John BRIGLEY

1809 - 1889  (80 years)

• Name	John BRIGLEY  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Birth	1809	Dublin, Dublin, Ireland   [1, 2, 4, 7]
  Gender	Male
  Birth	1815	Stockport, Cheshire, England   [3]
  Military Enlistment	27 Jun 1827	Dublin, Dublin, Ireland   [1]
  	Private, Royal Sappers and Miners
  1841 Survey Company	1841	Waterford & Preston   [9]
  	Private, 14th Company, Royal Sappers & Miners
  1861 Census	1861	Sheffield, Yorkshire, England   [3]
  	Surveyor and Engineer
  1871 Census	1871	Birkenhead, Cheshire, England   [4]
  	Land Surveyor
  1881 Census	1881	Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London, England   [2]
  	Chelsea Pensioner
  Name	John Brigly  [9]
  _MILTID	146  [1]
  Death	27 Aug 1889  [1, 7]
  Burial	30 Aug 1889	Brompton Cemetery, London, England   [7]
  	80 Age: 80
  Person ID	I6396	Ordnance Survey People
  Last Modified	2 May 2026

  
  

  Family	Maria FLEMMING,   b. 1816, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
  Children	1. George BRIGLEY,   b. 1840, Waterford, Ireland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Georgenia BRIGLEY,   b. 1837, Dublin, Ireland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Charles BRIGLEY,   b. 1845, Wakefield, Yorkshire, England  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. John Henry BRIGLY,   b. 1835, Ardee, Louth, Ireland  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Frederick James BRIGLY,   b. Apr 1842, Preston, Lancashire, England  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F3966	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 May 2026

  
  

• Sources

  [S27] Ancestry.com, UK, Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner Registers of Soldiers Who Served in Canada, 1743-1882, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013;). Record for John Brigley http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=3255&h=130001&indiv=try [S19] Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1881 England Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), Class: RG11; Piece: 79; Folio: 75; Page: 29; GSU roll: 1341018. Record for John Brigley https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=7572&h=13421886&indiv=try [S26] Ancestry.com, 1861 England Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;), Class: RG 9; Piece: 3496; Folio: 88; Page: 23; GSU roll: 543141. Record for Georgenia Brigly https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=8767&h=11598300&indiv=try [S21] Ancestry.com, 1871 England Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;), The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1871 England Census; Class: RG10; Piece: 3746; Folio: 123; Page: 5; GSU roll: 842137. Record for John Brigly https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=7619&h=15808609&indiv=try [S172] Ancestry.com, Liverpool, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1813-1921, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;), Liverpool Record Office; Liverpool, England; Reference Number: 283 JAM/3/13. Record for Georgina Carr https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=2197&h=4651205&indiv=try [S233] Ancestry.com, Liverpool, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1919, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;), Liverpool Record Office; Liverpool, England; Liverpool Church of England Parish Registers; Reference Number: 283 THM/2/1. Record for Maria Brigley https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=2196&h=301501799&indiv=try [S220] Ancestry.com, Brompton, London, England, Cemetery Registers, 1840-2012, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2019;), The National Archives; Kew, London, England; Office of Works and successors: Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens: Brompton Cemetery Records; Series Number: Work 97; Piece Number: 168. Record for John Brigley https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=61801&h=146268&indiv=try [S205] Ancestry.com, Lancashire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1911, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). Record for Frederick James Brigley https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=2575&h=15688518&indiv=try [S306] Survey Company. FindmyPast provides access to a transcription of the British Army, Worldwide Index for 1841, 1851, 1861, and 1871. Within the records for the Royal Sappers and Miners (1841 and 1851, and Royal Engineers (1861 and 1871) are transcriptions for the Survey Companies; 13, 14 and 16 Companies. These Companies were established specifically for duties in support of the Ordnance Survey. There are 1043 individuals identified in these transcriptions. The transcriptions include the following information; Year, Name, Rank, Army Number, Company, Station, and Comments.