John Dameron and Margaret Felton my 10 x g.grandparents married in Westerfield, Suffolk in 1552
In the History of Suffolk Families, it states “The last of that name (Dameron) a gentleman of 500 pounds or 600 pounds a year .....” So he was worth a bob or two,
some of which he got from his father, who left him £400 plus other items. His father also left £100 each to each of his 3 daughters and various grandchildren. John and Margaret had 3 children, but only one survived to adulthood and she was the one who it was determined was fatua et ideota from birth, so in his will he left his manor house to his eldest grandson.
James Wilmot and Priscilla Crane my 8 x g.grandparents married in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire in 1652/3. They had a daughter, Mary, born in 1655 in Cheshunt and then at some stage they moved to Cambridgeshire. James was born about 1629, but Priscilla was baptised in 1626, so in 1672 she would have been about 46. She apparently had a child in 1672 and then she died about 6 months later. Whether the child born in 1672 was actually Priscilla’s child or whether it was Mary’s who would have been 17 at the time I don’t know. The child, Lydia – my 7 x g.grandmother was baptised as James and Priscilla’s child.
Hannah Dawson my husband’s g.g.aunt was baptised at Manchester Cathedral in 1850. Her father’s occupation was given as Brewer. This is not correct as he was always a groom from the earliest records to his death in 1873. On his son’s baptism record in 1845 he was shown as a Hostler and I wonder if this was misheard as hostelry in 1850 and so brewer was written down in error.
Richard Whittaker my husband’s 3 x g.grandfather died in Cheshire in 1836. We have no record of Richard prior to his marriage, nor of his wife. On the 1841 census she was shown as not born in County and, of course, Richard died prior to that census so we have no clue as to where he came from, although there were other Whittaker’s in Cheshire and Derbyshire who might be connected. We assume Richard was a hatter as his siblings all became hatters and he lived in the right area.
Florrie Whittaker my husband’s g.aunt was buried in February 1892 in Christ Church, Denton, Lancashire aged about 1 month old. We haven’t got her death certificate so don’t know the cause of her death.
