of July — 20th of August 1861.
Discharged, "by purchase", from Canterbury on the 5th of September 1861, upon a payment of £25.
Served 6 years 41 days.
Conduct: "good". In possession of one Good Conduct badge.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
Marriage registered [1st]
Christopher Rigg to Lucy Beaumont, March Quarter 1863, Dewsbury.
Birth registered
Arthur Rigg, September Quarter 1865, Wakefield.
1871 Census
Hatfield Street, Wakefield.
Christopher Rigg, 35, Tailor, born Nottingham.
Lucy Rigg, 34, born Wakefield.
Arthur Rigg, 6, scholar, born Wakefield.
Mary Beaumont, 28, sister-in-law, born Wakefield.
A Lodger is also shown.
Death registered
Lucy Rigg [1st wife], September Quarter 1871, Wakefield.
Marriage registered [2nd]
Christopher Rigg to Emma Turner, September Quarter 1872, Wakefield.
Death registered
Emma Rigg [2nd wife], aged 31 years, March Quarter 1875, Wakefield.
Marriage registered [3rd]
Christopher Rigg to Mary Lakin, June Quarter 1875, Nottingham.
Births registered
Mary Ann Rigg, December Quarter 1873, Wakefield.
Sarah Elizabeth Rigg, March Quarter 1875, Wakefield.
1881 Census
Hatfield Street, Wakefield.
Christopher Rigg, 43, Tailor, born Nottingham.
Mary Rigg, 42, born Nottingham.
Mary A Rigg, 7, Scholar, born Wakefield.
Sarah E Rigg, 6, born Wakefield.
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Westgate, Wakefield.
Arthur Rigg [son], Servant, 15, Baker, born Wakefield.
Living with George Harrison, Joiner and Shopkeeper, and his family, and another servant.
1891 Census
27, Teall Street, Wakefield.
Christopher Rigg, 55, Tailor, born Nottingham.
Mary, 67 [sic].
Three children shown: Arthur, 25; Mary A, 17; Sarah E, 16; all born Wakefield.
Marriages registered [daughters]
Sarah Elizabeth Rigg to John Henry Crew, June Quarter 1898, Wakefield.
Mary Ann Rigg to John Thomas Waring, June Quarter 1900, Wakefield.
Births registered [grandchildren]
Arthur Crew, March Quarter 1899, Wakefield.
Mary Alice Crew, December Quarter 1900, Wakefield.
Ernest Waring, June Quarter 1901, Wakefield.
1901 Census
2, Dickinson Place, Wakefield.
Charles Rigg, 60, Master Tailor, born Nottingham.
Mary L., 48.
Death registered
Sarah Elizabeth Crew, aged 27 years, December Quarter 1903, Camberwell.
1911 Census
Granville Terrace, Wakefield.
Charles Rigg, 70, Jobbing Tailor, born Nottingham.
Mary Louisa, 58, Housekeeper.
Living with his father-in-law [name and age?].
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45, Wakefield Road, Ossett.
Arthur Rigg [son], 45, Rag Grinder, born Wakefield.
Alice Rigg, 44, born Romford, Essex.
One lodger is also shown.
Married 15 years.
Deaths registered [children]
Arthur Rigg, aged 53 years, December Quarter 1918, Dewsbury.
Mary L Rigg, 72, June Quarter 1925, Wakefield.
Mary Ann Waring, 96 years, June Quarter 1969, Nelson.
Death registered
Charles Rigg, 79, Wakefield, December Quarter, 1919.
Registration of births, deaths, and marriages, and Census information for 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911, kindly provided by Chris Poole.