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Thomas Waddicor[1, 2, 3]
Male 1753 - 1841

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  • Birth  Abt 1753  Orrel Nook, Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5
    Christened  22 Apr 1753  Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Gender  Male 
    Occupation  Weaver  [6
    Died  24 Jul 1841  Haydock's, Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Buried  Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Person ID  I436  Jacob Strong and Sarah Hill
    Last Modified  23 Aug 2015 
     
    Father  Thomas Waddicor,   b. Abt 1730,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother  Elizabeth,   b. Abt 1730, Of Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married  Abt 1752  Of Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID  F159  Group Sheet
     
    Family  Alice Bury,   b. 1750,   d. 1833, Haydock's Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married  3 Nov 1772  Blackburn, Lancashire, England, Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 6
    Children 
     1. Betty Waddicor,   c. 13 Feb 1774, Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Edmund Waddicor,   c. 17 Mar 1776, Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Thomas Waddicor,   c. 21 Apr 1778, Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1851
     4. Alice Waddicor,   c. 18 Jul 1782, Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. Mary Waddicor,   c. 19 Sep 1784, Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 30 Sep 1866, Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Jane Waddicor,   b. 1 Sep 1789, Haydock's, Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, Great Britain Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID  F300  Group Sheet
     
  • Event Map
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  • Notes 
    • CHRISTENING DATE: On two separate family group sheets (with Thomas as a child and as a parent), Mr. Anderegg noted his christening date as 1st "22 April 1753" and 2nd "30 April 1753." Since name extraction of records for Over Darwen Lancashire, England identify the date as "22 April 1753," that is the date noted.

      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 
    1. [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.

    2. [S33] Professional Research done by John Anderegg.
      John Anderegg researched and assembled this entire family group. He listed the following sources for the Thomas Waddiker/Alice Bury family:
      1) FHL #087285 (Call number may be #087825), 1851 Census of Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, p. 255, 35 White Hall.
      2) Parish Registers of Blackburn Cathedral, Lancashire; Over Darwen, Lancashire; Altham, Lancashire; Accrington, Lancashire. Received by correspondence.
      3) FHL #560876: Parish Registers of Lower Independent Church, Over Darwen, Lancashire, England. These registers begin in 1752.
      4) FHL #560875: Parish Registers of Pole Lane Independent Church, Over Darwen, Lancashire, England.
      5) FHL #560892: Parish Registers of Wesleyan Methodist Church, Over Darwen, Lancashire, England.
      6) FHL #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 Church of England, Over Darwen, Lancashire, England, personally searched in England.
      9) Computer File Index and Temple Index Bureau.

    3. [S29] Professional Research done by A. Boyd Nielsen.

    4. [S1097] England and Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970.
      FHL film 560876, Item 2, RG 4 1020, p 6, #97

    5. [S1120] Monumental Inscriptions, St. James Parish Church, Lower Chapel Congregation & Holy Trinity, Darwen, Lancashire, England.
      Age 88 upon death.

    6. [S1096] Lancashire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936.
      In Lancashire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1936: Image 128/388
      In Lancashire Anglican Parish Registers, Parish Register, p 160, #479.
      States that he is a weaver and she is a spinster, both of Blackburn Parish. He signs his surname as "Wadicor."

  

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