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Richard Edginton

Richard Edginton

Male Est 1785 - 1870  (85 years)


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  • Name Richard Edginton  [1]
    Nickname The Tackley Poet
    Birth Est Apr 1785  Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Baptism 14 May 1785  St Nicholas Church, Church Hill, Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Gender Male
    Residence 14 May 1785  Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Residence 21 Nov 1808  St Ebbe's, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Residence 22 Apr 1810  Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Occupation From Jun 1814 to Mar 1815  Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7] 
    Labourer 
    Residence From Jun 1814 to Mar 1815  Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7] 
    Census 1832  27 Nethercote Road, Nethercott, Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Residence 1832  27 Nethercote Road, Nethercott, Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Criminal Conviction 14 Jul 1838  Oxford Summer Asizes Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    • sentenced to nine months imprisonment
    Census 6 Jun 1841  Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Age: 55y 
    Occupation 6 Jun 1841  Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    agricultural labourer 
    Residence 6 Jun 1841  Richard Edginton's house, Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Age: 55y 
    Residence 22 Jun 1848  Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Census 30 Mar 1851  Weavley Farm, Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [12, 13] 
    Age: 65y 
    Occupation 30 Mar 1851  Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    agricultural labourer 
    Residence 30 Mar 1851  Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    Age: 65y 
    Census 7 Apr 1861  Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [14] 
    Age: 75y 
    Occupation 7 Apr 1861  Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [14] 
    agricultural labourer 
    Residence 7 Apr 1861  Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [14] 
    Age: 75y 
    Death 30 Apr 1870  The Union Workhouse, Hensington Road, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 15, 16] 
    Age: 89y 
    Person ID I1301  jenneratons
    Last Modified 12 Feb 2026

    Mother Mary Edginton,   b. Est Nov 1764, Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Est 7 Oct 1824, Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 59 years)
    Family ID F1034  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sarah Hall,   b. 1781, Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Est 5 Apr 1853, Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)  [1]
    Marriage 21 Nov 1808  St Ebbes, St Ebbe's Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    • Witness Role: Witness: Name: John Sumner
      Witness Role: Witness: Name: Ralph Bennett
    Children 
     1. William Edginton,   b. Est Mar 1810, Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aug 1890, Godstone Road, Kenley, Croydon, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
     2. John Edginton,   b. Est 4 Jun 1814, Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1814, Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Anne Edginton,   b. Est Mar 1815, Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Est 5 Dec 1823, Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 8 years)
    Family ID F422  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 16 Jan 2024

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Est Apr 1785 - Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBaptism - 14 May 1785 - St Nicholas Church, Church Hill, Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 14 May 1785 - Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 21 Nov 1808 - St Ebbe's, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 21 Nov 1808 - St Ebbes, St Ebbe's Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 22 Apr 1810 - Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Labourer - From Jun 1814 to Mar 1815 - Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - From Jun 1814 to Mar 1815 - Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1832 - 27 Nethercote Road, Nethercott, Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 1832 - 27 Nethercote Road, Nethercott, Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - Age: 55y - 6 Jun 1841 - Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - agricultural labourer - 6 Jun 1841 - Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Age: 55y - 6 Jun 1841 - Richard Edginton's house, Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 22 Jun 1848 - Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - Age: 65y - 30 Mar 1851 - Weavley Farm, Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - agricultural labourer - 30 Mar 1851 - Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Age: 65y - 30 Mar 1851 - Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - Age: 75y - 7 Apr 1861 - Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - agricultural labourer - 7 Apr 1861 - Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Age: 75y - 7 Apr 1861 - Tackley, Oxfordshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - Age: 89y - 30 Apr 1870 - The Union Workhouse, Hensington Road, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Richard is described in the Tackley fiche as the base-born son of Mary Edginton, born on 14th May, 1785 They appear to have had one son, William, born on 22nd April, 1810. In the 1841 census, Richard was 55 years old and Sarah was 60 years old. He was working as an agricultural labourer, but their address is not given. Both of them were born in Oxon, in Tackley. I presume that he and William were brothers. They lived at 109, Weverley Farm in Tackley, Oxon. By 1851 he was 65 years old, and she was 70, and they were lodgers in the house in which they lived. He was still working as a labourer. By 1861 Richard was alone, but still describing himself as an agricultural labourer of 76 years of age.

  • Sources 
    1. [S247] genes reunited - Valerie Edginton.

    2. [S3406] Parish Register for Baptism of Richard Edginton, St Nicholas Church, Church Hill, Tackley, Oxfordshire, England, 14 May 1785.

    3. [S2638] Baptism St Nicholas Church, Church Hill, Tackley, Oxfordshire, England 14 May 1785 Richard Edginton.

    4. [S2639] Marriage St Ebbes, St Ebbe's Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England 21 Nov 1808 Richard Edginton & Sarah Hall.

    5. [S3347] Parish Register for Baptism of William Edginton, St Nicholas Church, Church Hill, Tackley, Oxfordshire, England, 22 April 1810.

    6. [S2634] Parish Register for Baptism of John Edginton, St Nicholas Church, Church Hill, Tackley, Oxfordshire, England, 4 June 1814.
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    7. [S2636] Baptism St Nicholas Church, Church Hill, Tackley, Oxfordshire, England 24 Mar 1815 Anne Edginton.

    8. [S3351] 1832 England and Wales census, 27 Nethercote Road, Nethercott, Tackley, Oxfordshire, England, 4320, head of household: William Edginton, (4320).

    9. [S3414] News item in Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette, 14 July 1838.

    10. [S2642] Census 1841 Tackley, Oxfordshire, England HO107/890/15/4/3 (Richard Edginton), (HO107/890/15/4/3), 6 Jun 1841 (Reliability: 2).

    11. [S3416] News item in The Banbury Guardian, 22 June 1848.

    12. [S2640] Census 1851 Tackley, Oxfordshire, England HO107/1730/215/26 (Richard Edginton), (HO107/1730/215/26), 30 Mar 1851 (Reliability: 2).

    13. [S3405] Tackley Local History Group website "Tackley Local History Group".
      Tackley History Mysteries No. 4

      Richard Edgington, the Tackley Poet
      Richard Edgington was born here in the early 1780s and died on 30 April 1870, aged 88, in the Union Poorhouse in Woodstock. The Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette on 7 May 1870 described him as ‘the author of some very credible rhymes which displayed a natural poetic taste’, and the Bicester Herald on 15 May 1870 called him ‘The Tackley poet’.
      Edgington appears in the census returns for 1841, 1851 and 1861, where his birth date is given as 1785 or 1786. In 1851 he and his wife Sarah, who was also born in Tackley, were living at Weaveley Farm, though not as the tenant farmers. Ten years later he was a lodger with the Bolton family in Tackley; Sarah had presumably died.
      Have any of his verses survived? Were any written down, let alone printed? The description ‘the author of some very credible rhymes which displayed a natural poetic taste’ suggests they had a life outside the village and that his reputation was wider than Tackley. So perhaps they were published, although Edgington does not feature in the British Library or Bodleian catalogues.
      He certainly had a local reputation for eloquence beyond his poetry. On 9 March 1848 the major local landowners – Sir George Dashwood, William Evetts, the Reverend Sharpe, Henry Hall (of Barton Abbey) and Mark Chaundy – issued notices starting the process of enclosing the common lands and fields in the village. At a meeting in the Gardiner Arms on Monday, 19 June, village labourers attended in force and elected Edgington their spokesman — or as he described himself, ‘representative of the peasantry’. On their behalf he objected altogether to the proposed enclosure, and refused to put any claim to ‘the supposed or real rights of the peasantry’ in writing — the only way, legally, by which they might be taken into account. His refusal to do so was no doubt an assertion that he did not recognise the whole process.
      An account of the meeting in the Banbury Guardian on 22 June 1848 says that he continued ‘and in copious, sometimes eloquent, language urged the folly of “asking for a man’s own.” “Shall I,” he said, “having paid for the shoes on my feet, condescend to put in a claim for them to a man, or to a set of men, who can have no sort of right to them?”’ James Saunders, the Enclosure Commissioner, who chaired the meeting, took notes of what he said, ‘but Edgington, like a true British freeman, refused to “put his hand” to any paper whatsoever.’
      His use of the term ‘peasantry’ is unusual in a British context and suggests that he was acquainted with recent Continental history, and possibly with some political writings, probably French. This is partly borne out by the opening words of the speech he went on to give at the meeting, which began: “When Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Italy and seized the crown…” Unfortunately, none of the rest is recorded.
      He was clearly an educated man too, though undoubtedly largely self-taught.
      The enclosure of Tackley’s common lands did not take place until 1873, due in part to the opposition of villagers which Edgington so eloquently expressed.
      It would be interesting to know more about him. Has any of his poetry survived? Who in Tackley was he related to? How did he educate himself? Was he connected to the Methodist Church, as so many of Tackley’s radical voices were?
      Research and text: John Perkins. Published: 2020

    14. [S2641] Census 1861 Tackley, Oxfordshire, England RG9/902/50/6 (Richard Edginton), (RG9/902/50/6), 7 Apr 1861 (Reliability: 2).

    15. [S3404] Announcement in Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette, 7 May 1870.

    16. [S3405] Tackley Local History Group website "Tackley Local History Group".


 

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