Thomas Alfred Warsap
1872-1925 (right) and friend

The Indian Mutiny

Private Thomas Warsap (1837-1910) served with 13th Light Dragoon Guards and Military Train from 1855 to 1867

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Nov 2004 - Fascinating email from Helen at the Snake Valley & District Historical Society, Victoria, Australia.... relating to the death of Henry Robert Warsap who emigrated to Australia around 1853...

The inquest found that "Henry commited suicide at Snake Valley near Carngham on the 31st May 1864 by hanging himself by the neck in his own house with a rope to a piece of quartering used as a stay. The jury found no evidence that he was insane at the time of committing the act."
The statement of his wife Ann gave the following information - Her huusband was 39 years of age, native of Boston, Lincolnshire, England. They had been married 10 years at Angaston near adelaide and he had been 9 years in the colony. He went to New Zealand for 2 years and returned 1st or 2nd April 1864.
Mention is made of a daughter and 2 younger children.
A letter was found written by Henry to his parents back in England referring to the situation with his family and ended with "I remain your poor heart broken boy"

Apr 2004 - Mike Walton from Hertfordshire UK has an interesting collection of information on the descendants of Walter Robarts (b. late 17th Century), extracted here:

17. MARTHA EMERY6 ROBARTS (JAMES EMERY5, JOSEPH4, WALTER3, WALTER2, WALTER1) was born Abt. 1836 in Potton, Bedfordshire, England, and died November 30, 1888 in Cowes, Isle of Wight, England. She married JOSEPH HILL WARSAP 1858 in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire. He was born Abt. 1832 in Boston, Lincolnshire, England.

Mar 2004 - Peter Warsop in contact.  Looking forward to your story for the website Peter!  Thanks.

Feb 2004 - Val  C (nee Warsap) made contact - Looking forward to your
next email Val...   Val...?

Feb 2004 - Betty W (nee Warsap) -
sorry I've not updated the index with
your information Betty- I will get to
it soon.  Promise!

Jan 2004 - Contacts this month from Michael Warsop and John Warsop in Michigan, USA.

Do you have a Warsap story to tell? Maybe a new discovery, or a tale worth telling? .

What was it like to live in Boston Workhouse?

Visit to the Somme, 1999 in pictures See the gravestone of Private Benjamin Whelbourne Warsop in who died on 11th April 1918 during the battle of Lys.

CRICKET... by Alan Dinnis...

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Warsopp
Coat of Arms

Gules, a dexter hand couped between three cinquefoils argent


London Visitation Pedigrees 1664

Warsop Butcher...
A Directory and History of Butchers of Boston and Skirbeck [Lincolnshire], compiled by R C Smith in 1992, gives evidence of Samuel Warsop trading in Boston's High Street in 1826.

Interestingly, Overton Adlard was also trading as a butcher in the High Street at that time. Samuel Warsop (born abt. 1774) married Elizabeth Adlard in Boston in 1798 - most likely Overton's daughter.

The Directory also states that Thomas and Adlard Overton [Thomas and Overton Adlard] were trading in Liquorpond Street in 1842, but exact premises are unknown.  Samuel died in 1847 in Boston.

When names were recorded by a parson or clerk at time of a birth, marriage or death in the family, he wrote down what he heard, using his own phonetic ideas about the spelling. The same name could be written down in many different ways by different clerks, and even, as parish registers clearly show, by the same clerk at different times!