Richard Trigg, Potter of Hawley, buried 30 Jan 1655

Page prepared by Peter Tipton

Richard Trigg was a relatively young man when he died. His father, John Trigg the elder witnessed his will, and his wife Joan and brother John Trigg the younger were all alive, and his son John was not yet 21 when Richard prepared his will. He was buried at St Peter‘s Yateley. The burial registers also record that Sarah the daughter of John Trigge of Hawley was buried on 18 Apr 1640, 15 years before Richard Trigg the potter. Sarah must have been the daughter of John Trigg the elder since John Trigg the younger did not marry until 24 Sep 1642. His bride was Margaret Gunner, a potter surname from Frimley. So Richard and His brother John were probably born between 1610-1620, making Richard about 40 when he died. John and Margaret Trigg both died in 1686, the wife 6 months before the husband. The Trigg family lived on in Yateley, the last entry in the registers being a marriage in 1892.

Richard Trigg did have some status in life. Both his 'loving friends', whom he made the overseers of his will, were gentleman: Lawrence Watts and Gilbert Poulson.

In the early 17th century there were many Triggs in this area, including in Aldershot, Crondal, Farnham and Seale. At this stage we do not know whether other members of the Trigg family were potters. Richard would not have become an apprentice, at the earliest, 1630, so he was probably part of the expansion of the industry at that period, but not the crucial period of change in the last quarter of the 16th century.

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