MUDDIMAN

 The Muddiman line is first recorded in the 1670's with a John Muddiman and his wife Hannah being the parents of a John Muddiman in Bubbenhall Warwickshire. The Warwick County records show a John Muddyman of Bubbenhall being fined 2 shillings for "not making a ditch". This John then married an Anne and in turn they produced another John who was christened in Bubbenhall on the 20th of November 1711. This John is recorded as marrying a Catherine Smith in Cubbington Warwickshire in 1769 (he was then aged 58 so there may have been another generation which is missing from the records).
 John and Catherine had a son, William, born in 1773 . William in turn married an Ann Pritchard .  
Not all of the Muddiman clan were agricultural labourers, a Joseph Muddiman built a new Gate House and Porters Lodge for Warwick Castle in 1796/97 (with John Williams), also in 1819 the records of Cubbington show a William Muddiman paying window tax for five windows (in most cases of this tax there were a few windows allowed in any house before taxation started so William must have had a substantial dwelling.
 William and Ann had a son, Joseph, who married a Lydia Murcott in 1827 . Lydia came from a well connected land owning family from Cubbington and would appear to have been considerably older than her husband.  Joseph and Lydia had a son George Henry Muddiman who was born in Cubbington and later moved to Great Barr, Staffordshire, where he was an agricultural labourer .
 George Henry Muddiman married Elizabeth Bennett whose mother originally came from Pelkelton, Leicestershire . George , Elizabeth and her mother Mary were all living in Great Barr in 1851 . George and Elizabeth had a son, William, in 1868 . William Muddiman became a groom/gardener to a wealthy jeweler named Lloyd . William was reputedly the first man to drive a car in Handsworth, Birmingham. In 1897 William Married Elizabeth Monks  .
The youngest of the eight children born to William and Elizabeth was my mother, Elsie Margaret Muddiman who was born in 1914