Re: Wolstenholmes Family early 1800s Horsleygate,
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Re: Wolstenholmes Family early 1800s Horsleygate,
Jo-Anne Mycroft 1/30/07
Hello Jo-Anne
I was very interested in finding out that several people are (or were) researching the Wolstenholme family. I have recently started looking intomy links into the family but live in Australia so everything is done at great distance by computer and with difficulty!! My maternal grandmother was Ruth Wolstenholme who married Thomas Hughes. Ruth was born I think in 1886. The family talked about Horsleygate Hall but also about another family property- Cartledge Hall in the same area. This was a large Elizabethan Hall. I have been told that a Sir John Wolstenholme was a merchand adventurer who founded the Virginia Company and helped fit out the expedition to Baffin and the family was immortalised on maps of the area where aremote island was namedWolstenholme.
I have a copy of a Wolstenholme crest and have been told that an early ancester Rev Henry W rector of Liverpool who died in 1771 left a daughter and heiress Anne who married John Parr. Their daughter was allegedly Catherine hence the ring of Tudor Roses on the crest from Henry VIII. I have nothing to authenticate thisunfortunately!
My struggle has led me to a chain of George Wolstenholmes. Each family seemed to call their son George. I have one born 1852 in Froggatt Derbyshire who married Louisa Featherstone and produced my grandmother Ruth. That George had a father- also George who appears on the 1881 UK census and married Frances (Parker). and he too had a father George who I think was born in 1779. I shuddered when I tried to track this George back as I seemed to be picking up another George (his Father) but by that time i needed to access parish records from Homesfield and it is really difficult from so far away.
Have you managed to pull any bits together?
Cheers
Marg
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Re: Wolstenholmes Family early 1800s Horsleygate,
Sue Rimmington 4/10/09