Welcome
to the Walmisley family Web site. 
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Image Gallery now available
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Over
the past couple of years, we have compiled a treasury of information about
members of the family, with a considerable amount of
help and contributions. Particular
thanks to Isobel and Peter Miller, who have made available the history
compiled by their parents; Jenny Curtis, who has input most of the data
into Family Tree Maker; and to Ben Wakefield-Harrey, who has established
this site.
WALMISLEY
- HOUSE OF LORDS
We
give here a database of the members of the
family descended from William Walmisley, who was born in 1745 and was
a Clerk in the Parliament Office for 42 years, nearly 20 of them as Clerk
to the Papers in the House of Lords.
This branch of the family came to be known as the ‘Walmisley -
House of Lords’ branch. Some snippets of information are given under the
heading of remarks, but there is so much it has been impossible to compile
it all sensibly at this time.
The
Coat of Arms was granted to his eldest son, Edward George Walmisley in
1832 by Garter and Clarenceux Kings of Arms.
The Grant of Arms reads:
‘Perpale
Gules and Azure on a Chief ermine a Quarterfoil of the second between
two Hurts And for Crest On a Wreath of the Colours A Rock proper thereon
a Lion guardant ermine ducally crowned Or and charged on the body with
two Hurts to be borne and used for ever herafter by him the said Edward
George Walmisley and his descendants and by the descendants of his late
Father William Walmisley’.
We
hope you will be interested in what we have put together.
We have also collected a large number of photographs, which will
be sent on CD-Rom to members of the family who are interested.
The family tree, in Family Tree Maker, will be available to anyone
who has that software and can access it.
There
are still some questions to which we are seeking answers:
Who
was Nicholas Walmisley, a doctor and surgeon who died in 1960 in Clerkenwell?
Who was Eleanor Hodgson (Walmisley) who married Henry Eeles Dresser and whose descendants were known as Walmisley-Dresser?
Who
was Beatrice Walmisley, who died in 1923 and is buried in Beechmount Cemetery
in Edmonton, Canada?
We
have a large number of Walmisley women, for whom we can find no marriage
or death certificates: did they marry? Did they have children?
Are there any still alive?
Some we have marriage certificates for and they appear with their
husbands in the database - but did they have children? Are there any descendants?
We
are looking for Kevin Walmisley who was in Blackburn until 2 years ago
- we have no information on this name.
There
is a whole pod of Walmisleys that is still unattached to the family tree,
who believe they are descendants of John Richard Lambert Walmisley.
They will be attached if we can find the connection.
Later
on, we will issue a list of unknown Walmisleys for whom we have found
certificates of birth, marriage or death, but cannot connect them anywhere.
Please
send any additional information - stories, memories or news - to Richard
Walmisley, email address: richard@menorquina.co.uk
We look forward to hearing from you.
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UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE! UPDATE!
A new batch of photos, with thanks to the cousins who have sent them.
We also have the Grant of Arms to Edward George Walmisley, in which you will see that the ancestral history could not be proved but was accepted by the Duke of Norfolk: I guess it is our connection with John of Gaunt with whom in spite of a lot of time and resources we have been unable to find a definite connection.
So whilst everyone we know who says they are a Walmisley all say they are descended from John of Gaunt, none have any knowledge of how.
As a matter of interest, our researcher has gone back several more generations from William Walmisley. His father was a Coachman, but it was his mother who sold their share in the Walmisley acres.
This document was kindly lent to us by Anne Tomlinson of Wells, Somerset, who also lent us a letter from William to his daughter and an advertisement for 'The French Velocipede' whose English agent was Walter Milbanke Walmisley.
We have been contacted by Charles Kay, who is researching for a book on the relationship of the rest of the family with Jessie Walmisley and her husband Samuel Coleridge Taylor. He is hoping to have it published by Oxford University Press.
We have found that in 1920 there was an R P Walmisley in Canada, whose wife Beatrice died of the influenza. We have her death certificate, but nothing else.
My wife, Peta, received an email from an American who said he has a bible with a signature - either E J Walmisley or E Y Walmisley.
Looking through the Internet we have found Alexander Walmisley Cruikshank, who is buried in Bombay - his current descendents are Anglo-Indians in Canada.
We have found a Kevin Walmisley who worked in Blackburn recently, but we cannot now find him. Do any of you have any ideas?
We have to say that most of the new information comes from outside the family and that some of the family, for whatever reasons, do not seem to be prepared to share their knowledge.
We will pay to have the Web site maintained for 1 year - throughout 2002. I t will then the dismantled.
Please, therefore, if you have anything more about the family you would like to share, let us have it.
Best wishes and looking forward to hearing from you all.
Richard
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