'Whitmore1'Index links to: Lead / Letter
Families covered: Whitmore of Apley, Whitmore of Balmes, Whitmore (Whytemere) of Claverley, Whitmore of London, Whitmore of Lower Slaughter, Whytemere of Whytemere, Wolryche-Whitmore of Dudmaston

                               
John of Whytemere (a 1272)
1. Philip de Whytmere (d 1300)
  A. John de Whytemere (a 1361)
  i. Richard de Whytemere of Claverley and Whytmere (d c1385)
  m. Margery Atterall (dau of William Atterall of Claverley)
  a. Richard de Whytemere
  (1) Richard de Whytemere (d 1441)
  m. Joan
  (A) Thomas Whytemere of Claverley (d 1482)
  (i) Richard Whytemere (d 1504)
m. Agnes (d 1522)
  (a) Richard Whitmore of Claverley (b 1495, d 1549)
  BLG1952 identifies Richard's wife as Frances Barker. Thanks to a contributor (MD, 30.04.21) for advising us that she was in fact ...
  m. Frances (possibly dau of Thomas Knott(e) of Claverley, m2. William Barker of Aston)
  ((1)) William Whitmore of London (d 08.08.1593)
  m. Anne Bond (d 09.10.1615, dau of William Bond, alderman of London)
  ((A)) Sir William Whitmore of London and Apley, Sheriff of Salop (b 04.11.1572, d 12.1648) - continued below
  m1. Margaret Mosley (d 31.01.1608, dau of Rowland Mosley of Houghend)
  m2. Dorothy Weld (d 1626, dau of John Weld of London)
((B)) Sir George Whitmore of Balmes (in Hackney, Middlesex), Sheriff then Lord Mayor of London (d 12.12.1654)
  m. Mary Copcott (dau of Reginald Copcott)
  ((i)) William Whitmore of Balmes
  ((a)) William Whitmore of Balmes (dsp)
  m. Frances Whitmore (dau of Sir Thomas Whitmore of Bridgnorth) @1@ below
((ii)) Elizabeth Whitmore (d before 1677)
  m. Sir John Weld of Willey
  ((iii)) Margaret Whitmore (d 1683) probably of this generation
  m. Sir Charles Kemeys, 2nd Bart
  ((iv)) Anne Whitmore (d 01.1699) probably of this generation
  m1. (12.1654) Sir John Robinson, Lord Mayor of London, 1st Bart (b 1625, d 02.1697-8)
  m2. (25.09.1680) William Shenton
  ((C)) Thomas Whitmore (dsp)
((D)) Elizabeth Whitmore
  m. Sir William Craven, Lord Mayor of London (d 18.07.1618)
  ((E)) Anne Whitmore
  m. Francis Baber of Chute
  ((F)) Margaret Whitmore
  m1. Sir Richard Grubham (d 07.1629)
  m2. Sir John St. John of Lydiard Tregoze (d 1648)
  ((G)) Mary Whitmore
  m. Sir Charles Montagu (brother of 1st Earl of Manchester)
  ((H)) Frances Whitmore (d 1656)
  m. Sir John Weld of Arnolds Court (d 1622)
  ((I)) Jane Whitmore
  m1. N(athaniell) Still
  m2. Henry Dennis of Pulcherchurch
  ((2)) Thomas Whitmore ancestor of Whitmores of Ludstone in Claverley

 

 

Sir William Whitmore of London and Apley, Sheriff of Salop (b 04.11.1572, d 12.1648) - continued above
m1. Margaret Mosley (d 31.01.1608, dau of Rowland Mosley of Houghend)
1. George Whitmore (dsp)
2. Anne Whitmore (d 1666)
  m. Sir Edmund Sawyer of Heywood (d 1670)
m2. Dorothy Weld (d 1626, dau of John Weld of London)
3. Sir Thomas Whitmore, 1st Bart of Apley (b 28.11.1612, d 1653)
  m. (16.04.1635) Elizabeth Acton (d 1666, dau of Sir William Acton, Lord Mayor of London)
  A. Sir William Whitmore, 2nd Bart of Apley (b 08.04.1627, dsp 1699)
  m. (c1658) Mary Harvey (d 30.01.1710-1, dau of Eliab Harvey of London)
  B. Sir Thomas Whitmore of Bridgnorth and Buddwas (bur 21.05.1682)
  m. Frances Brooke (d 1690, dau of Sir William Brooke or Cobham)
i. Elizabeth Whitmore (d unm 1667)
  ii. Dorothy Whitmore (d 1688)
  m. Jonathan Langley of the Abbey
  iii. Frances Whitmore (d 1694)
  m1. William Whitmore of Balmes (dsp) @1@ above
  m2. (19.04.1686) Sir Richard Middleton of Chirk Castle (d 06.1716)
  C. Anne Whitmore (d before 18.12.1718)
  m. (1650) Sir Francis Lawley, 2nd Bart of Spoonhill (d 10.1696)
D. Elizabeth Whitmore
  m. John Bennett of Abingdon
  E. Dorothy Whitmore
  m. Sir Eliab Harvey of Chigwell
4. Richard Whitmore of Lower Slaughter (d before 1694)
  m. Anne Weld (dau of Sir John Weld of Willey)
  A. William Whitmore of Lower Slaughter then of Apley (d 24.05.1725)
  m. Elizabeth Pope (d c1736, dau of Roger Pope of Wolstanton)
  i. Sir Thomas Whitmore of Apley (d 15.04.1773, 2nd son)
  m. (1736) Anne Cope (d 1775, dau of Sir Jonathan Cope, 1st Bart of Brewern)
  a. Mary Whitmore (d 1776)
  m. Thomas Whitmore of Apley (d 1795) @2@ below
  b. Anna Sophia Whitmore
  m. Anthony Deane
  ii. William Whitmore of Lower Slaughter (b 1714, d 1771, Lt. General)
  a. George Whitmore of Lower Slaughter (d 19.11.1794)
  m. (08.03.1774) Mary Wall (dau of John Wall by Catherine Sandys)
  (1) Sir George Whitmore of Lower Slaughter (b 12.05.1775, d 02.04.1862, General)
  m. (16.01.1798) Cordelia Ainslie (d 19.12.1857, dau of George Ainslie)
(A) George St. Vincent Whitmore (b 28.11.1798, dvp 12.11.1851, Major) had issue
  m. (22.02.1827) Isabella Maxwell Stoddart (d 18.04.1885, dau of Sir John Stoddart by Isabella Moncreiff)
  (B)+ other issue
  iii. Charles Whitmore of Southampton (d 1770, 5th son)
  m. Mary Kelly (d 1799)
  a. Thomas Whitmore of Apley (d 1795)
  m1. Mary Whitmore (d 1776, dau of Sir Thomas Whitmore of Apley) @2@ above
(1) Mary Anne Whitmore (d 1844)
  m. Thomas Wylde Browne of Caughley
  (2)+ other issue (d unm) - Anna Sophia, Georgiana
  m2. Mary Foley (dau of Capt. Thomas Foley by Mary St. Loo)
  (4) Thomas Whitmore of Apley, Sheriff of Salop (b 16.11.1782, d 06.02.1846) had issue
  m. (19.07.1804) Catherine Thomason (dau of Thomas Thomason of York by Catherine Grierson)
  (5) Charles Blaney Cavendish Whitmore (b 09.03.1787, rector of Stockton) had issue (3 daughters)
  m. (1829) Anne Barbara Giffard (d 23.11.1834, dau of Thomas Giffard of Chillington)
(6) Elizabeth Whitmore
  m. (01.1818) John Storer (rector of Hawksnorth)
  b. William Whitmore of Dudmaston (d 08.1816)
  m1. Frances Lyster (d 1792, dau of John Lyster)
  (1) William Wolryche-Whitmore of Dudmaston (b 1787, dsp 11.08.1858)
  m. (29.01.1810) Lucy Elizabeth Bridgeman (d 17.03.1840, dau of Orlando Bridgeman, 1st Earl of Bradford)
  (2) Frances Whitmore (d 1873)
  m1. _ Williams (d 1830, Captain RN)
  m2. (John) Freer of Cheltenham (physician)
  (3) Mary Dorothea Whitmore (d 1872)
  m. (1817) Rev. Francis Laing of The Mythe
  Their son inherited Dudmaston and took the name Wolryche-Whitmore.
  (4) Catherine Whitmore (d 1811)
  m. _ Houston (Major)
  (5) Sophia Whitmore
  (6) Harriet Whitmore (d 1868)
  m. E. Isaac of Boughton
  (7) Louisa Whitmore (d 06.02.1866)
  m. Sir Edward Ryan (d 1875, judge in Calcutta)
  (8) Elizabeth Whitmore (b 21.09.1783, d 20.02.1843)
  m. (03.08.1802) John Wall (d 24.04.1817, rector of Quatt)
  (9) Anna Maria Whitmore (d 1831)
  m. Rev. Edmund Carr
  (10) Georgiana Whitmore (d 1827)
  m. Charles Babbage
  m2. Mary Louisa Thomas of Lysworney (d 1813)
  (11) John Henry Whitmore, later Whitmore-Jones of Chastleton (d 05.03.1853) had issue
m. (01.01.1828) Dorothy Clutton (d 02.02.1862, dau of Col. Thomas Clutton of Pensax Court)
  (12) Janetta Whitmore (d unm)
  (13) Eleonora Whitmore (d 1881)
  m. (30.12.1828) John Franks of Ballyscaddane (d 25.04.1881)
  (14) Mary Anne Whitmore (d 15.05.1886)
  m. Arundel Sparkes
  c. George Whitmore (d 25.11.1805)
  d. Elizabeth Whitmore
  m. (1776) Launcelot Shadwell
  iv. John Whitmore of London (d 1791)
  m1. Sarah Stevens (d 1748)
  a.+ 2 daughters
  m2. Elizabeth Henkell (d 1788)
  c. John Whitmore of London (b c1750, d 1826, MP)
  m. Caroline Williams (d 1833)
  (1) John Whitmore of London (d 1842)
  m. Mary Stainforth
  (2) Edward Whitmore of London had issue
  m1. Frances Kensington (d 1833)
  m2. Elizabeth Davison
  (3) Robert Whitmore of Lincoln's Inn had issue
  m. Elizabeth Kaye
  (4)+ other issue - Frederick of London, others (dvp)
  d. William Whitmore had issue
  m. Elizabeth Booth (dau of Montagu Booth of Upton)
  v.+ other issue - William (d 1710), George of Apley (dsp 1775)
  B. Anne Whitmore (d 1738)
  m. Walter Jones of Chastleton

Main source(s): BLG1952 (Whitmore of Orsett Hall) with some support & input from BEB1841 (Whitmore of Apley) and a little input from BLG1952 (Wolryche-Whitmore of Dudmaston)
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