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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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