Charles George Whapshare married Mary Ann (Polly) Barrett at Alderbury in 1873. This in itself was a little strange as Charles' mother Sarah Whapshare had married Mary's father Thomas Barrett. So Charles and Mary were step brother and sister, both were about 22 when married and Charles father had died before he was 11. They probably knew each other very well.
One of their children was Herbert who married Martha Mary Kate Box, a very formidable lady who die in 1969. However this again is a complex tale as Martha's mother Kate had married William Box for whom she had been housekeeper and they had been blessed with Martha. However Kate (nee Wingrove) had been married to James Whapshare who was the brother of Charles George and as the family were still in touch she introduced her daughter to one of Charles George's sons, Herbert. They were married in 1918.
Herbert and the youngest brother George ran the bakery with their De Dion Bouton.
Another brother Alfred had married Ethel Penrose in Cornwall when he was 21 and they had several children. The stange part is that none of his nieces now living have any knowledge of this and I wonder who did know. The marriage went very wrong and he seems to have left Ethel and gone to fight in ww1. When he returned to Salisbury he met Marjory Horsey, they married in 1924 and settled down in the New Forrest taking on the Three Lions pub in Stuckton.
The two eldest brothers, Charles and Edwin both sold insurance until Edwin became a carpenter in ww1. The only sister Amy died in 1956 when she was 73, she married Bert Lanham.
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I believe I am related to Robert Wapshat, the helier who married Sweetman.
My Father did a tree which goes back to the Wapshott's of 1580 (Richard).
Do you know who could have the missing links between Those Wapshott's and the Reginald Wapshott (871 - 901) alive around the time of King Alfred.
Regards,
Nathaniel Wapshere.
So far we have drawn a blank on the Wapsheres but I feel sure that something will turn up.
Chester Whapshare
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