A Dartmouth MITCHELMORE family

Second Generation

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2.2 Mary MUCHAMORE (John (2) ) was christened on 10 Feb 1799 in Churchstow and died in Brixham in 1877.

After she married her husband, Mary moved to Slapton but then settled in Brixham.

Mary married John NUTE on 4 Apr 1832 in South Milton. John was born in Kingsbridge about 1799 and died in Brixham in 1870.

In 1841, John was a miller working at Dearbridge Mill, Slapton. But then he took up farming and moved to Brixham, where he was recorded as farming 40 acres at Brookhill Farm in 1851 and 440 acres at Brownston Farm in 1861.

Mary and John had two children:

	3.1	F	i	Elizabeth Jane NUTE was born in 1836 in Stokenham, Devon. She lived with her parents until at least 1861.
+	3.2	M	ii	John Francis NUTE was born in 1838 in Slapton, Devon, and died in Exeter in 1910.

2.5 John (1) MICHELMORE (John (2) ) was christened on 31 May 1807 in Churchstow, Devon, and died on 14 or 15 Feb 1872 in Dartmouth, Devon.

John was brought up in Churchstow, where he became a labourer. He moved to Dartmouth, a flourishing port about 25 km away, shortly after he had married Harriett and they had had their first child. There he became a malster and by 1844 owner and keeper of the Custom House Inn in Lower Street (about 150 metres to the east of the Custom House on Bayards Cove). He was also a wrestler and a bell ringer. After his retirement some time before 1861, he sold the Custom House Inn and two other properties he owned on Lower Street to the Dartmouth Corporation for a total of £750 (to allow for the widening of Newcomin Road), and the Custom House Inn was demolished soon afterwards. John retired to a cottage in Croter's Hill [now Crowther's Hill], Dartmouth.

An announcement in the Dartmouth Chronicle of 16 Feb 1872 stated that John had died on 14 Feb, although his death certificate gives the date as 15 Feb. His will (which was probated on 19 Mar 1872 at Exeter, also giving the date of death as 15 Feb) shows that he owned effects "under £1000, Including Leaseholds". After a few small bequests he divided the remainder of his estate in equal shares between his five children, being very particular to provide that the money left to his daughters should not be accessible to their husbands. He was also very particular about how he would be buried, and he left £1 to pay for a knell (nine tolls of the tenor bell plus one for every day of his life) to be rung on the day of his funeral instead of the passing bell which would have been rung while he lay dying. The Dartmouth Chronicle reported that the knell was duly rung on 21 Feb.   

Custom House Inn, Lower Street, Dartmouth (the house with the hanging sign), about 1860
Reproduced by permission of the Dartmouth Museum

John had a casual relationship with Mary CROCKER alias FITZWATER of the neighbouring parish of West Alvington in 1829. Mary was herself illegitimate, having been born on 22 Mar 1807 to Jane FITZWATER. John and Mary had one child:

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Charlotte Mary CROCKER was born on 3 Nov 1829 in West Alvington, Devon. She was christened on 22 Nov 1829 in West Alvington.

On 19 Dec 1829, a bastardy order was made by the justices of West Alvington against John which required him to pay 11s 6d towards birth expenses, £1 12s 6d costs, and 12 s for the past maintenance of the child, plus 1s 6d per week as long as the child was a charge on the parish.

John married Harriet HOSKING on 17 Apr 1832 in Modbury. Harriet was born about 1811 in Modbury and died in 1860 in Dartmouth. John and Harriet had the following children:

+	3.4	F	ii	Harriett MITCHELMORE was christened on 30 Sep 1832 in Churchstow and died in 1895 in Dartmouth.
+	3.5	M	iii	William Henry (1) MITCHIMORE was christened on 18 May 1834 in Dartmouth and died there on 10 Mar 1881.
	3.6	M	iv	George Henry Morrish MITCHELMORE was born in Dartmouth and christened on 15 Jan 1836. "Morrish" was clearly a corruption of Morris, his mother's maiden name. George died on 20 Dec 1856 at sea. He was a mate of a merchant vessel at the time, but the circumstances of his death are not known.
+	3.7	F	v	Anne Elizabeth MICHELMORE was born on 6 Aug 1837 in Dartmouth.
+	3.8	M	vi	Nathaniel MICHAMORE was born on 9 Jun 1839 in Dartmouth and died there on 3 Apr 1897.
	3.9	F	vii	Patience MITCHELMORE was born in 1845 in Dartmouth.  She married William ALLEN, son of licensed victualler John ALLEN, on 2 Nov 1864  in Dartmouth. William, a ship's corporal and carpenter, was born in 1836 in Newark, Nottinghamshire, and died in Dartmouth in 1884. In 1871, Patience and William were living with Patience's father in Breeze Cottage, Above Town, Dartmouth. In 1881, they were living in Croter's Hill. After her husband died, Patience continued living in the same house, supporting herself by taking in lodgers. She died some time between 1891 and 1901.
	3.10	M	viii	Charles Francis MITCHELMORE was born in 1850 in Dartmouth and died there in 1858.

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