Whitehouse Family History Centre

Welcome

A warm welcome to the premier website for Whitehouse genealogy and family history.

Family Trees

This website provides 274 Whitehouse trees attached to 579 registered correspondents. These trees have been referenced, principally to marriage, census and probate files. To find a tree that might be relevant to your family, use these files. Nearly all the registered correspondents are descendants as indicated by an arrow to their correspondent number, but a few are collaterals of descendants or connected through a marriage.

The trees have been drawn up in MS Excel, using a portrait mode and tall tree format, in which the oldest ancestor appears at the left side and descendants in subsequent columns, moving left to right. To keep this exercise within achievable limits, two rules have normally been followed:

1. The tree will not usually descend along female lines. That is to say, if Mary Whitehouse marries John Smith and they have children, the tree will normally merely say "Issue" (whether or not they survived infancy).
2. The tree will not include any Whitehouse with a date of birth of 1902 or later, unless he or she has a brother or sister born before then, in which case the whole generation of siblings is included along with their spouses (regardless of when the spouse was born). Of course, the children of these siblings do not qualify, because they were born after 1902, but, again, issue of the siblings will be mentioned by the word "Issue", if it is known that they had any.

Exceptions have been made to these rules from time to time to include an additional generation, but no modern generations have been included.

Records

Access to records is free and is through the appropriate EXPLANATIONS file listed below, where the links are shown. The brief descriptions given after the links do not do justice to the wealth of material available here, much of which is of better quality than records found elsewhere.

Documents available are dated in the manner yymmdd.

Newsletters

• Previous Newsletters (Back numbers to December 2005)

Searching Tools

• BMD Explanations (Births, marriages and deaths, including General Register Office indexes, the Marriage Details index and parish records)
• CEN Explanations (Indexed transcripts of censuses)
• PROB Explanations (Wills and administrations indexes)
• MISC Explanations (Other records: Apprentices; Birmingham directories & rate books; Catholics; Children's hospital records; Famous Whitehouses; Fire policies; GWR shareholders; Little used sources; Lloyds Bank memo books; London Gazette; Lunatic asylums; Medics; Patentees; Prisoners of War 1795 and 1812-15; Sedgley Manor Rolls; Staffs Boatmen, Staffs Police, Staffs Quarter Sessions Prisoners and Seamen who fought at the battle of Trafalgar)
• TREE Explanations (Links to the Whitehouse trees)
• Church Key (Key to abbreviations of churches used in trees and databases)
• Correspondent Key (This key enables registered correspondents to find the number allotted to their tree; where there is more than one correspondent attached to a tree, the tree number is that of the lowest correspondent number)

Articles

• 1939 Register (An updated and expanded version of my paper published in The Midland Ancestor, Vol. 18, No. 5, March 2016, explaining the Register)
• Biological Clock (Article by Ruth Symes about childbirth and related women's subjects in the Victorian era)
• Frequency (Paper about the frequency of occurrence of the Whitehouse name)
• Lloyds Bank (Article about the origins of the bank and the managers' memo books)
• Marriage Mining West Midlands (Paper about how to find marriages in church registers, especially in the West Midlands, including links to the Loach tables)
• Marriage Mining Nottingham (Paper about finding marriages in Basford and Nottingham Registration Districts)
• Marriage Mining South Yorkshire (Paper about how to find marriages in church registers, especially in the Sheffield area)
• Origins of Name (Short paper about the origins and early occurrences of the Whitehouse name)
• Ten Year Review (Article published in Journal of One-name Studies, Jan-Mar 2012, providing a review of the progress of the WFHC since October 2001)
• West Midlands Town Code (Paper about a 2-letter code for the names of towns and the larger villages in the West Midlands)