WANMER - Miscellaneous Records - United Kingdom

The records below are those that do not fit into any of the other pages created to date.


a2a Catalogue

Item Location Creator Detail
Streatfeild Manuscripts (Catalogue Ref. U908) Centre for Kentish Studies Streatfeild family of Chiddingstone, Kent FILE - Britten against Streatfeild, Wanmer and others. In the Court of Excehquer relating to a mortgage of Wanmer family property in Rotherfield, Sussex - ref. U908/L48 - date: 1702

[from scope and content] John Britten, plaintiff, against Edward Streatfeild and his wife, Anne, Thomas Jenkin, Samuel Brewer, Robert Wanmer, James Wanmer, William Fuller and Mary Wanmer, defendants

...Interim report, setting out that the plaintiff had taken a mortgage of property in Rotherfeild, 18th March 1698/9, from Anne Streatfeild; that by deeds of the 21st and 22nd Dec. 1700 she had conveyed the property to trustees, the defendants Jenkin and Brewer to sell it, repay the mortgage and invest the residue for her use; but the other defendants claimed that by a family settlement of 1663, Robert, james and John Wanmer [father of the defendant Mary] sons of Robert Wanmer and his wife Anne [now Streatfeild] had the reversion of the property and that the defendant Fuller had taken a mortgage of their reversion; whereupon it was ordered that an account be taken of what was owing to the plaintiff on his mortgage and the property be conveyed to him as security and the mortgage of the reversion confirmed

Archbishops of Canterbury Archives (Cat. Ref. Aa) Lambeth Palace Library: Archbishop of Canterbury Archives Archbishop of Canterbury

Testamentary record: filed papers for the deaneries of Croydon and Shoreham

FILE - Wanmer, Robert (Chiddingstone, co. Kent); husbandman - ref. VH 96/6641 - date: 14 Jan. 1638

FILE - Wanmer, Robert (Chiddingstone, co. Kent); yeoman - ref. VH 96/6642 - date: 30 May 1683

Archbishops of Canterbury Archives (Cat. Ref. Aa) Lambeth Palace Library: Archbishop of Canterbury Archives Archbishop of Canterbury

Court Records: Testamentary Records: Probate Act Books

FILE - Croydon and Shoreham (A); Index - ref. AA/V/H/98/1 - date: October 1629 - December 1642; item: Wanmer, Robert (Chiddingstone, co. Kent); husbandman - ref. VH 98/1/99 - date: 14 Jan. 1638

FILE - Croydon and Shoreham; Index to 1675 - ref. AA/V/H/98/2 - date: January 1661 - December 1683; item: Wanmer, Robert (Chiddingstone, co. Kent); yeoman - ref. VH 98/2/117V - date: 30 May 1683

Additional Manuscripts, Catalogue A (Cat. Ref. AMSA) East Sussex Record Office East Sussex Record Office, Lewes

Deeds of Bassetts alias Boadles, Sheriffs, and other property in Rotherfield

FILE - Conveyance (Feoffment) - ref. AMS115 - date: 16 December 1667

[from Scope and Content] Tenement called Bassett's with Barn, stall, buildings, gardenst, orchards and close (1a.) in occ. of John and William Coe, 1/2a. by the barn, 6 pieces of arable (24a.) in Rotherfield abutting W. on highway from Adams to Crowborough Common and onlands of John Alchorne, N. on woodlands called Sweet Hawes, E. on woodland called Scotts, S. on highway from Red Bridge to Adams; formerly owned by James Alchorne of Rotherfield deceased, descending thence to son John and the latter's sisters and coheirs, Rose w. of John Jewell, Jane late w. of John Hooper, gent. and Anne w. of Robert Wanmer; property sold to (a) by John and Rose Jewell.
Archbishops of Canterbury Archives (Cat. Ref. Aa) Lambeth Palace Library: Archbishop of Canterbury Archives Archbishop of Canterbury

Court Records: Testamentary Records: Registers of Wills

FILE - Register of Wills: Arches (from 1685) Croydon and Shoreham - ref. AA/V/H/97/2 - date: 1680-1689

item: Robert Wanmer, Yeoman, Chiddingstone, Kent - ref. AA/V/H/97/2/102v - date: 30 May 1683

The Clayton Family of Marden Park, Bletchingley, Godstone and Tandridge: Additional Family & Estate Papers relating to Surrey, London, Kent and Lincolnshire (Cat. Ref. K61) Surrey History Centre Clayton Family

Title Deeds relating to properties in Bletchingley, Burstow, Caterham, Chaldon, Chelsham, Crowhurst, Godstone, Horne, Merstham, Oxted, Tandridge, Warlingham; Worth, Sussex; and Great Marlow, Bucks - ref. K61/2

Horne and Worth, Sussex

FILE: Messuage called Lower Gibs a Ven with another messuage and lands in Horne and Worth: Lease for 1 yr. and release - ref. K61/2/74 - date: 5 & 6 May 1760
[from scope and content] 1. John Wanmore of Otford, Kent, brickmaker

FILE: Messuage called Lower Gibs a Ven with another messuage and lands in Horne and Worth: Deed to lead uses of a fine - ref. K61/2/75 - date: 12 May 1760
[from scope and content] 1. John Ditcher of Lingfield, yeoman, and John Wanmore and Ann, his wife

FILE - Messuage called Lower Gibs a Ven with another messuage and lands in Horne and Worth: 2 indentures of fine - ref. K61/2/76 - date: Trin 33 Geo II (1760)
[from scope and content] 2. John Ditcher, and John and Ann Wanmore, def.


The Proceedings of the Old Bailey

Source: http://www.oldbaileyonline.org

Conducting a search by name, there is one match for WANMER and two for WANMORE:

  • Robert Wanmer, jury member in trial of in John Loppenburg, theft: a specified place, 15th October 1740
  • Solomon Wanmore, defendant in trial of Solomon Wanmore, theft:simple grand larceny, 5th July 1749
  • Solomon Wanmore, mentioned in passing in Punishment summary from The Old Bailey Proceedings, 5th July, 1749

For Solomon WANMORE, the details of his trial are as follows:

Reference: t17490705-45
Crime(s): theft : simple grand larceny,
Punishment Type: transportation, *
(Punishment details may be provided at the end of the trial.)
Verdict: Part Guilty: theft under 1s,
Defendant's Home: St. Matthew, Middlesex

Original Text:
421. Solomon Wanmore , late of St. Matthew, Middlesex, was indicted for stealing ten yards of silk, val. 2 s. the goods of John Harley , May 22d.Guilty 10 d.

* Although punishment is listed as transportation in the original trial summary, a link to the page where the punishment was declared shows the following:

The Trials being ended, the Court proceeded to give Judgment as follows:

Whipped, 6.

George Platt , Ann Williamson , Elizabeth Ward , Solomon Wanmore , John Floyd , and Margaret Maccullar .


West Kent Quarter Sessions

Appointments, July 1758 - July 1788

Surname Forename Place Occupation Year Appointment Replacing Sessions Folio
Whanmer William Eltham Sadler 1772 Constable Wiliam Weeden Apr 28 514

Note that the record shows William Whanmer being replaced as Borsholder in 1773.


The Weald of Kent, Surrey & Sussex

Records for Wanmer surname (http://www.theweald.org/a32.asp?QId=230114130&astart=184999999&aend=999999998)

Name Sex Type Date Parish / Area Source
Susan Welfare [Wanmer] F Born c 1660   Withyham Parish Registers
Anne Wanmer F Born 1822 Pembury, Kent 1881 Census Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Jonathan Wanmer M Born 1830 Pembury, Kent  
Adelaide Wanmer F Born 1833 Hailsham, Sussex  
William Wanmer M Born 1860 Pembury, Kent  
Fanny Wanmer F Born 1862 Tunbridge Wells, Kent  

 

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