A substantial family tree encompassing many of the Cumbrian Wannops has been compiled, although not embracing all branches. The Wannop tree was originally compiled by the late Arthur Wannop - who farmed in the Isle of Wight - and was translated to a computer record by Glyn Ross of Canada, whose mother was a Wannop. The tree was subsequently considerably revised and extended by Urlan Wannop from original sources at the Cumberland County Records Office.

The Origins of the Wannop Name and its Probable Arrival from Northumberland

Possible Alternative Origins for the Wannop Name and the Family

The Wannops and the Barony of Gilsland

The Wannop York Connection

Wannop in a York Context

Wannop in a Cumberland and Northumberland Context

Wannop Farms in Cumberland

This family tree was compiled by Urlan Wannop from material originally collected by Henry Taylor Wyse when he researched the painting of the Wyse family tree. Henry Taylor Wyse had researched back to Henry Wyse (Banker 1839-1910), to which Urlan Wannop added the earlier generations from material gathered from online records, some graveyards, including the Mains on the edge of Dundee, and other original sources.

Henry Taylor Wyse wrote an unfinished autobiography, that would have been published, but for his untimely death. This is an edited version of that manuscript.

During the period 1904-1922, Henry Taylor Wyse experimented with making art pottery. He ran the Holyrood Pottery under the name of Wyse & Isles in Boroughloch, Edinburgh, for some years, and exhibited pieces extensively throughout the country.

Henry Taylor Wyse, while living in Arbroath in the early 1900’s, designed an extensive range of furniture. The furniture was made locally to order, and some pieces are known to survive in private collections. These catalogues are amongst the only known copies to have survived.