Locality
Early Generations (2)
     1               John Parkinson Mawhood (1821…1892) m. Margaret Bailey (1831…1918)
     1.1.           George Leigh Mawhood (1854…) m. Rose Mary Emma Stanham Roe (c1858…)
     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…2009) m. Sheila Veronica Patterson
     1.3            Waldo Ellison Mawhood (1867…1941) m1. Zilpah Miranda Smith, m2. Marion Broomhead
     1.3.1         Zilpah Mawhood (1899…1987) 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
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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 survivors, 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:

• JOSEPH THOMAS MAWHOOD (born 1852 at Bullock Flat, died 1864 at Race Course Creek),
• GEORGE LEIGH MAWHOOD (born 1854 at Bullock Flat; died 7 November 1943; married Rose Mary Emma Stanham Roe in 1879; at least three children),
• ELIZABETH JANE MAWHOOD (born 1856 at Kings Creek NSW, /4, ENG; married Robert Ernest Roe, with issue),
• EMILY MAWHOOD (born 1858 at Kings Creek; died 12 December 1951, no issue; became a nurse and eventually set up her own nursing home in Sheffield ENG),
• JOHN MAWHOOD (born 1859 at Race Course Creek; married Celena Hawksworth in 1883, at least one son),
• WILLIAM ERSKINE [or A?] MAWHOOD (born 1861 at Race Course Creek),
• MARGARET ANN MAWHOOD (born 1862 at Race Course Creek, died 1864 at Race Course Creek) and
• MARGARET HADASSAH [or E? or HANNASSAH?] MAWHOOD (born 1864 at Race Course Creek).

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:

• EDITH PAULINE MAWHOOD (born 1865, Bridlington Quay, YKS),
• twins WALDO ELLISON MAWHOOD (born 1867, Ellerker, WRY, died 1941, Isle of Man (buried Derbyshire))
• and JOSEPH THOMAS MAWHOOD (born 1867, Ellerker, WRY; married Rosella Stanford),
• CHARLES SHAFTO ARMSTRONG MAWHOOD (born 1868, Ellerker, WRY, died 1891 in India, buried ?Manganhor Tea Estate),
• FREDERICK RICHARD CONRAD MAWHOOD (born 1869, Sheffield, WRY, died 1871) and
• FREDERICK CONRAD MAWHOOD (born 1874, Sheffield, WRY, died 18?91).

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.

The 1871 census shews the family as:

The 1881 census shews the family as:

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 née 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…1932) m. Rose Mary Emma Stanham Roe (c1858…)

George Leigh Mawhood, born 1854 at Bullock Flat in NSW, married Rose Mary Emma StanhamRoe on 22 January 1879 in England. Their children were:

• LIONEL PERCIVAL MAWHOOD (born 1881, died 1935; married 1915),
• CLAUDE GEORGE MAWHOOD (born c1885; killed in France 14 September 1916 (2nd Lieutenant in Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment), rf. Thiepval Memorial; married Myra Gladys Stratton as registered in 1Q1910 at Ecclesall Bierlow, Derbyshire - West Riding Yorkshire with issue Eric William Richard Mawhood (born 1911; died 1944); Myra later married Alexander Parker Hague as registered in 3Q1919 at Ecclesall Bierlow, West Riding Yorkshire ) and
• ROSE MARY MAWHOOD (born 1884; died 1962, married Olaf Freeman).

The 1891 census shews the family as:

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

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

• DAVID V G MAWHOOD (married Margaret St John as registered at Marylebone in 2Q1940, later married Mary C  P Mawhood as registered at Westminster in 1Q1976 [one source has Patricia Johnson]) and
• ROZANNE E MAWHOOD (married Tomaso d'Elia).

Percival died in 1935.

Graham Hill eMailed [geh@bcs.org.uk, 13 July 2008 [rf also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Clare]:

Percival was "Lionel Percival Mawhood", born 1881 at Shepherd's Bush and he did marry the actress Mary CLARE whose name was Mary Clare ABSALOM in September Q 1915 at St Martin District London.
She was born at Lambeth, July 17th 1892 (not 1894 as some sites state incorrectly) and died August 29th 1970 at Harrow Middlesex.
Lionel was a Lieutenant in the 3rd Royal Inniskillen Fusilliers, part of the South African Service Corps African Heavy Artillery and was awarded the British Star Medal. It shows him disembarking in South Africa on 4 Jan 1915, so he must have married Mary while on leave in Sep Q that year. The card shows him as a Head Conductor, so I presume he was a musician, unless that meant something else during WW1.
Can you confirm anything further about him? As you state he sadly died aged only 47.
Their son David was indeed in the RAF and there is apparently a story about him that he quite inappropriately flew his aircraft under Tower Bridge. He was hauled up for it I believe.
There are a few sites about Mary Clare but little is known of her ancestry. She was the 3rd of four girls of George Alfred Absalom 1865 & Annie Austin. George's parents were George Alfred Absalom 1835 & Mary Ann COWPER 1843, Wellingborough. Mary Ann Cowper was my g grandmother and that is where my family relationship springs from.
My paternal grandfather (who was normally VERY taciturn) once told me he was related to the actress Mary Clare, and having known this since my teens, I've been looking for the actual link for over 40 years!!!
Your note that she married a Mawhood has helped me find the truth. Grandad was her uncle but only 7 years her senior.

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:

• MARTIN MAWHOOD (born about 1944; once lived near Buckinghamshire; married Susan Riall; two children are, Peter Mawhood (born 1976) and Clare Alice Mawhood(born 1977)) and
• SIMON MAWHOOD (born 1948; in 1998 living in Canada).

David later married Patricia Johnson; they produced one son:

• TIMOTHY MAWHOOD (born 1971).

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:

• REGINALD HAWKSWORTH MAWHOOD (born 1884, Sheffield, died 1926, Ascot; married Phyllis Peel),
• DOROTHY MAWHOOD (born 1886) and
• JOAN CELENA/O MAWHOOD (died in 1981 at Bournemouth; married Richard Harold Chope in 1925; in the 1930s Harold took control of Mawhood Brothers, selling out in the mid-1950s and retiring to Bournemouth; Harold died in 1996 just before his 97th birthday).

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:

• JOHN LENNOX MAWHOOD (born 1917 at Ascot, died 1987 at Hammersmith; married Joan Constance Dick).

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:

• CHRISTOPHER JOHN MAWHOOD (born 1944 at Guildford; married Sheila Veronica Patterson of Maroubra NSW),
• PATRICIA JOAN MAWHOOD (born 1948 at Ealing, in 1998 living in Kingsbridge, Devon) and
• CAROLINE GILLIAN MAWHOOD (born 1953 at Ealing; married Julian Nettel in 1980, two sons (Thomas and Edward)).

John died 18 July 1987 at Hammersmith.

1.2.1.1.1 Christopher John Mawhood (1944…2009) 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:

• ANDREW CHRISTOPHER MAWHOOD (born 1973, High Wycombe; by March 2007 married with two children),
• PATRICK BARTON MAWHOOD (born 1976, High Wycombe; married) and
• MATTHEW JOHN MAWHOOD (born 1979, High Wycombe; died age in 12 February 2007).

Alison McInerney eMailed updates [2007, 2010, 2011] regarding this family.

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:

• PHYLLIS MAWHOOD (born Sheffield YKS, died aged six months),
• ZILPAH MAWHOOD (born 1899 at Sheffield YKS; married John Ma(c)kinson on 2 September 1920, three children),
• twins DOUGLAS WALDO MAWHOOD (born 1903 at Sheffield YKS, died July 1951 on Isle of Man where he was for diabetes convalescence [Douglas participated in the initial trials of insulin in England]; married Swedish girl Frances Orenburg, one daughter (Anne Mawhood, married, three children)),
• and RITA/MARGARET MAWHOOD (born 1903 at Sheffield YKS; a cripple, she died January 1952; married twice, firstly to clergyman Gilbert Herbert Jones [?Hubert-Jones]) and
• SHAFTO ELLISON MAWHOOD (born 1908, died 29 December 1982; married twice, first on 12 April 1933 to Edith Florence Minnie Armstrong (who died in 1945), second on 9 March 1974 to Gladys McKinnon).

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…1987) 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, by whom she bore a son and three daughters (Doreen, June, Neil and Shirley). 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. Zilpah is not in the 1949 NSW Electoral Roll but appears in the 1954 Roll [home duties] with Doreen Susannah Makinson [clerk] and Shirley Elizabeth Makinson [nurse] at (19) Raleigh street, Oberon. Notices regarding the death on 29 April 1987 of Zilpha Makinson, 'late of Oberon', and her funeral on 1 May 1987, were published in Bathurst's Western Advocate on 1 May 1987 and one regarding probate of Zilpha Makison's estate on 14 May 1987.

John and Zilpah were the parents of:

• DOREEN SUSANNAH MAKINSON (deceased by 2008),
  
• JUNE MAKINSON (born c1926; married — Hort; in 2011 lived in Queensland; aunt of Glenys Molloy),
  
• SHIRLEY ELIZABETH MAKINSON (deceased by 2008; married Leslie William ["Mick"] Finn; three children: Townsville-born Graeme Finn (in 2008 and 2011 living in Canada with Heather), Tracey and Dianne) and
  
• NEIL MAKINSON (deceased by 2008).
  

In 1995 Zilpah’s daughter(s) was said to be living near Bathurst. Tracey Cook [2002, 2012] is a grandaughter and Graeme Finn in Canada [May 2011] a grandson of Zilpah; Glenys Molloy [2011] is also related.

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:

• female MAWHOOD (stillborn),
• BARRY ELLISON MAWHOOD (born 1935; married Barbara ?),
• RAYMOND CHARLES MAWHOOD (Ray, born 1937; married Margaret Wilcox),
• LEIGH ALLAN MAWHOOD (born 1939; died 2003; married Elizabeth Fenton),
• JOHN DOUGLAS MAWHOOD (born 1940; died 15 August !998 aged 57 years “at Concord Hospital, late of Oberon”: death notices were published in the Sydney Morning Herald and Bathurst’s Western Advocate on 18 August 1998: interred in the Anglican section of Oberon General Cemetery; married Barbara Adams; four children) and
• ALEX EDWARD MAWHOOD (born 1942; married Kay Jamison on 30 May ?1977).

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:

• TRENT MAWHOOD (born 1970; two issue) and
• ELISE MAWHOOD (born 1972).

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.

Patrick Conere [January 2012] noted that Leigh went to boarding school at Cranbrook College in Sydney.

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:

• ROSELLA MAWHOOD (born 1901; married A Etheridge),
• JOSEPH MAWHOOD (born 1902; died 1951 at sea),
• VIOLET MAWHOOD (born 1904; married G Rance),
• ERIC MAWHOOD (married Jean Vellacott Thomas; son Thomas Piers Mawhood (born 1944; three children (Robin, Richard and Benjamin)) and daughter Adrienne Mawhood),
• WALDO MAWHOOD (born 1909; married Euphonia McDonald; daughter Susan Mawhood (born 1941; married Michael Murgatroyd in 1962),
• ESME MAWHOOD (born 1914; married Street; in 1998 living near Kingsbridge, South Devon) and
• RONALD MAWHOOD (born 1917; married Alice Cope, two children (daughter Elizabeth Mawhood (married Ian Preston) and son Ronald Mawhood (married, two children in South Africa).

Possibly Related Families:

None known.

Related Families from the same areas:

NSW: Bailey.

Other (probably unrelated) Mawhood Lineages:
None known.