Willoughby Staff (?1803-1886). My 4th great-grandmother. Willoughby Staff was from a Norfolk family that married into the Greens. Their descendants were part of my paternal family tree, ultimately coming down to the Finches. The surname may have derived from the Anglo-Saxon stæf, which means stick or pole, and could’ve referred to people who worked with or […]
Great Yarmouth
Susannah Symonds (1832-1906) and her family of mariners
Susannah Symonds (1832-1906), Henry George Martins (1828-1857) and Charles Downing (1824-1883). My 3rd great-grand aunt and uncles. Susannah was baptised on 8 October 1832 at St Nicholas’s Church in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, to parents Charles Robinson Witchingham Symonds and Susanna Waters. She was still living at home at the time of the 1851 census and […]
Mary Ann Symonds (1791-1867), died after being scalded
Mary Ann (or Marian) Symonds (1791-1867) and Ralph Newby (????-1881). My 4th great-grand aunt and uncle. Mary Ann – or sometimes Marian – was born just a few months after the marriage of her parents – James Symonds and Frances Ann Witchingham – in 1791. She was baptised at Holy Trinity & All Saints Church […]
Frances Ann Witchingham and my other Witchingham ancestors
Frances Ann Witchingham (1773-1847). My 5th great-grandmother. Witchingham is a reasonably common surname in Norfolk and may well derive from the village of Witchingham, north-west of Norwich. Over time the name has been spelled in a variety of ways including Wychingham, Wichinham, Withingham and even Wichengim. View where the Witchinghams are in my current family […]
Elizabeth Wetherill (1713-1799?) – businesswoman of Norwich
Elizabeth Wetherill (1713-1799?) and Edward Peterson (1714?-1783). My 7th great-grand aunt and uncle. Elizabeth was baptised on 1 February 1713 at St Nicholas’s Church in Great Yarmouth, her parents being schoolteacher Thomas Wetherill and Mary Corpe. Her brother William Wetherill’s will referred to her as Elizabeth Peterson and mentioned her children but I’ve not found […]
Rebecca Lock and my other Lock ancestors
Rebecca Lock (1779-1861). My 4th great-grandmother. Rebecca was the first of the Locks to marry into my family, when she wed Charles Goulty in Woodbastwick, Norfolk, on 17 May 1796. She’d been born in the village on 25 April 1778 and baptised at St Fabian and St Sebastian’s Church on 15 April 1779 – her […]
Lawrence Witchingham Symonds (1804-1847)
Lawrence Witchingham Symonds (1804-1847). My 4th great-grand uncle. Lawrence Witchingham Symonds was born on 16 August 1804 and baptised on the 19th at Holy Trinity & All Saints Church in Winterton, Norfolk, but drowned while a relatively young man. His parents were James Symonds and Frances Witchingham. Lawrence married Mary Green at St Andrew’s Church […]
Harriet Symonds (1841-1899) and her struggles with alcohol
Harriet Symonds (1841-1899) and Henry Swan Chapman (1838-1904). My 3rd great grand-aunt and uncle. Harriet was born on 29 August 1841 to parents Charles Robinson Witchingham Symonds and Susannah Waters. She was baptised on 8 September at St Nicholas’s Church in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. She married young in 1858, her husband being Henry Swan Chapman […]
Samuel Symonds (1836-1909) – saving lives at sea
Samuel Symonds (1836-1909). My 3rd great grand uncle. Samuel was born to Charles Robinson Witchingham Symonds and Susannah Waters in 1836 and baptised on 20 July that year at St Nicholas’s Church in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. He lived with his family until his marriage on 28 December 1856 to Ann Maria Masterson. She was also […]
Frederick Green (1840-1892), pharmacist and publican
Frederick Green (1840-1892). My 3rd great-grand uncle. Frederick was born to parents William Green and Willoughby Staff and baptised on 28 September 1840 at St Nicholas’s Church in Great Yarmouth. He was recorded living in the town with his parents in the 1841 and 1851 censuses. However, he cannot be found in the 1861 census. […]
Edward Green (1824-1876)
Edward Green (1824-1876) and Mary Ann Gedge (1817-1858). My 3rd great-grand uncle. Edward was born in 1824 to parents William Green and Willoughby Staff and baptised at St Nicholas’s Church in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, on 29 October that year. He grew up with his parents and siblings in the town and then married on 25 October […]
William Robert Green (1847-1882)
William Robert Green (1847-1882) and Ellen Lodge (1848-????).My 2nd great-grand uncle and aunt. William was baptised on 18 July 1847 at St Nicholas’s Church, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. His parents were William Mark Green and Elizabeth Maria Symonds. He lived as a child in Birmingham and Camberwell in Surrey with his parents and siblings before returning […]
William Wetherill (1711-1789) – eminent teacher of maths
William Wetherill (1711-1789), Elizabeth Clarke (????-1767) and Elizabeth Shorten (????-1794). My 7th great-grand uncle and aunts. William was baptised on 14 October 1711 at St Nicholas’s Church in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, to parents Thomas Witherill and Mary Corpe. He followed his father into teaching and left significant property on his death. William married Elizabeth Clarke […]
Frederick Elijah Wetherall (1814-1906) and his family tragedies
Frederick Elijah Wetherall (1814-1906) and Lucy Sarah Lloyd (1815-1869). My 4th great-grand uncle and aunt. Frederick was born on 30 July 1814 and baptised at St John Timberhill, Norwich, Norfolk, a day later – his parents were Thomas Wetherill and Rebecca Brooks. He grew up in the city with his family but followed them when […]
Rebecca Wetherall (1845-1878) – a short life in Lancashire
Rebecca Wetherall (1845-1878) and James Peers (1847-1880). My 2nd great-grand aunt. Rebecca was born to Mary Wetherall on 29 January 1845 at the Great Yarmouth Workhouse but the birth certificate was blank where the father’s name should be, meaning she was illegitimate. The informant for the record was James Kemp, master of the workhouse. But […]
Maud Jane Wetherall (1881-1958) and a golden wedding
Maud Jane Wetherall (1881-1958) and Augustus Charles Towell (1882-1962). My great-grand aunt and uncle. Maud was born on 15 June 1881 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, and baptised in the town’s St Nicholas’s Church on 29 November that year. She grew up with her parents Benjamin Thomas Wetherall and Sarah Ann Elizabeth Green and siblings in Admiralty Road. […]
Florence Harriet Stolliday (1879-1973) – married a soldier
Florence Harriet Stolliday (1879-1973) and Hugh Gardiner Dalgleish (1867-1945). My great-grand aunt and uncle. Born on 4 April 1879 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, to parents Edward Stoliday and Harriet Goulty, Florence was baptised on 7 September of that year in the parish church of St Nicholas. She grew up in the town with her family […]
Elizabeth Maria Symonds and my other Symonds ancestors
Elizabeth Maria Symonds (1826-1911).My 3rd great-grandmother. Elizabeth Maria Symonds was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, in 1826 and baptised in St Nicholas’s Church on 24 November that year. Her parents were fisherman Charles Robinson Witchingham Symonds and Susanna Waters (see below). Elizabeth married mariner William Mark Green, a Yarmouth native, at St Nicholas’s on 29 […]
Harriet Wetherall (1801-1859), who married a leading artist
Harriet Wetherill (1801-1859) and Thomas Lound (1801-1861). My 5th great-grand aunt and uncle. Harriet was born on 11 June 1801 and baptised on the 16th at St Nicholas’s Church in Great Yarmouth. Her parents were James Wetherill and Mary Proctor. She grew up in the coastal town without knowing her father, who’d died just weeks […]
Sarah Green (1804-54), a policeman’s wife
Sarah Green (1804-54) and John Gilbert (1804-1874). My 4th great-grand aunt and uncle. Sarah Green was born on 28 July 1804 and baptised two days later at St Nicholas’s Church, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Her parents were Edward Green and Mary Bustard. She grew up in the coastal town, where her father worked as a beachman, […]