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Friday, October 31st, 2008

A spot of bother at Hampton Loade, Shropshire in 1856

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 in the issue of the […]

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Friday, October 31st, 2008

The Whatmore Family of Bitterley, near Ludlow, Shropshire

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 Hopton Wafers in 1761. They […]

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