Archive for January, 2009

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Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Oxford and Cambridge Alumini

 The published list of Oxford alumuni (up to 1886) includes the names of 9 members of our family and the published list for Cambridge (up to 1900) shows the names of 3 members of our family. I have tried to find out as much as possible about these nine individuals. These are the results.
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009

The Whatmore Jewellers of Birmingham

At the end of the Napoleonic Wars life was hard in the countryside. The wages of agricultural labourers were fixed and the price of everything was soaring. Many people were forced to look for work elsewhere and for those living in south Shropshire -  Birmingham and the Black Country offered the chance of a better […]

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Sunday, January 25th, 2009

Rev. John Hill Watmough born at Preston in 1854

Until fairly recent times it was only the sons of wealthy men who had the privilege of attending University.  Women were not allowed to attend at all. Even when Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon helped to set up Girton College, Cambridge in 1870 - the first University College for women, it was not recognised by […]

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Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Trouble at Detton Mill, Neen Savage in 1810

In 1810 the Whatmore family had been the tenants of Detton Mill in the parish of Neen Savage, Shropshire, for  74 years. The initial lease had been taken out by James Whatmore (born 1697 at Cleobury Mortimer)  in 1736. When he died in 1781 the tenancy passed  to his son James (born  1724 at Stottesdon). […]

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Sunday, January 11th, 2009

The decline of the ‘Kinlet’ branch of the Whatmore family

An old adage has it that families last but three oaks. If some oaks can attain the age of 400 years, that gives families a time span of some 1200 years.
A Robert Watmough was assessed for tax in 1379  - six hundred and thirty years ago - so it would appear that the Watmough/Watmer/Watmore/Whatmore family […]

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Sunday, January 4th, 2009

Crispin Whatmore (1802 - 1880) and his family

One of the most unusual Christian names I have come across when researching the Watmough/Watmore/Watmore/Whatmore family is that of CRISPIN. There were in fact three Crispin Whatmores. The first was baptised on 25 August 1802 at St John Bedwardine, Worcester, the second (his son) was born at Great Malvern in 1844, and the third, Alfred […]

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