http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie The Watmough / Watmer / Watmore / Whatmore family Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:53:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ordinary folk, unless they were criminals, left few traces in historical records. It is therefore difficult to find out much about Joseph and Elizabeth Dyson who were the great grandparents of Mary Ann Whatmore, my grandmother.  Joseph and Elizabeth were my own great x 3 grandparents. I would like to thank ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2009/10/14/mary-ann-whatmores-great-grandparents-joseph-and-elizabeth-dyson/ For the son of a gamekeeper to become a doctor in the early nineteenth century was most unusual and this makes Isaac Watmough, who was a doctor at Pockington, of great interest. In writing this post I have made a great deal of use of the information placed on the ancestry ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2009/10/02/dr-isaac-watmough-of-pockington-yorkshire/  Click pictures to enlarge them Over the course of time, most family surnames change their form. A vowel or a consonant is added or lost but the basic form usually remains the same. When members of a family migrated to a new area, if their surname was an unfamiliar one in ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2009/08/02/thomas-whatmore-alias-henry-gamble-of-mortlake-surrey/   Please click on pictures to enlarge them John Smalman of Quatford  has ample claim to being another of Marjory’s illustrious ancestors as he was talented builder and architect.  John Smalman was born on 7 April 1782 at Munslow, the eldest son of John Smalman and his wife Jane Wainwright. John of Quatford ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2009/07/23/john-smalman-of-quatford-another-illustrious-relative-of-margery-watmore-nee-smalman/  Click on pictures and charts in this post to enlarge them  Marjory Smalman is of importance in the annals of the Whatmore family as she was almost certainly the mother of Thomas Watmore of Curdale from whom a very large number of the Whatmores in the West Midlands descend.  We have very few ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2009/07/21/marjorie-whatmore-nee-smalman-of-neenton-and-her-illustrious-relatives/ There must have been compelling reasons for families to uproot themselves in the nineteenth century and make the long and hazardous journey from England to Australia. By the 1850s, the reasons were unlikely to have been religious persecution at home. It was more likely to have been the chance of ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2009/07/12/the-whatmore-family-of-mortlake-surrey-and-australia/ This is a fictionalised account of a real visit to Shropshire during the First World War. It was March 1916 and the war which had started in 1914 and was ‘sure to be over by Christmas’ continued unabated and the news from the various fronts seemed to get worse every day. ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2009/07/09/a-shropshire-interlude/ A few days ago I came across some photographs of Watmough graves at Caistor which had been placed on the net by Linda Mason of the Grimsby Family History Group. Linda Mason has generously given me permission to reproduce these pictures on this blog. Please note that Linda possesses the ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2009/07/09/the-watmough-graves-at-caistor-lincolnshire/  This a fictional story by Geoffrey Whatmore based on real people. It is set in Shropshire during the Civil War. Lucy Watmore was worried  and confused,  which  made her irritable. She flounced up the lane with her new flame-red skirt spattered by mud.  A sudden  shower had scattered damson petals like ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2009/06/04/the-road-to-cleobury-market/ Sometimes genealogical research turns into a debunking of long held family myths – the famous surgeon who turns out to have been a country vet, the disinherited son whose family were actually paupers and the treasured photo of great great granddad which is actually a picture of Lord Kitchener. This ... http://family-tree.co.uk/familyblogs/bessie/2009/05/27/mary-ann-whatmore-nee-dyson-and-the-abbeydale-industrial-hamlet-sheffield/