My name is Sheila Fermor Clarkson
and as a member of the Guild of One-Name Studies
I research the name of FERMOR worldwide.
There is speculation that the origin of FERMOR is from the French fermier or farmer, or from the Old English fermor - collector of land taxes.
To date, although we have traced Fermors in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa, South America and the United States of America, the majority still live in Kent and Sussex where some of the earliest records of the name FERMOR were found.
We held our first Fermor Family Reunion in 1994 at Sir Henry Fermor School, Crowborough, East Sussex at the kind invitation of the then Head Teacher, Mr Graham Johnson, to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the founding of the school by Sir Henry Fermor in 1744. We marked the occasion by planting a tree at the school which is shown below on the right of the group photograph taken at our second Reunion in 1997. In 2000 we celebrated the Millennium with our third Reunion.
The Fermor coat of arms, for which my husband Ron did the art work,
is that of Henry Fermor of Welches, Sussex who, on 4 May 1725, was created a Baronet by King George I.
To the best of my
knowledge the family to whom the arms were granted became extinct
with the Baronetcy on 26 October 1784.
Our second Fermor Family Reunion held on 19 July 1997
at Sir Henry Fermor School, Crowborough, East
Sussex.
(Photograph by courtesy of the
Kent and Sussex Courier - permission applied
for)
If you would like more information on our Fermor Family History
such as:
Books with Fermor interest
1000 Years of Fermor/Farmer Families
Our First Fermor Family Reunion (1994) published March 2018
Christmas Letter 2019
Count William Fermor 1701-1771
Fermor Cricket XI - 1908-1964
Fermors in Australia from 1855
Fermor Wedding Photographs
Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor
The Tregellas Tapestry - Lady Jane Killigrew (née Fermor)
Fermors/Farmers/Farmars of Tusmore and Easton Neston with early links to Ireland and USA
* Updated information - March 2020
please e-mail: sfclarkson4@gmail.com
Links to Fermor websites
Guide to St James Church, Somerton, Oxfordshire - www.somertonoxon.co.uk
John Fermor - www.valencehouse.co.za
Paul Fermor - www.dealpentecostal.co.uk
Philip Fermor - www.fermor.me.uk
This book, published in March 2018, is compiled of letters, documents, maps and photographs relating to our first Fermor family reunion. It was held at Sir Henry Fermor School, Crowborough, East Sussex at the kind invitation of Headteacher, Mr Graham Johnson as part of the school's 250th Anniversary. Fermors from Cornwall to Cape Town joined in the celebration of a truly happy and memorable day.
Frank Fermor played for the 1908 Fermor XI (seated middle row, third from left) shown on the cover of the recently published Fermor cricket book on the right. He is seen above with his fiancée May Chambers shortly before they married in 1916. His WW1 experiences are recorded at the Guild of One-Name Studies/Stories at http://ww1.one-name.org
This book is dedicated to the
memory of the late Laurence Beversham Fermor who spent a life time
researching our Fermor family history. By recording as much as
possible about each player, together with photographs and family
trees, I hope some our of history will be preserved for posterity
and that the book will revive happy memories for those players of
the 1960s.
This book, now available in
paperback, is proving to be a refreshingly honest biography of the
larger-than-life Paddy Leigh Fermor. Having almost
finished
it, I am eager to read his latest book The Broken Road edited by Artemis Cooper and Colin Thubron. It completes the trilogy, concluding his walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople.