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Thursday, February 26th, 2009

James Wadmore The Younger 1782 - 1854 Surveyor and Art Collector

The wealthiest of all the members of our family whom I have yet come across was almost certainly JAMES WADMORE The Younger. His family name was originally WATMOUGH and  his line can be traced back to Sandy in Bedfordshire in the 1500s. It would seem, then, that the Wadmores are part of the Watmough family […]

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Thursday, February 19th, 2009

James Watmough (1616 - 1661) - the Puritan Vicar of Bowden, Cheshire

James Watmough was baptised on 2 February 1616 at Leigh in Lancashire. He was the son of Robert Watmough of Lowton who had married Elizabeth Sorrocold at Leigh on 19 October 1613. Their known children were Robert 1614, James 1616, Margaret 1621 and Robert 1627.
Robert Watmough  Senior was born in 1589. He and his family […]

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Sunday, February 15th, 2009

‘I fell out of my tree’ - a story about the Watmore family at Micheldever, Hampshire

People who are not family history fanatics, like me, sometimes complain that written family histories are nothing but lists of names and dates. This is probably true of some family histories, which is why I have tried to provide interesting stories, and accounts of people’s lives on this blog. Most of these stories are factually […]

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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Watmores and Whatmores at the Old Bailey: Part 2

This is a continuation of an earlier post which tells the stories of family members who appeared at the Old Bailey.
The  stories summarise information from www.oldbaileyonline.org
The pictures in this post are the copyright of Diane Earl  who has made them available for educational use only at the Victorian Crime and Punishment Section of the […]

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