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 Abt 1540 - Yes, date unknown
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| Name |
WYMANT Thomas |
| Birth |
Abt 1540 |
Barkway, Hertfordshire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| _UID |
251F0676F9C7D6118A064445535400002754 |
| Death |
Yes, date unknown |
| Notes |
- The Wymans of Hertfordshire first appear in the Seventeenth Century
records and form two distinct families living in the eastern part of the
county. There were the Westmill Wymans and the Barkway Whymans in the
early years. By following the fortunes of the two families you can draw
the conclusion that they were separated not only by geography, but also
developed and spread their interests independently of one another. The
Barkway Wymans by the mid-Eighteenth Century were consistently spelling
their name with the "h," while those of Braughing and the Hormeads
spelled their name without it. This difference holds today. Another
variant is that the Barkway Whymans to the north were traders and
labourers, while the Wymans in the south were yeoman farmers.
The Westmill Wymans moved first to Braughing, where Thomas (the elder
brother of John and Francis who emigrated to America) founded the Wyman
dynasty which subsequently migrasted to the north, south and east. From
Braughing, Thomas' sons and grandsons moved to Standon, Aspeden, Great
Munden, Little Hadham, Bishop's Stortford, the Hormeads, Albury,
Throcking and Little Munden. This enterprising family were mostly farmers
who leased large farms usually 100 acres and more and trained their own
sons. When the sons reached the age of twenty-one, they in turn took
leases on neighboring large estates. Time and again this pattern is
repeated until in the first half of the ninteenth Century, Wyman farmers
held most of the Hormead farms, a Dassells' farm, an Albury and a
Throcking farm. These were the Wymans who spread out from Braughing. The
Wymans left in Braughing, though numerous in the Ninteenth Century, were
reduced gradually to earning their livings as carpenters, butchers and
farm laboures.
There were a number of reasons for the decline in the Braughing Wymans'
fortunes. In the second half of the Eighteenth Century the eldest sons
had been placed on farms outside Braughing parish. In the early Ninteenth
Century Wymans who had bought houses, small holdings, and parcels of land
in the village, stipulated in their Wills that these were to be sold and
the proceeds divided equally amonth all their children. This democratic
procedure meant tiny shares for all that were of use to none. At the end
of the Ninteenth Century, despite the increasing number of children to
survice infancy, there were fewer Wyman boys than girls, and the males
who survived seem to have lost the ability and vigour of their
forefathers. One very good reason for lack of Wyman sons to carry on the
tradition of the old yeoman farmers in the Hormeads was emigration of two
brothers to New Zealand from Little Hormead in 1878. They were the last
of the enterprising yeoman stock. In the 1890's agriculture declined due
to a disastrous series of wet summers and lost crops. By 1900 hardly any
Wymans were occupying the large farms in the northeast part of
Hertfordshire where once they had been such good and sucessful farmers.
Early in the Twentieth Century families became scattered. A lot of the
local labor force went to help build the northern suburbs of London, and
to work on the railways driving steam engines. World War I took a
terrible toll on the small villages where the Wymans lived and of those
fortunate to return to England, many took jobs outside the county for the
demand for farm labourers in the area had shrunk. A second World War
mearly intensified this situation, until there is now no Wyman left in
the Hormeads or Braughing and only one in Barkway.
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| Person ID |
I10346 |
Old North Yarmouth, Maine |
| Last Modified |
11 Feb 2003 |
| Family |
BRAND Ellen d. Yes, date unknown |
| Marriage |
17 Sep 1562 |
Barkway, Hertfordshire, England |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F2225 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
29 Mar 2020 |
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