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Hi Lucy,
I saw your query on Genforum. I'm a Biggs descendent living in
Maryland in the US. My earliest Biggs that I can trace was John Biggs who
came to America from England about 1645. He settled in Virginia. He came
with his wife. They had 10 children, all born in America. Family tradition
has it they came from Norfolk County England. John was born about 1620 and
died in 1697. He became a Quaker a few years after arriving.
From your e-mail address I take it you live in Queensland Australia.
Maybe some time in the way past our 2 families were the same. Of course I
read somewhere that sometime in (I think) the 14th century people began
using last names. They often took names that described their family, like
Johnson; their profession, like Miller; or described themselves, like Bigg.
When John Biggs first came to America his last name was often written Bigge
not Biggs, but after that it became Biggs all the time. So maybe we aren't
related but both descended from "Bigge" people.
Joan Spiker
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