Hello Sandra,
Just to let you know I am still alive, but too busy at present to delve further into my Windeatts !!
I did not receive the off topic message you deleted, so your system is ok
Kind regards,
Marcia

Edited by author 03-12-2008 12:04
Glad to hear you are OK Marcia. And one good thing about this hobby is that if you need to go away and do something else for a few years, your subjects will still all be there when you return . . . unlike gardening, say, . . .

Hello, I have found William Windeatt b. cir 1818 and wife Selina nee Jarman in the 1841 census. Please contact me if you don't already have this information at pabikhair@ozemail.com.au
Many thanks, Pam

Thanks Pam. Are you sure you mean the 1841? Because the 1841 has Selina down as Sarah.

Edited by author 14-01-2009 23:29
There's an article which includes some new information about the musicians Corelli Windeatt and his father Charles on the Weston and Somerset Mercury newspaper site. I've put a link through on their pages and also flagged it on the "What's New?" on my home page.

Also new are five pages about WINGETTs and WINGATEs in the Kingsbridge area - the Kingsbridge WINGATEs are mainly masons and builders and the WINGETTs from Dodbrooke may have been masons originally but were mainly agricultural labourers in the nineteenth century. We don't know if these two families are related.

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I am looking for Froom (Froome) history from Devon. My ancestor is James Froom Sr born in 1736 (alternatively listed as "of England" or "of Tolland,Coventry, Connecticut). He was a United Empire Loyalist and served under General Burgoyne and later fled to Grenville Ontario with his family from their lands near Bennington, Vt. He married a Margaret Searl (Searle) whose ancestors trace back to Ottery St. Mary to one John Searle born March 23, 1611 in Ottery St. Mary, Devon and his wife, Margaret Channon (b 1611) and before that to Thomas Searles born in Ottery abt 1572, died abt 1631. As emigrants frequently followed each other from the same town or county in England to settle in New England, I am searching for an ancestor of James Froom, Sr in the Devon area. I am wondering why the Searles left Devon in such numbers in the 1630's and if there is any record of the Froom family in that area? Thanks.

Hello Lynn

There are quite a frew FROOM/FROOMEs in Devon and, although it is very difficult to be certain of anything that far back, I will look through my old emails and see if I can still trace the FROOM researcher who contacted me some years ago. But you will need to give me your email address - for privacy purposes don't add it here on the message board but email me at the address you will find on my ownership page:

http://www.windeatt.f2s.com/windeatt/ownership.htm

As for 1630 - these were turbulent times in England and there was a revolution and civil war coming in a few years. There is a British Timeline on the BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml

and a specifically Devon one on the Devon County Council site:
http://www.devon.gov.uk/localstudies/100323/1.html

If the SERLEs were non-conformists they would probably want to be leaving to escape persecution as the Pilgrim Fathers did in 1620.

The FROOMS who married into the WINDEATTs in the nineteenth century seem to have come from Otterton - which is reasonably near Ottery St. Mary - so they may have a single origin. I believe it is a Devon name.

Sandra

I have found a family called Daman who had three children in the late Victorian period: all three had the second name Windeatt. The father was a solicitor in the London suburbs, the older son was kia in action in 1915, the younger son died as a boy in 1909, the daughter married in Peru in 1926. The parents died in 1926 and 1931. Any ideas as to why their second name should be Windeatt? Thanks.

Edited by author 06-02-2009 15:27
Hello Richard

Often the middle name is the mother's maiden name but I don't recall seeing any marriages of a WINDEATT and a DAMAN. However, sometimes it is the grandmother's or the grandfather's surname or possibly even further back. The solicitor connections suggests the Staverton tree which is replete with solicitors.

Do you know the mother's first name and when she married? Oh and the father's first name? We then might be able to find out her maiden name from free BMD. And which suburb by the way? That could also be a bit of a clue.

Sandra

Hello Richard and Sandra,
This sounds like my family. My Grandmother was Evelyn Marjorie Burges Daman.(Changed from Dammann because of Polital reasons according to my Grandma )
Her parents were Karl Adolph Dammann and Florence Mary Lauezzari who were married April 22nd 1892. His parents were Karl Christopher Ludwig Dammann who married Marianne Bayly, her father was a well known Plympton/Plymouth barrister who married Elizabeth Windeatt in 1833.
Elizabeth was born in 1803 in Tavistock, Devon and died in 1862. Her parents were Thomas Windeatt who was married to Mary Bayly.

Karl and Marianne Dammann had 6 children that I know of Lillie age 17, John 16, Charles 14, Thomas 12, Harold 10 and Robert 8 and they were living at Edgebaston, Warwickshire at the time of the 1881 census.

Anything this throws up I would be very interested in as this family through different marriages is linked to H. Rider Haggard, Agnes Weston, Richard Rundle Burges who was killed 11th October 1797 at the sea bqttle off Camperdown. He was in command of H.M.S.Ardent. He is buried or has a memorial in St Pauls Cathedral, London. My Grandmothers' brother was named after him and it was her wish we had Burges as one of our names.
Hope some of this helps.............?!
Marcia

Edited by author 08-02-2009 16:32
Thanks Marcia

I had forgotten about the DAMANs - and I think you did tell me this before. And I apologise to all for making a mistake when I typed up the previous message. It is of course the Totnes tree which is replete with solicitors and not the Staverton one (must have been dreaming when I typed the message). And the Tavistock tree is is an offshoot of the Totnes one.

There is masses of information on this family at the Plymouth and West Devon Record Office - just type

windeatt bayly

into the search box on the National Archives and you will get some 76 results.

Some time I will get around to typing up what I have found online and uploading it here but there must be lots more interesting information available in the actual files.

Thanks again,

Sandra

Edited by author 04-03-2009 09:43
hi ,im trying to find out some information about my fathers family.His name was thomas henry wingett.mother name was nellie wingett,nee nicholls, father was edward wingett(born in tuckenhay).If you could give me any more information i would be very grateful.
Regards
Monica Rowe

My Email address is as follows Monice.rowe@hotmail.co.uk

Edited by author 04-03-2009 19:42
Hello Monica

Yes, some fellow researchers have investigated this line. Edward WINGETT married Mary Ellen NICHOLLS in Wolverhampton in 1905. He had nine brothers and sisters (at least) and his father was Albert WINGETT, also born in Tuckenhay. He also had nine or ten brothers and sisters and his father was John WINGETT who married Maria BARKER in Exeter in 1826. The principal researcher for this line has been looking long and hard for many years to find a baptism for him but with no success so far.

However, we think John's father was probably Henry WINGETT OF Ermington who is part of the Ugborough family tree. There were WINDEATTs/WINGETTs in this area for centuries and there is a family tree dating back to 1591 but I am not sure how well researched it is.

More recent members of this branch include a Lord Mayor of Plymouth (1958-9) and Mark WINGETT who used to be in "The Bill".

I have put a web page on this site, see;

 http://www.windeatt.f2s.com/windeatt/tree-ugborough.htm

but I have additional information and will contact you via email.

Thanks for getting in touch.

Sandra

Thought you might be interested to know that a Betsy Cowling was baptised Plymouth St Andrew 18 Jul 1824, 2nd child of Atwill and Ann (Quiller) Cowling. 4 further children were baptised Dodbrooke 1827-34, and 2 at Ebenezer Independent Chapel, Kingsbridge 1837-40. Atwill was a fellmonger.

Details of first 6 children from DFHS Baptism Index, last 2 post on internet.

Hello Vic

Thanks for this information and sorry for taking so long to reply - bin away.

Regards, Sandra

sandra thank you for the information re wingett family history i was interested to note that in 1821 a jane windeat married a john rowe i married a john rowe in 1963 thought it would be quite ironic if we had the same ancesters it appears that the rowes came from devon also from monica