Tagg Triangulation II: Unrelated Spouses Could be Family Too!
I’ve been searching for William Tagg for years now. I don’t know his date of birth or his parents. I’m not entirely positive where he was born. It could be […]
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Tagg Triangulation I: The Search for William Tagg the Brushmaker
185 years ago today, William Tagg and Elizabeth Weeks were married at St. James Church in Bristol, England. Later that same day, William, Elizabeth and 18 steerage passengers boarded Capt. […]
Discovered 1914 Photo: Great-Grandpa LeRoy Tagg at Fountain House – Flushing, NY
Ye Olden Tavern, known as the Fountain House, was built in Flushing, Queens, New York about 1756. According to old newspaper reports, it was, as the name suggests, a traditional […]
Happy 130th Anniversary James and Sadie
James Henry Tagg and Sarah Lepine Chichester were married 130 years ago today, 27 December 1883 in Brooklyn. James, a compositor and typesetter, and Sadie, were both from families that […]
James Tagg, Ship Joiner and Sashmaker (1833-1903)
James Tagg was born in 1833 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, middle son to immigrant parents William and Elizabeth Tagg. As a young boy, James, and his brothers Frederick and Henry […]
The Long and Arduous Search for Jane Harriet Martling Tagg, Part I
The wife of James Tagg, my great-great-great grandfather, was a family mystery. We knew nothing of her origins. We basically knew nothing about her. Little did I know that it […]
Generation 8: From the Brushmaker William Tagg to the New Arrival
Now that the newest addition to the Tagg family has arrived, I thought I might look back at two of the first Taggs that came to America. This is the […]
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