The surname Wiggans came to England with the Normans in 1066. It’s the patronymic form of the name – literally, “son of Wigand” and while I can’t trace my line back to the Normans, it may extend as far as a man named James Wygan, born around 1520 in Chorley, Lancashire – though more documentation…
My 6th great-grandmother, brought her daughter Margaret to Douglas Chapel in Parbold, England to be baptized. It wasn’t illegal to have an illegitimate child, but it was illegal to withhold the father’s name. She did.
James Wiggans, my great-grandfather, was born August 1st, 1881 to Sarah McIntyre. As far back as I can trace, her father’s people were West Highlanders from in and around the Firth of Lorn.