The following table shows the numbers of Watmoughs and Watmoughs in the 1911 census of England.

COUNTY

 WATMOUGH WHATMOUGH

Berkshire

 1 0
Cheshire 18 20
Derbyshire 4 0
Devon 5 0
Dorset 2 0
Durham 5 9
Essex 14 8
Gloucestershire 1 4
Hampshire 3 1
Hertfordshire 1 0
Kent 12 0
Lancashire 324 697
Leicestershire 4 0
Lincolnshire 69 17
London 10 26
Middlesex 5 8
Northamptonshire 0 1
Northumberland 10 1
Nottinghamshire 8 0
Oxfordshire 0 1
Staffordshire 0 3
Surrey 2 1
Warwickshire 1 0
Worcestershire 0 4
Yorkshire: North Riding 14 0
Yorkshire: East Riding 28 1
Yorkshire: West Riding 394 33

TOTALS

 935 835

  

The spread of those families with the older spelling of the family name is, as expected, mainly across counties in the north of England. It is interesting to note how many of these families had inserted an ‘h’ in their name.

    

The following table gives total figures for Watmough, Whatmough, Whatmore, Watmore and Wadmore:

Watmough 935
Whatmough 835
Whatmore 769
Watmore 372

Total

 2911

Wadmore

 175

Grand Total

 3086

Please note that these figures include wives whose maiden name was not one of the above forms of our family name.