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David Whiting in the England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Name: David Whiting
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 1 Feb 1819
Baptism Date: 28 Feb 1819
Baptism Place: Suffolk County Bts,Suffolk,England
Father: David Whiting
Mother: Sarah
FHL Film Number: 951466
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David Whiting 1793-1876
Parents: Daniel Whiting and Elizabeth Hilsdon (1)
Born: 1793 in Haverhill. (1)
Baptised: 12th June 1808 at St Mary's Parish Church, Haverhill. (1)
Married: Sarah Ragg on 11th June 1815 at St Werburgh's Church, Derby.(2)
Children: Thomas Whiting b.1816, David Whiting b.1819, Lydia Whiting b.1822 died in infancy, Henry Whiting b.1825, George Whiting b.1827 died in infancy, George Whiting b.1830 and Eliza Whiting b.1837
Died: April 1876. Buried on 6th April 1876 at Haverhill Cemetery.(3,4)
Bio: David Whiting was my great great great great grandfather. The exact date of David's birth is not known, but by looking at the orginal parish registers I can confirm the year entered as being 1793. When he was baptised as a teenager in 1808, he was living in Burton End, Haverhill.
With the onset of the Napoleonic Wars, the Suffolk Militia was embodied at Bury St Edmunds on 16th March 1803(7). Five years later, we find David Whiting as a private in the 5th company of the Risbridge local militia commanded by Lt Col Edward William Mathew (6). It seems the Risbridge local militia became the 1st Regiment of the West Suffolk Militia in december 1808, having previously been the Risbridge Volunteers. They were assembled for training at Bury St Edmunds from 15th May to 13th June 1809. David was paid 1 shilling per day during this time. He appears the following year as a drummer, earning an extra 1 and 3/4 d for this role. Reverting to private in 1811, in the same company, he carried on at this rank. On the 1813 Pay roll he is noted as having enlisted in the Cambridgeshire Militia.
Because David's wife Sarah was listed on the 1841 census as being born in a different county, and on the 1851 census her birthplace is given as Matlock, Derbyshire, the question of how these two came to meet was something of a mystery.
The answer came in the form of St Werburgh's church registers in Derby. Here 'David Whiteing, a soldier in the cambridgeshire militia' marries Sarah Ragg on 11th June 1815.(2)
The GRO birth entry for Eliza Whiting in 1837 confirms Sarah Whiting's maiden name as 'Rag', and the evidence of Sarah's surname and origins in Derby is too compelling to ignore when trying to match the individuals in the marriage record with David and Sarah Whiting of Haverhill. It would be nice to find something in the Militia records that links David directly to Haverhill, but the fact that his march to Bury St Edmunds whilst in the Risbridge Militia was 20 miles and this is also the distance to Haverhill could be added to the weight of evidence along with the fact that he is the only David Whiting I have been able to trace in the Risbridge district from around this time.
We can see from St Werburgh's registers that two other soldiers from the Cambridgeshire Militia married Derby girls near this time in 1815; John Stone married Mary Brown on 9th January, and William Basham married Anne Kirkland on 21st February.(2) Believe it or not we find William, who was David's age, living several doors down from him in Burton End, Haverhill with Anne and their children on the 1841 census. It is not hard to imagine that with their shared past they were friends, and who knows, maybe 25 years previously the two Militia lads had been on a night out in Derby and hooked up with Sarah and Anne who had also been companions.
From the muster rolls of the Cambridgeshire Militia(5) we can see that they were stationed in Derby from 28th March 1815 to 12th June 1815 when they marched to Nottingham. David is mentioned on the rolls for June 1813 as being amongst recruits for the Militia (he left the Risbridge Militia around this time as we saw earlier), and it is possible he then went to Ireland with them later that year. David is present with the militia under the command of Colonel Pemberton on the muster rolls for 25th December 1815 to 24th January 1816. He was one of 489 privates effective for this period and was receiving 1 shilling per day for his services.(5)
After the Napoleonic threat had subsided, the Cambridgeshire Militia were disembodied at Ely on 28th November 1816.
At the time of his son Thomas' baptism in 14th July 1816, David's occupation is listed as labourer - His status in the militia was not necessarily viewed as an occupation, and as the militia was nearing the process of disbandment he was probably already back in Haverhill.
By 1841, David was living in Burton End with Sarah and children David, Henry, George, Eliza and mother Elizabeth. He is working as a labourer.
On the next census, in 1851, David is still in Burton End with his wife Sarah and children George and Eliza. His mother has since died. He is living nextdoor to his brother Daniel Whiting. For the 1861 census, David is still in Burton End, and son George is still living with him and Sarah. He is still working as an agricultural labourer.
In 1869, David's wife Sarah dies and is buried in Haverhill Cemetery.
The last census David appears on is in 1871. He is still head of the household in Burton End, however he is now a widower and retired agricultural labourer and his son George has a wife, Sarah, and family living with them.
David died at the age of 83 in April 1876 and was also buried in Haverhill Cemetery. The gravesite was not a purchased plot, and so no grave-marker remains.
Sources: (1) Suffolk Records Office, Bury St Edmunds, Parish Registers of St Mary's Church, Haverhill. Fiche 578/4
(2) The Phillimore Parish Registers, Derbyshire Parish Registers, Marriages - vol 10, Marriages at St Werburgh's, Derby, 1558-1837, p128
(3) Haverhill Cemetery, Ref. 624. http://www.haverhill-uk.com/pages/burial-records-137.htm
(4) Death Register. 2nd Quarter 1876, Risbridge District, Volume 4a Page 267
(5) National Archives. Militia Great Britain (Supplementary and miscellaneous), Cambridge, 1798-1815, WO13/2479
(6) National Archives. Militia and Volunteers Muster Rolls and Pay Lists, Suffolk 1st West, 1808-1816, WO13/3618
(7) The Foxearth and District Local History Society, 1803-05 Bury and Norwich Post Newspaper Archive, http://www.foxearth.org.uk/1803-1805BuryNorwichPost.html
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1825
Henry Whiting in the England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975
Name: Henry Whiting
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 7 Jan 1825
Baptism Date: 14 Mar 1825
Baptism Place: Haverhill,Suffolk,England
Father: David Whiting
Mother: Sarah
FHL Film Number: 989539
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Original data: England, Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
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1841
David Whiting in the 1841 England Census
Name: David Whiting
Age: 45
Estimated birth year: abt 1796
Gender: Male
Where born: Suffolk, England
Civil Parish: Haverhill
Hundred: Risbridge
County/Island: Suffolk
Country: England
Street address:
Occupation:
Registration district: Risbridge
Sub-registration district: Haverhill
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Piece: 1032
Book: 13
Folio: 41
Page Number: 35
Household Members:
Name Age
David Whiting 45
Sarah Whiting 45
David Whiting 20
Henry Whiting 15
George Whiting 11
Eliza Whiting 3
Elizabeth Whiting 85
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Class: HO107; Piece: 1032; Book: 13; Civil Parish: Haverhill; County: Suffolk; Enumeration District: 2; Folio: 41; Page: 35; Line: 13; GSU roll: 474641
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1851
David Whiting in the 1851 England Census
Name: David Whiting
Age: 58
Estimated birth year: abt 1793
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Sarah Whiting
Gender: Male
Where born: Haverhill, Suffolk, England
Civil Parish: Haverhill
Ecclesiastical parish: Ely
Town: Haverhill
County/Island: Essex
Country: England
Street address:
Occupation:
Condition as to marriage:
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Registration district: Risbridge
Sub-registration district: Haverhill
ED, institution, or vessel: 4b
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Household schedule number: 238
Piece: 1787
Folio: 138
Page Number: 60
Household Members:
Name Age
David Whiting 58
Sarah Whiting 56
George Whiting 21
Eliza Whiting 13
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Class: HO107; Piece: 1787; Folio: 138; Page: 60; GSU roll: 207436
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