William
Allgar
aka Algar, Algor, Augur, Awgar
Born about in Shalford, Essex, England
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Unknown (Unknown) Allgar
— married
1554 in Shalford, Essex, England
Descendants 
Died before
before about age 45
in Shalford, Essex, England
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Biography
There is no credible proof he was the son of unsourced parents William Allgar and Mary Smith. He is being detached.
In his 1575 will, William gave legacies to his minor children, but named his son William as an executor. Presumably William (jr.) was 21 (or a little over) at this time; hence born about 1552, give or take a couple of years. This means that William Allgar (the testator of 1575) must have been born circa 1529.
William was married to Margaret (Unknown) sometime before 1558 (start of marriage records at Shalford), and presumably before 1553.[1]
William "Awgar" and "Augur" of Shalford, Yeoman, was twice involved with breaking the Assize laws: Once for buying wheat before it got to the market in order to sell for a profit and once because he "...engrossed great quantities of wheat..." [2]
William Algor of Shalford, yeoman, made his will 31 July 1575.[1] He must have died within three days of writing his will, as "William Allgar the elder" was buried 2 August 1575 at Shalford.[3] His will was proved 14 December 1575.[1]
Family
Possible children born in either Shalford or Messing, Essex, England were (bolded mentioned in will):
- William,[1] b. bef. 1554 (executor of his father's 1575 will)
- Anne,[1] b. aft. 1554 (under 21 in 1575) but before 1560 (start of parish register baptismal entries); married John Bette 1575.
- Elizabeth,[1] b. aft. 1554 (under 21 in 1575), married William Clarke at Salford 25 November 1576.
- Mary,[1] bp. 9 September 1560 at Shelford,[3] married Ralph Bette on 27 September 1582 at Shalford
- Brydgette,[1] bp. 11 March 1562[/3?] at Shelford,[3] married Robert White on 24 June 1585
- John, bp. 6 April 1565, and bur. 1 August 1565 at Shelford,[3]
- John, bp. 5 October 1567 at Shelford[3]
In his 1575 will, William named his daughters Anne, Elizabeth, Mary, and Brygett (all unmarried and under 21), son John (under 21), and his kinswoman "Brydgett", and named his wife Margaret and son William as executors.[4] The daughter Bridget identified in the parish register was presumably named for the "kinswoman" who was to receive ten pounds per the will.
An extract of William's will by Emmison was published in 1994.[4] This extract includes a daughter named "Prudence" which was a misreading of "Brygett", which appears in the original will.[1]
Research Notes
William Allgar is mentioned in various 19th and 20th century genealogies, typically only insofar as he was the father of Bridget Allgar. At most they'd give his burial date, and the baptism dates of his children.[5][6]
Essex churchbooks are digitized ($) on https://www.essexarchivesonline.co.uk, with an rough index completed of them ($) on https://www.ancestry.com. An extract of some of the Shalford parish registers (in relation to the White family) were published in 1901.[3]
Ideally the original records hosted on the online Essex Archives should be consulted. Transcription mistakes may have occurred, or certain recorded events may have been overlooked and not transcribed.
- Other Family Information:
Some online trees state that he married Margaret Payre about 1553. This is an unsourced statement. This profile also claimed that she may have been born about 24 Aug. 1540 and died 25 Aug. 1612 in Shalford, which is also unsourced. The Shalford parish register as indexed on FamilySearch contains no such entry.
There was another unsourced statement on this profile: "Twin sons, William III and John were born 6 April 1565 and died in their first year of life". This John was buried in August, but there doesn't seem to be record of this twin William? William (sr.)'s will in 1575 makes his son William an executor, so presumably he was over 21 at that point. Most likely that statement was the result of confusion stemming from the way the parish register identified John as the son of William II (not a brother of William III, who without doubt had been born before 1654.
The extracts made in 1901 include an Elizabeth, d. William Allgar, baptized in 1585. This was the daughter of William's son William Allgar Jr., as William himself had died in 1575.
Some online sources say that his wife was Margaret, but there is no support in known Shalford documents to support that idea. Possibly the notion that William Allgar's wife was Margaret stems from the fact that Margaret was the name of William Alger of Dickleburgh, Norfolk, and some researchers have confused the two families.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Commissary Court of the Diocese of London, Essex and Hertfordshire division. Original Wills, A, no. 18 "William Alger of Shalford". Digital images of microfilm. FamilySearch, DGS film 008039166, image 45.
- ↑ Assize File 35/16/2 24 March 1573/4, p. 107, Essex Public Record Office.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Waters, Henry F. "The Children of Robert White of Messing, Co. Essex, England, who settled in Hartford and Windsor", in The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Volume 55. (Boston, MA: NEHGR. 3 Jun 1901), pp. 28-29 "Extracts from Parish Registers of Shalford and Messing, Co. Essex, transcribed by Mr. Frank Farnsworth Starr".
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Emmison, Frederick George. Essex Wills: The Bishop of London's Commissary Court, 1569-1578. (Chelmsford: Essex Record Office, 1994), p. 5, no. 21 "William Algor of Shalford yeoman".
- ↑ Waters, pp. 22-23.
- ↑ White, Almira Larkin. Ancestry of John Barber White and His Descendants (J.B. White, Kansas City Mo., 1913), pp. 239-240.
- North America Family Histories, William Allgar, father of Brydgette. $
- English Orgins of New England Families, SecondSeries, Vol ll. $
- William Alger in the England, Select Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991
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Categories: Shalford, Essex | Estimated Birth Date
Margaret Allgar buried 25 Aug 1612 in St. Andrew of Shalford, Essex, England, this would be a fit if she had not remarried after William's death. I have not seen another marriage match where it might fit otherwise.
William bp bef records 1559 abt 1555
Anne bp bef records 1559, abt 1557
Marye Allgar bp 9 Sep 1560 who married Ralfe Bette 1582
Brydgettee Allgar bp 11 Mar 1561/2 who married Robert White 1585
Elizabeth Allgar prob late 1563, who married William Clarke 1576
John Allgar bp 6 Apr 1565, buried 1 Aug 1565
John Allgar bp 5 Oct 1567, mentioned in his father will, implied he is under age 21
William "Awgar" and "Augur" of Shalford, Yeoman, was twice involved with breaking the Assize laws: Once for buying wheat before it got to the market in order to sell for a profit and once because he "...engrossed great quantities of wheat..." 1574
Trying to understand the source of Parye surname......... here's the notation I will have in my report
RN: A few researchers have blended the families from another area of England or have tried to fit records from different areas together, such as a marriage to Margaret Ann Parye 6 Oct 1544. There is no marriage match to this combination, there is a record for a marriage of a William Marlar to a Margaret Ann Parye 1549 in Kelvedon, Essex. A marriage in 1549 is too early for this couple, and I don’t think Marlar is a variation of the surname given the other spellings. William Algor of Shalford, yeoman (land owner), made his will 31 July 1575. He must have died within three days of writing his will, as "William Allgar the elder" was buried 2 August 1575 at Shalford. His will was proved 14 December 1575.
I do theorize that William b. abt 1530 was the son of a William, the other maybe a John. More time in the parish book for early burials and then burials around 1570-1620 might shake out other possible family members.
My leading theory on kinsman Brydgette is that she was an unmarried sister of William, born abt 1538. I didn't do a parish book search for her death and it doesn't come up using the Ancestry online tool, that might indicate this individual did eventually marry, even using a search for a Wydow Porter marriage in Essex region. Whoever she was, she might have left the area. I believe did a search for Wills under the alternate spellings of this name, unfortunately my notes are missing so I'll have to recheck that.
edited by ZZ Madden
1. Regarding Ann (Alger) Bette:
The Shalford parish register starts in 1560 with baptisms of children of William Alger, and only William, so there is no basis to assume that there was another head of a young family in town during that decade named Allger/Allgar.
Ann who married Henry Bette is not in the list of christenings, which prompts the conclusion that she was born before 1560. Thus she would be of the right age to marry in 1575. Note that her younger sister Mary, who does have a recorded christening (in 1560), also married a Bette (namely Ralph). That ceremony took place in 1582, when Mary was a respectable young lady of 22.
2. Elizabeth Allgar the granddaughter:
Clearly the Elizabeth Allgar chr. in 1583 as a daughter of "a" William Allgar was the child of William Allgar Jr. Note that the burial record of the older William identified him as "William Allgar the elder," which means that there was a William Junior in or near Shalford at the time. This William - to father a child in 1583 - must have been born around 1558 if not earlier.
I should note that in addition to the christening of 1583, the Shalford register also records a second child of William Allgar Jr., namely William [III], chr. 5 June 1586.
Some of the stuff circulating about this family on the web appears to have conflated William Allgar Sr. and / or William Allgar Jr. of Shalford, Essex, with William Allgar (Sr. & Jr.) of Dickleburgh, Norfolk. These are different people, contemporaries to each other, but leading different lives in different counties. William Alger of Dickleburgh was a wheelwright, an occupation that I have not seen associated with William of Shalford.
Also, Dickleburgh is quite a long hike from Shalford. Dickleburgh has an even older parish register than Shalford, with entries from as early as 1540. William of Dickleburgh married Margaret Trapett there 25 September 1552. I wonder whether she might be basis for the notion that William of Shalford's wife was a Margaret.
Margaret of Dickleburgh "late wife of William Alger" was buried on Christmas Eve, 1598, five days less than six months following the burial of "William Alger Senior."
Like William of Shalford, William Alger of Dickleburgh had a son William Jr. There was a William Allgar Jr. chr. at Dickleburgh 1 March 1541/2. Perhaps this was one of those cases where a man had two different sons with the same name grow to adulthood, as William [Senior] had a son named William chr. 24 Nov 1555 (i.e., evidently from his marriage to Margaret Trapett), but this William would have been too young to be the William Allgar who married Elizabeth Lowyage (5 Oct 1570 at Rushall, Norfolk).
Coincidentally, the Algers of Dickleburgh had a granddaughter named Bridget, but Bridget (Allgar) White would not have enjoyed the connection. Bridget of Dickleburgh was, shall we say, a woman of easy virtue, who had at least two children without benefit of clergy.
There is no christening record for any "Prudence" in the parish register, yet there IS a Bridget christened at exactly the right time for the future bride of Robert White. Further, there is no record of any burial for William Allar's daughter Bridget, so the presumption would be that she was still alive when he wrote his will.
The bequest of ten pounds to William's "Kinswoman" Bridget in the will gives me no pause in this regard. This legatee was an adult at the time, as indicated by the word "woman" in the term "kinswoman." Accordingly, she may have been an aunt or cousin of William Allgar, but not likely a niece unless William had much older siblings. She would surely have been (at the very least) 18 at the time of William's will - thus born no later than 1557. This is too old for her to become the bride of Robert Whighte / White in 1585.
Excursis: Since cousins used to marry more often than they do now, I would not even rule out that William Allgar's "kinswoman Bridget" might have been the Bridget White who married John Ashebee (Ashby) on 26 February 1576/7 at Chelmsford (some 12 miles south of Shalford). (Pure speculation, I know, but not unreasonable if you suppose that Bridget (White) Ashby's mother were a sister or aunt of William Allgar, thus providing a basis for the Allgars to be connected with the local White families even before Robert Whighte plighted his troth with Bridget Allgar.)
Further, there is no marriage record in Shalford for any "Prudence Allgar," whereas there IS, of course, a record of the marriage of "Brydgette" Allgar to my honored progenitor Robert "Whighte"
Going back to the interpretation of the will, in the handwriting of the times, the capital letters "B" and "P" were written in similar fashion. Next comes a lower case "r" (indisputably); then the "y" that could look like a "u" in that style; then letter "d" in either rendition; followed by "g" which Emmison misread as an "e." Next, the grouping "ett" would resemble "nc" if you recognize that in Elizabeth handwriting the lower case "c" is barely distinguishable from a truncated "t." Finally, both names end in "e" so that's not open to question.
I tried looking up the original will, but online access to the Essex probate records is restricted to Family History Centers, so that will have to wait.
Bottom line: there's no valid basis on which to exalt Emmison's reading of the will over the unambiguous parish register entries.
edited by Barry Wood
I was wondering if the transcription of "Prudence" was a mistake for some spelling of "Bridget", as I wrote under the 'family' heading. Next time I find myself at a FS affiliate library (whenever that is) I'll look for the original will. At the very least 'Prudence' should be addressed in the bio even if it's ultimately dismissed as a mistranscription.
EDIT: "Prudence" does not appear in the original copy of the will. Evidently "Brygett", the fourth listed daughter, was misread.
edited by Thomas B