Richard Woolman and Ann (nee Storer) Woolman

Richard Woolman and Ann (nee Storer) Woolman Richard and Ann Woolman

Related Links Woolman Researcher Researcher.nz And another Source: much of this was from Philip Jackson of Bristol A Woolman web site And another	The Woolman family can be traced back to the 1600's. Related names include Tailby, Hill, Creaton, Craythorne, Dexter, Wheatly, Hart, Lee, Grant, Chapman, Cumberlidge, Measures, Hack, Hawes, Lilleyman, Noble, Wye, Clist, Sims, Clarke, Markham, Goodman, Linton, Cumberlidge, Hodgkinson, Hart, Vesty Contact [email protected]
	Richard Woolman born 16^th August 1767 to Jeptha Woolman and Mary nee Gamble. Christened at Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire.
	Married Ann Storer or Storow m. 18^th July 1790 in Fleckney			Had a child Edward Woolman 25^th August 1793				Had John Woolman 1790		Mary Woolman 1792
	William Woolman m. Elizabeth	Ann Woolman 1797			Elizabeth Woolman 1799		Thomas Woolman 1800
	Isaac Woolman Born and died 1802		Hester Woolman 1^st July 1803			Isaac Woolman (3/11/1805) m. Ann Farmer Had 5 children including a daughter Jane who m. George Salisbury
	Died 17/11/1816 Jasper is synonymous with Jeptha Woolman the illegitimate daughter of Ann. Richard was born two years before the Duke of Wellington, so in his lifetime he probably raised a few glasses to Britain's victories. Richard was the youngest of six children, when he was born his eldest brother Edward would have been 13, he was christened at Kibworth Beauchamp. He married a local girl, but the ceremony took place in Fleckney. During his lifetime he would have seen Leicestershire become a centre for handframe knitting and the growth of the canals as first Loughborough (1778) then Leicester (1794) became canal ports.

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