Archive for December, 2008

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Saturday, December 27th, 2008

Archibald Laing Watmough, killed on the Somme in 1916

Looking through the names of those killed in the First World War on the website of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, I came across the name of ARCHIBALD  LAING WATMOUGH. It seemed an unusual name and I decided to see if I could find out more about his life and his ancestors.
 
Whilst today we […]

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Friday, December 26th, 2008

Whatmores and Watmores in the 1911 census

I have been looking at a trial of the 1911 census. Not all counties were released in the trial but there were sufficient to make out some patterns in the distribution of families. The figures in the table below show numbers of individuals. The totals were calculated by the website, not by me.

My interpretation of […]

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Saturday, December 20th, 2008

George and Sarah Watmore of Micheldever, and their children

The Micheldever, Hampshire branch is one of the largest and most vigourous in the Whatmore tree. A direct line can be traced back to a John Watmore who married an Anne Holland at Micheldever on 5 September 1782, but there were Whatmores there much earlier. Some of the lines of the children of John and […]

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Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Joyce Reynolds of Chorley, Stottesdon, and her three husbands

In earlier times, amongst ordinary folk, it was often the case that when one of the partners of a marriage passed away at a relatively young age, their spouse would remarry quickly if there were young children to be looked after. The widower would need a mother for his children. The widow would need a […]

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Friday, December 12th, 2008

The railway tunnel tragedy near Winchester in 1842

The building of the railways in England in the nineteenth century was a hazardous occupation for the workers. With only the most  basic of health and safety rules in place there were many preventable fatalities and little if any compensation would have been paid to the widows left without an income. This is story of […]

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