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POTTER FAMILY HISTORY
CONTENTS::
I am researching these NAMES :-
DRYDEN- -
POTTER- -
WHITAKER- -
WHEWALL- -
BETTON
PLACES where my ancestors came from:-
DINGWALL - my home town
DARLINGTON - John Dryden
YORK - all the Potter family
ADDINGHAM - all the Whitaker family
BARNSLEY -
Potter
Dryden
Whitaker and Whewall - Betton
also
IRONBRIDGE - AUDLEY - CHESTERTON - WOLSTANTON Whewall -
Betton
Updated 26 March 2013
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WHITAKER
Addingham, Yorkshire
All my Whitaker ancestors came from Addingham. Addingham is full of many Whitaker families.
Joseph Whitaker (b c. 1773)
a weaver of Moorside married 1800 Sarah Smith
Their children were William b 1801, Joseph b 1803,
Mary b 1805, Ann b 1809, David b 1811, and Elizabeth b 1813
David Whitaker
was a weaver married 1830 Hannah Brown
Their children were Sarah b1831, John b1832, Elizabeth b1838, Margaret b1841,
Thomas b1842, Jane b1846,
Robert b1848,
David b1850, William b1853
Robert was a fancy weaver he married Ellen Selby
Their children were Margaret b1870, Thomas b1873,
Robert b1874 a silk mill worker,
Charlotte b1877, Hannah b1880
Robert Whitaker married Martha Taylor from Chorley
Robert and Martha's children were
Wilfred,
Robert and Martha are buried in Pensilva, Cornwall.
CLICK HERE to view the WHITAKER Family Tree
Can you give any further
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Nic Wilson of Wharfgen had lots of earlier information but I have lost track of his website.
WHEWALL -
BETTON
My information is sketchy ( but is getting better thanks to information from J Davies who has an old family tree) and is
mainly based on a newspaper report from the Barnsley Chronicle
about George who died in a mining accident in 1935
Ironbridge, Salop and Wolstanton Staffordshire
James Betton, who was born in Ironbridge, Salop in 1798, married Elizabeth Gibson
According to the IGI they were married in Wolstanton on 4 Nov 1822
They had 6 children who were born in Audley and afterwards Chesterton and Wolstanton :-
Thomas born 1823, John born 1825, James born 1828, George born 1830, Martha born 1833 and Enoch born 1836
Their third child,James Betton, a miner, married Caroline Handley from Tunstall.
Their son, George James Betton was born 15th March 1869, in London Road Chesterton,
near Wolstanton, near Newcastle under Lyme
George James Betton married 1893 Mabel Elizabeth Whewall.
Their children were George Betton
Whewall b1893 d1936, Elsie, Jim,
Florence Betton b1901
George Betton Whewall married Emma Palmer their children were Ernest, Winnie, May, Joyce, James
George Betton Whewall was killed in a mining explosion at North Gawber coal mine 13th Sep
1935.
Florence Betton married Walter
Whitaker
See the Whitaker
family
CLICK HERE to view the BETTON Family Tree - 1 of 3
CLICK HERE to view the BETTON Family Tree - 2 of 3
CLICK HERE to view the BETTON Family Tree - 3 of 3
CLICK HERE to view the WHEWALL Family Tree
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