John Wodderspoon [SEP] occupation
John Wodderspoon
John Wodderspoon (1806, Bath, Somerset – 19 November 1862, Norwich) was an English journalist and antiquarian, assistant editor of the "Norwich Mercury".
Life.
Wodderspoon worked for the "Bath Chronicle" before moving to work for the "Birmingham Journal" for a couple of years. For ten years he was a reporter for the "Suffolk Chronicle". His early books "Sketches of the Suffolk Bar" and "Historic sites of Suffolk" were begun in the "Suffolk Literary
at St James Church, Manchester. his parents being John and Jenny HIGTON. John was a cotton spinner (which does seem an unlikely occupation for the father of a Cambridge Alumnus) (source: St James, Manchester parish registers).
William Nichols HIGTON, the son of John and Mary HIGTON, was born on 30 Sep 1798, and baptised on 17 Aug 1810 at St Mary's church, Newington, London (ref: St Mary's church, Newington parish registers). There does not appear to be