http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie The Watmough / Watmer / Watmore / Whatmore family Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:23:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It is amazing how ancient manuscripts, apparently hidden or mislaid in antiquity, can come to light centuries later. Sometimes they are discovered bound into later books or even used as part of the binding. My favourite story relates to Cologne cathedral which was left incomplete in medieval times, but in ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2008/11/21/the-testament-of-margaret-watmough-of-chorley-1543/ One  of the earliest settlements of the Watmough family in Lancashire was at Blackrod, a small town between Bolton to the east and Wigan to the west. An enormous number of Watmough children were baptised at the parish church of St Katherine’s, Blackrod, over the centuries, but quite a number ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2008/11/17/the-watmoughs-of-blackrod-lancashire/ I thought that a map would be useful showing the locations of of some of the main Watmough, Watmore and Whatmore families past and present. The map shows definite links between family via a continuous line, and speculative links via a broken line. The dates beside each place name are ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2008/11/15/family-migrations/ There were Watmoughs at Burnley in Lancashire since very early times and from  their use of 'Alexander' and 'Lawrence' as Christian names, it seems very likely that they were closely related to the branch of the family at Prescot, from which I descend. Geoffrey Whatmore, our family historian, spent a lot ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2008/11/13/the-testament-of-a-widow-of-burnley/ I was surfing the net a few days ago when I came across a pamphlet about a member of the Watmough family. The title of the pamphlet was ‘A Brief Sketch of the Services of John G Watmough During and Subsequent to the Campaign of 1814 and 1815 when an ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2008/11/09/john-goddard-watmough-hero-of-the-battle-of-fort-erie-in-1812/ A very large number of Whatmores can trace their tree back to Thomas Watmore of Curdale Farm at Cleobury Mortimer in Shropshire. The farm is still there with the farm house, which Thomas would have known, nestling into the hillside.  It is an unusual building with a terrace in front ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2008/11/02/thomas-watmore-of-curdale-farm-cleobury-mortimer/ If your ancestor was an agricultural labour you would not expect him to be mentioned in the local newspaper unless he had been involved in criminal activities, so when a friend at Shropshire Archives told me that she had found a James Whatmore of Hampton in Chelmarsh parish, Shropshire, mentioned ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2008/10/31/a-spot-of-bother-at-hampton-loade-shropshire-in-1856/ About three miles north of Ludlow is the village of Bitterley where a branch of the Whatmore family was established by William Watmore and his wife Catherine (nee Butcher). This William is believed to be the one born at Detton Mill in 1736. He married Catherine Butcher by licence at ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2008/10/31/the-whatmore-family-of-bitterley-near-ludlow-shropshire/ While it is possible that the Robert Waltersmaghe who served as a juror in 1305 at  Selkirk was an early member of our family, as far as we know the Watmoughs, Watmores and Whatmores rarely ventured into Scotland. Families move to seek new employment opportunities and for the northern family ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2008/10/28/the-watmore-family-of-east-lothian-and-edinburgh/ Sometime ago I posted an extract from my father's war memiors which described how he had narrowly escaped being killed when German bombers attacked the troop ship he  was on. I thought that readers might enjoy a further extract - this time about a wartime trip into Iraq. If anyone would ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2008/10/27/a-trip-into-iraq-an-extract-from-the-war-memoirs-of-eric-whatmore/