Thomas Waddicor b. ABT 1730 d. Y : Jacob Strong Family

1730 - Yes, date unknown

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Birth Abt 1730

Gender Male

Died Yes, date unknown

Person ID I162 Jacob Strong and Sarah Hill

Last Modified 23 Aug 2015

Family Elizabeth, b. Abt 1730, Of Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, Great Britain , d. Yes, date unknown [1]

Married Abt 1752 Of Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom [2]

Children

	1. Thomas Waddicor, b. Abt 1753, Orrel Nook, Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, Great Britain , d. 24 Jul 1841, Haydock's, Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
	2. Betty Waddicor, c. 11 Nov 1755, Over Darwen, Blackburn, Lancashire, England, Great Britain , d. Yes, date unknown
	3. Ann Waddicor, c. 16 Feb 1759, Lower Independent Church, Over Darwen, Blackburn, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom , d. Yes, date unknown

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Married - Abt 1752 - Of Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom

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Notes	ADDITIONAL CHILDREN: JOHN ANDEREGG NOTED THAT THERE ARE PROBABLY MORE CHILDREN IN THIS FAMILY OF THOMAS WADDIKER/ELIZABETH. PROBATE RECORDS NEED TO BE SEARCHED IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE. Letter received from Reed Walsh 23 August 2015: I wanted to mention something about Alice Fish Walsh Strong’s grandmother, Mary. Sometimes we have listed her surname as Waddiker, but I believe the correct spelling for her name is really Waddicor. Many of the church documents are recorded using the phonetic spelling. For example, her christening record lists her as Mary Wadicor. Her marriage to Thomas Fish lists her as Mary Waddiker. The records that list her as the mother of Peggy, James, Mary and Richard (the children she had with Richard Fish) say her name was Mary Waddicor. So there are various spellings of her name that she was known by. Why is Waddicor correct? Let’s look at her family. · -Her brother Edmund’s tombstone says Waddicor. · -Her nephew Thomas Waddicor married Peggy Fish the sister of Thomas and Richard Fish and daughter of James and Jane Fish. In the will of James Fish (a legal document) that the Strong researcher found, Thomas Waddicor is listed as the executor of the will. · - There is also a newspaper article about her brother Thomas’s family that lists the name as Waddicor. · - That article and numerous other sources are found in the Cowan family website. It is a very extensive site and has wonderful documentation that ties into the Waddicor, Fish and other Lancashire lines. Many of the family are English from Lancashire and they have local historical knowledge. Here are the links. The first link shows Mary Waddicor and her siblings. http://cowen-ent.co.uk/getperson.php?personID=I525&tree=EileensFT http://cowen-ent.co.uk/index.php Lastly, here is a surname article that talks about the surname Waddicor and its variants. It appears that the branch of the family Mary belonged to used the name Waddicor. I think that is also the one we should use. Last name: Waddicor Recorded in several spellings including as shown below, this is a popular English surname. It is locational from any or all of the various villages called Whitacre in Warwickshire; Whitaker in Lancashire; Whiteacre in Kent; or Wheatacre near Beccles, in Norfolk. The former two places derive their name from the Olde English pre 7th Century word "hwit", meaning white or perhaps clear, with "feld", open country. This refers to land free from forest, as opposed to "aecer", meaning cultivated land. The latter two places derive from "hwaete", meaning wheat, and "aecer", cultivated ground. Locational surnames, such as this one, were originally given to the local lord of the manor, but more especially to former inhabitants who left their place of origin to settle elsewhere, and were best identified by the name of their birthplace. Early examples of the surname include: Simon de Wit Acra of Warwickshire in the year 1180; Robert de Witacra of Northamptonshire, in 1189, Richard de Whitacre of Lancashire, in 1336, and Henry Wydeacre of Yorkshire in the poll tax olls of 1379. In the modern idiom the name is spelt: Whiteaker, Whitaker, Whittaker, Whitticase, Waddikar, Waddicker, Widaker, Widdicor and others. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Richard de Wetacra. This was dated 1177, in the Pipe Rolls of Norfolk, during the reign of Henry 11nd, known as "The Builder of Churches", 1154 - 1189. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling. © Copyright: Name Origin Research www.surnamedb.com 1980 - 2015

Sources

[S33] Professional Research done by John Anderegg.
John Anderegg researched the entire family group of Thomas Waddiker and Elizabeth. The following sources were cited:
1) Parish Registers of Blackburn Cathedral, Lancashire, England; Altham, Lancashire, England; Accrington, Lancashire, England; Over Darwen, Lancashire, England. All received by correspondence.
2) FHL film # 560876, Parish Registers of Lower Independent Church, Over Darwen, Lancashire, England. These registers begin in 1751.
3) FHL film #560875, Parish Registers of Pole Lane Independent Church, Over Darwen, Lancashire, England.
4) Computer File Index and Temple Index Bureau.
5) FHL film #560892, Parish Registers of Wesleyan Methodist Church, Over Darwen, Lancashire, England.
6) FHL film #560875, Parish Registers of Particular Baptists Church, Islington, Blackburn, Lancashire, England.
7) Cemetery Records of Lower Independent Church, Over Darwen, Lancashire, England. Personally searched in England.
8) Cemetery Records of Over Darwen, Lancashire, England (Church of England). Personally searched in England.
[S13] Family Search, IGI v5.0.
From Record submitted after 1991 to request LDS temple ordinances.