Whatmore Family History

Jemima is not a common name in our family. The International Genealogical Index of the Mormon Church lists only 7 in the British Isles:

Jemima Watmore baptised 11 September 1787 Middleton Scriven, Shropshire

Jemima Whatmore baptised 8 June 1794 Ringley, Lancashire

Jemima Watmore baptised 17 May 1804 Ludlow, Shropshire

Jemima Watmore baptised 29 October 1818  Spa Fields, Lady Huntingdon’s,   Clerkenwell, London

Jemima Watmore baptised 13 February 1825 Barnby in the Willows, Nottinghamshire

Jemima Watmough  baptised 20 December 1829, Shinfield, Berkshire

Jemima Whatmough born 1840 Lancashire

The Jemima born in 1804 at Ludlow has been described in an earlier post. See ‘ The Whatmore Families of Ludlow Part 2’, posted on 1 February 2008

This post sets out what is known about the Jemima born in 1787 who belongs to my branch of the Whatmore family

Jemima Watmore baptised 1787 at Middleton Scriven

This Jemima was the daughter of a Thomas and Ann Watmore who do not otherwise feature in the Middleton Scriven parish registers. Research has, however, provided good evidence that she was the daughter of the Thomas Watmore who married Ann Brooks on 27 May 1785 at Kinlet. A Jemima Watmore brought her illegitimate child Harriot Watmore  to be baptised at Kinlet  on 1 December 1809 and was a witness at the marriage of  a James Shineton to an Ann Brooks at Kinlet in 1810.

Middleton Scriven is only a couple of parishes to the north of Kinlet, and there is a gap in the pattern of births of children to Thomas Watmore and Ann Brooks into which Jemima’s birth fits neatly.

Thomas Watmore, Jemima’s father, is almost certainly the one baptised in 1757 at Cleobury Mortimer and  Ann Brooks, her mother, is almost certainly the one baptised in 1758 at Cleobury Mortimer. The known children of Thomas and Ann were George 1786 at Kinlet and buried there the same year, Jemima 1787 at Middleton Scriven, William 1790 at Kinlet, James 1795 at Ribbesford, Bewdley, Sarah 1798 at Kinlet and Thomas 1804 at Kinlet.

Thomas Watmore was a thatcher  and from at least 1804 until his death in 1829, he lived with his family at Button Bridge in the parish of Kinlet.

Cottages at Button Bridge, Kinlet, Shropshire     Copyright: Rhys Whatmore

Nine years after the birth of her illegitimate daughter, Jemima Watmore married Robert Hinton at St John Bedwardine, Worcester on 23 December 1819. Robert was an agricultural labourer and had been born about 1788 at Littlehampton in Gloucestershire.

Jemima appears to have spent the whole of her married life in the parish of St John Bedwardine. In the 1841 and 1851 censuses the family were living there at Bransford Road. In 1841 she is described as a laundress. Her illegitimate daughter Harriot was with her in 1841, also working as a laundress and by now she had an illegitimate child of her own – William Watmore, baptised on 7 October 1835 at St John Bedwardine. In 1841 he was with his mother and grandparents. In 1851 Harriot was no longer at home but William (shown as John) was still with his grandparents. He has not been traced thereafter.

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Church of St John Bedwardine, Worcester     Photograph Copyright: Phillip Halling      Source: Geograph website and reproduced here in accordance with the terms of the site licence which can be read at this link:  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Harriot Watmore  married in 1849 in the Martley Registration District to a Thomas Everton. Thomas was born about 1798 at Holloway in Worcestershire and was a widower with several children, working as an agricultural labourer when he married Harriot. His first wife was Susannah Dovey born 1795 at Kempsey, Worcestershire. She married Thomas on 31 August 1818 at Hallow. She died on 16 April 1840 at Martley.

In 1851 Thomas Everton and his second wife Harriot were at Hallow with Thomas’s son Thomas from his first marriage and his daughter Clara born at Hallow in 1850 – his child by Harriot.

Thomas Everton died in 1858 in the Martley Registration District and Harriot, who was at Hallow in 1861 working as a Florist, seems to have remarried in 1864 in the Martley Registration District to a Henry Sylvester, an agricultural labourer born about 1813 at Ripple in Worcestershire. Harriot must have died before 1871 as in the census for that year Henry is shown as a widower.

Clara Everton married Thomas Owen in 1878 in the Kensington Registration District. Thomas a gardener, born in 1845 at Wistanstow, Shropshire. There known children were:

Ernest Owen born 1881 at Notting Hill and died 1882 at Notting Hill.

Albert Amos Owen born 1883 at Notting Hill. He married a Rose about 1808. She was born about 1887 at Notting Hill. There children by 1911 were Albert Owen born about 1908 at Notting Hill and Winifred Owen born about 1910 at Notting Hill.

Agnes Jessie Owen born about 1886 at Acton. She married an Edwin Brown in 1906 in the Kensington Registration Ditsrict.  Edwin, born about 1882 at Hampstead, was a labourer. By 1911, the children of Edwin and Agnes, all born at Notting Hill, were Agnes born 1907, Robert born 1908 and Florrie born 1910.

Osbourne Owen born about 1890 at Notting Hill who died 1891 at Notting Hill.

Robert Owen born about 1893 at Notting Hill.

Thomas Owen died in 1904 in the Kensington Registration District. In 1911, Clara Owen, all her surving children and their spouses, and her grandchildren were living at 3 St Martin Street, Notting Hill.

Clara Owen died at the age of 80 in 1930 in the Kensington Registartion District.

Returning to Jemima Watmore and her husband Robert Hinton – their known children were:

William Hinton 1820 St John Bedwardine who was buried there in 1821

Robert Hinton 1823 St John Bedwardine  who married a Mary Ann. Their known children were Sarah F Jemima Hinton 1854 and Ann Bertha Hinton  1863

Sarah Ann Hinton 1825 St John Bedwardine

Bertha Hinton 1829 at Powick who married Richard Esprey on 21 September 1856 at St Peter’s, Worcester. Richard and Bertha’s descendants have been traced down to the present day.

Jemima died in 1852 in the Worcester Registration District and her husband Robert, who went to live with his daughter Bertha after the death of his wife, died in 1866 in the Worcester Registration District.

Jemima Watmore  was my great x 3 grand aunt (i.e. she was the sister of my great x 3 grandfather)