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Mahawte, Maude, Mawd, Mawhode, Ma(w)hood, Mohaute, de Monha(u)(l)t, Montalt, Moulde

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Locality
Early Generations (2)
     1               John Parkinson Mawhood (1821…1892) m. Margaret Bailey (1831…1918)
     1.1.           George Leigh Mawhood (1854…) m. Rose Mary Roe
     1.1.1.        Lionel Percival Mawhood (1881…1935) m. Mary Claire Absalom (1892…1970)
     1.1.1.1      David Mawhood m. Margaret St John, m2. Patricia Johnson
     1.2            John Mawhood (1859…1932) m. Celena Hawksworth
     1.2.1         Reginald Hawksworth Mawhood (1884…1926) m. Phyllis Peel
     1.2.1.1      John Lennox Mawhood (1917… 1987) m. Joan Constance Dick
     1.2.1.1.1   Christopher John Mawhood (1944…) m. Sheila Veronica Patterson
     1.3            Waldo Ellison Mawhood (1867…1941) m1. Zilpah Miranda Smith, m2. Marion Broomhead
     1.3.1         Zilpah Mawhood (1899…) m. John Makinson
     1.3.2         Shafto Ellison Mawhood (1908…1982) m1. Edith Florence Minnie Armstrong (1910…1945),
                              m2. Gladys McKinnon 
     1.3.2.1      Leigh Allan Mawhood (1939…2003) m. Elizabeth Fenton
     1.4            Joseph Mawhood (1867…) m. Rosella Stanford
Possibly Related Mawhood Lineages
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Other (probably unrelated) Mawhood Lineages

Locality

The Mawhoods were of Scottish origin, with this lineage traceable back to the 12th century. The coat of arms has a crosslet through the lion’s heart, by dispensation of ?Richard III, one of only two families outside the Royal family allowed this design. The following article on the name was provided by Leigh Mawhood in 1995:

MAHOOD.

(Celee et Andax)

In the year anno domini 1066, a young Norman knight, Ralf De Monhault, left the ancestral hall, Chateau Monhault, to join Duke William’s expedition undertaken for the purpose of enforcing his claim to the crown of England, and which resulted in the Norman Conquest:- Fighting bravely at Hastings and being among the survivers, his name was inscribed on the Battle Abbey Roll, amongst the 630 Knights and Barons “Duke William’s officers” - called by the Conqueror “these my brothers and companions in arms”, and for whom the monks of the Abbey were enjoined to pray for unceasingly.

De Monhault was rewarded by having assigned to him a tract of country in Flintshire, which he won and kept by the sword, and where he built himself a castle “on a high hill”, which he appropriately called “Castle Monhault” after the old Norman home.

A branch of the family settled afterwards at Riddleden in Yorkshire and the ancient records show that this family remained there for many centuries - the evolution of the spelling of the name from the ancient de Monhault to the modern forms being evident in the old parish register. From this ancient Baronial family are descended the Maudes and Mahoods of Ireland (from records of the Peerage).

The name begins to assume a modern form in the 16th Century for in 1585 Constantine de Monhault or “Mahawte” is recorded as Lord of the Manor or Riddlesden or Rydelsden.

In 1640 Robert Maude “otherwise Mahawte” disposed of the English estates and settled in Ireland. His son became Sir Robert Maude, Bart, whose son became Baron de Montalt, but at his death the Earldom became extinct, for his only son, had been “killed in action” at the battle of Majuba in the Boer War of 1881. [?]

The pronunciation of the name appears to have been Mawd or Mawhode whatever the spelling, and in the present day the people in Yorkshire and in Ireland pronounce it in that manner rather than after the London practice.

In the course of ages the name has been variously spelt, thus de Monhaut (Battle Abbey Roll) Monhaut, Monhault, Monhalt, Montalts, Montalt, Mohaute, Mahawte, Moulde (Compare the town of “Mold” where the Castle was) Maude, Mawhood, Mahood.

A tradition in the family tells that the Mahoods of Ireland also spelt the name of “Mawhood” until about the end of the 18th Century when the deletion of the W was effected at the instigation of a Reverend George Mawhood otherwise Mahood.

Colonel “Mawhood” was in command of the British troops at the Battle of Princeton in the American War 1776.

The armorial of the de Monhaults, de Montalts, Maudes, Mawhoods and Mahoods have ever been identical, thus identifying the various branches and the various spellings of the name as belonging to the one family.

In the hall of Mr. John Mahood, Donoughmore, near Newry, who lived 1780-1860 the compiler has seen the coat of arms sculptured in stone with the name spelt Mahood underneath and in the hall of Mr. James Mahood at Rostrevor the same coat of arms, with the same spelling of the name was “insitu”. In an inn in Cheshire Mr. Arthur Mahood has seen the same escutcheon bearing the superscription “the arms of Sir Robert Maude, Bart”. In the records of Heralds College the same arms are recorded as those of the Mawhood family. The de Montalt escutcheon is likewise identical.

Compiled from the ancient records, Battle Abbey Roll and old Parish Registers by me John James Mahood residing at Brixton - son of Mr. Samuel Mahood of Upper Norwood and Newry, son of Mr. John Mahood of Donoughmore, near Newry.
(Signed) JOHN J. MAHOOD
19th January, 1906.

Early Generations

1 John Parkinson Mawhood (1821…1892) m. Margaret Bailey (1831…1918)

John Parkinson Mawhood and Margaret Bailey were married at Macquarie Plains near Bathurst on 17 December 1851. Margaret, born 1831 in Ireland, was the eldest of ten children born to GEORGE BAILEY and his wife JANE ARMSTRONG. John Parkinson Mawhood had been born in 1822 at Kingston upon Hull in England, the son of THOMAS MAWHOOD (born 1781, died 1849) and his wife MARIANNE LEIGH of Hull. John Parkinson Mawhood had an older brother Richard Mawhood (born 1817, died 1875; married Margaret Soppit). [Dr Philip M Mawhood, born circa 1922, of 13 Howell Road, Exeter Devon EX4 4LG and Exeter University in 1997, is thought to be a descendant of Richard.]

Children born in New South Wales of John and Margaret included:

Bullock Flat was an early name for the area on the Fish River Creek immediately east of the present Oberon township; Race Course and Kings Creeks are tributaries of Fish River Creek.

Margaret and her family left Bathurst in March 1865, bound for England. It appears though that further children included:

They settled in ?Sheffield, involving themselves with the steel industry and making a good living from it. Mawhood Brothers Limited manufactured tools and cutlery at Palm Tree Works, very successfully until the early 1930s. Apparently then there was a family row and Harold Chope (son-in-law of John Mawhood; see below) managed to take control of the company leading to a second migration of some of the family to Oberon. Mawhood Brothers struggled on until World War II when they switched to armaments and made a lot of money. About the mid-1950s Harold Chope sold out and retired to Bournemouth where Joan died in 1981 and Harold died in 1996 just before his 97th birthday. The company was only dissolved in the early 1980s.

Margaret re-visited Australia three times, once bringing two of her children with her. John Parkinson Mawhood died on 10 November 1892. Margaret Mawhood nee Bailey survived her husband by almost 26 years; she died on 24 August 1918. John and Margaret were buried in Ecclesall Churchyard, Sheffield.

1.1. George Leigh Mawhood (1854…) m. Rose Mary Roe

George Leigh Mawhood, born 1854 at Bullock Flat in NSW, married Rose Mary Roe in 1879 in England. Their children were:

1.1.1. Lionel Percival Mawhood (1881…1935) m. Mary Clare Absalom (1892…1970)

Percival Mawhood, born 1881, married actress Mary Clare Absalom in 1915; they had two children:

Percival died in 1935.

1.1.1.1 David Mawhood m. Margaret St John, m2. Patricia Johnson

David Mawhood, a Wing Commander in the Royal Air Force, married Margaret St John, by whom were born:

David later married Patricia Johnson; they produced one son:

1.2 John Mawhood (1859…1932) m. Celena Hawksworth

When John Mawhood was born in 1859 at Race Course Creek NSW (a tributary of Fish River Creek and now under the waters of Oberon Dam), his father JOHN PARKINSON MAWHOOD was described as a "settler". John Mawhood married Celena Hawksworth in 1883; their union produced six children, including three boys who died in infancy:

John Mawhood died in 1932 at Sheffield.

1.2.1 Reginald Hawksworth Mawhood (1884…1926) m. Phyllis Peel

Reginald Hawksworth Mawhood, born at Sheffield in 1884, married Phyllis Peel of Bedford circa 1913. Their only child was:

Reginald was a surgeon at Windsor; he died aged 41 years in 1926.

1.2.1.1 John Lennox Mawhood (1917… 1987) m. Joan Constance Dick

John Lennox Mawhood, born 1917 at Ascot, was brought up mainly at Ealing in West London after the death in 1926 of his father. A chartered accountant, John married Joan Constance Dick in 1942; Joan had lived in St Kilda Melbourne circa 1927/1932. They had three children:

John died 18 July 1987 at Hammersmith.

1.2.1.1.1 Christopher John Mawhood (1944…) m. Sheila Veronica Patterson

Christopher John Mawhood, born 1944 at Guildford, married Sheila Veronica Patterson of Maroubra NSW on 8 April 1972 at Seer Green Buckinghamshire UK. Sheila's father was CHRISTOPHER PATTERSON of 42 Alma Lane (now Road), Maroubra; a neighbour, Mena Downey of 99 Garden Street Maroubra was a sister of Sheila Downey wife of Ray Buckley (deceased) in Oberon. Christopher and Sheila were the parents of:

1.3 Waldo Ellison Mawhood (1867…1941) m1. Zilpah Miranda Smith, m2. Marion Broomhead

Waldo Ellison Mawhood, born 1867 at Ellerker ERY, married Zilpah Miranda Smith on 6 September 1892 at Douglas, Saint George, Isle Of Man, England. Waldo was the father of five (?or six) children:

Waldo’s second marriage was to Marion (?or Marianne) Broomhead. A diabetic, Waldo died in hospital on the Isle of Man on 4 February 1941 and was buried at Hathersage, Derbyshire, about 11km from Sheffield.

1.3.1 Zilpah Mawhood (1899…) m. John Makinson

Zilpah Mawhood, born 1899 at Sheffield YKS, was the eldest surviving child of WALDO ELLISON MAWHOOD. Zilpah married John Makinson on 2 September 1920, to whom she bore at least one daughter. Apparently widowed, Zilpah with her daughter(s) emigrated to Australia, joining her brother Shafto at Oberon NSW. There she lived at the corner of ?Raleigh and Oberon Streets.

In 1995 Zilpah’s daughter(s) was said to be living near Bathurst.

1.3.2 Shafto Ellison Mawhood (1908…1982) m1. Edith Florence Minnie Armstrong (1910…1945), m2. Gladys McKinnon

Shafto Ellison Mawhood, born 4 April 1908, Hathersage, Hope Valley, Derbyshire, the son of WALDO ELLISON MAWHOOD, returned to Australia in 1926 after his father’s second marriage. After working a short time at some orchards at Maralaya near Windsor NSW, Shafto settled at Oberon. At Bathurst on 12 April 1933 he married Edith Florence Minnie Armstrong, daughter born in 1910 to CHARLES ROBERT ARMSTRONG and ADA E HARRIS of Oberon. Charles’ birth to JOHN ARMSTRONG and GERTRUDE WHALAN had been registered at Hartley in 1883, and he had married Ada in the Uralla district of northern NSW in 1908. Gertrude, born 1852, was a daughter of CHARLES and ELIZABETH WHALAN (for further details of this family, follow this link).

Shafto and Edith raised five sons from six births:

Shafto enlisted in the Australian Army on 28 January 1942 at Oberon, noting his next-of-kin as Edith Mawhood, He was discharged as a Staff Sergeant from Volunteer Defence Corps 23 Battalion (Part Time Duty) on 30 September 1945.

Edith Mawhood died in 1945, aged 36 years. Each of the boys were apparently educated at a Masonic school at Baulkham Hills in Sydney’s north-west, attended at about the same time by Richard and David Cantrill, great-grand children of Matilda Bailey, younger sister of Shafto’s grandmother Margaret. After his sons were grown and married, Shafto married again on 9 March 1974, his second wife being Gladys McKinnon. It was also Gladys’ second marriage. Gladys, whose brothers Horace and Hubert were farmers at Black Springs south-west of Oberon, moved to Racecourse Creek in Oberon after Shafto died, where of four of Margaret’s children had been born, and where two of those died.

A notice regarding the death of Shafto Ellison Mawhood on 29 December 1982, aged 74 years, appeared in the I on 30 December 1982: he was buried interred in the Anglican section of Oberon General Cemetery next to his wife.

1.3.2.1 Leigh Allan Mawhood (1939…2003) m. Elizabeth Fenton

Leigh Mawhood, third of five sons of SHAFTO ELLISON MAWHOOD and EDITH FLORENCE MINNIE ARMSTRONG, was raised at Oberon although he boarded at school (?at Bathurst) until 1955. After a short time back at Oberon he moved to Bathurst where he joined an accounting firm. On 12 September 1964, Leigh married Elizabeth Fenton from Grenfell NSW. They had two children:

In 1995 Leigh and his wife Elizabeth were living at Glenhaven, a northwestern suburb of Sydney. Leigh, “late of Oberon, formerly of Glenhaven”, died on 16 September 2003 aged 64 years: death notices were published in the Sydney Morning Herald and Bathurst’s Western Advocate on 19 September 2003: he was interred in the Lawn section of Oberon General Cemetery.

1.4 Joseph Mawhood (1867…) m. Rosella Stanford

Joseph Mawhood, born 1867 at Ellerker ERY, married Rosella Stanford in 1900. Joseph and Rosella were the parents of:

Possibly Related Families:

None known.

Related Families from the same areas:

NSW: Bailey.

Other (probably unrelated) Mawhood Lineages:
None known.

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