The Road to Rotherwick William Whistler was buried at St Michael’s Church, Basingstoke, on 30 October 1778. His brother John Whistler lived in the village of Rotherwick situated about seven miles north-east from Basingstoke (1). John Whistler’s funeral was recorded in the parish register of Rotherwick on 14 December 1791. His son and namesake married Mary Kernett (also spelled Kernott) in a wedding at nearby Heckfield on 29 April 1793. John and Mary Whistler made their home in Rotherwick where their sons William, John and Charles were baptised in 1794, 1802 and 1808 respectively. Mary’s brother William Kernett remembered his nephews in his will written in 1817 – he left ‘all my books’ to William Whistler, ‘my silver watch’ to John Whistler and ‘all my wearing apparel’ to Charles Whistler (2). John Whistler, who married Mary Ann Hulford at the parish church of Rotherwick on 14 February 1828, was the third generation named John Whistler to raise a family in Rotherwick.   The Church at Rotherwick, Hampshire.   Photograph taken May 2005, Geograph British Isles   Copyright © John Salmon Appendix: The Whistler Family of Rotherwick in Census Returns Appendix: Transcribed Will of William Kernott of Rotherwick Source Notes Notes (1) Description of Rotherwick is ‘Rotherwick’, V.C.H. Hampshire, Vol. 4. (2) Will of William Kernott, Yeoman of Rotherwick, probated 1828, accessed at National Archives Documents Online. Copyright © WhistlerHistory All Rights Reserved. Disclaimer     Home Revision date: October 2010