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Walter NORTHMORE
1787 - 1868 (~ 80 years)
Has 14 ancestors and 17 descendants in this family tree.
Set As Default Person 
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Name Walter NORTHMORE Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Baptised Oct 1787 St. Leonard’s Church, Sheepstor, Devon, England 
- A tree on Ancestry shows this year for the bapt of Walter.
DP info has a bapt for a child of Walter and Betty in Oct 1787 so I guess this was Walter.
Gender Male Occupation From 1812 to 1818 St. Leonard’s Church, Sheepstor, Devon, England Yeoman - At the time of his marriage.
Shown as husbandman when his son George was baptised (1818), back to yeoman when son John baptised (1821)
Poor Law 27 Apr 1830 St. Andrew’s Parish, Plymouth, Devon, England Removal Order - The overseers of St. Andrew's Parish in Plymouth got an order for the removal of Walter and his family, to be removed to Sheepstor where they had a legal right of settlement.
I understand that removal orders could be a precaution, obtained when it looked like a person or family might need support from a parish. Whether or not Walter and his family were returned to Sheepstor in 1830, they were clearly back in the Plymouth area by 1841, and he appears to have spent the rest of his life in the Plympton / Eggbuckland area.
Residence 1841 No. 6, Hill Street, Charles, Plymouth, Devon, England - Walter & Maria Northmore were with 3 teenagers, probably their children: John (15), Richard (15) and Eliza (14) - all but Maria shown as labourers
A number of other households were living in this same house; it is quite likely they were not related to Walter or Maria but in case of links they are listed below:
elderly couple Abraham (74) and Ann (66) Stumbles;
Jane Bottyman (25) and 3 Bootyman children (5, 3, 8mths)
Sarah Distin (35, widow - crossed out but probably because not relevant to what was wanted, not because wrong) with 2 year old Joseph;
independant woman Louisa Pink (40);
Ann Hingston (30) with 2 young children (William, 3 and Alfred, 8 mths)
(In a city like Plymouth the women with young children may well have had husbands at sea)
Occupation 1851 Plympton, Devon, England Ag lab - From the census
Residence 1861 Leigham Lodge, Eggbuckland, Devon, England - Walter and Maria were still living in a house by themselves and with no one else in the household
(next census entry was Long Bridge, and the other side of that Leigham Mills; the other side in the census were 2 grander houses, both employing a number of servants - Leigham Vaim(?) and then Leigham House)
Occupation 1861 Eggbuckland, Devon, England Jobbing labourer - Living in Egg Buckland, I guess this is where Walter was working
Died 6 Sep 1868 Plympton Reg Dist, Devon, England - GRO ref: Northmore, Walter, aged 89, q3 1868 Plympton 5b 157
Actual date from gravestone
Aged 52 at the time of the 1841 census Walter's age had been rounded up to 55 rather than down to 50 - a not uncommon mistake. But he was shown as age 67 in the 1851 census so may have thought his age a little more than it was (or I have it wrong - or there was another Walter born in Sheepstor, c 1783, that I haven't yet found). In the ten years to the next census Walter aged 15 years and was recorded as 82 (in 1861). He then aged at the usual rate, being recorded as aged 89 when he died 7 years later.
Buried St. Edward’s Church, Eggbuckland, Devon, England - From "Eggbuckland Church gravstones", by J. Barber, quoted in Northmore Newsletter No. 7, p.15
"Northmore Maria, 13 September 1866 aged 73.
'Erected in memory of a beloved parent by her son Richard'
Northmore Walter, husband of above, died 6th September 1898"
[ I think the year should be 1868 not 98, probably mis-transcribed; I believe the age should be 80 not 89, but might well say 89 as it does in the death registration and is inaccurate in censuses. ]
Siblings4 brothers and 3 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch 
William NARRAMORE, d. Yes, date unknown (4 x Great Grandfather)
Martha GILES, b. Abt 1728, bur. 3 Sep 1799, Walkhampton Church, Walkhampton, Devon, England (Age ~ 71 years) (Grandmother) Notes - There is an address in the diary of Walter's bachelor brother John Northmore of a Mr Walter Northmore, probably this one - No. 15 Belmont Street, Plymouth (address from extracts of diary published in Northmore Newsletter)
Person ID I11299 All Last Modified 17 Sep 2015
Father Walter NORTHMORE, bap. 15 Jun 1760, St. Leonard’s Church, Sheepstor, Devon, England , d. 21 Mar 1843 (Age ~ 82 years) Mother Betty GILES, bap. 28 Jun 1759, Walkhampton Church, Walkhampton, Devon, England , d. 21 Jan 1841 (Age ~ 81 years) Marriage License 17 Aug 1785 - "Walter Northmore of Sheepstor and Betty Giles of Walkhampton spinster" (from Fursden index of marriage licences, Northmore Newsletter, no. 8, p.41)
Married 31 Aug 1785 Walkhampton Church, Walkhampton, Devon, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 26 Sep 2012):
"Walter Northmore of the Parish of Sheepstor Farmer and Betty Giles Spinster of this Parish were Married in this Church by Licence this thirty first Day of August in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty five by me Robert Hughes
This Marriage was solemnized between Us { Walter Northmore, Betty Giles [both signed]
In the Presence of John Atwill Giles, William Worth [both signed]"
Family ID F5174 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family 1 Sarah GILBERT, bap. 1 Aug 1787, St. Leonard’s Church, Sheepstor, Devon, England , d. Yes, date unknown Poor Law 15 Oct 1805 Sheepstor, Devon, England Bastardy Examination - In 1805 Walter Northmore "junior", labourer of Sheepstor, was named as the father of Sarah Gilberd's bastard child in a Bastardy Examination at Sheepstor (on 15th Oct.). I think it must be this Walter.
The Examination was before the child was born; there does not seem to have been a baptism of a child of Sarah's at Sheepstor; either it was elsewhere or Sarah may have lost the pregnancy.
I guess Sarah was the Sarah Gilbert baptised in Sheepstor on 1 Aug 1787 (i.e. the same age as Walter), who was herself illegitimate, and had a sister Mary born 1791, also illegitimate.
Married? Not married or evidence to suggest they didn't marry Last Modified 19 Sep 2013 Family ID F5233 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family 2 Maria SELLECK, b. Abt 1793, Shaugh Prior, Devon, England , d. 13 Sep 1866, Plympton Reg Dist, Devon, England (Age ~ 73 years) Married 10 Jan 1812 St. Edward King and Martyr’s Church, Shaugh Prior, Devon, England - From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 27 Sep 2012, register no. 202):
"Banns of Marriage between Walter Northmore and Maria Selleck were Published the 8 and the 15 and 22 days of December in the year 1811
the said Walter Northmore of the Parish of Sheepstor yeoman and the said Maria Selleck of this Parish Spinster were Married in this Church by Banns this tenth Day of January in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twelve by me Saml. W. Pearse Minster
This Marriage was solemnized between Us { Walter Northmore, Maria Selleck [both signed]
In the Presence of George Selleck, William Selleck [both signed]"
Children7 children Last Modified 24 Oct 2012 Family ID F5176 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- A tree on Ancestry shows this year for the bapt of Walter.