The Zeiglers were an important family of silver-smiths in Edinburgh in the Eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. With grateful thanks to the incorporation of Goldsmiths of the city of Edinburgh, we can trace the family as follows:
* Alexander I was first mentioned in 1762 and died in 1817 (he was made a Freeman in 1791 but had been working prior to that. He had (at least) 2 sons;
* William Zeigler I was the eldest son and apprenticed to Alexander I in 1792;
* John Zeigler was his second son, also apprenticed in 1792. John Zeigler was joint Assay master at one point in his career;
* William Zeigler I had a son, also named Alexander (II) who was apprenticed in 1811;
* John Zeigler had a son, named William Zeigler (II) who was John Zeigler's apprentice in 1812.