ISSN:0835:6734 WHITLOCK FAMILY NEWSLETTER 47644 Forester Road Subscription $15 ($20/£9.75 International) Tel:604/824-7450 Vol.25 No.4 RR#2, Sardis, B.C. per annum renewable January 1st Email:[email protected] Dec 2006 CANADA V2R 4M6 Published Mar.Jun.Sep.& Dec. Email(2):[email protected] Page 1 Website:http://whitlock.castlewebs.net/wfa/index.htm It has been an eventful Fall and as I look out the window of my office the world is white from the 60cm of snow we received over the last two days. It is only the last week of November and we have already had two dumps of snow. In between we had two howling wind storms, the first of which brought down half of a 50 year old maple on the house!! There is quite a bit of damage and we are slowly recovering from that. Our insurance company has been really good and they managed to have the huge tree trunk removed from the back bedroom and got the roof tarped to prevent water getting in. We now have a back door again although it is still boarded up until the siding can be replaced. The wall of the bedroom is in place and there is a wooden frame in place for the corner of the roof. Needless to say family history work was on hold for awhile while we cleared away masses of broken branches and pieces of wood. No one was injured, the tree missed the power lines so we have heat and power. The animals were all okay, even the dog who lived in the room where the back door used to be. The llamas and donkeys have been having a field day eating all the tree debris strewn about the fields. We do not have a wood burning fireplace so one of the neighbours now has a whole winter’s supply of maple and birch logs. “It is an ill wind indeed that blows no one any good”. The neighbours were great as a whole gang arrived the evening of the storm to help out. Anyway those issues appear to be on their way to being resolved and there is nothing like a good steady snowfall to encourage staying indoors and working on the computer!! There have been some interesting developments on the family history side of things. Following up on the article in the September 2006 issue regarding the two William Henry Whitlocks of South Carolina. Patricia Swaney has now sent in the death certificate (CERT1062) for William Henry Whitlock born August 14, 1843 in Anderson Co., South Carolina. The death certificate shows he died February 12, 1919 in Anderson Co., South Carolina and that his parents were Drew Whitlock and Anna Kelly. The next step will be to figure out how Drew Whitlock fits into the family and if he is different from the Drury & Nancy Whitlock who show in the 1870 census for Laurens Co., South Carolina and the 1880 census for Belton, Anderson Co., South Carolina. I have been very pleased to hear from Jeff Buttifant of Wells, Somerset. Jeff is descended from my gggrandfather, Thomas Whitlock’s brother Henry Whitlock. Through one of those quirks of genealogical research, Myrtle (Madge) Johns of Hamilton, Ontario had sent me information on her Webber ancestors and noted the Henry Whitlock who married Elizabeth, the sister to her grandmother Mary Webber wife of Walter Madge of Meeth, Devon. This was the 1960's and I was not able to place this Henry Whitlock. It was not until I heard from Jeff that I learned how closely Henry was related. Mrs. Johns died in 1977 but I know she would have been thrilled to know that, not only had we made the connection, but that her grandfather, Walter Madge was one of the witnesses at the marriage of Henry Whitlock and Elizabeth Madge in 1842 at Okehampton in Devon. I have sent Jeff a couple of the booklets that Mrs. Johns put together on the Whitlock and Webber families and he is in the process of filling in the blanks for a part of the family I did not even know existed. While I don’t get much time to do research myself, I have been tempted by some of the websites that Michael Jones has been letting me know about. One gave access to the 18th century tax lists for Virginia and I took the opportunity to download copies of the originals into our files. (R2552-R2257) While transcripts of most of this information was already in our files some of the entries corrected past transcription errors. In other cases the documents provided additional information that had not been included in the files. It was also useful to see the amount of tax paid in relationship to their neighbours. You can interpret this information in several ways but in most cases the more tax that was paid the older and more established the family was. This is particularly useful when you have a father and son listed on the same return. It is more likely that the father is going to pay more tax than the son. I have been enjoying my correspondence with Chris Geoghegan of Australia. Working on her Hertfordshire Whitlocks has made me re-look at a lot of the research I did in the 1970's when I lived in Hertfordshire and did quite a bit of research in the Hertfordshire and Essex areas of England. A lot of bits and pieces of information had come in over the years and when I put them all together it enabled me to put together a Whitlock Family Newsletter Vol.25 No.4 Dec 2006 Page 2 likely line for Chris tracing back to the 1630's. With the exception of Chris’s ancestor John Whitlock married in 1843 the line is unbroken. Hopefully the marriage certificate from 1843 will tell Chris which of the previous generation was the father and we can make that connection as well. One of the important items in this process was the 1808 will of John Whitlock of Barley, Hertfordshire. The will had not meant a lot to me when I acquired it some years ago but it was clear looking at it now that it connected three generations together. It also clearly connected the Whitlocks of Barley, Hertfordshire with the Whitlocks of Barkway, Essex. I have detailed this family on the end of the WHITLOCK08 chart and added a lot of miscellaneous Essex and Hertfordshire connections to this chart as well. Once we determine who John Whitlock’s father was I hope to publish a Main Line for Chris Geoghegan showing this family. I was interested to receive an obit for Major Ogden Whitlock (X6023). He died Feb.24,1911 at Colorado Springs, Colorado. I have done a short article on him for this issue. Thomas Glassel has been sending in interesting information on the Baldwin family (X6051) and in particular their connection to Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire where we are trying to confirm a Whitlock connection. It is obvious the Baldwins had a long association with the area and it is likely through this family the Whitlocks came to be associated with Cholesbury. Michael Jones also sent in great new detail on the family of Bowen Whitlock of North Carolina (X6052). We had known from the early census records that Bowen Whitlock likely married and had upwards of eight children but we did not know his wife’s name or the names of any of the children. Michael tells us that Bowen’s wife was Althina Jones and gives us the names of at least seven children. This family is detailed on our WHITLOCK87 chart. Lu Royce has been looking for information on Duard Whitlock a young man who became an outlaw and was about 17 when he was killed at Goldfield, Nevada in 1903 (X6053). He was the youngest son of James Hardin & Margaret Ann (Voorhees) Whitlock who were married in 1857 at Ephraim, Salt Lake Co., Utah. Hopefully we can uncover additional information about Duard’s short life. One of the websites I did print information from was the Library and Archives Canada site (X6079). This provided an eclectic array of Whitlock information, mostly relating to Canada. You do not get access to the actual items but it gives you enough information to know if you want to pursue the item in the future. One of the items was a prairie landscape painting by F. Whitlock that was presented to Justice John Sopinka in 1969. This was interesting as we have two paintings in our collection by the same artist. I thought a copy of the portrait of William Coley Whitlock (1787-1875), merchant of Vaudreuil, Quebec would be worth trying to obtain. One day... I have done a short article on James Campbell who married Catherine Morrell Whitlock. Mary Jo Hawkinson’s research into the family of Roger Haddock Whitlock (X6081) adds to this research as well. Lots of certificates received for this issue. Mostly from Lawrence Otis but other additions from Chris Geoghegan and Jeff Buttifant. Also a steady stream of newspaper clippings - always appreciated. The US 1900 census extracts are now complete to page 415. The last state done was Ohio and I am now working on Oregon. The Birth register is now complete to 1840 and I have entered most of 1870. I am also slowly working my way through Doris Bramlett’s book on the Jones family, adding this information to the WHITLOCK33 chart. I have also started a South Carolina file for all Whitlock entries pre 1830.