Middlemore Family Genealogy

Hawkesley Family

58. Richard Middlemore, of Hawkesley, yeoman and gentleman, was baptized at Northfield parish church, 16 August, 1727, died 14, buried 20 August, 1804, at King's Norton, of which he was for some years a churchwarden. On 19 January, 1803, he conveyed Hawkesley for £915 to his son Richard Middlemore the younger, then of Manchester.

Middlemore Christian Names.-In the year 1803 there were living at least seven, perhaps eight, Richard Middlemores, viz.:

  1. Richard Middlemore (58), of Hawkesley, who died in 1804.
  2. Richard Middlemore (59), of Hawkesley, his son, who died in 183 1.
  3. Richard Middlemore, son of William (60), of Westheath, born 1801, died 1823.

  4. Richard Middlemore, son of Robert (62), of Walsall, born 1796, died 1840.
  5. Richard Middlemore (67), of Birmingham, -born x778, died 1841.
  6. Richard Middlemore (71), of Walsall, born 1731, died 1803.

    7. The preceding six were of the Hawkesley and Birmingham lines.

  7. Richard Middlemore, of Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, born 1782', died 1840,

    8. and perhaps also

  8. Richard Middlemore, son of William, of Thursby, Cumberland.

At the present time it does not appear that this once favoured Christian name is borne by any Middlemore.

Thirty years later, 1833, there were also living at least six William Middlemores, viz.:

  1. William Middlemore (60), of West Heath, born 1766, died 1834.
  2. William Middlemore, of Walsall, son of Robert (61), born 1800, died 1884.
  3. William Middlemore (68), of Birmingham, born 1802, died 1887.

    4. The preceding three were of the Hawkesley line.

  4. William Middlemore; - of, Minchinhampton, Gloucestershire, born 1826.
  5. William Middlemore, of Thursby, Cumberland, died 1850.
  6. William Middlemore; of Carlisle; born 1833, died 1885.

Of the 27 births of boys recorded by the Registrar-General, 1837-95, to 5 was given the name William, 4 were called John, and the names of Robert; Samuel and Thomas,-each appear three times. The remaining 9 infants divided the following seven names between them: Alfred, 1, Daniel, 1, James, 2, Jude, 1, Lewis, 1, Peter, 2, Richard 1. A total variety of 12 names.

Of those 32 who deceased in this period, there were but 11 names, borne as follows, William, 7, John, 6, Richard, 6, Robert, 4, Jude, 2, Thomas, 2, and Daniel, George, James, Samuel and Peter, 1 each.

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Will, as of Hawkesley, yeoman, 14 July, 1804, was proved at Worcester, 26 June, 1823, and also at Lichfield; his two. closes called "Good Apes" in Wrednall Yield to son William, to secure annuities of £5 each to daughters Sarah, wife of Joseph Tabberner, and Mary, wife of John Middlemore (66) ; also names his grandchildren, Richard Middlemore; son of Mary Middlemore ; Joseph, son of Sarah Tabberner ; Richard Middlemore, son of his son, Robert Middlemore ; Thomas, son of his late daughter, Ann Cottrell ; Thomas, son of my said son William ; Richard, second son of his son, William Middlemore. Residue to grandson, Richard Middlemore, second son of his son William ; son, William Middlemore, executor.

He married Martha Palmer, spinster, 16 February, 1750, at St. Philip's, Birmingham, he being then of Bromsgrove, husbandman, aged twenty-three, and she of St. Philip's, Birmingham, spinster " aged twenty-two " ; age probably wrong, as the age at death shows 1723 as her birth instead of 1728. She died 15 April, buried 20 April, 1807, aged eighty-two, and was buried at King's Norton.

Richard Middlemore [12]and Martha Palmer had issue:

  1. John Middlemore, baptized at King's Norton, 29 December 1752 It seems probable that the entry in King's Norton church, "bur. 2 May 1807," refers to him; if so he must have been either nearly seven months old at baptism, or else died aged fifty-four i.e., in his fifty-fifth year. The family -bible states, April the 27, 1807, John  Middlemore died, aged fifty-five, and buried 2 May, "in the church by his father."

    2. It may be assumed that his mother, Mrs. Middlemore, continued to reside at Hawkesley after her husband's death, and as her eldest son thus survived her only a few weeks, he perhaps never became "of Hawkesley."

  2. Richard Middlemore, of Hawkesley, of whom next (59).
  3. William Middlemore, of whom hereafter (60).
  4. Robert Middlemore, of Walsall, of whom hereafter (61).
  5. Sarah, baptized at King's Norton, 3 January, 1755, married at St. Martin's, Birmingham, 1 August, 1783, Joseph Tabberner, of that parish.
  6. Ann or Nancy, baptized at King's Norton, 22 January, 1762, married there, 3 June, 1790, to John Cottrell, 0f Knowle. She died before 14 July, 1804, leaving issue.
  7. Mary, married her second cousin, John Middlemore (66), of Stratford-on-Avon, from whom descend the Birmingham Middlemores, of whom hereafter.