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Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Mary Ann Whatmore (nee Dyson) 1876 -1936 and the DNA of her male ancestors

Mary Ann (Polly) Dyson was my paternal grandmother. She was born on 6 February 1876 in Attercliffe and married Noah Whatmore in 1905. She died on 8 December 1936 aged 60 and is buried in the churchyard of St Thomas’s Brightside Sheffield. Whilst to me Mary Ann Dyson is a very special person even though […]

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Monday, February 4th, 2008

The Whatmore Family of Sheffield

Although there were other Whatmore families living in Sheffield at various times, it was only Joseph and Esther Whatmore that put down roots and whose descendants still live in the area, so I trust I am justified as regarding Joseph and Esther’s family as the ‘Sheffield branch’ of the Whatmore Family.  

Joseph was baptised on 26 […]

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Friday, February 1st, 2008

The Whatmore families of Ludlow Part 2 - John Watmore and Elizabeth Ward

The second of the children of William Watmore and his wife Catherine Butcher to take up the new opportunities available in the town of Ludlow was John Watmore, born 1776 at Stottesdon.
John Watmore married Elizabeth Ward on 18 February 1797 at Ashford Carbonell near Ludlow.  They lived in Raven Lane, Ludlow, where John was a […]

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