Archive for April, 2009

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Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Thomas Watmore, Burgess of Bewdley - removed from office by James II in 1688

At the risk of upsetting some of my readers I must confess that I have never been a fan of the Stuart dynasty, the monarchs of which attempted to emulate their successful Tudor predecessors without possessing either the skills and intelligence of the Tudor kings and Queens. Falling back on the outdated idea of the […]

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Monday, April 20th, 2009

Watmoughs and Whatmoughs in the 1911 census of England

The following table shows the numbers of Watmoughs and Watmoughs in the 1911 census of England.

COUNTY

WATMOUGH
WHATMOUGH

Berkshire

1
0

Cheshire
18
20

Derbyshire
4
0

Devon
5
0

Dorset
2
0

Durham
5
9

Essex
14
8

Gloucestershire
1
4

Hampshire
3
1

Hertfordshire
1
0

Kent
12
0

Lancashire
324
697

Leicestershire
4
0

Lincolnshire
69
17

London
10
26

Middlesex
5
8

Northamptonshire
0
1

Northumberland
10
1

Nottinghamshire
8
0

Oxfordshire
0
1

Staffordshire
0
3

Surrey
2
1

Warwickshire
1
0

Worcestershire
0
4

Yorkshire: North Riding
14
0

Yorkshire: East Riding
28
1

Yorkshire: West Riding
394
33

TOTALS

935
835

  
The spread of those families with the older spelling of the family name is, as expected, mainly across counties in the north of England. It is interesting to note how many of these […]

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Monday, April 20th, 2009

Two Watmough Methodist ministers from Rochdale

The life of a Methodist minister in the early days must have been a tough one, moving between the towns in his circuit, preaching at each in turn, sometimes dealing with hostile crowds, often working in the open air, and always with the hostility of the Established Church at his back.
The Church of England was […]

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Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

John Whatmore of Worcester, transported to New South Wales in 1829

To contemporaries, the punishments meted out by English courts in the early nineteenth century appear merciless and out of all proportion to the crimes committed. Many of the so-called ‘crimes’ were most probably  acts of desperation by starving and destitute people. An earlier post told the story of James Watmore of  Detton Mill, Neen Savage […]

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Monday, April 13th, 2009

New book published by Tom Whatmore about Speke Hall

My second cousin Thomas (Tom) William Whatmore had a childhood which many of us will envy. He was brought up at one of England’s most spectacular stately homes – Speke Hall near Liverpool.
 
Thomas’s father, another Thomas Whatmore, born in 1880 at Upper Arley, Worcestershire, was appointed as butler at Speke Hall in 1920. His son […]

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Friday, April 10th, 2009

Whatmores and Watmores in the 1911 census of England and Wales: Part 2

The 1911 census of England and Wales site now shows details for all the English counties. The chart below shows the counties not included in my earlier post on mumbers of Whatmores and Watmores.
 

County
Whatmore
Watmore

Cheshire

 12
  4

Cumberland
   0
  0

Derbyshire
   3
  7

Durham
   0
  0

Essex
  31
  5

Kent
  10
  5

Lancashire
  55
  1

Leicestershire
  10
  6

Lincolnshire
   2
15

Northumberland
   0
15

Nottinghamshire
 21
  0

Somerset
   4
  3

Westmoreland
   0
  0

Yorkshire […]

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Friday, April 10th, 2009

Recent Whatmore and Watmore emigrants to Canada in the 1911 census

Given the wealth of information provided in the more recent censuses of Canada and the USA one would expect the information to be accurate. Perhaps in most cases it is, but for recent immigrants there was perhaps a reluctance to provide true dates of birth. Perhaps immigrants did not want their precise origins to be […]

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