Author Topic: WHITTINGHAM family (Read 15542 times)

Cairns88 · « **on:** Friday 17 October 08 14:59 BST (UK) »

Hi i'm really stuck on my great great grandfather...
William WHITTINGHAM (or William Davies WHITTINGHAM)
I have found out that he was born in GUILSFIELD, Montgomeryshire in 1826.
I know that his mothers name was Sarah WHITTINGHAM and that she had him out of wedlock with a man named William DAVIES

I also know that Sarah's parents were
John WHITTINGHAM (1754-1816) & Sarah BROWNE (1768-1821)
However I don't know anything about the family or any dates, if someone could help me with this I would be very grateful!

Gadget · « **Reply #1 on:** Friday 17 October 08 15:15 BST (UK) »

Hi

Welcome to Rootschat

I have some information from the Will of this John Whittingham and masses of other information.

m Sarah Browne by licence in Alberbury, Shropshire on 15 Jun 1788

I'll try to find some more info from my files.

Regards

Gadget

Gadget · « **Reply #2 on:** Friday 17 October 08 15:21 BST (UK) »

The will is dated 8 Nov 1816 and names his wife, Sarah, sons John, Richard, Thomas and Lewis and daughters Sarah, Elinor, Martha, Elizabeth, Anne and Mary.

Abode - Burgedin ( ?) , Guilsfield

Gadget

Cairns88 · « **Reply #3 on:** Friday 17 October 08 15:24 BST (UK) »

hey!!

Thank you very much for replying! Ah so thats when they got married

I've been trying to find that for ages! Thank you!
And all those children :O haha
What was mentioned for Sarah...does it have a married name for her...? or address??

Thank yooooou!

Gadget · « **Reply #4 on:** Friday 17 October 08 15:32 BST (UK) »

Hi

It's from a mass of stuff that I have on Montgomeryshire. I don't have full details of the will. Here's some more that I've found from Guilsfield:

Richard bpt 11 July 1793
Thomas bpt 11 Jan 1796
Sarah bpt 12 March 1798

Abode given as Bergeding

I'll look for some more and get back

Also, I'll see if I can find anything about William Davies - but that's a more difficult name to track

Gadget

Cairns88 · « **Reply #5 on:** Friday 17 October 08 15:37 BST (UK) »

oh wow!!!! Fab!!! Ah so she was 28 when she had William Davies Whittingham, I thought she'd be very young to have had a child out of wedlock haha!!

haha I know it's such a common name

but if you could find anything that would make my year haha!

Thanks for helping me

Charlotte

Gadget · « **Reply #6 on:** Friday 17 October 08 16:13 BST (UK) »

Hi Charlotte

You gave John Whittingham's birth date as 1754. Do you have a place of birth at all?

I don't see a lot more in Guilsfield but there are quite a lot on Whittinghams in other Montgomeryshire parishes.

Gadget

Cairns88 · « **Reply #7 on:** Friday 17 October 08 16:36 BST (UK) »

Hey!

Yes I do have his place of birth as Alberbury, Shropshire, England
That was from another tree on ancestry so I don't know if it's completly right but they did have his date of birth as 1754!!

Do you know if Sarah Whittingham married William Davies or maybe someone else...?
Also maybe her death date??

Thanks

Charlotte

Gadget · « **Reply #8 on:** Friday 17 October 08 16:51 BST (UK) »

I don't have access to all the Guilsfield records so haven't found Sarah's marriage. It might be that a census search might bring something up.

Sarah <no surname> b. 1798 +/- , Guilsfield

Have you checked for John's birth/bpt on the IGI?

Gadget

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