Flemons One-Name Study

(Click on picture to enlarge) A 1993 picture of Ken & Hilary Wootton as Deputy Mayor and Mayoress Kingson on Thames (Ken is organiser of Flemons One-Name Study)

Flemons
One-Name Study

Topics

About the Flemons One-Name Study
Variants
Origin of the surname
Historical occurrences
Frequency of the name
Distribution of the name
Data
Links
Contact Details

About the Flemons One-Name Study

My late mother, Frances Kathleen Wootton was born Miss Flemons. When a child, in the early 1930s, being curious as to my forebears, I wrote to my maternal grandparents, asking for help.

I wish I had kept the many sheets of paper that they returned and gave me a good start to my studies.

With the availability of Census records, starting in the 1950s, with the release of the 1841 & '51 Census. With the availability of the IGI, the publication of my records on the Familysearch Mormon site, much more has been added to my records of the name Flemons.

Variants

I have come across several mispellings - Flemons with 2 ms or no s. These have been discovered in the Census records.

Origin of the surname

There is a family tradition that the family came from Flanders in an earlier Huguenot immigration. possibly at the time of the Duke of Alba's persecution in the middle of the 16th century.

Historical occurrences

The earliest firm evidence is that the Flemons worked the Grange Mill (wind) near Leighton Buzzard, Beds. They worked a succession of Mills, grinding corn. This resulted in early deaths of the millers, due to the effect of flour dust on their lungs. The last miller was Ebenezer Flemons, who left the business and tried his hand at farming, eventually running a post office in Northampton. In the present day, the business is carried on at the same address by an Asian family.

Frequency of the name

The frequency of the name is very low, only an average of 2 or 3 births, deaths and marriages respectively, each quarter being registered.

Distribution of the name

The name appears mostly in the south of England, though there are numerous Flemons in the USA.

Data

The picture shows Kenneth & Hilary Wootton in 1993, when he was Deputy Mayor of Kingston on Thames

Links

Links can be found on the Latter Day Saints website. This has led to numerous contacts, mainly concerning names other than Flemons.

Contact details

For further information, contact:

Mr Kenneth R Wootton
66 Barn Meadow Lane,
Great Bookham,
Surrey
KT23 3EY
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail:

This page last updated 8 March 2008.