WAPSHARE FAMILY HISTORY

 

 

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WAPSHARE FAMILY FROM DUNWOOD MANOR, ROMSEY

Two separate Wapshare families lived in Salisbury, Wiltshire in the late eighteenth century. Both were originally Wapshotts. One family came from Dunwood Manor near Wellow, Romsey, Hampshire. This family was well educated and only stayed for a generation or so in Salisbury, one of them, William Henry went to India to make his fortune like Clive and Hastings before him.
Details of the study of this family can be found within the pages of this site. see Site Map for quick reference to individuals.
 So far most of this site is devoted to this family as I want to publish the information that I have personally collected in England and India over the past ten years while it is fresh in my mind. The Wapshare name here almost ceased to be passed on but luckily some of those family members returned from India to Britain.
          This Salisbury family begins with William who was born about 1715 - ‘of Eastrop’

Only a few of this family have survived with the Wapshare name, the rest of us from the next.

WAPSHARE FAMILY FROM WINDSOR, BERKSHIRE

            

 

 

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Family One       WAPSHARE FAMILY FROM DUNWOOD MANOR, ROMSEY

CLICK ON WILLIAM

Two separate Wapshare families lived in Salisbury, Wiltshire in the late eighteenth century. Both were originally Wapshotts. One family came from Dunwood Manor near Wellow, Romsey, Hampshire. This family was well educated and only stayed for a generation or so in Salisbury but one of them, William Henry, went to India to make a new life for himself in the Raj having been orphaned at a young age.
Details of the study of this family can be found within the pages of this site. see Site Map for quick reference to individuals.
 Most of this site is devoted to this family and contains information that I have collected in England and India following many conversations with Bea Wapshare in the Nilgaris Hills. It was Martin Vincent in early 1980s who published his Wapshott study and I have tried to continue with all of the Wapshare section.  However this website concentrates on the first family who were more interesting and illusive.
          This first Salisbury family begins with William who was born about 1715 - ‘of Eastrop’

Only a few Wapshares of this family have survived,

                                                           the majority of Wapshares are from the second family :-

Family Two           WAPSHARE FAMILY FROM WINDSOR, BERKSHIRE

CLICK ON RICHARD

               The other family was not so well educated and came from Windsor Berkshire They were Wapshotts when they arrived and their family name changed to Wapshare after one generation, probably being influenced by the name of the Romsey family. This family lived in Salisbury through all of the generations and also spread to London, Liverpool, Scotland and then to North America and Australia. (see foot of page). The tree begins with the page about Richard and his family who probably came down from Windsor to live in Salisbury where Surhanna was born in 1666. There was a continuous Wapshare family in Salisbury until 2012. Only one page  is devoted to his family but the tree is recorded on line..

                    This Family Tree can best be found at http://wapshare.pgvhosting.com 

                               

     Martin Vincent made a study of Wapshott’s (including Wapshares) in the 1980s. Some of his       pages concerning this family pages on this family from Windsor have been copied to the link    

Martin Vincent ,you might find your ancestors in these pages.

   WAPSHOTT  and its ORIGIN.

According to the study by Martin Vincent, Wapshott is an English name that was originally limited to one family. The name comes from an association with a place in Surrey.                                                              Wop was a Saxon word meaning weeping (as in willow) and Shott was an uncultivated piece of land.

  ‘The Times’ on the 1st August 1828, provided an article which gave some insight into the family .

‘’In the parish of Thorpe, between Chertsey and Egham, resides the Wapshot family, the most ancient, perhaps, in Europe, though by no means the most conspicuous. While the revolutions in human affairs have elevated some, and sunk others into obscurity through all the vicissitudes of this life, the peaceful family of Wapshot has continued to cultivate the same spot of earth, from generation to generation, ever since the reign of King Alfred, by whom the farm in which they lived was granted to Reginald Wapshot their ancestor. This family never experienced any elevation, and its humility is such as to have exempted it from danger or depression. The storms which swept away such multitudes during the contests of York and Lancaster, passed harmless over their obscure dwelling. The Saxon, Danish and Norman conquests affected them not; and every king, from Alfred to George IV, inclusive, might see the same space of a few acres freely yielding its produce to the laborious hands of a Wapshot.’’

 

Unless your family came from India, your Wapshare family origin was probably from the‘Windsor‘ side                and of these families......

William (b 1741 and number 45 on pgv) and Mary’s family stayed in Salisbury and became Whapshare with an ‘h’.

Henry (b1763 and number 26 on pgv) and Elizabeth’s family went to London and some then overseas to New Jersey and the USA, this name unchanged as Wapshare.

William (b 1772 and number 27 on pgv)) and Mary’s family moved to Liverpool and became Wapshaw. Some moved on to Australia and Canada.