Welcome at the Whieldon Home Page This part of the Home
Page is dedicated to my grandmother's English family. She was Mary Elaine Alster née Whieldon. I have uploaded a few familytrees: Index to the family pages,
ahnentafel. Furley Family of Colchester in Essex,
London and Broadway and Defford in Worcester. Related to the Furley family: A Sperry / Spyers
family of Laverton, Worcester and Marylebone in London.
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The Whieldon
family was first mentioned in Staffordshire in 1579, when one of Henrici Whieldon's
children was baptized at Kingsley Church in Staffordshire. By 1582
he had obviously moved to Ipstones in
Staffordshire. He most likely by then lived at Blackbrook in that parish. In abt. 1660 one of his
descendants bought a piece of land in Ipstones,
Staffordshire, England, and built a farm on it, called Blackbrook Farm. This
farm was owned by the Whieldons until the 1960ies
when it was inherited by three brothers and sisters under age, wherefore it
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The most famous member of
this family was the potter, later High Sherif of
Staffordshire, Thomas Whieldon, who was born 1719
and died 1795. He is known as the most competent and the greatest of the last
pre-industiral potters in Staffordshire. He
had a number of apprientices, counting both Josiah
Wedgwood and Josiah Spode. A grand-daughter of the latter married a son of
Thomas Whieldon. - Thomas Whieldon's page. |
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Thomas Whieldon bought a number of houses, estates, one was
Fenton Hall, an other was
Hales Hall, where his widow, Sarah née Turner lived until she died in
1827. He renovated the Fenton Hall and called it Whieldon Hall or Whieldon
Grove. This building later became the first railway station building in
Fenton. His son the Rev.
Edward Whieldon MA was a rector of Burslem and he and his descendants lived here until about
1910 when my great-grandfather had to sell the estate. |
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Hales Hall seen from the lake, 1896. - After original photo in custody of Ulrich Alster Klug. - Please e-mail me, if you
find anything of interest on these pages. Ulrich Alster Klug - dannebrog@dk-yeoman.dk
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