# @newport.mansions on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CZhdX7CFrsk
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/71767211-newportmansions-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-02-03T17:01:59.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Newport Mansions (@newport.mansions) — https://gondola.cc/newport.mansions

## Caption

Did you know William Shepard Wetmore (1801-1862), the original owner of Chateau-sur-Mer, could trace his ancestry to 1086? That’s the year of William the Conqueror’s “Domesday Book,” a survey and census of England listing a Richardus Forestarius as a resident of Whitmore, Staffordshire. Over the centuries, the family name became “Whitmore,” then “Wetmore.” The name is derived from the Old English “Whytemere,” meaning white lake or pond.

#ThrowbackThursday #NewportMansions #Chateausurmer #tbt #gildedagehbo #gildedage #gildedagemansions #gildedagemansion #gilded #DiscoverNewport #history #architecture #preserve

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gildedagemansion, preserve, history, gildedagehbo, tbt, discovernewport, gildedagemansions, newportmansions, gilded, architecture, chateausurmer, throwbackthursday, gildedage

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