Hi Al,
Thanks for your message. I know of Roy L Stanford. He contacted my mother many years ago and later sent her 4 sheets that contains Whiddett family tree in great detail. My mother was not over interested beyond her mother's generation and later gave them to me.
My sadness with all the work that dear Roy put in, is that when I started to investigate my gran's siblings, (John and Emma Whiddett's children), I discovered that it was full of inaccuracies. He had not only listed 12 children instead of 13, but inserted two Whiddetts that were not John and Emma's children and missed out three who were! The two he inserted were registered at Blean as were most of J&E's children, but they belonged to another family. With so many errors in such small part of this mammoth work, I was left wondering how many more errors had been made. I verified everything with birth certificates etc.
I have discovered errors in a number of other people's records of J&E's family. When I point out the errors, some correct their trees and others ignore me. It seems to me that there is a lot of misinformation being passed on from one tree to another.
I have a record of your ancestor Alfred. He was one of 11 children of Henry and Mary Ann Whiddett. I guess John (my great granddad), had my gran named after his mother for she was Mary Ann Maud.
Do you live anywhere near Canterbury? If so you will see four Whiddetts on the war memorial outside the Cathedral gates. One isn't related, but three are sons of John, brothers of my gran.
