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George & Samuel PIGOTT were musicians. They both played the cello, and worked in theatre orchestras - George in London, and Samuel in Dublin. Samuel even shared a concert platform with Franz LISZT, and for a period owned a Cello made by STRADIVARI, now known as the Red Cello.
Samuel also began trading in sheet music and musical instruments, building up a considerable business in Grafton Street, Dublin, the lineal descendant of which, the firm McCullough & Pigott, still exists.
I think it unlikely that they had a University education.
Their father, John PIGOTT, was recorded in London directories as a Barometer & Instrument Maker. He is said to have discovered, hidden in a secret compartment of his desk, a will relating to the PIGOTT family of Chetwynd in Shropshire.
I know quite a bit about the Dublin connection, where my own PIGOTT family lived ca 1760 to 1860. A lot of that information came from Louis PIGOTT, a descendant of one of the Pearlers in Western Australia, then living in Perth (1980's).
Regards,
Chris PIGOTT, Potts Point, N.S.W.

I cannot help with your particular question, but I am very interested in any children that you may know of, born to Drew PIGGOT & his wife Sarah in Edenbridge, Kent.

I see that a Drew PIGOTT had issue in Edenbridge daughters Sarah (bt 30 Apr 1722) & Ann (bt 27b Dec 1724); and that Sarah PIGGOTT (perhaps the elder daughter) married a William AUSTEN in Edenbridge on 24 Nov 1721, with issue.

And I am hoping it may lead to the baptism in London of William Austen PIGOTT in 1807, son of John (Drew) PIGGOTT, and grandson of Drew PIGGOTT who died at Heston, Msx, Feb 1826, aged 83.

I was hoping, on behalf of a descendant living in the U.S., to see whether this last mentioned Drew PIGGOTT, b ca 1742, might have been a grand-son of Drew & Sarah of Edenbridge, & a son of James or another son of theirs born there ca 1710-20.

Can you help?

Chris PIGOTT, Potts Point, N.S.W.

There is, of course, another source that should prove very useful in confirming the lineage of the BENSON family.

All Ministers of the Established Church of England (& Ireland) were obliged to have taken a degree at an established university.

Alumni listings for Trinity College Dublin should contain the particular ministers in the Downpatrick family; and failing that, some may have received their degrees from either Oxford or Cambridge.

I know there are copies of all of these in the Society of Genealogists Library in Sydney, and probably also in the State Reference Library. If there are none near you, I can take a look for you.

I suspect that there may be BENSON family pedigrees in early editions of BURKE's Landed Gentry, etc, as well.

Regards,

Chris.

Lt William Welborn Harlington BENSON may have arrived in Sydney instead on the ship "Houghley" on 22 Aug 1825.
He appears to have had issue by Margaret Olivia WELMAN, as follows:
1.  A son, born on board the ship "Katherine Stewart Forbes" in Sydney Harbour, 23 May 1830, 4 days before sailing on a voyage direct to England.
2.  A son, b Dublin, 18 Apr 1831 (no baptism found in Dublin Church records - perhaps instead the baptism of the previous?
3.  Welborne Eagle Albuera BENSON, bt St George's, Gravesend, 4 Jun 1834; died at sea, 4 Feb 1835, on a voyage to Van Diemen's Land.
4.  Arthur Welborne Cameron BENSON, b 29 Nov 1835; died at Millthorpe, N.S.W., 1908 Reg #10252.
5.  William Porteous McArtney Welman BENSON, b Oct 1837; of Deep Dene, Mosman, 1909; died at his residence, Braemar, Edgecliff Rd, Seathforth, near Manly, 7 Sep 1925, as the result of a tram accident, aged 87, late of H.M.'s Customs; marr Margaret GARDNER; she died at Seaforth, 7 Dec 1927, at the residence of her daughter Alice (Mrs Herbert THURLOW), beloved mother of Mrs H. HODKINSON, Mrs M. SUTHERLAND (Margaret Isabel), Mrs F. GRIFFITHS, Mrs H. THURLOW, & sons Edward, (George) Claude, (Charles) Sydney, & Harold BENSON.
6.  Rosena Dianne Olivia BENSON.
7.  Francis Napoleon Bingley GROVES BENSON; Ensign, 17th Regiment, 19 Jul 1859; transferred to the 73rd Regiment; Lieut, 8 Jul 1862; Captain, 16 Oct 1866; marr at St Anne's C.of I.), Dublin, 24 Apr 1862, Ellen Wise REVINGTON.
8.  Rubina Georgina Catherine BENSON, b Clontarf, Co Dublin, 5 May 1845, & bapt Clontarf (C.of I.), 24 Jun (see the www.irishgenealogy.ie website).

I see that William Welbore Harlington BENSON was baptised at Hillingdon, near London, 18 Sep 1807, the son of William & Jane BENSON.
He is said to have been the grandson of William BENSON of Co Down (b ca 1710), by his wife Frances McArtney PORTEOUS.

Regards,

Chris PIGOTT.