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Thursday, November 15th, 2007

The Watmoughe Family of Prescot

The Watmer, Watmore and Whatmore family of the Welsh Marches and West Midlands descend from RICHARD WATMOUGHE, born about 1420 in Lancashire, through his son JOHN WATMOUGHE, born about 1449 and who lived at Eccleston in the parish of Prescot, Lancashire, and through John’s third son WILLIAM WATMOUGHE, born about 1479 at Eccleston and who […]

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Friday, November 9th, 2007

Contributions welcomed

If you are a Watmough, Watmer, Watmore, Whatmore or a descendant of this family and have an interesting story to tell related to this family, I would be very pleased to publish your story on this blog.
 Material should not relate to living people, except in special circumstances and with their permission, and stories should not […]

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Friday, November 9th, 2007

Recollections of an NCO - The War Memoirs of Eric Whatmore

My father, Eric Whatmore,  served during the Second War World in North Africa and the Middle East. When he was in his eighties he recorded his memories which consist of over 7 hours of audio tape. These were professionally transcribed this year, and I edited the transcript and added many photographs. The resulting booklet was […]

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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Eric Whatmore - The Story of a Grimesthorpe Lad

My father, Eric Whatmore, was born on 23 February 1914 at 11 Margate Street, Grimesthorpe – a district in the eastern part of the city of Sheffield. The family home was a simple terraced house with about four or five rooms and an outside toilet.

 In this  photo of an outing at Brightside Church about 1915, […]

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Sunday, November 4th, 2007

Family Origins

Long ago, perhaps in the 1300s, there was in the north of England a man named Walter. Walter’s family must have been of high social standing and Walter himself was well known in the local community. Walter had a sister and she was courted by a man from a nearly family. Although her suitor’s family […]

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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Welcome to my blog

In this blog you will find information about the WATMOUGH, WATMER, WATMORE and WHATMORE family. It will provide details of the family’s origin and how it spread out, stories about individuals of the past, and the results of new researches. It will focus mainly on the Whatmore family of the Welsh Marches and the West […]

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