This web site records the history of a MITCHELMORE family which has lived in Dartmouth, South Devon, since the early 1800s. They can be traced back to a John MUCHAMORE who married and established a family in 1796 in Churchstow, a village about 25 km away near Kingsbridge. Although some of the family remain in Dartmouth and the neighbouring areas of Brixham and Torbay, most are now dispersed all over the country and indeed the world.
The family name has been spelt in many ways, gradually changing from MUCHAMORE
to MITCHELMORE by the mid-1800s. (Further details on the spelling of the MITCHELMORE surname and its meaning
are available elsewhere.) The convention has been adopted on this site
of spelling each person's surname in the first available
form¾usually the one on their baptismal or birth
record. Also, where more than one person has the same first name
or names, they are distinguished by numbers in brackets.
Information reported here has come from church and civil registers, censuses, wills, newspaper reports, various other documents, and oral history. Details of sources are available on request.
For privacy reasons, vital statistics are given only for persons known to be deceased¾except where living persons have given their explicit consent. Further details may be available to bona fide enquirers on request. Please contact the compiler if you have any more information to share about anyone in this family history.
This site has been compiled by Michael Mitchelmore. I am grateful
to have had the generous assistance of the late Bob Muchamore
and a number of contributors to the MITCHELMORE-UK and ENG-DEV-SOUTHAMS mailing lists in uncovering or confirming
details. Thanks also to Personal Ancestral File
for providing the database software and Geocities for
hosting this website.