Coats and Dwellings

On this page we'll be building up a collection of photos & information on the dwelling places & the coats-of-arms of the Whitby & Norfolk Whissons.

 

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The coat-of-arms at Whissonsett village in Norfolk, East Anglia.

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The Whisson coat-of-arms in Anderson's Bistro, Silver Street, Whitby.

Formerly owned by David Whisson prior to his retirement.

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Salt Pan Wells Steps. Just off Church Street, Whitby   Home to Susannah, Stephen & Catherine Tindale in the 1840s.  Catherine would marry George Whisson.

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Linskill Square.  Just off Church Street, Whitby.  Home to Harriet Belt ( nee Whisson ) & her family.  Plus Emma Whisson prior to her marriage in 1891.

43 Naters Street, Cullercoats, Tyne & Wear.

Dwelling place of Percy & Eva Mary Grant (nee Porritt).

Freda May born there in 1932

25 Queens Road, Seaton Sluice, Northumberland.

Dwelling place of Jimmy & Olive Whisson from 1935/6 before they moved to Blyth.

The surviving 2 houses of Morton Street, Westoe in South Shields, South Tyneside.

Whitby born John Whisson lived at no.114 during part of his 3 year sojourn in the area with his young family between 1884-7.

He worked as a blacksmith at that time.

The home of Minnie Whisson ( nee Wilkinson), in Amble, Northumberland. Born in 1910.

Widow of William George Davison Whisson.