People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Rickarby to Rymer

... from my working notes ... accuracy not guaranteed ... for explanatory note, see post of 14 Feb 2013


Rickarby

FK 513:  22 Feb 1828:  mortgage of house in Hutton occ by Richard Rymer and closes adjoining:  Robert Baillieur late of Trenholme now of Castle of York innkeeper and Robert Nelson Wilson late of Yarm now of Castle of York yeoman: bounded by Richard Shepherd to N & S, by John Rickarby to E and by Christopher Oxendale to W

FQ 204:  9 Dec 1829:  Robert Baillieur late of Trenholm innkeeper but now of Yarm yeoman (1)  Robert Nelson Wilson of Yarm gent (2) John Harker of Yarm jobber [?] (3):  house, orchard, garth, stable & outbldgs in Hutton Field occ by Richard Rymer and closes adjoining:  bounded by Richard Shepherd to N & S, John Rickarby to E, Christopher Oxendale to W

FS 577:  9 Jun 1831:  Robert Norman paper maker to Robert Holliday Dobson of Potto gent:  6a close in Hutton known as the Cottages bounded by Widow Johnson to S, road to the Rountons to N, William Spencer to W, Mr Rickaby to E, occ by Robert Norman


Rickatson

John Rickatson of Hutton was churchwarden in 1832 and at the time of the Call Book for the Visitation 1857

1840 Whites:  Hutton Rudby:  John Rickatson, farmer

1851 Census:  Gardenstone:  John Rickatson 49 widower farmer of 90 acres b Kirby, with sons Thomas H 10 and Charles 8, and servants Margaret Featherstone single 40 b Ayton, Hannah Easby 16 general servant b Ayton and Robert Burdon 22 farm servant b Osmotherley

“Principal inhabitants” signing the record of exchange of bounties on 28 Sep 1857:  Robert Braithwaite, John Rickatson, George Wilson, Henry Willins, John Robinson, Thomas Sidgwick, John Sidgwick, George Davison [Terriers]

1851-71 (inc) Census:  Gardenstone:  Rickatson
1861 & 71 Census:  Belle Vue:  Rickatson

1872 Post Office Directory:  Hutton Rudby:  John Rickatson, farmer, Gardenstone
John Rickatson, 38, of New Close Farm married Anne Catterson, 31, of Gardenstone Farm on 4 Dec 1839.

Barlow’s Notebook lists the times he “crossed by the old style way through Rickatson farm”

1887:  active members of the Primitive Methodist chapel at the time of building included Edward Bainbridge, Robert Maughan, William Graham Hall, Thomas Sage and Kilvington Rickatson of Trenholme Bar [G Milburn’s notes]
1887:  memorial stones at the new Primitive Methodist chapel were laid by K Rickatson, W Seymour (Spout Bank), Mrs Honeyman, Mrs Eden, Mrs Hall and Mr E Bainbridge; and on behalf of Viscount Falkland, G Y Blair, and Rev Oliver Jackson, a Primitive Methodist minister born in Hutton Rudby [G Milburn’s notes]

1930:  Dorothy Rickatson was invited to switch on the new electric lights in the Primitive Methodist chapel [G Milburn’s notes]

People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Race to Richardson

... from my working notes ... accuracy not guaranteed ... for explanatory note, see post of 14 Feb 2013



Race

11 Jan 1846:  Hutton Rudby:  Thomas Stringer, grocer, of Appleton Wiske, son of Tobias Craddock Stringer, miller married Ann Davison, daughter of George Davison, shoemaker;  witnesses:  Byers Race and William Hebbron

Byers Race was churchwarden in 1848-50 and the churchwarden who signed the articles of inquiry 1849


Ramshaw

Ramshaw cut Mr Barlow’s hedge, after harvest 1850 – Barlow’s Notebook

1851 Census:  Linden Grove:  Forbes MacBean 60 Lt Col Artillery full pay b Annapolis Nova Scotia British subj, wife Eliza 65 b St Petersburg British subj, daughters Elizabeth 25, Margaret Murray 20 & Marianne Georgina 18, all b Woolwich; wife’s sister Miss Marianne Scougall 45 indep also b St Petersburg;  servants:  groom Joseph Dawson 21 b Baysdale, housemaid Elizabeth Trenham 35 b Stokesley, cook Mary Wailes 23 b HR and boy groom William Ramshaw 13 b HR

1851 Census:  South Side:  Mary Ramshaw (married) ag lab b Ingleby
1851 Census:  South Side:  James Ramshaw 50 ag lab b Hutton and Jane 25 b Liverton, with his brother Robert Ramshaw, single, 26 common carrier b Hutton

People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Parish Clerk to Pyman

... from my working notes ... accuracy not guaranteed ... for explanatory note, see post of 14 Feb 2013


Parish Clerk

“A man appointed to assist the parish priest and who held his office for life.  He was paid from church funds.  His duties included making arrangements for services and leading the responses.”  [Oxford Companion to Local & Family History]

Thomas Atkinson d 30 Aug 1787, Clerk of Middleton [PRs]

16 Feb 1783    James Catchaside carpentr & clark of the parish of Hutton Rudby which office he discharged 36 years & died of a fevr aetatis suo 63.o anno

John Eland jnr, sieve maker, (1747-1822) was clerk of this parish for 38 years, according to his memorial inscription.  He was clerk after James Catchasides’ death in 1783, until about 1820.

1823 Baines:  Hutton:  Samuel Hebron, wheelwright & parish clerk

Samuel Hebron (wheelwright) was the Parish Clerk for 1820-1836:  eg 1829/30 £1 salary to Samuel Hebron clerk.  He also played the Bass Viol in church:  1830/1:  “ditto playing Bass Viol £1”.  1831/2:  his salary £1 and his Bill £1-7-6d

William Hebron was parish clerk, paid £1 a year.  He was the clerk described by the wardens in 1857 as “A man very capable but very neglectful”.  His predecessor was Samuel Hebbron.

1872 Post Office Directory:  Rudby:  Spencer Holmes, parish clerk and master of the National School


Parlor

Parlor is listed in “Recpts for 1854” – Barlow’s Notebook

1851 Census:  Doddle Hill:  Peter Parlour 30 farmer of 188 acres employing 3 labourers b Darlington, Yorks and wife Sarah 31 b Lofthouse, and son John 4 mths b Hutton Rudby;  with niece Elizabeth Thompson 15 scholar b Easby and farm servants Robert Hunt 21  b Ingleby Greenhow and William Truman 17 b Topcliffe

People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Oates to Oxendale

... from my working notes ... accuracy not guaranteed ... for explanatory note, see post of 14 Feb 2013


Oates

1823 Baines:  Hutton:  George Oates, agent to Mr Norman
1823 Baines:  Hutton:  Robert Oates, shoemaker

FQ 560:  2 & 3 Nov 1829:  ppty bought by Jane Willans widow in Enterpen:  garth of 1r 3p where a cottage formerly stood, formerly occ by John Miller, then by George Wilson, Mary Young & Hannah Young, then by Matthew Richardson jnr, then by John Burden, bounded by Thomas Wayne to N, E & W, and by street called Enterpen to S; with the houses “lately erected upon the garth” & now occupied by Simeon Burden, John Smelt, Paul Oates, John Goldsbrough, William Jowsey, Abraham Holdgate and William Burnsides

1840 Whites:  Hutton Rudby:  Robert Oates, boot & shoe maker

1841 Census:  Robert Oates 45 shoe maker, Mary 40, John 25 shoe maker journeyman, and Simon Kelsey 80, Jane and Hannah Bainbridge both a12:  on North Side

1841 Census:  Maria Oates 15 servant in household of George Jackson, North Side

John Oates bought the shop (previously weavers, now carpenters), the butchers shop and 9p of land from Thomas Spence in 1842 for £50

GZ 204:  2 May 1842:  Thomas Spence late of Hutton weaver but now of Middlesbrough baker & shopkeeper (1) John Snowdon of Stokesley shoemaker (2) Thomas Sidgwick of Hutton linen manufacturer (3) George Wilson of Hutton linen manufacturer (4) reciting indres of 1839:  John Snowdon had lent Thomas Spence £90 with £4-17-5d interest also owing, on Spence’s property on East Side:  Spence sold Sidgwick the house (formerly 2 houses) & garden for £180, the mortgage to be paid off:  the garden & orchard to be sold to Sidgwick was staked out and contained 33 p; previously occ by Thomas Spence and now by William Meynell; the rest to be sold to John Oates; mortgagee George Wilson

GZ 206:  May 1842:  Thomas Spence to John Oates for £50:  the 2 shops, one formerly a weaver’s shop and now a carpenter’s and the other a butcher’s shop, with the ground behind now staked out and measuring 9 p:  now occ by William Meynell, William Sherwood and John Oates:  bounded by Thomas Sidgwick’s purchase from Spence to E & N, by street to W, Edmund Taylor to S; mortgagee George Wilson

1851 Census:  East Side:  Robert Oates W 59 shoemaker emp 2 hands bHutton and niece Hannah Braithwaite S 21 house servant bHutton
1851 Census:  North Side:  John Oates 35 grocer and wife Elizabeth Hutton [sic] 35 milliner, both b Hutton

John Braithwaite’s children:  Isabella Honeyman, Mary Oates, Robert, grandson John Oates [East Side deeds]
13 Nov 1860 with codicil:  Will of Robert Braithwaite jnr:  tailor & draper.  Wife Margaret.  Cousins John Oates and Robert Honeyman.  Robert jnr died 4 May 1861; he died before Robert snr. [East Side deeds]
19 Feb 1861:  Will of Robert Braithwaite snr:  retired tailor & draper.  Pbte 11 Aug 1862.  Wife Margaret:  sons Robert jnr & John of Sedgefield: daughters Mary Ann wife of John Kendrew tailor, & Hannah wife of Benjamin Hall:  nephew John Oates grocer. [East Side deeds]

11 May 1868:  Codling mortgage:  Mustard garth bounded by John Oates & George Davison to E, Robert Southeran to S and John Sidgwick to N

1872 Post Office Directory:  Hutton Rudby:  John Oates, grocer & draper
1872 Post Office Directory:  Hutton Rudby:  Robert Oates, boot & shoe maker
Robert Oates occupied a house belonging to Edmund Taylor next door to Braithwaite’s house on East Side in 1819

1 Dec 1874:  John Oates owned property on East Side, which had been purchased by John Braithwaite from Edmund Taylor.  Oates sold to John George Wilson. [East Side deeds]

Oddfellows Board:  Bro:  John Oates, Hutton, 13 Oct 1877, a62

People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Nattrass to Norman

... from my working notes ... accuracy not guaranteed ... for explanatory note, see post of 14 Feb 2013


Nattrass

Oddfellows Board:  Bro:  William Nattrass, Hutton, 9 Apr 1880, a21


Nellist

Yorkshire Gazette 12 Mar 1842:  John Nellist: “I am a farmer, and reside in the parish of Seymour …”  He found the bones of the man that was presumed to be William Huntley. 


Nelson

“Nelson my Hind” saw Meek and Jackson trespassing in May 1856 – Barlow’s Notebook

Jane Langborne's cookery book

Jane Langborne's cookery book & handwritten recipes

Jane Galilee (1783-1856), the second wife of George Langborne (1773-1832), owned a copy of Mrs Rundell's celebrated book,  A New System of Domestic Cookery; formed upon Principles of Economy: and Adapted to the Use of Private Families

The small volume is packed with recipes: Soles in the Portuguese way – rolled beef that equals hare – Spadbury's Oxford sausages – green sauce for green geese – eel pie – gooseberry fool – stewed golden pippins rout drop-cakes ...

There are instructions for the cook:  how to stew a shoulder of venison – how to salt pork – how to brew very fine Welch ale ... 

There are chapters of advice on how to manage the dairy and the poultry yard and on cooking for the sick and for the poor.  A chapter headed Various Receipts includes instructions on how to make Lavender Water, on how to make ink, and how to preserve furs and woollen from moths.

No wonder it was a publishing sensation in Britain and America, as this article in the Guardian explains.  Mrs Rundell was the Mrs Beeton or Delia Smith of her age. 

Jane's copy was the 1810 edition, published in London by John Murray.  A couple of recipes are jotted on the last page of the index.  One is a Receipt for making Ink:

5 oz of Powdered Gall
2 oz of Copperass
1 oz of Gum Arabic
1 oz of Rock Alum
1 Quart of Watter
Infuse them a month
stirring them every Day

("Watter" for "water" must be a reflection of the local dialect – as can be found in Wordsworth, in fact).

Useful recipes on slips of paper have been preserved between the pages: Calves Foot Jelly, Raspberry Vinegar, Plum Cake ...

For anyone eager to try it, here is a useful recipe for Parkin:

2 lbs of oatmeal
2 lbs of treacle, warmed
half a pound of brown sugar
½ an ounce of ground ginger
¼ lb of candid lemon
a table spoonful of carbonate of soda
½ lb of butter melted & mixed with the treacle
bake into dishes or tins well buttered in a slow oven

and in these straitened times, the recipe that Mrs Holtby kindly wrote out for Mrs Langborne might be useful:

A Cheap Plum Pudding

Half a pound of Potatoes, ¼ lb of Carrots boiled till they can be mashed quite fine, ½ lb of Flour, ¾ of Currants, ¼ of Suet shred fine, ¼ lb of Moist Sugar to be mixed with the Potatoes and Carrots when you mash them, 1 oz of Candied Lemon, a little Cinnamon, and Nutmeg, to your taste.  Mix all together over night, and boil it 4 hours.

[signed] Mrs Holtby

As you might have guessed, I did not spoil the charm by altering the spelling of the originals ...

Jane Atkinson of Kirkleatham, wife of Captain Thomas Galilee (1744-97)

Jane Atkinson married Thomas Galilee in June 1775.

The Newcastle Courant of Saturday 17 June 1775 records: 

“Last week at St Mary’s Church, Rotherhithe, London, Capt Thomas Galilee of Whitby, to Miss Atkinson of Kirkleatham”

Jane was the daughter of Thomas Atkinson of Scaling Dam (a hamlet on the Whitby to Guisborough road) and the sister of surgeon Thomas Atkinson, who made a whaling voyage to the Davis Straits in 1764 at the age of 21.

Whitby Whalers in Davis Straits (R Weatherill's book)

Her brother William was a Cambridge academic who invented his own system of shorthand, which he believed was "infinitely superior" to anything yet published.  He tried to persuade his colleagues at Christ's College of its virtues by leaving them his manuscript treatise on the subject and sweetening the bequest with his own "splendid" copy of Chambers' Dictionary.  (This will have been Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia; or An Universal Dictionary of Arts & Sciences.)