WHEATON, Ann (b. ABT 1798, d. UNKNOWN)

Note: Addresses
1841 Sun Street, St Benedict, Cambridgeshire, living with her sister, Phoebe WESSON
née WHEATON, Phoebe's husband and family
1841 December
Newmarket Street, St Andrew the Less, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
1851 Not found

Source: (Name)
Title: 1841 St Mary the Great, Cambridge

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0700

Event: Type: Residences
Place: See Notes

Occupation: Place: 1841 Female Servant

Reference: 00083

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0700

Reference: 00085

Note: Addresses
1841 34 New Square, St Andrew the Less, Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire
Living with them was Henry POWELL (16) Butcher's Apprentice
(HO10785; Book: 12; Enumeration District: 7; Folio: 11; Page: 16)
1851 1 Fair Street, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Age 47 (HO107/1760 folio 701 pg 4)
Living with them was a Samuel POWELL (21) Unmarried a Book Binder born London,
Middlesex. He is described as "son".
If he was the son of Jonathan GUNTON surely his surname would be GUNTON?
So, perhaps he is the son of Mary GUNTON née WHEATON
However, she married as Mary WHEATON, not as Mary POWELL
She married Jonathan GUNTON in 1828 and Samuel POWELL was born in 1830, after
her marriage, so why, if a son, was he called POWELL?
No marriage or death has been found for a Samuel POWELL.
(This is doubly intriguing as my mother was a POWELL before her marriage!)
Lodging with them was Peter PICTON (45) Married, Book Binder born Lancashire. No wife
was living with him.
1861 Village Street, Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire Age 56 (RG9/1033 folio 81 pg 25)
1871 Longs Farm, Harston(?(, Cambridgeshire RG10/1583 folio 23 pg 36
1881 High Street, Haslingfield, Chesterton, Cambridgeshire Age 80 (RG11/1662 folio 78 pg 9)

DESCENDANTS
No children have been found on any of the census returns, and there were no GUNTON children born before 1851 in the Cambridge District, so at present it would appear that Jonathan and Mary had no descendants.

MARRIAGE
It was originally thought that this Mary WHEATON married a Thomas CHARITY. Thomas CHARITY's wife Mary gives her birth place as Ramsey on census returns.

REASONS WHY WE THINK THIS MARY WHEATON MARRIED JONATHAN GUNTON on the
15 May 1828 at St Mary the Great, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

This Mary WHEATON was born in Somersham, Huntingdonshire and this is the village shown on the 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1881 census returns as the place of Mary's birth, not Ramsey as is shown for the wife of Thomas CHARITY.

This Mary WHEATON's mother was Ann WHEATON née GUNTON, so there is a link to the name GUNTON.

Her father, William WHEATON, died in 1780. Of his nine surviving children only two, Thomas and Elizabeth, appear to have remained in Somersham, with four of the children (Joseph, Ann, Mary and Phoebe) and their mother going to live in Cambridge and another brother, Philip living there at least in 1830 when his first child was born. (Of the others, William went to Bluntisham and then Chatteris and Robert went to Thorne in Lincolnshire)

Joseph WHEATON's second marriage took place in St Mary the Great, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire in 1819, his children was all born there between 1819 and 1832

Ann WHEATON married in December 1841 in St Andrew the Less, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. At the time of the census she was living with her sister in the parish of St Mary the Great, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.

Phoebe WHEATON married on 8th November 1828 and was by 1831 at least (birth of daughter) living Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Phoebe and her family are included on the 1841 census in the parish of St Mary the Great, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.

The witnesses at the Jonathan GUNTON/Mary WHEATON marriage in 1828 at St Mary the Great, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire were Ann WHEATON and Joseph WHEATON, two of the siblings mentioned above.

In 1843 their mother, Ann WHEATON née GUNTON, died on the 1st March at 34 New Square, St Andrew the Less, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire Age 74 and was buried in the 5th March 1843 at St John the Baptist, Somersham, Huntingdonshire

Therefore I believe that this Mary WHEATON married Jonathan GUNTON and not Thomas CHARITY.

Source: (Death)
Title: Free BMD web site

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0700

Event: Type: Residences
Place: See Notes

Occupation: Place: 1881 Butcher's Wife

Reference: 00086

Note: Addresses
1830 River Lane, St Andrew the Less, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

An Ann BECK was baptised at St John the Baptist, Somersham, Huntingdonshire on the 21st October 1832. She was the daughter of Elizabeth BECK and a Philip WHEATON. Given the ages of the various Philips we think that this one is the father of Ann. However, he was buried before the baptism of his reputed daughter!

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0700/WHEATON 0603

Event: Type: Residences
Place: See Notes

Occupation: Place: Butcher; 1830 Labourer

Reference: 00088

Note: Addresses
1841 Sun Street, St Benedict, St Mary the Great, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.
Living with them was William LUNN (70) Wheelwright.
Also with a home in the same property was Ann WHEATON (35) Female Servant not
born in Cambridge. She was the sister of Phoebe.
1851 Crown and Anchor, 10 Crown Street, Holy Trinity, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.
Living with them was father William WESSON (80) born in Somersham, Huntingdonshire
1861 Crown and Anchor, 26 Crown Street, Holy Trinity, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.
Living with them was daughter Ann SMITH (30) widow, daughter Ruth WESSON (21) and
granddaughter Emma WESSON (7) Scholar born Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.
Boarding with them was Henry H SAVORY (49) unmarried Goldsmith and Jeweller born
Chelsea, Middlesex. A Visitor was Charles SMITH (47) Unmarried, Brewer's Labourer
born Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
1871 15 Ram Yard, Holy Sepulchre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire as Phebe a widow
Living as Mother-in-law with daughter Ann and her family.
Boarding with them was Ann LAWRENCE (76) married (no husband present) Whitesmith's
wife born Somersham, Huntingdonshire. Living with them was niece Agnes E WESSON (17)
Milliner born Cambridge, Cambridgeshire and General Servant Ellen ABLETH (17) born
Chesterton, Cambridgeshire

Source: (Name)
Title: 1841 St Mary the Great, Cambridge

Source: (Death)
Title: FreeBMD web site

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0700/WESSON 0600

Event: Type: Residences
Place: See Notes

Occupation: Place: 1871 Annuitant

Reference: 00090

Note: Addresses
1841 Not found
1851 Horselode Fen, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Lodging with Robert GOWLER (29) born Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, Robert's wife, 2 daughters,
son, cousin and another lodger.
1861 Slade End, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
1871 Slade End, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire

Source: (Name)
Title: 1861 Chatteris

Source: (Name)
Title: 1871 Chatteris

Source: (Name)
Title: 1851 Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Media: Book

Source: (Name)
Title: 1861 Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Media: Book

Source: (Death)
Title: Certificate
Media: Civil Registry

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0601/WHEATON 0515

Event: Type: Inquest
Date: 26 APR 1872
Place: W PRATT Coroner for Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire

Event: Type: Residences
Place: See Notes

Occupation: Place: 1851, 1861 Ag Lab; 1867 Farm Labourer; 1871 Ag Lab; 1882 Engine Driver as given on son's marriage certificate; Labourer in Agriculture

Reference: 00158

Cause: From injuries received accidentally when removing a straw bailer

Source: (Name)
Title: Wisbech, Cambridgeshire Parish Registers

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0700/WHEATON 0602

Reference: 00077

Source: (Birth)
Title: Approximation
Media: Book

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0700/WHEATON 0607

Reference: 00081

Note: Addresses
1841 Newmarket Road, St Andrew the Less, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
1851 East Road, St Andrew the Less, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire as WEATON
In the same house, besides daughter Martha PETERS and her son Joseph,
there was a servant, Susannah SHADMOLT, Age 45, born Cambridge,
Cambridgeshire and 7, possibly 8 lodgers: Christopher BARRETT (68)
born Faversham, Kent and Charles RUTHERFORD (28) Tailor born Cambridge,
Cambridgeshire, both widowers, Lamtaff (20) and George (48) DELLOR and
James GALOR (31) all Labourer's, and Frederick TURNER (25) Gardener,
all four unmarried and born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Frederick
ROWLINSON (19) Shoemaker born in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire and
James LONGLAND (55) a Schoolmaster form Buckden, Kent.
1861 11 Honey Hill, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Living with them was a grandson, Joseph
PETERS
1871 11 Honey Hill, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Source: (Name)
Title: 1841 St Andrew the Less, Cambridge
Media: Book

Source: (Name)
Title: 1861 St Andrew the Less, Cambridge

Source: (Name)
Title: 1871 St Giles, Cambridge

Source: (Name)
Title: 1851 St Andrew the Less, Cambridge

Source: (Death)
Title: Civil Registration Indexes at Family Record Centre, Myddleton House, London
Media: Book

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0700/WHEATON 0607

Event: Type: Residences
Place: See Notes

Occupation: Place: 1851 Cook

Reference: 00082

Note: Addresses
1841 George Street, St Andrew the Less, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
1851 Not found

Source: (Birth)
Title: Approximation
Media: Book

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0700

Event: Type: Residences
Place: See Notes

Occupation: Place: 1841 Whitesmith

Reference: 00084

Note: Addresses
1841 Not found

Sarah Ann DUNHAM was married before, and again after, she married Philip WHEATON. Details of these marriages do not appear on Thomas WHEATON's Family Tree so have been included below:

Descendants of Sarah Ann DUNHAM

Generation No. 1

1. Sarah Ann DUNHAM (Edward) was born Abt. 1799, and died Bet. October - December 1838 Wisbech District, Cambridgeshire (possible death). She married (1) Ephraim EASEY or EASEA 1819 in St Nicholas, Manea, Cambridgeshire. He was born Abt. 1794, and died Bef. 1829. She married (2) Philip WHEATON 7 September 1829 in Holbeach, Lincolnshire, son of William WHEATON and Ann GUNTON. He was born Abt. 1805 in Somersham, Huntingdonshire, and died October 1832 in Somersham, Huntingdonshire. She married (3) William SHARPE 28 August 1833 in St John the Baptist, Somersham, Huntingdonshire. He was born Abt. 1794, and died Bet. October - December 1838 Wisbech District, Cambridgeshire (possible death). William SHARPE had been married previously.

Notes for, and More about, Sarah Ann DUNHAM:
Included in Thomas WHEATON Family Tree

Notes for Ephraim EASEY or EASEA:
Addresses
???? Hilgay, Cambridgeshire

More About Ephraim EASEY or EASEA:
Occupation: Labourer

Notes for, and More, About Philip WHEATON:
Included in Thomas WHEATON's Family Tree

More About Philip WHEATON and Sarah DUNHAM:
Marriage: 7 September 1829, Holbeach, Lincolshire
Witnesses: Eleanor DIXON, William DONCASTER, John KITCHEN (Probably parish clerk)

Notes for William SHARPE:
Addresses
1833 Sutton in Ely, Cambridgeshire
1841 Not found

Child of Sarah DUNHAM and Ephraim EASEA is:
i. Edward EASEY, b. Abt. 1820.

Notes for Edward EASEY:
Addresses
1841 Not found

More About Edward EASEY:
Baptism: 21 June 1820, St Nicholas, Manea, Cambridgeshire

Children of Sarah DUNHAM and Philip WHEATON are: (full details in Thomas WHEATON's Family Tree)
ii. Sarah Ann WHEATON, b. Abt. 1830, River Lane, St Andrew the Less, Cambridge,
Cambridgeshire; m. Joseph WILSON, 25 December 1850, Holy Trinity, Halifax,
Yorkshire; b. Abt. 1829, Sowerby, Yorkshire
2. iii. George (Dunham) WHEATON, b. Abt. 1831, Stamford, Lincolnshire; d. Bet. October -
December 1902, Bottisham, Cambridgeshire Age 71.

End of Sarah Ann DUNHAM Report

Source: (Name)
Title: Helen YATES

Source: (Death)
Title: FreeBMD

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0700/WHEATON 0603

Reference: 00089

Note: Addresses
1841 Sun Street, St Benedict, St Mary the Great, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.
Living with them was William LUNN (70) Wheelwright.
Also with a home in the same property was Ann WHEATON (35) Female Servant not
born in Cambridge. She was the sister of Phoebe.
1851 Crown and Anchor, 10 Crown Street, Holy Trinity, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.
Living with them was father William WESSON (80) born in Somersham, Huntingdonshire
1861 Crown and Anchor, 26 Crown Street, Holy Trinity, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.
Living with them was daughter Ann SMITH (30) widow, daughter Ruth WESSON (21) and
granddaughter Emma WESSON (7) Scholar born Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.
Boarding with them was Henry H SAVORY (49) unmarried Goldsmith and Jeweller born
Chelsea, Middlesex. A Visitor was Charles SMITH (47) Unmarried, Brewer's Labourer
born Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Source: (Name)
Title: 1841 St Mary the Great, Cambridge

Source: (Birth)
Title: 1851 Holy Trinity, Cambridge, Cambidgeshire

Source: (Death)
Title: FreeBMD web site

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0700/WESSON 0600

Event: Type: Residences
Place: See Notes

Occupation: Place: 1841 Wheelwright; 1851 Inn Keeper; 1861 Publican and Furniture Broker

Reference: 00091

Note: Addresses
1758 Pidley-cum-Fenton, Huntingdonshire

1754 Will, Thomas WHEATON left property to his son William WHEATON

WILLIAM WHEATON 1732 - 1780
William WHEATON was baptised in Hilton, Huntingdonshire on the 3rd December 1732. He appears to be the fourth child born to Thomas WHEATON and his wife Ann(e) SPARROW. He had two older sisters, Anne and Elizabeth and would have had a brother, except that he, also called William, was buried in the August before the younger William was born. This other William would have been at least eight months old when he died, and Thomas and Ann obviously decided to give the same name to the baby born within months of the death of their first son. Perhaps the name was that of Thomas's father; it could also have been the name of Ann(e)'s parent if she was the daughter of Richard SPARROW's natural son, William.

Before William was two years old his mother had died and as his father did not re-marry for another twelve years William must have been cared for by members of his mother's or father's family, or perhaps neighbours, before his sister Anne was old enough to assume the responsibility. Then, eight years after his father's remarriage in 1746, and when William was twenty two years old, both his father and his step-mother died and were buried on the 3rd and 5th of September 1754 respectively.

William's childhood, therefore, seems to have been rather unsettled but things should have improved after the death of his father who made him executor of his Will and after small bequests for Anne and Elizabeth left all his goods to William. There ought to have been a cottage so William should have been able to continue to live in Hilton, but he does not appear to have stayed there and he is not traced until he married in Woodhurst in 1761.

We do have some puzzling information at this point, besides wondering what happened to the cottage? And why did William leave Hilton? And where did he go? And how did he earn a living?

There was a William WEATON living in Woodhurst at this time. He married a Mary MACKNESS and baptised two sons, John and Thomas on the 5th February 1761. On the same date William buried his wife Mary, and his son John was buried on the 17th May 1761. We had thought that this was a first marriage for "our" William, but the banns for the marriage of William WHEATON and Elizabeth WHITTLESEY were published on the 7th, 14th and 21st January 1761, before the death of Mary MACKNESS and at his marriage William is not shown as a widower. (We have since found out that the banns were called in June 1761, after the death - just - of Mary. Given that there are no WHEATON marriages in the counties of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire before this time it would suggest that this other William is connected to our Thomas. And what happened to Thomas the son of William and Mary MACKNESS? No details of a burial have been found, but there does not appear to be any descendants either.)

As we were having difficulty in finding the birth of our Thomas we started looking at the records of other counties and in the archives of Lincoln record office was found a baptism in Grantham on the 9th January 1758 for a Willm WHEATON, son of Willm and Eliz. WHEATON. No other WHEATON references could be found for this period. Originally it was thought that this could be a first child for William and Elizabeth WHITTLESEY, but she would have only been fourteen or fifteen years old. This matter was raised with the Lincolnshire Record Office Archivist, with this response:

"If the child baptised at Grantham in 1758 is part of the family of William WHEATON who married Elizabeth WHITTLESEY in 1761, who can say if it is the same Elizabeth? There is no reason why he could not have been married to a lady of the same name, buried her, and married again in 1761. If his first wife died away from Woodhurst, and the locals never knew of a first marriage (especially if the child also died) he could be called "bachelor" on the marriage to Elizabeth WHITTLSEY.

Another possibility is that Elizabeth WHITTLESEY was the mother of the child baptised at Grantham, but the couple did not mention that they were not married - or maybe the question never arose! The legal age for marriage was 12 for girls and 14 for boys, so Elizabeth could be the child's mother. Baptism does not always take place soon after birth. In some families several months or even years might elapse, so we cannot be certain that Elizabeth WHITTLESEY (if mother of the Grantham child) was only 14 in 1761.

I cannot prove that the Grantham couple is the same as your Woodhurst couple. Equally I cannot be certain that the William in both places is the same man with two wives of the same name. I can say that only the one event is recorded in the Grantham registers, and it was a very busy town with a degree of transient population due to its location on the Great North Road. The Grantham William could have died before the appearance of the 1762 William or, can we really be certain that the 1762 baptism is for a baby rather than a toddler? (my note: Given the marriage date I think he was a baby) We could be working with more "ifs" and "buts"."

As always, more questions every time you find one answer! Obviously more research is required!

Whatever the outcome of the above, William WHEATON married Elizabeth WHITTLESEY with consent of parents as she was only about eighteen years old. The ceremony took place at the church of St John the Baptist in Woodhurst on the 24th June 1761 and the witnesses were William MORVILL and William TOBIAS.

Within the year William and Elizabeth had baptised a son, another William. We have no clues as to the occupation of William senior, although all four of his sons become butchers. Was that William's occupation too? Whatever he did to earn his living he was obviously not being successful in Woodhurst, for we next find him and his wife, baptising their second son, John, on the 25th May 1767 in Houghton in Huntingdonshire. Again, there are questions! There is a gap of five years between the two boys, William and John. Did William senior and Elizabeth have no children during that time? Or shall we eventually find them in some other county? (My theory is that William was known as Angel, and he and Elizabeth had a son, another Angel in 1764 in Wyton, Huntingdonshire. This Angel was the ancestor of a WHEATON family who emigrated in the 1820s to America)

By 1769 the WHEATON family had moved to Somersham where William remained for the rest of his life. In fact the WHEATON family stayed in this parish for the next hundred years. William and Elizabeth's next child, Robert, died probably within days of his birth in 1769 but there followed two daughters and two sons who eventually lived to adulthood. Unfortunately, William did not live to see his children grow up and marry. He died at the age of 48 years and was buried on the 18th May 1780 at St John the Baptist in Somersham. His eighth child, and third daughter, Mary, had been baptised on the 7th February, three months before her father's death, and she was buried on the 30th September, four months afterwards, as the "daughter of Elizabeth".

So a similar situation had arisen in this generation as had occurred in the previous one, only this time it was the wife, Elizabeth, who was left with a young family, William (18), John (13), Elizabeth (10), Robert (8). Ann (6) and Philip (3). Again, there are no references in the parish records which show that Elizabeth was asking for help from the parish. Her father made a Will in 1765 in which he left £5 to Elizabeth's son William, so perhaps her family were able to help her look after the younger children. Her son William at eighteen, and maybe John at thirteen, could already have been earning. William certainly established himself in Somersham as a butcher, whilst eventually the other sons, John, Robert and Philip became butchers in Colne, Bluntisham and Chatteris respectively.

Elizabeth continued to live in the village where she died aged 62, twenty two years after her husband, and was buried on the 7th December 1802 at the church of St John the Baptist in Somersham, Huntingdonshire.

Source: (Name)
Title: Woodhurst Parish Registers

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0900/MACKNESS 0900/WHITTLESEY and variants) 0900/WHEATON 0800

Event: Type: Residences
Place: See notes

Reference: 00014

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHITTLESEY (and variants) 0900/WHEATON 0900/WHEATON 0800

Reference: 00015

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0800

Reference: 00095

Note: Addresses
1841 Cotes Lane, Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire
Servant to John MIDDLETON (?) (25) Farmer born Cambridgeshire
1851 Not found

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0800

Event: Type: Residences
Place: See Notes

Occupation: Place: 1841 Servant

Reference: 00096

Note: Addresses
1792 Somersham, Huntingdonshire
1805 Bluntisham, Huntingdonshire
1830 Bluntisham, Huntingdonshire
1839 Bluntisham, Huntingdonshire
1841 High Street, Bluntisham, Huntingdonshire
At this address there was a Robert (born 1781) Catherine (born 1786) and Rebecca (born
1827) WHEATON. There are no others with these names in one family in
Huntingdonshire in 1841. Was Rebecca a granddaughter, a daughter of William or
Richard?
Living with the family was William SKINNER (25) Shepherd born not in Huntingdonshire

Directories
Post Office 1847 Bluntisham Robert WHEATON farmer
Slater 1851 Bluntisham with Earith Robert WHEATON farmer

Will
- to Sophia, the wife of Boroman AUBREY £100
- to Ann, the widow of Joshua HALL £40
- to Elizabeth, the wife of John LEE £19. 19s. 0d.
- to Catherine, his wife Land in Colne, Huntingdonshire
Tenement in Bluntisham, Huntingdonshire
Furniture, plate, linen, china
Brewing and Dairy Utensils
Poultry, Horse called "Jack" and "Red Red Cow"

Huntingdon Michaelmas General Quarter Session 15th October 1822
Prosecution of Robert WHEATON and Joshia BELDAM for assaulting Sophia WHEATON. (In the records "the daughter of Robert WHEATON" had been crossed out. The plea was guilty and the fine 1/- to be paid to the Undersheriff.

QUARTER SESSIONS BOXED PAPERS - ref/HCP/1/11 - date 1826-1827
1827 - Conviction by J.P. Robert WHEATON, Bluntisham, Butcher, fined 5/- +12/6 costs for turning 50 sheep to graze on the Somersham Turnpike Road

1827 - Conviction by J.P. Robert WHEATON, a butcher from Somersham had, on three occasions, turned sheep to graze on the Somersham Turnpike Road lying in Bluntisham parish, in the first instance the number of animals totalled 50. He was fined 5/-d for the first two offences, £2 for the third and the costs totalled £2. 12s. 6d

Land Tax for Assessment for Hunstingstone Hundred 1804
Bluntisham Robt WHEATON £1. 9s. 6d

Source: (Name)
Title: 1841 Bluntisham, Huntingdonshire
Media: Book

Source: (Individual)
Title: Copy of Robert WHEATON's Will

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0800/WHEATON 0702

Event: Type: Residences
Place: See Notes

Event: Type: Will proved
Date: 31 MAR 1851
Place: Executor Daniel WHEATON

Occupation: Place: 1830 Butcher (Pigots Directory); 1839, 1841 Butcher; 1847 Farmer (P O Directory); 1851 Farmer (Slater's Directory)

Will: Date: 22 JUN 1847
Place: Proved 31 May 1851 See Notes

Reference: 00098

Note: Addresses
1841 Not found

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0800

Event: Type: Residences
Place: See Notes

Reference: 00100

Note: Addresses
1805 Somersham, Huntingdonshire
1839 Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
1841 Slade End, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
1851 Slade End, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire as WHETON

Quarter Sessions Books
15th January 1822
Philip WHEATON the elder &
Philip WHEATON the younger

Committed September 1821 on suspicion of sheep stealing

CAMBRIDGE INDEPENDENT PRESS
23rd March 1822

Phillip WHEATON the younger, charged with stealing one wether sheep, value £l, 14s. the property of Mr Thomas PEACOCK, St Ives in this county, on 30th of July last.- Mr. Thos. PEACOCK, stated he had lost a sheep out of his drove; James EUSTON, his driver stated the same, and on being cross-examined said he had received £l. 14s. of his wife, which WHEATON, sen. had paid to his wife for a sheep, which he said his son had bought of witness. but which witness said he had not, and that his master returned the £l. 14s. this morning. - G SKEELS saw prisoner driving some sheep from St Ives towards Chatteris, and he took a single sheep off the road, which he stated he had left there knocked up: LEACH apprehended prisoner at Meldrith, in Cambridgeshire, where he was a journey-man butcher. - Not Guilty.

Philip WHEATON the elder, aged 42, charged with having on the 30th July last, received of P. WHEATON, the younger, one wether sheep, (knowing the same to have been feloniously stolen) value £l. 14s; the property of Mr. Thomas PEACOCK.
- Prosecution withdrawn.


The information about the family of Philip WHEATON and Ann JAMES is confusing.

Philip was baptised in Somersham on the 18th July 1777. He was buried on the 22nd August 1853 in Chatteris which should have made him 76 years old. However, in the Chatteris Parish Register he is shown as aged 82 years. His wife had died previously and his older children were either married, or had themselves already died, so perhaps no one in his second family actually knew his age.

In 1822 Philip WHEATON senior and Philip WHEATON junior were accused of sheep stealing. In 1841 Philip Piggott WHEATON, a Butcher was living in Back Lane in Chatteris with an Ann GREEN who he married in 1847, giving his father’s name as Philip. Although we cannot find a baptism for Philip Piggott WHEATON, given his middle name, his occupation, his father’s name, where he lived, and the fact that Philip senior had a son of the same name, we are certain that Philip Piggott WHEATON is that son. The only clue as to when he was born is that at the time of his death in 1850 his age was given as 48, which suggests he was born in 1802.

Philip WHEATON senior married Elizabeth PIGGOTT in Doddington in 1805, which could, therefore, have been three years after the birth of the first child in the family, the Philip mentioned above. A daughter, Elizabeth was baptised in 1805, a daughter Ann buried as an infant in 1809, and then a daughter Mary, who had been born in 1807, was baptised in 1816. That Philip junior was probably born before his parent’s marriage, that Mary and Ann were not baptised and that Philip junior lived with his wife before marriage all suggest that the lives of this family were not too well regulated and helps confirm that the perceived problems discussed below actually exist!

Philip’s wife Elizabeth died in 1814, leaving Philip with a son, aged 12 and two daughters, aged 9 and 7. It would appear that he and his son were in trouble in 1821 when they were in court (See above). Perhaps Philip had looked for someone to help him take care of the children; maybe it was Ann JAMES who he married in December 1839. On the marriage certificate Ann is shown as a spinster, daughter of William JAMES and she would have been about seventeen when Philip’s first wife died. In the December of the year previous to their marriage Ann had given birth to twin sons (who both died), whose births and deaths were registered in the name of WHEATON, although the couple were not married at the time. There were no baptisms or burials for these children in the Chatteris Parish Registers.

In 1841 Philip WHEATON was living at Slade End, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. In the same property, all with the surname WHEATON, were Catherine, Frederick, Jane, Eliza and Thomas, who were all born after the death of his first wife, Elizabeth PIGGOTT, and before his marriage to Ann JAMES. No baptisms for these children in the name of WHEATON or JAMES can be found in the Chatteris Registers.

However, in the Chatteris Burial register there are several entries of interest. In 1833 Robert JAMES, illegitimate son of Ann JAMES, and in 1837 three year old Phoebe JAMES, illegitimate daughter of Ann JAMES, were buried. Were these the children of the Ann JAMES who married Philip WHEATON? To support this there is the case of the death in Chatteris of a nineteen year old Ann WHEATON, Butcher, which was registered on the 22nd September 1840, the informant being her mother, Ann WHEATON. However, in the Parish Register, on the 27th September 1840, there was a burial for an Ann JAMES, age 19, illegitimate daughter of Ann JAMES, who must surely be the same person.

So, it would seem that an Ann JAMES has several illegitimate children. Was it "our" Ann JAMES? And did these include those living with Philip in 1841, and again in 1851, with the addition of William? It seems more than likely that she is the mother of them all, but is Philip the father? Were there any clues from the children themselves?

In 1847 (which is after the 1842 death of Ann) the marriage of Phillip Piggott WHEATON was witnessed by Philip, Catherine and Jane WHEATON, and William JAMES. Was this Ann’s father, or could it have been her son William calling himself at this time William JAMES? In 1850 a William JAMES is a witness at the marriage of Jane James WHEATON. (Where did the James come from?!), but in 1851 it is a William WHEATON who is living with Philip. When Jane James WHEATON married in 1850 the other witness was Frederick James WHEATON, but when her sister married in 1855 (after the death of Philip) one of the witnesses was a Frederick JAMES. Was this the same person as the Frederick WHEATON living with Philip in 1841 and 1851? At the time of the marriages both girls gave Philip WHEATON as their father, as did their brother Thomas James WHEATON when he married Drusilla LATSON in 1858, after the death of Philip. So, whilst the children were young (in 1841) were they called WHEATON, but as they grew older they first started calling themselves James WHEATON, and then eventually JAMES?

Catherine continued to call herself "Catherine WHEATON" all her life until she died in 1881. But what of the other children? We have been unable to find a marriage for Frederick James WHEATON, nor deaths for William, Frederick James, Thomas James or Drusilla WHEATON. Perhaps the entries are in the name of JAMES. On the other hand, their sister, Jane James WHEATON went to America, so perhaps her brothers went too.

The only other clue is to be found when Jane James WHEATON and George GREEN baptised their first child in Chatteris, before Philip died, as "Catherine Elizabeth ROWE alias GREEN (WHEATON erased) daughter of Jane JAMES and Henry ROWE alias George GREEN". It would seem that Jane at least had decided that Philip was not her father! However, we have now (2/12/2003) been sent details from America of the death of Catherine Elizabeth. And she gives her parents names as Henry ROWE and Jane WHEATON! Confused? So are we!

Source: (Name)
Title: 1841 Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Media: Book

Source: (Name)
Title: 1851 Chatteris, Cambridgeshire
Media: Book

Source: (Death)
Title: Civil Registration Indexes at Family Record Centre, Myddleton House, London
Media: Book

Source: (Death)
Title: Chatteris, Cambridgeshire Parish Register

Source: (Death)
Title: Death Certificate

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0800/WHEATON 0703

Event: Type: Residences
Place: See Notes

Event: Type: Informant of Death
Place: Phebe TALL, Slade End, Chatteris, Cambridgeshire

Occupation: Place: 1839, 1841, 1842, 1851, 1853 Butcher

Reference: 00102

Cause: Old Age, Retention of Urine 36 hours

Note: Mary was baptised on the 7th February 1780. Her father was buried on the 18th May 1780 and Mary was buried on the 30th September 1780 as "daughter of Elizabeth"

Event: Type: A Chart Number
Place: WHEATON 0800

Reference: 00105