Archive for July, 2008

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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

John Watmore of Shrewsbury and the Fewtrell family of Easthope

Only one Shropshire Whatmore family ever seems have set up home in Shrewsbury, the county town. Whilst Watmores and Whatmores are to be found at various times in the various towns in the south of the county, they do not seem to have lived in any of the towns north of Wenlock Edge. This post […]

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Saturday, July 26th, 2008

The Overwood (Neen Savage) branch of the Whatmore family

The parish of Neen Savage is situated between the parishes of Stottesdon and  Cleobury Mortimer in South Shropshire. In the 1841 census there was a Whatmore family at Overwood  in the north of the parish and one at Baveney Wood in the east of the parish. Although the descendants of these families did not necessarily […]

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Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Thomas Watmore and the Stottesdon Church Inventory of 1552

Protestantism wasn’t really established in England until after the death of Henry VIII. His son Edward VI was only 9 when his father died  and he was only 15 when he himself  died, so that during his reign, England was governed by a Council of Regency led at first by Edward Seymour, First Duke of […]

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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

New e-mail address

I have been off-line for several weeks now due to moving house, but are now settled in my new home and in the coming weeks will be adding more stories of the Whatmore family to this blog. If you would like any of the free CD ROMs referred in in earlier blogs, please send your details […]

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