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Suffolk / Wightmans of Framlingham (and Websters)
« on: Monday 29 February 16 09:58 GMT (UK) »
In an old (2007) Rootschat thread, there was a reference to someone researching the Framlingham Wightmans. Does anyone have any current contact details for such a person, please?
I'm currently at an impasse with a Deborah Wightman of Framlingham, who has only an 'age at death' reference to her birth date (that I suspect was guessed) and no marriage record found so far. She is wrongly identified as Deborah Last by Ancestry members.
Edmund Webster and Deborah Wightman (aka Whiteman/Wighting/Whiting, according to the print version of the Suffolk Baptism Index for their children in the SRO) brought up a family at Framlingham in the late 18th/early 19thC. They appear to have been poor, with at least one child apprenticed by the parish guardians to a Framlingham carrier - interestingly, a Samuel Wightman. Deborah's 1833 funeral appears to have been billed to the parish guardians and their gravestone in the churchyard there appears to be of a standard beyond their means, perhaps paid for by the parish.
I'm equally at an impasse with Edmund, other than knowing he was a bellringer, assumed at Framlingham church, since 1784. There's an illegible verse about his bellringing on his gravestone but I know what it was originally, as it was transcribed in an 1882 newspaper article!
I'm currently at an impasse with a Deborah Wightman of Framlingham, who has only an 'age at death' reference to her birth date (that I suspect was guessed) and no marriage record found so far. She is wrongly identified as Deborah Last by Ancestry members.
Edmund Webster and Deborah Wightman (aka Whiteman/Wighting/Whiting, according to the print version of the Suffolk Baptism Index for their children in the SRO) brought up a family at Framlingham in the late 18th/early 19thC. They appear to have been poor, with at least one child apprenticed by the parish guardians to a Framlingham carrier - interestingly, a Samuel Wightman. Deborah's 1833 funeral appears to have been billed to the parish guardians and their gravestone in the churchyard there appears to be of a standard beyond their means, perhaps paid for by the parish.
I'm equally at an impasse with Edmund, other than knowing he was a bellringer, assumed at Framlingham church, since 1784. There's an illegible verse about his bellringing on his gravestone but I know what it was originally, as it was transcribed in an 1882 newspaper article!