Paul: can anyone help my genealogy?

answers1: I found this on <a href="http://www.familysearch.org."
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.familysearch.org.</a> Chagford is
in DEVON county, and using this spelling only, there were only 2
listings. 
JOHN WHYDDON 
Christening: About 27 APR 1596 North Bovey, Devon, England 
Father: LAWRENCE WHYDDON 
 
On their record search pilot were these: 
English Baptisms 
Frances Whyddon 
Residence: Burlescombe, Devonshire, England 
Christening date/place: 1600--BURLESCOMBE, DEVON, ENGLAND 
Father: Johannis Whyddon 
Batch No.: C16847-1 
Date range: 1588 - 1660 
Record group: England-VR (Vital records, I assume) 
 
<a href="http://www.ancestry.com"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://www.ancestry.com</a> 
Devon: Exeter - Freemen 1266-1967 
1670 
Exeter Freemen 
Michaelmas 1526-Michaelmas 1527 Book 55 
County: Devonshire 
Country: England 
John Whyddon, tailor, fine of £1 
 
(These may be some ancestors of John's): 
Cecilia Whyddon --b. ABT 1425 in Devon? ; Married in 1444 to John
Quicke (b. 1424); son RICHARD b. 1445. 
 
 
Name: Simon Whyddon 
Birth: Abt 1467 - Chagford, Devonshire (Devon), England 
Marriage: Abt 1497 
Spouse: Mary Wykes (b. 1471) 
 
<a href="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~crackerbarrel/Whiddon.html"
rel="nofollow"class=Clr-b>http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ance...</a>
 
"Whiddon/Whidden Early History" 
Five centuries before Martin Luther mailed 95 Theses to the door of
the Schlosskirche, Wittenberg, the capital of the little duchy of
Saxe-Wittenberg, was the home of the Wittens. It is probably that the
prestige of this family led to the area's name. In the ninth century
members of the Witten family left their homeland and emigrated to
England. Some of them settled in Yorkshire; others moved down into
Devonshire and made their homes by the sea. 
Even in England the family is considered of ancient origin and is
mentioned in the Mabinogion, a Welsh manuscript of the 14th century,
the Red Book of Hergest. The English have spelled the name in various
ways: Witten, Whitten, Whyddon, Whiddon, and even Whydn. 
Chagford, which is in Devonshire, is in the heart of the moors.
Before the conquest in 1066, Chagford was held by Dodo the Saxon. The
manor belonged to Hugh of Chagford, but in the time of Queen Mary
(1533-1555) it became the property of Sir John Whiddon and remained in
the family for several descents. During this period the Whiddons,
other than Sir John, occupied their property, Whiddon Park, situated
about a mile from town. 
The house is in Chagford, but the Park is in Moreton Hampstead.
This interesting and fine old seat has preserved the memory of the
Whiddon family, which has been extinct in Chagford for two hundred
years." 
 
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rwhidden/meaning.htm 
Pronounciation of Whidden: Hidden behind a 'W'. 
Origin of the Surname: known in England, Scotland and Ireland from
about 1200 A.D. Sir John Whyddon lived in Chagford in Devonshire,
England. 
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rwhidden/arms.htm 
has a picture of the Whiddon coat of arms. Description of Sir John
WHYDDON arms: 
"Argent a chevron between three spear-heads. gules. Crest. on a
torse argent and gules a black swan. beak or. sitting in a Coronet."
 
The torse is that of an esquire, though Sir John Whiddon was
knighted in 1555 and later his grandson was also knighted. The Arms
bear no motto, though one is attributed to the family - "Rarest of
birds of the earth", referring to the Black Swan. 
For service to the Queen, he was given an addition to his coat of
arms: a black swan, sitting in the crown, with a golden bill and the
motto "Rara avis in terris, nigrog; simillima Cygno" or "Rarest of
bird of the earth, -- Swan". 
A second arms in the parish church shows two quarterings (upper
left and lower right) of Sir John's arms with spears and two
quarterings (upper right and lower left) of a white shield with red
chevron and three black swans in the same positions of the spears.
 
 
http://www.smoothhound.co.uk/hotels/threecro.html 
The Three Crowns Hotel occupies a very significant position in the
history of Chagford. The building itself dates back to the 13th
century and was once the home of the Whyddon family who lived in
Chagford for several centuries, including Sir John Whyddon who was a
Justice of the King's Bench in the mid 16th century. (There is a
picture of it on the website) 
It was one of Sir John's descendants, Mary Whyddon who became a
legend in Chagford following her death in 1641, shot on her wedding
day as she returned from the church to her family home. 
 
http://books.google.com/books?id=WJGEAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA586&lpg=PA581&ots=dEGgKqfQFn&dq=%22Sir+John+Whyddon%22&output=text#c_top
 
"A View of Devonshire in MDCXXX"* By Thomas Westcote 
(*=1630)--pages 581 & 582: 
"WHYDDON, of Chagford, knight.—Arms.—Argent, a chevron between
three spears' heads, gules. 
Henry Whyddon, of Chagford, esq., married Joan, daughter and heir
of Wray of London, and had issue Richard ; who married and had issue
Simon, who married Margaret, daughter of Richard Weeks of
answers2: Genealogy basic... 
NEVER NEVER NEVER look for the "first known" Whiddon or anyone else,
then try to work from that person to yourself. 
Genealogy works the other way... from you, back in time. You identify
your parents (hint.. mom is not a Whiddon). Then you identify the
parents of your parents (only one of them is a Whiddon). ALWAYS use
reputable documentation, each step of the way. 
Never research a surname. All Landrums (Whiddons, Forbes, so forth)
are not going to be related. Research a PERSON. If your grandmother is
Mary Landrum.. the only Landrum to be involved is her father and
mother (who again.. is only a Landrum by marriage). 
Trying to go the direction you are headed, is completely contrary to
solid research. Among many examples of why.. what would you do if you
spent 4 yrs on early Whiddons.. then find out that your gr grandfather
was adopted, and really was a Smith by birth? 
Without the "right" process, you are almost guaranteed to hang
yourself on information that is not connected to YOU. 
These are basics.
answers3: HI Wes, 
 
 
Start from what you know about you family. It is important to verify
the information from various vital records, because of name duplicates
and name changes. People used to change the spelling of surnames at
will, at least in my family. And- many especially the French used
"dit" names back in the 17 the and 18th centuries just to confuse the
family historian more. 
 
Google genealogy sites like LDS and Rootsweb sites . They have lots
of free stuff. Ancestry is a great site, they have some free
information, but it is mostly subscription. Look up Census, Land
records, Birth, death and marriage, military, historical sites ets.
Doing family history is sort of life being a detective and it can
gedt addictive. 
There are lots of great genealogy groups online, where people are glad
to do some look ups. 
I found one whole family line going back 16 generations on the web
from someone who did all the research. 
 
Good luck

Paul

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Tuesday 17 September 2019

can anyone help my genealogy?

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