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I was fascinated by Claire Vaughan's Angus Wardlaw's relation Francis RM Crozier, and the ill-fated journey of the Erebus and Terror in search of the Northwest Passage. Through an article by Gillian Rickard in the journal of Kent Family History Society (kfhs.org.uk), I discovered that James Frederick Elgar Rigden had served as captain's coxswain on board the Erebus. As the manager of the Rigden One Name Study (one-name.org/name_profile/rigden), I had to dig deeper.
Gillian had already identified that James was the son of John Rigden and Frances Rebecca Capp and the grandson of William Rigden and Ann Elgar, who married at Great Mongeham in Kent on 20 October Rigdens of Great Mongeham, I
