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Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Robert Watmore, Clerk to Board of Guardians, Lambeth Workhouse

Robert Watmore is of interest because he was Clerk to the Board of Guardians of Lambeth Workhouse at the time of a major scandal in 1838.
Robert was born about 1784 but his birthplace is unknown apart from the fact that it was not in the county of Surrey. There had been a Watmore family of […]

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Monday, January 7th, 2008

Arthur William Whatmore (1867 - 1951) Genealogist and Historian

Arthur William Whatmore was a person  of  outstanding ability. It is strange that so little is known about him and his life. If anyone who lives near Ashby de la Zouch reads this post and are in a position to undertake some researchinto Arthur’s life, I would be most grateful to hear of their findings.
Arthur […]

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Sunday, January 6th, 2008

The ancestors of Esther Whatmore (nee Manuel)

In May last year, I met for the first time a Whatmore second cousin. After we had greeted one another, the next thing he said to me was, ‘Look how dark my skin is. Is it true that the ancestors of our great grandmother Esther Whatmore were from Spain or Portugal?’ My cousin was not […]

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Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Abraham Whatmore (1843 - 1913) of Kidderminster

Despite an ancestry of many generations of small farmers and agricultural labourers, the latent intelligence and abilities of the Whatmores began to show clearly in the nineteenth century in those family members fortunate enough to receive a good education and to be given new opportunities. Abraham Whatmore from Kidderminster demonstrates well the new breed of  Whatmore men who managed to […]

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Friday, January 4th, 2008

The Whatmore Family of Wolverley

The Wolverley branch of the Whatmore family is perhaps one of the vigorous of the Whatmore lines, with many existing sub branches. It was founded by Thomas Watmore and his wife Susannah Southal who were married in 1768 at Kinlet in Shropshire but who went to live in  Wolverley, Worcestershire the same year.

 St John the […]

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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

James and Ann Whatmore at Hampton, Chelmarsh

When I first started researching my Whatmore ancestors some seven years ago, I knew very little about them. My father and grandfather had been born, like myself in Sheffield and there was a family tradition that my great grandfather Joseph Whatmore had been brought up in Hampton Loade in Shropshire. We also knew that he […]

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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

William Watmer Rector of Great Comberton

In the seventeenth century it was quite common for a man who was fortunate enough to be appointed as a rector to pay  a curate to look after his parish and go off and do something altogether more agreeable or remunerative. Such a man was William Watmer, Rector of Great Comberton in Worcestershire and as […]

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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Humphrey Watmore the Elder, Burgess of Bewdley

By the beginning of the seventeenth century, the Watmores were spreading out from Shropshire, looking for new opportunities. Gradually they spread through the neighbouring county of Worcestershire. One of the early migrants was Humphrey Watmore the Elder  who went to Bewdley. Humphrey was the great x 8 grandfather of Sheila Kirk. Sheila has researched and […]

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