The M*CH*MOREs originated in Devon, England, but many have since emigrated all
over the world. The vast majority have emigrated to the USA,
Canada or Australia, with smaller
numbers emigrating to New Zealand or other
countries.
The following table outlines the various M*CH*MOREs that are known to have emigrated
from England and are no longer living. People with a M*ch*more middle name are also
included. Some of those listed may have returned to England or emigrated to further
countries later.
Families are listed in order of the date they emigrated. Bold dates indicate
that they have known M*CH*MORE descendants living in the same country. Click on
a person's name to see their family. You may need to scroll down to find the
person you are looking for.
1833 |
Elkanah
MITCHELMORE [Tree 02], his wife and his five children emigrated from Plymouth
to Hobart TAS in 1833, a sixth child being born en route. He and
his sons established themselves as builders and boat builders, married and
had many children, and spread themselves across Tasmania, Williamstown VIC,
Maffra VIC, Exeter SA, and Cootamundra NSW. Their descendants now live
all over eastern Australia. |
1840 |
Four sons of
Philip MICHELMORE [Tree
18] emigrated to Australia in the 1840s.
William was the first, arriving
in 1840 and establishing a cattle farm at Meadows SA. Later,
Thomas came with his parents
(who soon returned to England); he became a ship's chandler in Adelaide
SA. Charles Andrew
came next and set himself up as a sheep farmer at Curramulka SA. Descendants
of these three brothers live all over South Australia today. The oldest
brother, Philip Ching, pioneered
the development of North Queensland and eventually settled in Pentland QLD.
The history of himself and his descendants is described
here; his last MICHELMORE
descendant died in 2009. A distant cousin
Philip also died in Pentland,
but nothing is known about his life in Australia. |
1845x |
Robert William
Mitchelmore ISSELL [Tree 02] emigrated from Stokenham to Prahran VIC
in the 1840s, followed by his brother
George Mitchelmore ISSELL
some time later. Two of Robert's grandsons also bore the middle name
Mitchelmore. |
1849 |
The brothers
George Michelmore HITCHCOCK
and Walter Michelmore HITCHCOCK
[Tree 800] emigrated from London to Geelong VIC, where they established
a successful drapery business. George became active in local politics, while
Walter returned to England in about 1862 and acted as his London agent.
|
1852 |
Thomas Michelmore
DARTON [Tree 501] emigrated with his wife Harriet from Plymouth to Victoria,
but then moved to New Zealand in 1858. |
1853? |
Alpheus C
Mitchell MITCHELMORE Tree 09 emigrated from Stokenham to Victoria some
time between 1851 and 1855, but changed his surname to MITCHELL on arrival.
He is believed to have many descendants still living in Victoria. |
1853? |
Robert
MITCHELMORE [Tree 13] emigrated from Blackawton to Queensland some time
between 1851 and 1855. He married, but it is not known if he had any children. |
1854 |
William MITCHELMORE
[Tree 05] emigrated from Dartmouth to Victoria. He married, but it is not
known if he had any children. |
1855 |
George
MICHELMORE [Tree 16] and his wife Mary Crispin emigrated from Buckfastleigh
to Victoria, their first son being born en route. They had several
more children in their adopted country and eventually settled in Colac VIC.
Their sons all moved to Melbourne, where several MICHELMORE descendants
still live. |
1858 |
Mary SHEPPERD
n�e MITCHELMORE [Tree 09], together with her husband and her son
John Mitchelmore SHEPPERD,
emigrated from Charleton to Queensland. |
1858 |
Carl Alfred
Mitchelmore GUNTHER [Tree 801], b 1874 in Adelaide SA, was the son of
a German immigrant. One of his sons was also given the middle name Mitchelmore.
The origin of this surmid is unknown. |
1858 |
Daniel Laverance
MOUCHEMORE [Tree 13] maintained the unusual spelling of the M*CH*MORE surname
after he arrived in Australia. He and his sons established themselves as
fishermen at Queenscliff VIC. Later, his oldest son took his family to Albany
WA and set himself up there. Today there are many MOUCHEMOREs living in
or near Melbourne VIC, Albany WA and Perth WA. |
1871 |
George Henry
MICHELMORE [Tree 15] emigrated from London to Sydney NSW in 1871. His second
cousin Edward may have accompanied
or followed him, for he was also recorded as living in Sydney in 1883. George
married and moved to Emmaville NSW with his family about 1905, and some
of their children later moved to Queensland. It is not known if there are
any living MICHELMORE descendants. |
1876 |
Sophia Harriett
MICHELMORE [Tree 17] left her husband and, with her son
Charles and daughters Amy
and Cecilia, moved from London to Sydney NSW. In the 1880s, Amy died in
Sydney and Sophia and Cecilia returned to England; but Charles stayed and
was joined by his brother Charles
Frederick Moore. It is not known whether there are any living MICHELMORE
descendants. |
1886 |
John Alfred
MICHELMORE [Tree 17] emigrated from Stokenham to Mackay QLD in 1886, followed
by his brothers William Trevosso
in 1891 and Ernest Pitts
in 1893. John established a flourishing merchant's business in Mackay
that survived until well after his death, while William and Ernest became
farmers. There are many MICHELMORE descendants living in southern Queensland
today. |
1910? |
The brothers
Thomas Ernest and
William Ernest MUCHMORE
[Tree 20] emigrated from London to Australia some time in the 1900s, but
it is not known if they travelled together or separately. In 1915, William
died in Western Australia and Thomas married in Adelaide. It is not known
if either of them have any living descendants. |
1923 |
The brothers
Harold James and
Cyril Emmanuel MITCHELMORE
Tree 09 emigrated from Stokenham to Perth WA. Their descendants are still
living in Western Australia. |
1924 |
Roland Gortleigh
MITCHELMORE [Tree 09] emigrated from Pokesdown, Hampshire, to Tinaroo QLD,
where he established a tobacco farm. He married but does not seem to have
had any children. |
1921 |
Frederick
William MICHELMORE [Tree 18] moved from Canada (where he had immigrated
in 1903) to Victoria with his four children and a step-daughter. Their descendants
are still living in Victoria. |
1927 |
Alma Frances
Ada SOUTHGATE n�e MITCHELMORE [Tree 06], along with her second husband
and three children, emigrated from London in 1927 and settled in Sydney
NSW. |
1958 |
Ronald Benjamin
MITCHELMORE [Tree 11] emigrated with his wife and two children from London
to Melbourne VIC. There do not appear to be any living MITCHELMORE descendants. |
1963 |
Edwyna Margaret
JONES n�e MITCHELMORE [Tree 05] emigrated with her husband from England
to Perth WA in 1963. |
1967? |
After a distinguished career in India, followed by a few
years in England, Sir Walter
Harold Strachan MICHELMORE [Tree 17] retired to Sydney NSW.
|
1969 |
Robert Wilfred
(Bob) MUCHAMORE [Tree 02] emigrated from England to Elizabeth South
SA with his wife and six children, most of whom still live in the same area.
Bob founded the M*CH*MORE One Name Study in the 1990s. |
182x |
William
MITCHELMORE, who may have come from Blackawton, married in St John's
NL in 1828 and had three children there in the next 8 yr. Little more is
known about this family. |
1831 |
John Mitchelmore
DURE moved from Stokenham to Brock Township ON. Nothing more is know
about him. |
1827? |
William
MUCHAMORE [Tree 02] emigrated from South Milton to work on the Rideau Canal
ON. There he married a local girl, changed his surname to MUCHMORE, and
founded an extensive dynasty that has been documented by the
Muchmore Family Association. Most
of his descendants still live in Ontario. |
1845? |
Dartmouth fisherman
Thomas MITCHELMORE [Tree
05] settled on the west coast of Newfoundland some time between 1841 and
1853 and established an extensive dynasty there. Most of of his numerous
descendants have lived in Green Island Cove NL, where even today the majority
of the inhabitants are MITCHELMOREs. |
1869 |
Thomas
MICHELMORE [Tree 05] emigrated to Toronto ON. His nephew
James Fulford followed him
to Canada in 1890. After a short stay in New Hampshire, where he was visited
by his brother William Henry,
James moved to Brome QC. James's mother
Bessie Maria Sarah Isabella
joined him there in 1895, but by 1911 James was resident in Nipissing ON.
Nothing is known of any MICHELMORE descendants. |
1895? |
After her husband died,
Elizabeth Ann Michelmore
BROOKS [Tree 18] emigrated from Christow to Calgary AB with her son
William Michelmore BROOKS.
Nothing further is known about them. |
1899 |
Charles Peters
MITCHELMORE, his wife Ellen Louisa, and his brother
Alphaeus Edward [Tree 09]
emigrated from Sherford to rural Saskatchewan. Alphaeus did not marry, but
Charles and Ellen had several children and many of their descendants still
live in Saskatchewan today. |
1902 |
Charles Philip
MICHELMORE of Holne [Tree 18] emigrated from Buckfastleigh to rural Saskatchewan.
He was followed by his brother
Frederick William in 1903.
In 1905, they were joined by their mother
Mary Ellen and their siblings
Philip John,
Victor Cleave,
James Henry,
Francis Harold and
Florence May in 1905. Frederick
moved to Australia in 1921. It is not known if they have any living MICHELMORE
descendants in Canada. |
1903 |
Thomas Richard
MICHELMORE [Tree 15] moved from Lambeth to Alberta and had established a
large farm in the Strathcona District by 1906. It is not known whether he
married or had children. |
1904 |
William Thomas
MITCHELMORE [Tree 09] was taken from a Poor Law School in Liverpool to a
Dr Barnardo's Home in Toronto ON under the Child Emigration Scheme.
However, by 1917 he was back in England and apparently never returned to
Canada. |
1906 |
Joseph Henry
MICHELMORE, his wife Florence and their son Reginald [Tree 18] emigrated
from London to Vancouver BC in 1906, and his brother
Arthur John and his wife
Evelyne joined them the following year. Their descendants are still living
in Vancouver. |
1908 |
Herbert Sampson
Reynolds MITCHELMORE [Tree 05] emigrated from Jersey and settled in
Gasp� QC. It is not known whether he married or had children. |
1912 |
Edwin Herbert
MITCHELMORE and his wife Laura [Tree 205] moved from Cardiff, Wales, to
Winnipeg MB. They emigrated to the USA in 1926 and settled in Santa Monica
LA. They do not appear to have any living MITCHELMORE descendants. |
1912 |
George Henry
MITCHELMORE and his wife Kate [Tree 05] emigrated from Stokenham to Toronto
ON. Nothing further is known about them. |
1914 |
Eric MICHELMORE
[Tree 18] travelled to Ontario in order to join the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary
Force, returning to England in 1919. |
1914 |
Rose May
MITCHELMORE [Tree 05] travelled from Southampton to Port Colbourne ON. It
is not known whether or how long she remained in Canada. |
1953 |
Basil K
MITCHELMORE Tree 09, his wife Sarah Ruth Ellen and his three daughters emigrated
from Weymouth to Ontario. They do not appear to have had any male children. |
1858 |
Thomas Michelmore
DARTON [Tree 501] moved with his wife from Victoria, Australia, where he
had immigrated in 1852, to Lawrence. Several of his descendants were also
given the middle name Michelmore. |
1859 |
Joanna
ROSITTER n�e MICHELMORE [Tree 18] emigrated from Coombe in Teignhead to
Christchurch with her husband. |
1885? |
Ernest Laurence
MUCHMORE [Tree 20] moved from St Germans, Cornwall, to Timaru, where he
became a prominent businessman. There do not appear to be any living descendants. |
1903 |
Beatrice Annie
CROSS n�e MITCHELMORE [Tree 09] emigrated from Kingskerswell. Her brother
William Henry emigrated
at about the same time. It is not known if they travelled together, but
they both settled near Timaru. There are several of William's MITCHELMORE
descendants still living in New Zealand. |
1926 |
Charles Ewart
MITCHELMORE Tree 09 emigrated with his wife and three daughters from South
Shields, Durham, to Lower Hutt. They have MITCHELMORE descendants still
living in the country. |
1925? |
William Charles
MUCHAMORE [Tree 02] died in New Zealand in 1939, but is not known when he
emigrated from England or with whom. There do not appear to be any living
MUCHAMORE descendants. |
1953 |
Marian Elizabeth
MITCHELMORE n�e SCOTT Tree 09 travelled to New Zealand and died there in
the same year. |
1960? |
Alma Olive
GOODCHILD n�e MITCHELMORE [Tree 09] died in New Zealand in 1992, but is
not known when she emigrated from England. |
1820 |
Farmer Robert
Michelmore BOVEY [Tree 315] left Buckfastleigh at the end of 1819 and
arrived at the Cape, South Africa, more than 4 months later. His son of
the same name returned to England before 1861, but nothing is known about
any other descendants. |
1873? |
Margaret Michelmore
WHITEWAY n�e CHURCHWARD [Tree 16] moved to Okiep, South Africa, with her
mine agent husband some time after 1871 and died there in 1876. |
1875? |
Henry Sealy
Michelmore SHAPLEY [Tree 18] emigrated to South Africa some time between
1871 and 1881 and married there. |
1895? |
Draper Ernest
Vernon MITCHELMORE [Tree 02] moved to Singapore, where he married and
had four children. He and his family returned to England in 1919. |
1901 |
Carpenter
John MITCHELMORE [Tree 16] moved from Melbourne, Australia, to Claremont,
South Africa, in 1901. He had a couple of children there, but became bankrupt
and returned to Melbourne before 1909. |
1904? |
Warehouseman
Sydney Bertram MICHELMORE
[Tree 18] emigrated to South Africa between 1901 and 1908. Nothing more
is known about him. |
1899? |
After serving in the Boer War 1899-1902,
Philip John MICHELMORE [Tree
18] remained in South Africa, working in the goldmines in Johannesburg.
His MITCHELMORE descendants are still living in Johannesburg. |
1910 |
Station master
John Wilson MITCHELMORE
[Tree 09] emigrated from London to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He
returned to England in 1919 after his wife died, but his son
0893 remained in Zimbabwe
and his MITCHELMORE descendants are still living in Zimbabwe and also in
Australia. |
1920? |
Draper's assistant
Frank Michelmore STEVENS
[Tree 18] emigrated to South Africa some time between 1913 and 1928 and
married there. |
1918? |
For a period between 1918 and 1929,
Icel Edwin MICHELMORE [Tree
18] lived in Fiji, where he ran a chemist business. |
1928? |
Sir Walter
Harold Strachan MICHELMORE [Tree 17] took up an appointment in the British
Army in India. In 1946 he left the army and established a business in Bombay.
He retired in 1964 and moved to Australia. |
1932 |
Entymologist Alfred Philip Galabin MICHELMORE [Tree 17]
spent many years working in Tanzania and Zambia. |
1945 |
Margaret
Elizabeth ROBBINS n�e MUCHMORE [Tree 503] moved to the copperbelt of
Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) to join her husband, who had gone there in
the mid-1930s. |
1951? |
Aircraft engineer and pilot
Herbert Basil Goldwyer MICHELMORE
spent several years working in British Guiana (now Guyana). |
1650? |
The earliest known emigrants were
John MUCHMORE (Portsmouth
NH) and John MUCHMORE
(Windsor CT), whose descendants have been extensively documented by the
Muchmore Family Association. They
were undoubtedly descended from English colonists, but their link to the
existing family trees is currently unknown. DNA
testing shows that the Portsmouth line has a common origin with Trees
02, 05 and 09, suggesting that
John immigrated from
Devon. Howover, the Windsor line is quite distinct and it has not been possible
to determine John's
origin. MUCHMORE is by far the most prolific M*CH*MORE surname in the USA.
|
1770? |
Johnathan
MICHMORE was employed as a carpenter in HM Shipyard in Detroit in 1778.
It is not known where he came from or whether he remained in the USA. |
1816 |
John MITCHELMORE
[Tree 09] emigrated from Slapton to Philadelphia PA at the age of 23. By
all accounts he was an inspiring preacher, eventually becoming pastor of
Lewes Presbyterian Church at Lewistown DE. Tragically, he died when a river
boat on which he was travelling caught fire. John left a wife but, as far
as is known, no children. It is believed that
two of his parishioners honoured
him with a Mitchelmore surmid. |
1825? |
It is known that
James MITCHELMORE of Newton
Abbot [Tree 05] was engaged in the Newfoundland fishing trade in the early
1800s. Some later records suggest that he and his wife Sarah may have settled
in Brooklyn NY by 1858. Nothing further is known about this family. |
1846 |
The brothers
Bartholomew and
Thomas Carlile MICHELMORE
of Ashburton [Tree 18] moved to St Louis MI, where they were recorded as
confectioners in 1850. Thomas established himself as a merchant, travelling
between London and New York several times before he died in England in 1862.
Bartholomew had returned to England by 1871 and when he died in 1876, his
estate was worth the equivalent of about �8 million. It is not known whether
he made his fortune through his own efforts or inherited it from his brother. |
1848 |
Jabez
MITCHELMORE and his wife Maria [Tree 02] emigrated from London to Brooklyn
NY, where he was a ship's carpenter. Nothing is known of them after
1871. |
1862 |
After her husband died tragically in Plymouth,
Sarah Jeffery MITCHAMORE
[Tree 05] moved to Columbus OH with her daughter Elizabeth Ann and her sons
Charles Hills and
George Adams. George was
killed in Arizona in one of the Indian wars. Charles became a salesman and
inventor, married and had children, and died in Chicago IL. There do not
appear to be any living descendants. |
1870 |
William Henry
MITCHELMORE [Tree 05] emigrated from Stokenham at the age of 17 or 18. He
appears to have returned to England by 1901. |
1870 |
William MITCHELMORE
[Tree 02] was the first known M*CH*MORE to establish a dynasty in the USA.
His eldest son William junior
came to Texas in 1870. He must have liked it, because two years later William
senior brought his wife Jane and all his younger children over from East
Allington. The family settled in Brenham TX and later, after Jane had died
and William had remarried, Chappell Hill TX. William's sons
William,
Richard ,
John Thomas,
Robert and
Frank all established farms
in the area of Texas between Houston and Austin. The vast majority of their
many living descendants, now known by the surnames MITCHMORE and MITCHAMORE,
still live in the south of Texas. |
1872 |
Edwin
MICHELMORE [Tree 19] emigrated from Paignton to Brooklyn NY, where he worked
as a carpenter. He married another immigrant and they had two daughters.
|
1872 |
Charles Henry
MITCHELMORE [Tree 09] moved from Charleton to New York at the age of 22.
He was followed by his younger sister
Elizabeth some time in the
1880s and his parents John
and Tryphena in 1903. Charles studied at Chicago University and became a
Baptist and then a Presbyterian minister, his appointments taking him from
New York State to Pennsylvania, Nebraska and, finally, El Paso TX. Two of
his sons, John Charles and
Hugh Thomas, also became
Presbyterian ministers. His descendants currently live in California, Oregon
and Paris. |
1875? |
Soon after her husband died in 1870 in Falmouth, Cornwall,
Elizabeth MITCHELMORE [Tree
02] emigrated to Washington DC with her children
Thomas Henry, Katie and
William John. Their descendants
lived in Oklahoma and (still today) Colorado. |
1882 |
Lucy Mary MICHELMORE
[Tree 17] left her husband Thomas
Wilson in Kinson, Dorset, and moved with her son
Ernest Edgecombe to settle
in St Paul's MN. Lucy and Thomas were divorced in 1891, but Thomas also
moved to St Paul's in 1894 bringing their son
Thomas Graham with him.
There are no known living MICHELMORE descendants. |
1883 |
William Henry
MITCHELMORE [Tree 09] emigrated from West Alvington and worked as a carpenter
in Edison NE and a lift operator in Chicago IL. He married late in life
and does not appear to have had any children. |
1889 |
John MICHELMORE
[Tree 18] emigrated from Buckfastleigh to Philadelphia PA in May 1889, and
his wife Emma and their children
John Coombes, Louisa Maud,
Daisy and William Victor
followed him later in the same year. Their grandson
Laurence was UN Commissioner
General for Palestine Refugees in the 1960s. Their only known living MICHELMORE
descendants live in California. |
1895 |
William Hayman
MICHELMORE [Tree 16] also left Buckfastleigh to settle in the USA, living
most of his life in or near Lawrence MA. His brother
Harry joined him the following
year. Their cousin Robert
appears to have joined Harry in 1912, his wife Emma and children
Robert junior and
Kenneth following two years
later. None of them appears to have any living MICHELMORE descendants. |
1905 |
Robert
MICHELMORE [Tree 13] of Blackawton emigrated to New York. He married there,
but it is not known if he had any children. |
1910? |
Philip
MICHELMORE junior [Tree 17] moved from London to Ohio some time between
1901 and 1917, when he registered for the World War 1 draft. Nothing further
is known about him. |
1916 |
Thomas Richard
MICHELMORE [Tree 15] emigrated from Alberta, Canada to New York NY with
his family. Known descendants are living in Illinois and Florida. |
1918 |
Jeffrey
MICHELMORE [Tree 05] emigrated from Toronto ON to New York NY. It is not
know whether he married or had children. |
1926 |
Leslie Frank
MITCHELMORE [Tree 09] moved from Ontario to Detroit MI. He married four
years later, but does not appear to have had any children. |
1926 |
Edwin Herbert
MITCHELMORE [Tree 09] and his wife Laura emigrated from Winnepeg MB to Los
Angeles CA. No male MITCHELMORE descendants are known. |
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