I have spent hundreds of hours attempting to verify the claims of Hannibal P. Wheatley using original source materials and manuscripts. It appears that the Wheatley English claims he presents are fabricated and actually based in great part on the Whatley family heritage from Somersetshire. There has never been a settlement named Tingsboro or Tyngsboro anywhere in England, nor can a Sir Harold Wheatley or an A.B. Stevens be found in any of the verified historical records. Unfortunately, the internet is loaded with family trees that keep cutting and pasting this imaginary family heritage. It can not even be rated with one star.

I suggest anyone interested in the Wheatleys take this book (1902) and do a side by side comparison with the chapter on the Samborne family of Somersetshire from ‘Genealogy of the Samborne or Sanborn Family in England & America…’ (1899), particularly the wording of the wills and names of children, but the whole chapter will be of interest- starts on page 19. https://archive.org/details/genealogyoffamil01sanb/page/60/mode/2up
The Samborne family of Timsbury & Maiden Newton are supported by historical documents. The will of John Samborne in PCC Carew can be found at National Archives Discovery. You will also find the Samborne in the visitations of Somerset & other documents in various archives. The same can not be said for the purported Wheatley family of whom there is no trace. They do not appear in any Somerset visitation; there is no will for John Wheatley, no record of a knighthood for a Nathaniel Wheatley, or a Harold Wheatley for that matter, no record of Rev Nathaniel in the Alumni Oxoniensis or the clergy database…I could continue but there is no point. The Wheatleys in this book did not exist & from the similarities in wording, names etc. between this book & the Samborne book, I doubt the ‘researcher’ Mr A. B. Stevens of Trafalgar Square,London existed either & all of these ‘details’ come from the imagination of the writer. There is no excuse for sharing this kind of rubbish in internet family trees in an age where documents & sources are readily available to be checked.

This was a great find since we inherited a copy of this book, but the next generations may want a copy. so glad to find this in the Library of Congress. thank you to whoever made a copy of this book.