Generation C

John Whytelocke lived in Exeter and as William from generation B also lived in Exeter could it be that he was John's father. Hard to tell at this stage.

Generation F

Could it be that John at Parkham, baptised 1539 was a brother of Thomas and Peter of Alwington just down the road. There are no Whitlock's mentioned at Parkham in tax and muster rolls until the subsidy of 1581 when John is listed.

Generation G and H

John Whitlock 1572 - 1632 and Elizabeth

These are shown as having a daughter, Elizabeth, a twin of Christian and shown as marrying George Powe in 1633. I do not know where this came from. I had my researcher check these in the original registers. She found no Elizabeth baptised in 1612 or, indeed, at any time. The Elizabeth who married George Powe was quite clearly shown as a Widow. AsJohn died in 1632 then Elizabeth is clearly his wido)V.

The family in Frithelstock at this time was fairly small and appear to have all gone by at least 1638.

The eldest, Peter is not mentioned again following his baptism in 1611. Christian (baptised as Christene) married Thomas Abbott in 1638 and went to live at Langtree. Katheryn died unmarried in 1638. John died aged 7 in 1629. This left Thomas, born in 1615. When Christian married I believe that she invited her younger brother to join her and her husband in Langtree as he would have been left alone in Frithelstock. I believe that once there he met and married Rose ? I also believe that they had a son, Thomas, who married Mary Heaman in 1673.

The theory that Thomas was the son of a Richard came from Jim Whitelock who claimed that he reached that conclusion because of a document dated 1687 showing that this Richard was a tenant of Christopher Heaman. I sent my researcher the document reference and the description as quoted by Jim. She reported back to me 'this bundle contained 17 documents - none of which match your description'. Without that document I will never subscribe to Jim's theory, nothing about which fits the facts as we know them for certain. Even if this document ever did exist and Richard was mentioned in it the question would still be, 'why does it show Richard to be the father of Thomas? I believe that Richard was baptised at Morwenstow in 1646. Coming to the home of his Grandmother, English Whitlock, he married Emme Rew in 1686. I firmly believe this Richard is nothing to do with Thomas. I raised all these points and more in my letters of 19 January and 17 March 1998. Staying for a moment with generation G. Anthony born 1554 (not 1552) and Agnys born 1558 were the children of Thomas and his first wife Joanna, not his 2nd wife, Elyn Lake.

Generation I page 2

Thomas is shown as dying in 1721, that in fact is his son, Thomas.

Where did John born 1642 appear from?

Generation N page 4

Mary Whitlock born 1819 daughter of William and Sarah of Peters Marland. She married Thomas Smale in 1841 and I have since found the following children for them; William Smale b 1842 married Sarah born 1844

Hedley Smale born 1871 Ella Smale born 1873 Alice Smale born 1875 Bertha Annie Smale born 1878

Isaac Smale b 1854 married Mary b 1846 William Smale born 1873

Thomas Smale b 1847 married Jane b 1848

Fanny Smale born 1871 BetseyAnn Smale born 1874 Thomas Henry Smale born 1876 Anne Smale born 1879

Mary Smale b 1850 married John Webber born 1847 William Alfred Webber born 1872 Edwin Webber born 1873 Willaby Webber born 1875 Thomas Webber born 1876 LeviWebber born 1877 Charley Webber born 1878 Mary Ann Webber born 1880 The Whitlock family of Frithelstock 1611 - 1638

John Whitlock

Frithelstock 1632

John Whitlock who was baptising children at Frithelstock in the second decade of the 17th century was baptised himself at Alwington on 13th february 1572,the third son of Peter Whitlock and his wife,Johan Southcott..Why this John Whitlock came to live at Frithelstock is unknown but that he came there because of his marriage can be guessed at,although we have failed so far to find the record of that event. We do know, however,that his wife was called Elizabeth. There were Whitlock's in the parish in the first half or so of the 16th century but appear to have gone by the 1570's at the latest. John and Elizabeth's eldest child appears to have been a son whom they named Peter, after John's father.He was baptised on 28 April 1611 and at first it was believed that he had died as a child but a renewed search of the Frithelstock registers has failed to fmd a record afhis buriaLIt could be that he was apprenticed to a farmer or some such in another parish and died and was buried there. Peter was followed by a sister,called Christene at her baptism on 19 June 1612 but later she was known as Christian. On 24 November 1638 she married Thomas Abbott and went with her husband to live at Langtree. This event along with the death of a younger sister the following month virtually cleared the Parish of Whitlocks as we shall see. Christian lost her husband sometime in 1640/41 and appears in the hearth tax returns of that year as a widow. After Thomas Whitlock was baptised on 22 April 1615 and about whom I have written separately there followed a second daughter,Katheryn who was baptised on 4 March 1617.She was to die,unmarried and described as 'a serv)6.nt unto Mr Lamb'. She was buried on 2 December 1638.Mr Lamb also appears later as a one ofthe overseers of the will of Christian Whitlock's husband, Thomas Abbott. The youngest of the five children of John and Elizabeth Whitlock was a son,named John after his father.He was baptised on 1 November 1622 but he died when just seven years old and was buried on 7 August 1629. John Whitlock himself was buried on 6 december 1632 at the age of 60. His widow,Elizabeth remarried the following year on 20 November 1633 to George Powe. With the departure of Christian and Thomas Abbott and of her younger brother, Thomas to Langtree,this meant the end of Whitlock's in Frithelstock for some years to come.