EASTERN SOUTH HAMS

Tree 203

Generation 1

Family 0350

head  William MITCHELMORE

b 176x

m 19Apr1793 Stoke Fleming, WILLS ^ Townstall

sp      Eleanor WILLS

b 176x

m 19Apr1793 Stoke Fleming

bur 12Apr1811 Dartmouth St Clement (Eleanore)

dau    Jenny MITCHELMORE

chr 29Dec1793 Stoke Fleming

bur 16Oct1797 Dartmouth St Clement (Jane MUCHAMORE)

son    William MUCHAMORE

chr 30Apr1797 Dartmouth St Clement

dau    Mary MITCHELMORE

chr 4Mar1799 Dartmouth St Saviour

m 13Dec1836 Dartmouth St Saviour: John BREWER, widower; Mary MITCHELMORE

son James Cole Mitchelmore BREWER

(b 1838) Dartmouth

b 31May1840

chr 20Aug1840 Dartmouth St Saviour

1851 rope makers apprentice @ 13 b Dartmouth (James)

m 1861.3 Totnes, Ann Maria STEER (James Cole Michelmore)

1881 shipwright & Methodist vicar preacher @ 43 b Dartmouth ^ 46 Princes Street, Stoke Damerel (James C M)

Jul/Aug1900 ^ 46 Princes Street, Devonport: probate and administration

dau Jane Mitchelmore BREWER

b 1840.2 Totnes

1851 scholar @ 10 b Dartmouth ^ Crowders Hill, Dartmouth St Saviour with parents (Jane)

1861 house servant @ 20 b Dartmouth ^ Croftland Farm House, Brixham (Jane); head: M Harris CLARK, farmer

1841 @ 29 b Devon ^ St Saviour, Dartmouth

son William Henry Mitchelmore BREWER

b 1847.3 Totnes

b 6Jul1847

chr 18Jul1847 Dartmouth St Saviour (William Henry Muchmore)

1851 @ 3 b Dartmouth ^ Crowders Hill, Dartmouth St Saviour with parents (William)

1861 @ 13 b Dartmouth  ^ Crowders Hill, Dartmouth St Saviour with parents (William)

m 1870.2 Totnes, Sarah Ann F KNOWLES (William Henry M)

1881 @ 33 b Dartmouth St Saviour ^ 23 Fore Street, Brixham with family (William)

d 1913.3 Totnes @ 66

d 29Sep1913 84 Burton Street, Brixham: probate granted at Exeter 20Dec1913 to Edith Emily BREWER, estate ₤1168 17s 6d

Jan1914 boot and shoe manufacturer, oldest local preacher of the Dartmouth & Brixham Wesleyan Circuit

1851 @ 38 [sic] b Dartmouth ^ Crowders Hill, Dartmouth St Saviour with husband and 8 children

dau    Eleanor MITCHELMORE

chr 25Oct1801 Dartmouth St Saviour

bur 19May1805 Dartmouth St Clement

dau    Jane MITCHELMORE

chr 10Feb1805 Dartmouth St Saviour

bur 18Sep1808 Dartmouth St Clement

dau    Elizabeth MITCHELMORE

b 1Dec1807

chr 20Dec1807 Dartmouth St Saviour

m 11Jul1828 Dartmouth St Saviour: Joseph CARTER ^ Humberstone, Leicestershire; Elizabeth MUCHEMORE

In relation to average earnings, William’s estate would have been equivalent to about ₤400,000 today.

Tree 203

Generation 2

Family 2400

head  William MUCHAMORE

b Apr1797 Dartmouth

chr 30Apr1797 Dartmouth St Clement

1806 first went to sea as apprentice

m 25Mar1821 Dartmouth St Clement, TUCKER, mariner (MUTCHAMORE)

1841 mariner @ 40 b Devon ^ Higher Street, Dartmouth St Petrox (Willm MUTCHAMORE)

7Jan1843 @ 45 b Dartmouth: sailed in Dewdrop

1845-1847 seaman’s register ticket 114712: sailed in various vessels

1851 mariner @ 52 b Dartmouth ^ Atkins Lane, St Petrox, Dartmouth (MICHELMORE)

1861 seaman @ 63 b Dartmouth ^ Higher Street, Dartmouth (MITCHELMORE)

1871 retired seaman @ 74 b Dartmouth St Saviours ^ Eale's Slip, Lower Street, Dartmouth, lodging with John DODD (MITCHELMORE)

d 1872.1 Totnes @ 76 (MITCHELMORE)

d 9Feb1872 Burrough's-slip, Dartmouth @ 76, painter

sp      Mary TUCKER

chr 8Dec1793 East Portlemouth

m 25Mar1821 Dartmouth St Clement

1841 wife @ 40 b Devon ^ Higher Street, Dartmouth St Petrox

1851 @ 55 b Porlemouth ^ Atkins Lane, St Petrox, Dartmouth

1861 @ 64 b Portlemouth ^ Higher Street, Dartmouth

d 1865.2 Totnes @ 70

William would have been only 9 when he first went to sea.

Mary consistently understated her age in the censuses.