FAMILY HISTORY, GENEOLOGY, for WHEATON, One Name Society, Wheatons of Devon

When I set this page up there were 65 UNATTACHED families. This was reduced to 4 because WHEATON researchers contacted me and sent me information! Therefore, I have been able to link in 60 small groups into the larger families. GREAT!! I want to get rid of them all! So, PLEASE write to me if you are a WHEATON!

Given the forgoing I have now decided to add some more "unattacheds". Some of these are probably families whose spelling of the surname was not usually WHEATON, which is why they have appeared and then disappeared from the WHEATON records.

Making the Links
I have managed to link into family groups about 85% of the individuals who appear in the Civil Registration Indexes for Births, Marriages and Deaths.

Why have I not been able to attach the others to one of the family groups included on other pages of this web site?

Without searching parish registers, the possibility of making family groups from the Registration Indexes depends on three sources of information: 1) Family details in Census Returns; 2) The name of the mother being included in the Birth Index; and 3) The name of the spouse being included in the Marriage Index. There are restrictions on the availability of such information because:

Census Returns are available from 1841 but not after 1901
The inclusion of the name of the mother in the Birth Index began in September 1911
The inclusion of the name of the spouse in the Marriage Index began in March 1912
Many modern day couples do not marry

This means that there is a period from 1901 to 1911/1912 when, just by using the sources mentioned here, it is impossible to identify the parents of the children born between these years.
Also, because modern day couples live together as partners there are no marriage entries showing a spouse's name. Birth entries can be linked together under the name of the mother, but without a spouse's (or partner's) name it is impossible to link the birth entries into families. This means that from about the 1960s, using just the Civil Registration Indexes, the fathers of many children cannot be identified.

Some of these "UNATTACHED WHEATONS" are to be found on the following page. But I emphasize - only SOME of these individuals are included here ad I have tried to include only those WHEATONs who are no longer alive.

If your find yourself, or your ancestors here, and you know the names of the WHEATON in the previous generation to that which is shown on this site, if you are prepared to share your information, I should be very grateful if you could contact me. I probably have the person concerned on my database, but because of the problems mentioned above - your family is at present - "unattached".