Archive for August, 2008

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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Benjamin Vale (1820 -1903) husband of Sarah Whatmore (1826 -1892)

My great great grandmother Sarah Whatmore married Benjamin Vale on 27 April 1845 at the parish Church, Kinver, Staffordshire.

Kinver church, which stands high above the town on Kinver Edge   Photograph Copyright: Alex Cameron  Source: the Geograph website and reproduced here under the terms of the site licence  which can be viewed at this link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Sarah […]

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Monday, August 11th, 2008

Alexander Watmough and the Riot on Broadhead Heath Burnley in 1526

 Recorded history so often seems to be the story of the victory of the rich man against the poor, the landowner against the peasant. The story of the riot at Broadhead Moor above Burnley is no exception.
 Watmoughs are to be found at Burnley in the earliest records. They were already there in 1440 when William […]

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Thursday, August 7th, 2008

The Wadmore family of Bedfordshire and London

 I had never heard of the Wadmore family prior to a suprise telephone call in Spring 2008 from Mark Williams, a previously unknown distant cousin who is descended from the Belbroughton branch of the Whatmore family.
Mark asked me if I had heard of a book called the ‘The Wadmores of London’. He had managed, some […]

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Monday, August 4th, 2008

The Whatmore Family of Baveney Wood (Neen Savage) Shropshire

At the time of the 1841 census, a Whatmore family was living at Baveney Wood in the east of the parish of Neen Savage in south Shropshire. Although the members of this family did not necessarily remain there I have termed this the ‘Baveney Wood’ branch of the family.

 In 1841 the ‘Baveney Wood’ family consisted […]

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Friday, August 1st, 2008

Mark Whatmore born 1850 at Radcliffe, Lancashire - Travelling Fairground Man

The life of a travelling fairground man in Victorian times must have been a hard one. Quite often the same families seem to have  worked on the fairgrounds for several generations, but MARK WHATMORE,  born in 1850 in the township of Pilkington at Radcliffe in Lancashire 7 miles north west of Manchester, was the first […]

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