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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Wiltshire => Topic started by: bob14trinity on Saturday 29 February 20 10:05 GMT (UK)
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Hi
Segehill Mereweathers/Merryweathers
I have a pretty good tree for my ancestors going back to John Meryweather (various spellings) (1773-1824) /George Mereweather (1795-1868)/Lot Merryweather(1824-1905)/Paul Merryweather(1851-1943)/William G Mereweather (1883-1973) who was my maternal grandfather.
Beyond William details are a bit sketchy, yes I have all the dates etc but little info on their lives.
I just wondered if any one might have any detail on any of them.
Lot's brother Mark had a son Frank who went to America and had a number of children, I am pretty sure there was an Australian link as well but haven't come across it yet.
Grateful for any help.
Bob
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Surnames interest board will be the place to start.
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Putting Lot Merryweather into the Newspaper search on FindMyPast brought up some possibles
Western Gazette 7-2-1873
As President of the Band Of Hope & Temperance Society
Western Gazette 30-1-1874
Temperance Society meeting (as L Merryweather)
Western Gazette 9-10-1891
Long service awards 48 years employed by John Lush
Salisbury Times 11-11-1898
Bearer at funeral of Mr William Pike aged 79
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Bob,
I have some of your family but spelling variations make things tricky.
This chap is a puzzle:
John Merryweather ALIAS KING ???
1773–1824
Birth BEF 16 FEB 1773 OR 1769 ??? • Semly, Wiltshire, England
Death BEF 11 APR 1824 OR 28 JUN 1830 OR 1828??? • Sedgehill, Wiltshire, England
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Thanks for responses, I'll certainly post as suggested.
I'll have another trawl through the newspapers.
Regards
Bob
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Is it just the Mereweather line you are interested in as I have a huge amount of information about the Broadway family (Ruth Broadway married Paul Mereweather so I assume she was your great Grandmother)
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Thanks for response. As you say Ruth was my great grandmother. It is the Mereweather line that is my main interest, I would be interested if you have anything relating to Ruth from the time she married.
I know that they lived in Newbury, Gillingham and I have looked at the census, electoral and Kelly’s records so have all the basic stuff but nothing much else.
Thanks again for interest.
Bob
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Hi Bob, no my information is more about the Broadway family rather than Ruth after her marriage. I am tracing every descendant of William & Frances Broadway of Motcombe, Dorset who married in Salisbury in 1731. One of their daughters, Grace, married John Mereweather of Sedgehill in 1780. Ruth was the great granddaughter of Grace’s sister Christian Broadway (married name Green) and the great grand daughter of Grace’s brother William Broadway jnr . Ruth’s mother, Arabella Green was Christian’s grand daughter and she married William Broadway, William Broadway Jnrs son. It gets very complicated.
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Greetings Helen
I have Ann GREEN married to a John MERRYWEATHER.
But I have just notice this death with the same death date.
Ann Merryweather
Death Date: 2 Dec 1844
Cemetery: St Andrew Churchyard
Burial or Cremation Place: South Otterington, Hambleton District, North Yorkshire, England
Spouse: John Merryweather
SOURCE: www.findagrave.com/mem...
A long way from home!
Mark
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Hi there,
I haven’t got to Grace Broadway and the Mereweathers yet - my in-depth tracing of William and Frances Broadways family has taken months as they had so many descendants! They had 14 children - William, Mary, Elizabeth, Frances, James, Henry, Anna, Christian, Grace, Patience, Stephen, Cornelius, Lydia and Charlotte. Most had children. I am descended from Anna. Many of the children made good marriages or were influential in their own right so there’s a lot to be found. I will get back to you when I have had a look at Grace. I am just finishing Christian’s descendants. Helen
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Thanks for that.
I was just looking at another Merryweather Frank born in 1871.
He joined the Dorset Regiment and seems to have been invalided out and became a Chelsea Pensioner.
I haven't been able to see the detail of this as it seems to require yet another subscription!
He died in 1904. I would like to have found out a little more about him, so grateful if any one has any ideas.
Regards
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Frank Merryweather
born 1871 Barnes
father Samuel, 8 Thorn Street, Barnes
service no 2949
Dorset Regiment
1889-1897 & 1899-1902
served in Egypt, India & South Africa
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Many thanks for Frank MERRYWEATHER's service records.
1891 in Plymouth Military Barracks
I will see if I can find more on his siblings and parents
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Thanks for the information about Frank. I wonder if it is possible to view his service record as it seems likely that he may have been injured as he appears to have become a Chelsea Pensioner at quite a young age and died at age 33.
Regards
Bob
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Frank's Army Records are on FindMyPast and although Chelsea Pensioners is part of the title of the series of records (from the transcription) the actual records end in 1902.
It does contain a form with these questions
Wounded?-No
Effects of wounds?-None
Injuries?=Nil
If you would like to send me your email address via PM, I would be happy to send you the records, understand if you prefer not to share that information with a stranger. Let me know.
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Lot’s brother Mark is my 3rd great grandfather. Mark was a Wiltshire police officer, possibly a detective with Scotland Yard. Some Merryweather descendants claim he was murdered, but he died in 1879. If you do a Google search you’ll find a photo of Mark in uniform with WC 18 on his collar. This photo of Mark actually shows on the wall in the background of a photo of Frank, Lot’s nephew, with his wife and 9 children at their home in Utah.
Following Mark’s death, Frank, my 2nd great grandfather, left England in 1881 at age 17. Since he was the only one in his family to move to America, my family knows very little about those who remained in England. Fortunately, Frank and his brother Albert exchanged letters. A 1933 letter from Albert shows the return address as 65 New Road, Chippenham, Wiltshire. After Mark died, his widow, Sarah Ann Thick (Merryweather), moved to Chippenham so it seems most of the family ended up there.
In looking for more information about Mark’s death, I searched Lot Merryweather and stumbled upon your thread. It seems we’ve both hit some dead ends, but please let me know if I can share any info that might help your research. I’ve been able to trace the Merryweather family line (Mark and Lot’s father, grandfather, etc) back to the 1700’s; however, records get a little confusing at that point. If what I’ve found is accurate, there’s a father named Joshua who has a son with the same name. Public records show two marriages of Joshua Merryweather to a woman, Sarah Hardin?, but a generation apart - I can’t imagine that both married women with the same name,
but slightly different spelling, a generation apart. It just adds to the confusion of the Merryweather surname being spelled differently, making it difficult to know which families are directly related. As I’m sure you know, some spellings replace the y with an i, r or rr, weather or wether, Mere, etc. Muryweder is also one I recently found and it goes back pretty far.
PS One of the ‘John Merryweather’ individuals was a criminal so I’m hoping that’s a different family!
Anyway, nice to meet a long lost relative.