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The WATERTONS have a special place in my family history:  they, with the SUTHERLANDS, were the only group where I knew any number of them:  also, I have found (or they have found me), more descendents of earlier generations than with any other family.   My thanks to Peter Raven, Frances Kerner and others now too numerous to list, for their input to the overall picture.

We have formed an informal Email group, where we circulate the results of our research to all the other members:  all with a bona fide interest in the name are invited to Email me for further details.   We have also recently had a Sunday get-together at which 25 direct descendents, most of whom had not met before, attended.

For sometime, it looked as if the WATERTONS had been in the Berkhamsted/Tring area of Hertfordshire for many generations, but recent discoveries have taken them over the Buckinghamshire border into Ashley Green, Chesham before 1800.   Where they came from before 1700 is still unknown, but we have earler names without any reliable source for their roots.  It seems that the Chesham area was a magnet for Methodists, Baptists and other non-conformists, and some connections with these churches have been found

We know that there were other Waterton families in St. Albans, Herts, Caddington and Studham Bedfordshire, in Yorkshire in the Wakefield area, in Lincolshire and in Norfolk.  If you are connected with these families, and have any mystery people who may have wandered to Hertfordshire, please Email me.

Spelling variations include Walterton Worterton, and Watterton:  mis-hearing or illiteracy has also given rise to Worton, Wharton, and several others.

We have been so successful in tracing family connections, in many cases down to the present day, that they can not all be shown in a single Table - in fact, some later generations shown on earlier pages have had to be taken out for space reasons.  The earliest generations traced look like this: the numbers in front of names are generations to help in lioning them up correctly: links are in white

1.Edward WATERTON died Ashley Green 1712
     2.Thomas WATERTON of Ashley Green b pre1680 d1729 m Elizabeth nee? (d1728)
          3.Edward d1732
          3.John d1733
          3. Thomas WATERTON b1700 =  ?Alice DODD d1735)
               4.  Thomas WATERTON b1732
               m (1) Elizabeth ??
                    5.John WATERTON b 1753 marr Hannah TIMBERLAKE
                    5.Charles WATERTON b1756 marr Elizabeth HIPPOL
                         6. 8 known children, descent from several known.
               m(2)1771 Susannah FENSOM*
                    5.William bpt1772 Gt Berkhampsted m Ann PANNARDS/INNARDS?
                         6. 13 knmown children, much descent information known
                    5.Thomas b1782 Gt Berkhampsted = Ann TURVEY*
                         6.Thomas b1806 (presumably died soon, see next line)
                         6.Thomas b1809 Berkhampsted m Sarah MILLS
 
                         6.Charles b1812 = Elizabeth SIMMONDS
                              7. 3 known children, some descent information on file
                         6. Catherine b1814 Berkhampsted
                         6. Joseph  b1815 Frithsden = Lydia BISHOP  [FK1]
                             7. 8 known children, some descent information held
                         6. Mary Ann b1819 Frithsden d1890
                         6. Mark b1822 Frithsden = Ellen KINGHAM
                              7. 4 known children, descent information held
                          6. George b1824 Frithsden = Hannah FOWLER*
                              7. 6 known children, some descent information held (including my own line)
                          6.Frederick bapt1828 Berkhampsted
                          6.Alfred b1833 Frithsden m Martha FOSKETT
                   5.Abraham bapt1784 Gt Berkhampsted.
           4.John b1733
      3.Susanna WATERTON b bef1713 m .... BALDWYNNE
      3.Elizabeth WATERTON bc1700 = John WARE
      3.Sarah WATERTON

Notes.
My ancestors underlined.
Letters in [-] indicate that details of later generations are known.
*Details of these spouses can be found on the Other Families page.
If you can add to or correct anything above, would like details of later generations, think you may be connected, or just want a chat, pleaseEmail me

Local History.
I knew the area well in the 1940-1950s, and have some information about local history:  Email me
I also have the 1851 Census Index for Berkhamstead in which I am willing to do limited look-ups.
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E-mail address: [email protected]

Last Updated 28.4.2001