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Saturday 9 December 2023

Cockfighting in Hutton Rudby & Stokesley

In 1903 Richard Blakeborough (1850-1918), celebrated collector of North Riding folklore, wrote an article for a cheery weekly family newspaper called the Northern Weekly Gazette about cockfighting in the village of Hutton Rudby.

Cockfight in London: c1808

He had written on the subject before and he knew that cockfights hadn't stopped as soon as they were banned in England in 1835 (they haven't stopped yet), but now he had been contacted by Richard Robinson, a 68 year old retired farmer living in Old Battersby, who had anecdotes to tell him.

You can see from his article that Blakeborough enjoys the old North Riding dialect most of all.  He was a dialect enthusiast, well known for his recitations and writings.  

He begins

As late as 1850, many a main was fought in or near to that village on a good Sunday morning.  And one Robert Dorking, a weaver about that date, possessed a bird of such note that on many occasions it was matched to fight some of the best birds in the North.  These contests came off somewhere in Newcastle, whither Dorking tramped from Rudby with his bird. 

(Robert Dorking's name was actually Robert Dalking, so I'll alter the name accordingly from now on)

The people of Hutton Rudby always knew, even before Dalking got out of the bed the next morning, when his bird had won.

"It was like in this way," 

said Richard Robinson, 

"when Dalking's cocks lost, for he sometimes used to hug as many as four on his back – his missus used to come out with her head lapp'd up in a shawl, looking that dowly and never a word for nobody.  She used to creep along with her head down, an' were as cross as a bear with a sore head.  But when Dalking came home victorious, she was out with her best hood, fleeing all over the village to spread the good news; there was no ho'ding her back at such times."

Friday 17 November 2017

Speedy business, 1825

A reminder of a slower time:-

Yorkshire Gazette, 3 September 1825
On Monday week, Mr John Langdale, of Menithorpe, near Malton, started from Easingwold at one o'clock, and rode to Thirsk, where he did business; thence he rode to Potto, making three calls on business; from Potto he proceeded to Hutton Rudby, Middleton, Hilton, and to Stockton, making eight other calls; from Stockton, by Seamer, to Hutton Rudby, all with six hours, being a distance of at least fifty miles.

Tuesday 18 February 2014

Who was Who in the parish of Rudby-in-Cleveland 1892

In 1892, the Vicar was the Revd John Johnson.

In the census of 1891 he described himself as 59 years old, single, born in Kirkby Ravensworth.  When he came to the parish after the death of the Revd Robert Barlow in 1878, he was aged 44: one man on his own succeeding another man on his own in that large house.  He lived there with his housekeeper, Mary E Johnson, who was also born in Kirkby Ravensworth.
It must have been quite a surprise to the neighbourhood when he married London-born Florence Mary Wright on 24 October 1893!
Seventeen years later they were still there: he was 79 and she was 52 years old.

David Lickess's history of the parish records that he was well known for visiting Milburns' shop every day, where he would read the old 'North Star' newspaper without paying for it.

As he grew old and infirm, his parishioners did rather complain about his failure to take services or attend Vestry meetings.

The Churchwardens were Viscount Falkland and Matthew B Bainbridge.

Byron Plantagenet Cary, 12th Viscount Falkland, was born in 1845.  In 1879 he married Mary Reade, who was born in Birmingham, New York.
Major Cary retired from the Royal Sussex Regiment in 1883 with the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and succeeded to the title on the death of his uncle in 1886.  He and his wife had six children, all of whom will have spent some time at Skutterskelfe before the estate had to be sold.  The 1891 census shows the family living at 43 Lowndes Square with a full complement of staff: cook,  monthly nurse, housemaid, 2nd nurse, kitchen maid, nurserymaid, 2nd housemaid, scullerymaid, butler, valet, footman and odd man.
On 15 August 1907, the King made Viscountess Falkland a Lady of Grace of the Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in England for her philanthropic work, [London Gazette].
The Viscountess died in 1920, and the Viscount in 1922.

Matthew Bewick Bainbridge described himself as a 53 year old "builder & contractor & farmer" in the 1891 census.  He and his wife Hannah and children James (29) bricklayer, Elizabeth (27), John (22) bricklayer, and Fred (20) joiner, lived at No 3 & 4 North End.


The Sidesmen were T Bowes Wilson, Christopher Smith, Joseph Mease and William Johnson

Thomas Bowes Wilson (1845-1929) of the Cleveland Sailcloth Mill lived at Enterpen Hall.

Christopher Smith.  There were two Christopher Smiths – a farmer in Middleton, and a grocer in Hutton:

1891 Census: Christopher Smith (71), farmer at Spyknave Hill, Middleton upon Leven.  He was born at East Rounton.  He and his wife Elizabeth (57) had John (27), Christopher (24), William (22), Emily (20), Arthur (18), Jane (16), Thomas (14) and granddaughter Theresa (9)

1891 Census: Christopher Smith at 15 & 16 South Side, grocer (59) and his wife Jane (54).  Their daugher Edith J. (16) and son Christopher S. (16) were both grocer's assistants.  Their daughter Ethel A. (12) was at school.  Their granddaughter Lily Ward (13) was also in the household.

Joseph Mellanby Mease (1827-1928).  He and his wife Harriet lived at Leven Valley.  The 1891 census shows his occupation as Sanitary Inspector, Assistant Overseer.

William Johnson.  This is probably the William Johnson, joiner, born Stokesley living at 21 South Side at the 1891 Census, when he was 41 years old.  His wife Dorothy was born in Skelton and they had five school age children, Mary E., Edwin, David P., Allan P., and William K. or H.  They lived next door to Thomas Milburn.


The Organist was Miss Elizabeth Bainbridge.

Elizabeth Bainbridge was the daughter of Matthew Bewick Bainbridge.  She was organist for many years: [cf Winifred Blair’s Scrapbooks]
“Some years ago” [Mr Leeper said] “a little girl with a golden plait and big blue eyes, sat at a harmonium at our church.  Her toes just touched the pedals.  The little girl was Miss Bainbridge.  Since then she has seen all sorts of vicissitudes and changes in the church’s history.  She has played in days when there has been a fine choir, and she has played when the choir has not been quite as good” … she had been organist from 1886 to 1934…”

The Clerk was William Johnson (see above)

The Sexton was Thomas Milburn.  He was aged 76 at the 1891 census.  A sailcloth weaver, he lived with his wife Isabella (65) at 23 South Side. (There is no No 22 South Side listed – possibly William Johnson's house had been enlarged.)  Their lodger was George Sidgwick, a widower aged 75, described as a pauper.

The office of Sexton was vacant from February 1892 after the death of Thomas Milburn, who was buried on 12 January 1892, aged 77.

The Superintendant of All Saints' Sunday School (which was held in the School House at 9.45am and 2.30pm) was William Chapman.
William Chapman lived and farmed with his sister Jane at Old Hall, Sexhow.  He was 41 in 1892.  On his death, after many years as churchwarden and Sunday School superintendant, his siblings gave the church a cover for the font.





Thursday 27 June 2013

People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Williams to Wyndham

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


Williams

23 Nov 1808:  Jane Williams was an occupant of property on East Side, bought by Joseph, Thomas & William Whorlton [East Side deeds]

George Williams witnessed the Will of Thomas Passman on 20 Oct 1828


Willins

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

GG 130:  31 Oct 1835:  Thomas Spence of Hutton weaver & Dorothy his wife (1) Henry Collins of Stokesley gent (2):  2 houses now used as one, the weaver’s shop adjoinging & the garden or orchard of 1r behind, occ by Thomas Spence; the butcher’s shop adjoining the weaver’s shop occ by William Sherwood:  bounded by Lord Falkland to E, street to W, Mrs Kingston to N, Edmund Taylor to S; also Gowdie/Gowlay Hill Garth 1a with cowhouse occ by Thomas Richardson:  bounded by John Charlton to E, by Francis Stainthorpe to W, by street to N, by Jane Willans & Edward Meynell to S; also house with garden & garth behind 2r, occ by William Merrington:  bounded by street to E, William Wood to W, John Seamer to N, John Rymers & Francis Stainthorpe to S; also 3 closes formerly 2 closes called the Cottager 7a, previously occ by William Braithwaite as tenant to William Spence decd:  bounded by Robert Halliday Dobson to E, George Hunter & William Ableson to W, by Rounton road to N, by Richard Johnson to S; “& all other the messuages lands tenements and hereditaments formerly belonging to Thomas Smith late of Hutton yeoman decd and comprised in his Will”

1841 Census:  Mary Willins 45 independent with John Sayer 20 schoolmaster, Enterpen

1851 Census:  Enterpen:  Miss Mary Willins 56 independent b Hutton Rudby, with lodger Miss Mary Garbutt 50 independent b Nunthorpe

“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]

1861 Census:  Maurice Drummond 28 (S) Primitive Methodist minister b Prudhoe, lodging with Miss Willins

Henry Willins was churchwarden 1865-8

1872 Post Office Directory:  Hutton Rudby:  Henry Willins, grocer, linen draper & post master

Oddfellows Board:  Bro:  Henry Willins, Hutton, 24 Nov 1887, a65


Sunday 16 June 2013

People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Wailes to Wiles

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


Wailes

1840 Whites:  East Rounton:  the Grange is the seat and property of John Wailes Esq

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


Wake

FQ 434:  14 & 15 Apr 1829:  James Wake occupied land belonging to Elizabeth Sleigh

Thomas Wake was witness at the wedding of Richard Peacock of Rudby and Jane Scott of Stockton on 13 Sep 1832

1841 Census:  John Wake 17 joiner’s apprentice in the household of James Meek, Enterpen

‘The Cleveland Repertory’
1 Aug 1843:
“Police Intelligence.  July 22nd, - Present Robt Hildyard and Wm Mauleverer, Esqrs.  Upon hearing the complaint of Jno Wake, an apprentice to Jas Meek, of Hutton Rudby, against the said James Meek, for having on the 12th ult, illtreated him, the said Jno Wake – ordered that he be forthwith discharged from his apprenticeship, and that the said James Meek, pay the costs.”

1851 Census:  Carpenters Arms:  Elizabeth Wake widow 56 victualler’s wife b Whorlton, and children John Wake 38 house carpenter journeyman, b Stokesley, Jane Wake 21 dressmaker b Carlton, and Mary Wake 17 house servant b Carlton, and grandson Robert Kitching 5 b Pickering

This may be the family of Charles Wake, who left for America in 1855 with the Mormons:
Charles Wake was one of the Faceby tailors.  He was 24 years old at the time of the 1851 Census when he and his young family were living next door to James Stanger junior.  He gave his place of birth as Stokesley, and his wife Elizabeth, aged 25, was born in Potto.  They had a ten month old son James, who had been born in Faceby, and Charles’ fifteen year old brother Thomas was living with them as a tailor’s apprentice – he had been born in Hutton Rudby.  The register for 7 Aug 1836 records that Thomas’s parents were James Wake, gamekeeper, of Rudby and his wife Ann. 
According to ancestral files on the IGI, Charles Wake was born in Stokesley in 1826, the son of James Wake and Elizabeth Wrightson, and married Elizabeth Thompson, the daughter of Robert and Jane Thompson of Potto, in Whorlton in 1849.  Robert Thompson was a cartwright in Potto at the 1851 Census.  Charles’ and Elizabeth’s oldest child is said to have been baptised in Stokesley in 1850, and the younger two children in Faceby.  The third child does not appear on the passenger list, but details of her life are given in the IGI.


Thursday 13 June 2013

People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Taylor to Tweddle

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


Taylor

Palliser Taylor, flaxdresser, and wife Sarah sold East Side ppty in 1760 [East Side deeds]

Edmund Taylor married first Ann Smith in 1800, and second Martha Eland in 1810
Martha Taylor married Thomas Milestone in 1802

Edmund Taylor of Hutton  -  Class leader for Hutton Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1836.  A joiner, he bought, rebuilt and sold houses to the north of the Wheatsheaf.  An Indenture of 1830 describes him as “of Hutton House, carpenter”.  On 24 Dec 1833 a Notice to Sell served by the parties to the purchase from Taylor of the East Side properties, requiring Taylor to repay the mortgage principal and interest, was served on him by Thomas Hutchinson at Leven Grove (ie Skutterskelfe Hall).  Perhaps he was working there?
His date of death is unknown.  His family gravestone is MI no. 219.  His wife Martha Eland died 1857 a76.  Their daughter Esther Ann died 1837 a26; she was then of Thorpe Arch, Wetherby.

Sarah Taylor is in Edmund Taylor’s class in the Wesleyan class lists 1836

13 Aug 1803:  George Taylor joiner was party to a deed of Edmund Taylor [East Side deeds]

Yorkshire Poll Book 1807:  Hutton Rudby:  Edmund Taylor joiner

Monday 10 June 2013

People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Southeran to Swallwell

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



Southeran

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


Spence

Yorkshire Poll Book 1807:  Hutton Rudby:  William Spencer [sic] weaver

ET 604:  12 & 13 Sep 1823:  4a close in Hutton Moor, previously occ by Bart Wright now by Simon Sidgwick the weaver, bounded by lands late belonging to Margaret Smith & now to William Spence to E

FQ 249:  13 & 14 Mar 1829:  exors of Wayne to Barker:  the Carpenters Arms with the cartwrights shop and stable on the west end thereof, the garden and the privy on the south & backside of the premises, bounded by road to East Rounton to E, by Mrs Elizabeth Hildreth to W & S, by road to East Rounton, John Robinson and Mr Farnaby to N – occ by Edward Meynell;  the garth occ by Edward Meynell, bounded by Elizabeth Hildreth to E, by John Burdon to W, by Thomas Passman, Elizabeth Hildreth, Mr Kendall & William Spence to N, by road to East Rounton to S; the site where buildings lately occupied by John & Hannah Kay & taken down by Mark Barker stood; the garth now used as garden ground to the E & backside of the sd site;  the new houses built by Mark Barker on the site and part of the garth: some of the houses and the garden ground “at present unoccupied”, the others occupied by Robert Hall, William Souter, George Sanderson, John Kay, Mary Lamb, Jackson Richardson, John Wild and Thomas Shaw:  bounded by house & lands bel to Rev Richard Shepherd to E & S, by Arthur Douglas and townstreet to N & 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

GG 130:  31 Oct 1835:  Thomas Spence of Hutton weaver & Dorothy his wife (1) Henry Collins of Stokesley gent (2):  2 houses now used as one, the weaver’s shop adjoining & the garden or orchard of 1r behind, occ by Thomas Spence; the butcher’s shop adjoining the weaver’s shop occ by William Sherwood:  bounded by Lord Falkland to E, street to W, Mrs Kingston to N, Edmund Taylor to S; also Gowdie/Gowlay Hill Garth 1a with cowhouse occ by Thomas Richardson:  bounded by John Charlton to E, by Francis Stainthorpe to W, by street to N, by Jane Willans & Edward Meynell to S; also house with garden & garth behind 2r, occ by William Merrington:  bounded by street to E, William Wood to W, John Seamer to N, John Rymers & Francis Stainthorpe to S; also 3 closes formerly 2 closes called the Cottager 7a, previously occ by William Braithwaite as tenant to William Spence decd:  bounded by Robert Halliday Dobson to E, George Hunter & William Ableson to W, by Rounton road to N, by Richard Johnson to S; “& all other the messuages lands tenements and hereditaments formerly belonging to Thomas Smith late of Hutton yeoman decd and comprised in his Will”

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

Mrs Spence is in a list of names in the Middleton Book
Anne Spence is in a list of names in the Middleton Book
Mark Spence was given a prayer book worth 10d in the Rudby School accounts – Middleton Book
Catherine Spence is in a List of Girls – Middleton Book
M Spence was in A List of Boys – Middleton Book

Thomas Spence of East Side was a weaver, and he and his wife Dorothy appear in the 1836 Wesleyan class lists
They had children:  Moses baptised 23 Feb 1831; and Titus baptised 15 Feb 1830; also Dorothy who lived 1837 to 1838.   Moses died in 1831.
In 1835 he owned a house (previously two houses, now used as one) with a weaver’s shop and a garden behind, amounting to 1 rood.
He also owned an acre with a cowhouse at Goldie Hill, and a house and 2 roods of land occupied by Wm Merrington, just below Tisbut Row, and three closes called the Cottager or Cottage Fields out in the Hutton Fields/Moor area, on the Rounton road
The cottage fields had been occupied by Wm Braithwaite, as tenant to Wm Spence decd, and the deed included all lands “formerly belonging to Thomas Smith late of Hutton yeoman decd and comprised in his Will”.  [William Spence of Hutton was buried aged 63 on 19 Jun 1835.  Wm and Ann Spence(r) had Margaret in 1796, Thomas in 1797, William in 1799, and Elizabeth in 1801; possibly more.
1840 Whites:  Hutton Rudby:  Thomas Spence, grocer & draper – ie. the depression in weaving has forced him to change occupation.
In 1842 Thomas had left Hutton to become a Baker and Shopkeeper in Middlesbrough.  He owed £90 to John Snowdon, and he sold up his Hutton property:  the house and part of the garden (33p) was sold to Thomas Sidgwick for £180 - this was bounded by Mrs Kingston on north.  The weaver’s shop, now used as a carpenter’s shop, with the butcher’s shop and 9p of land was sold to John Oates for £50.  The mortgages were paid off, and it appears that George Wilson was the purchasers’ mortgagee.
The result can be seen on the 1891 map – the northern (Sidgwick) property has the majority of the garth.
William Spence, weaver of Hutton, and his wife Lucy had their son George baptised on 16 Jan 1831


Thursday 6 June 2013

People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Sigsworth to Souter

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


Sigsworth

FQ 434:  14 & 15 Apr 1829:  Thomas Sigsworth occupied land belonging to Elizabeth Sleigh


Simpson

David Simpson’s charity: yearly rent charge of 20s, 1783.  B D Suggitt was his grandson.

Yorkshire Poll Book 1807:  Crathorne:  Richard Simpson innkeeper (freehold in Hutton Rudby)

John Simpson was a tenant of James Bainbridge on East Side in 1817
 
EH 212 & EG 295:  relate to the same ppty:  a house which had been divided into two tenements and in 1818 was “lately occupied in four different tenements or dwellinghouses”:  tenants were previously Jane Whorlton & her tenants William Easby, Oliver Jackson & William Honeyman; tenants were in 1818 William Honeyman, Thomas Graham, Robert Walton and Robert Codling:  bounded to E by Christopher Flintoff decd, to S & W by townstreet, to N by David Simpson decd

EC 354:  30 Oct 1817:  James Bainbridge bricklayer (1) William Richmond of Stockton mercer & draper (2):  2 houses with garden behind, occ by James Bainbridge & John Simpson:  bounded by messuage & garden of Roger Bowes to E, by messuage & garden of Edmund Taylor to W, by street to N, by Thomas Passman to S

FC 147:  14 Nov 1825:  James Bainbridge bricklayer (1) Hutchinsons & Place bankers (2) William Richmond of Stockton mercer & draper (3) Richard Nightingale the younger of Middleton St George (4):  2 houses, lately in 3 tenements, with garden behind, formerly occ by James Bainbridge, Richard Wood & Thomas Almond, then by James Bainbridge & John Simpson, now by James & John Bainbridge; and also 2 new erected houses now in 3 tenements lately erected by James Bainbridge in the garden, now occ by George Harker, Alice Pedlar & Ann Rudd:  all bounded by messuage & garden of Roger Bowes to E, by messuage & garden of Edmund Taylor to W, by street to N, by Thomas Passman to S

FL 58:  13 May 1827:  East Side, judging by occupants & boundaries:  2 houses lately used in 3 tenements with garden behind formerly occ by James Bainbridge, Richard Wood & Thomas Almond, then by sd James Bainbridge & John Simpson, then by sd James Bainbridge & John Bainbridge:  and the 2 houses used in 3 tenements “newly created” and “lately erected” by sd James Bainbridge in the sd garden, then occupied by George Harker, Alice Pedlar & Ann Rudd:  bounded by house and garden bel to Roger Bowes to E, by Edmund Taylor to W, by street to N, by Thomas Passman to S:  parties:   Richard Nightingale the younger late of Middleton St George gent and George Stanger of Pickton farmer:  reciting indre of 14 Nov 1825 to which James Bainbridge, George & John & Henry Hutchinson, Thomas Place, William Richmond and said Richard Nightingale were parties

28 Sep 1835:  Will of John Braithwaite:  he left a house occupied by son Robert (except a room built over a coalhouse occ by tenant Richard Simpson) with garden & privy;  a house occupied by Richard Simpson (except the room beforementioned);  house lately occupied by William Mudd and now unoccupied.  [East Side deeds]

Churchwardens’ accounts 1838:  “Thos Simpson Lime & Lead Do. 15s” [ditto=New Window]

James Simpson (15) was a servant at the Barlows’ at Linden Grove in the 1841 Census
1841 Census:  Ann Simpson 50 ag lab, Robert 20 journeyman blacksmith and Hannah 15 flaxspinner, South Side
1841 Census:  Thomas Simpson 40 farmer and family, with John Sidgwick 25 linen weaver and Simon Sidgwick 45 linen weaver, Enterpen

1851 Census:  South Side:  Ann Simpson widow 62 pauper farmer’s widow, b Crathorne
1851 Census:  Enterpen:  Thomas Simpson 52 widower, ag lab, b Potto, and unmarried children Mary Ann 26 housekeeper, Thomas 23 ag lab, Jane 20, Hannah 17,  all born Hutton Rudby;  with son-in-law John Sidgwick 32 hand loom weaver widower [?], brother-in-law Simon Sidgwick single 60 hand loom weaver, both born Hutton Rudby

Oddfellows Board:  Bro:  Robert Simpson, Linthorp, 19 Nov 1874, a57


Monday 3 June 2013

People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Selby to Sidgwick/Sedgwick

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


Selby

Oddfellows Board:  Bro:  James Selby, Sum. Houses, 5 Dec 1875, a27


Sextons

8 Jan 1722:  William, son of William Rain sexton and Elizabeth Outon/ ?Orton b/bap

13 May 1784:  burial of William Stockdale, sexton of Rudby Church
19 Feb 1790:  burial of Thomas Seamore, a 74, Sexton of Rudby Church

Sarah Hebron was elected Sexton on 2 July 1833 “to have £2/12 per year for doing the duty of a Sexton to attend to the fires and keep the church clean.  The Churchwardens to see about getting the stove in repair”.
The sexton has the care of the fabric of the church and is responsible for digging the graves and ringing the bells.  It is not clear from the churchwardens’ accounts who was the previous sexton;  it may have been Nathaniel Smithson.  The records do not show who the vestry appointed to take care of the bells and, particularly, the gravedigging.


Seymour/Seamer

“Seymour for well 2s 6d” appears in William Sayers Calculations 1815 in the Middleton Book

7 Aug 1822:  B D Suggitt left £20 a year to his servant Mary Seymour, if still residing with him at the time of his death

1823 Baines:  Hutton:  William Seamer, linen manufacturer

FQ 434:  14 & 15 Apr 1829:  John Seamour occupied land belonging to Elizabeth Sleigh

T Seymour was in A List of Boys – Middleton Book

GG 130:  31 Oct 1835:  Thomas Spence of Hutton weaver & Dorothy his wife (1) Henry Collins of Stokesley gent (2):  2 houses now used as one, the weaver’s shop adjoining & the garden or orchard of 1r behind, occ by Thomas Spence; the butcher’s shop adjoining the weaver’s shop occ by William Sherwood:  bounded by Lord Falkland to E, street to W, Mrs Kingston to N, Edmund Taylor to S; also Gowdie/Gowlay Hill Garth 1a with cowhouse occ by Thomas Richardson:  bounded by John Charlton to E, by Francis Stainthorpe to W, by street to N, by Jane Willans & Edward Meynell to S; also house with garden & garth behind 2r, occ by William Merrington:  bounded by street to E, William Wood to W, John Seamer to N, John Rymers & Francis Stainthorpe to S; also 3 closes formerly 2 closes called the Cottager 7a, previously occ by William Braithwaite as tenant to William Spence decd:  bounded by Robert Halliday Dobson to E, George Hunter & William Ableson to W, by Rounton road to N, by Richard Johnson to S; “& all other the messuages lands tenements and hereditaments formerly belonging to Thomas Smith late of Hutton yeoman decd and comprised in his Will”

Tithe Map from Elizabeth Sleigh:  John Seamer occ 137, 138, 141, 142

John Seamer was a subscribers to the Wesleyan Youth’s Instructor in 1840

1841 Census:  John Seymour 40 linen weaver, William 30 linen weaver and John 25 linen weaver, North End.  Next door, in household of Thomas Biggins, Mary Seymour 12.
1841 Census:  Thomas Seymour 40 linen weaver and family, North End

John Seymour, weaver, is listed as one of the Trustees of Hutton Rudby Wesleyan chapel – date not given, possibly mid 1850s

1851 Census:  North End:  John Seymour widower 55 hand loom weaver linen
1851 Census:  North End:   John Seymour widower 37 hand loom weaver, and children Mary 5 and Elizabeth 10 mths
1851 Census:  North End:  William Seymour 41 handloom weaver linen b Hutton and Mary 32 also handloom weaver linen b Dodsworth, Yks
1851 Census:  North End:  Thomas Seymour 49 handloom weaver linen and Ann 49, with children Mary 18, Dorothy 11 and Elizabeth 8;  and lodger Richard Richardson single 26 handloom weaver linen;  all b Hutton

Oddfellows Board:  Bro:  Thomas Seymour, Middlesbrough, 25 Sep 1875, a53

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]


Monday 22 April 2013

People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Mease to Mundale

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



Mease
Update 29 Feb 2020:  John Mease bought the disused buildings of the Hutton paper mill and installed machinery for a water-powered flax-mill in 1834.  For a full account, see Hutton Rudby 1834-1849: the Flax-Spinning Mill by the bridge
For an account of Thomas Mease and the flax-spinning mills of Stokesley, see the series of articles posted on 29 Feb 2020 beginning The linen mills of Stokesley & Hutton Rudby: 1823-1908
John Mease’s grandfather Solomon Mease (1731-1801) b Great Ayton, married Jane Humphrey and had 4 children.  He was the son of a weaver and trained as a weaver himself.  He inherited money and his wife brought him a good portion, but in the words of his son John, his “love for cards and drink was such that he was sold up in a few years”.  He joined the army and served as a sergeant in the American Wars.  Solomon’s son John Mease (1767-1849) was a grocer in Stokesley.  He married Isabella Turnbull, and they had 5 children:  Thomas, Isabella, John, Rachel and Mary.  His very interesting diary contains many references to the religious problems of the day and to Methodism.

Joseph Mellanby Mease (1827-1928) was the son of Thomas Mease, John's elder brother.  Well-educated and well-read, he had lost an arm in an accident in one of his father’s flour mills – according to a newspaper article written in his old age, it was the Hutton mill.  Joseph Mease was chief clerk at the chemical works in Jarrow owned by a member of the family.  He came to the village in 1858 as manager of a corn mill “on the site on which the police-constable’s house now stands”.  Three years later he lost his arm through his sleeve being caught in the machinery.

Joseph Mease’s wife ran a school, assisted by her daughter Jenny.  Mrs Mease’s school is mentioned in the Hutton School log book in 1879.

1841 Census:  John Mease 40 merchant and Mary Mease 30 and Edward 4 (not born in county) in the household of Thomas Pilter

11 May 1868:  Codling mortgage:  North Side ppty bounded by John Mease to W and Miss Righton and George Davison to E, and occupied by James Stephenson

1872 Post Office Directory:  Rudby:  Joseph Mellanby Mease, registrar of births & deaths

“Given by Mr Mease” 2s 6d “Sacrament Money” in Lent 1873

John Mease died 1876 and his wife Hannah Maria Geldart in 1851:  tablet in church

Joseph Mellanby Mease was the registrar who recorded the death of Mr Barlow in 1878.  
In ‘Northern Primitive Methodism’, there is a reference to a Mr  Mellanby in Greenhow.

EB 38:  1816:  Henry Mellanby of Stockton gent was witness


Tuesday 16 April 2013

People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Lamb to Lythe

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



Lamb

John Lamb, yeoman of Rudby, was the grandson & devisee of Christopher Legg; Legg had purchased East Side ppty in 1758, which Lamb sold in 1779

1784-6:  John Lamb, Sexhow, was churchwarden

12 Dec 1804:  Richard Jowsey married Jane Lamb [witnesses:  John Seymour, Thos Eland]

7 Aug 1822:  B D Suggitt left to Mrs Mary Lamb of Hutton £100 or £10 a year, as his executor thought best

Mary Lamb is a tenant of Barkers Row in 1829

FQ 249:  13 & 14 Mar 1829:  exors of Wayne to Barker:  the Carpenters Arms with the cartwrights shop and stable on the west end thereof, the garden and the privy on the south & backside of the premises, bounded by road to East Rounton to E, by Mrs Elizabeth Hildreth to W & S, by road to East Rounton, John Robinson and Mr Farnaby to N – occ by Edward Meynell;  the garth occ by Edward Meynell, bounded by Elizabeth Hildreth to E, by John Burdon to W, by Thomas Passman, Elizabeth Hildreth, Mr Kendall & William Spence to N, by road to East Rounton to S; the site where buildings lately occupied by John & Hannah Kay & taken down by Mark Barker stood; the garth now used as garden ground to the E & backside of the sd site;  the new houses built by Mark Barker on the site and part of the garth: some of the houses and the garden ground “at present unoccupied”, the others occupied by Robert Hall, William Souter, George Sanderson, John Kay, Mary Lamb, Jackson Richardson, John Wild and Thomas Shaw:  bounded by house & lands bel to Rev Richard Shepherd to E & S, by Arthur Douglas and townstreet to N & W


Lawson

‘Stokesley News & Cleveland Reporter’, 1 Jul 1844:
Births:  On Friday, June 14th, at Hutton Rudby, the wife of Mr Mark Lawson, of a son


Saturday 30 March 2013

People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Hackforth to Hewison

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



Hackforth

ET 257:  2 & 3 Jan 1823:  garth, orchard & houses, probably North End:  John Hackforth was a previous occupier


Hall

1832:  Thomas Hall was buried on Fri 12 Oct a73;  Benjamin Hall on Fri 12 Oct a25;  Jane Hall on 12 Nov a30 [PRs] – Jane Hall’s age is given as 75 in the list “Sepultorum nomina”, but as Jacob Honeyman’s name is altogether omitted, this is probably an error in Mr Barlow’s reading of a list

1 Dec 1775:  Thomas Hall married Sarah Monroe [witnesses:  Jon Eland, William Smith]
22 Dec 1775:  Thomas Hall, papermaker, buried
13 Jan 1794:  bap of Charles, son of Thomas Hall at Whorlton [IGI]
27 Mar 1806:  bap of Benjamin David, son of Thomas Hall at Whorlton [IGI]

Thomas Hall married Ann Shields 23 Nov 1809 [witnesses: John Cliborn, Anne Richardson and Michael Gill]

30 Nov 1817:  Charles Hall of Whorlton married Mary Taylor otp.  Their children’s baptisms:  Jane 1818, Elizabeth 1819, Charles 1821, John 1823, Benjamin 1827, Robinson 1829, Marianne 1831, Isabella 1837.  Charles is described as farmer 1818-9, and labourer thereafter.  Their son Benjamin married in 1851 and remarried in 1861.  Charles died in 1854 a60.  His family’s gravestone [MI 396] is near the cholera mound, and records Charles, Elizabeth his daughter who d1844 a22, and Mary his wife

Robert Hall is a tenant of Barkers Row in 1829

FQ 249:  13 & 14 Mar 1829:  exors of Wayne to Barker:  the Carpenters Arms with the cartwrights shop and stable on the west end thereof, the garden and the privy on the south & backside of the premises, bounded by road to East Rounton to E, by Mrs Elizabeth Hildreth to W & S, by road to East Rounton, John Robinson and Mr Farnaby to N – occ by Edward Meynell;  the garth occ by Edward Meynell, bounded by Elizabeth Hildreth to E, by John Burdon to W, by Thomas Passman, Elizabeth Hildreth, Mr Kendall & William Spence to N, by road to East Rounton to S; the site where buildings lately occupied by John & Hannah Kay & taken down by Mark Barker stood; the garth now used as garden ground to the E & backside of the sd site;  the new houses built by Mark Barker on the site and part of the garth: some of the houses and the garden ground “at present unoccupied”, the others occupied by Robert Hall, William Souter, George Sanderson, John Kay, Mary Lamb, Jackson Richardson, John Wild and Thomas Shaw:  bounded by house & lands bel to Rev Richard Shepherd to E & S, by Arthur Douglas and townstreet to N & W

FP 310:  12 & 13 Feb 1830:  James Catchasides jnr “late of Hutton shopkeeper and now of the township of Stockton miller” sold the ppties to Thomas Hall of Ormsby yeoman
Charles Hall was a former occupant of property, once used as a coachhouse, sold by Kay and Colebeck to Mark Barker in 1830

FT 30:  12 & 13 May 1830:  East Side:  John Kay of Hutton cartwright & others to Mark Barker & trustees:  house heretofore used as a coachhouse & formerly occ by James Ingledew, Mary Collyerson & Diana Swales, then by Elizabeth Farnaby, then by Charles Hall, then by Hannah Best, & now by Matthew Garbutt:  bounded by street to E, Mark Barker to W & S, Arthur Douglas to N

late July 1830:  James Maw went with George Bewick “to Robert Hall’s butcher’s shop;  we afterwards went to the prisoner’s house” [Yorkshire Gazette 12 Mar 1842]

Thomas Hall of Ormesby bought James Catchasides jnr’s premises near the Bay Horse in 1830.  The Hall family kept the property for many years

FU 99:  Will of Thomas Hall late of Ormesby gent dated 18 Oct 1830 & codicil dated 10 Dec 1830:  his brothers Jonathan Hall saddler of Whitby and John Hall grocer of Castleton were his executors

G Hall is in A List of Boys – Middleton Book

“Apprenticeship Indre:  Stephen Hall aged 12 years apprenticed to John Cook of Hutton near Rudby, weaver, to age 21 – April 1823:  made between William Sayer (churchwarden) and Thomas Tweddle and William Sayer (overseers of poor of township of Middleton) and Stephen Hall ‘a poor child belonging to said township of Middleton’” [NYCRO Mic 1204]

Tithe Map:  Charles Hall had a garden no 208 at the corner of South Side

1841 Census:  Charles Hall 45 ag lab and 7 children, South Side
1841 Census:  Stephen Hall 30 linen weaver and family, Castle Yard
1841 Census:  George Hall/Wall 23 servant, at Rudby Mill
1841 Census:  Charles Hall 18 servant at Windy Hill (Brigham)

Mar 1842:  Robert Hall gave evidence at the trial of Robert Goldsbrough [Yorkshire Gazette 12 Mar 1842].  He does not appear in the 1841 Census for Hutton Rudby, and no connection with the other Hall family has been established.

Elizabeth Hall died 26 Dec 1844 a22, grave396 – not in PRs

1851 Census:  South Side:  Charles 57 b Potto ag lab, Mary 51 b Crathorne, children John 28 hand loom weaver linen, Benjamin 23 ag lab, Mary Ann 19, and Edward 9, and grandson Thomas Hall 11, all b Hutton

Stephen Hall and his family may be the Halls who moved to Barnsley in the 1840s, according to Primitive Methodist records.  [Hastings: Ind Vill]

Benjamin Hall 23, labourer, son of Charles, labourer, married Hannah Braithwaite 21, daughter of Robert, tailor, on 3 May 1851 [witnesses:  Robert Oates, Wm Hebbron]

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 decd wife of Benjamin Hall:  nephew John Oates grocer. [East Side deeds]

Benjamin Hall 32 widower, groom, married Jane Wilkinson of Skutterskelf, servant, daughter of Lawrence, farmer, on 6 Apr 1861 [witnesses:  John Goldsbrough, Jane Fletcher]

1861 Census:  Mary Hall widow, with son 19, next door to
1861 Census:  Benjamin Hall, his 2nd wife and 3 children

Martha Hall is given 3s 6d on 20 Mar 1869, in Barlow’s Notebook

1871 Census:  Benjamin’s family absent.  Matthew Hall 40 master tailor b Crathorne and his family live in West End

1872 Post Office Directory:  Hutton Rudby:  Matthew Hall, tailor

24 Feb 1879:  Matthew Hall general dealer bought property on East Side from Allan Bowes Wilson [East Side deeds]

Oddfellows Board:  Bro:  Benjamin Hall, Middlesbrough, 14 Mar 1879, a53

1881 Census:  108 High Wilson Street, Middlesbrough:  Benjamin Hall’s widow Jane 49, her stepdaughter Mary A. domestic servant 23, Laurence 18 labourer b Hutton Rudby, Benjamin 16 labourer b Marton, Joseph 14 errand boy b Marton, Elizabeth 12 b Middlesbrough and George 9 b Marton

Oddfellows Board:  Bro:  John Hall, Hutton, 31 Mar 1884, a62

1884:  John died a62.  His gravestone [MI 315] records his daughter Lizzie d1893 a19, and Martha his widow d1915 a83

1887:  active members of the Primitive Methodist chapel at the time of building included William Graham Hall, Robert Maughan, Edward Bainbridge, 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]

Wednesday 27 March 2013

People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Garbutt to Grundy

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



Garbutt

8 Dec 1822:  Joseph Dalking married Jane Garbut [witnesses:  James Smith, Samuel Hebbron]

Matthew Garbutt occupied property, “heretofore used as a coachhouse”, sold by Kay and Colebeck to Mark Barker in 1830

FT 30:  12 & 13 May 1830:  East Side:  John Kay of Hutton cartwright & others to Mark Barker & trustees:  house heretofore used as a coachhouse & formerly occ by James Ingledew, Mary Collyerson & Diana Swales, then by Elizabeth Farnaby, then by Charles Hall, then by Hannah Best, & now by Matthew Garbutt:  bounded by street to E, Mark Barker to W & S, Arthur Douglas to N

late July 1830:  George Garbutt was seen in company with William Huntley and Robert Goldsbrough, who was in 1842 tried for Huntley’s murder, by James Gears and James Maw, and seen drinking with Goldsbrough and others by Anthony Wiles.  The solicitor William Garbutt testified that George Garbutt “disappeared from our neighbourhood in the autumn of 1830.  Warrants have been issued against him, but he could not be found.”  [Yorkshire Gazette 12 Mar 1842]

Tithe Map:  Isaac Whorlton owned Jacques Barn field, which Robert Garbutt occupied

G Garbutt is in A List of Boys – Middleton Book

Christopher Garbutt jnr, joiner & licensed victualler, 1840-1910, was one of those elected to the first Parish Council.

1851 Census:  Kings Head:  Christopher snr 68 b Marton & Ann Garbutt 53 b Yarm, children Mary Ann 13 and Christopher jnr 11 b Potto

1861 Census:  Kings Head:  widow Ann, son Christopher, and lodger Mary Garbutt 64 b Marton, a sister of Thomas Garbutt of Hutton Grange

1871-91 (inc) Censuses:  Kings Head:  Christopher Garbutt & family

1851 Census:  Hutton Grange:  Joseph Garbutt single 35 farmer employing 3 labourers b Marton, and brother Thomas 22 b Eston, sister Jane Garbutt 31 housekeeper b Marton and sister Elizabeth 27 b Marton;  with farm labourers George Lee 18 b Stokesley and Richard Simpson 14 b Hutton Rudby, and house servant Jane Merrington 17 b Hutton Rudby
1851 Census:  Enterpen:  Miss Mary Willins 56 independent b Hutton Rudby, with lodger Miss Mary Garbutt 50 independent b Nunthorpe
1851 Census:  Enterpen:  Dorothy Garbutt lodged with her cousin Mrs Hannah Terry

Joseph & Thomas Garbutt were two sons of Joseph & Jane Garbutt of Eston Grange.  Of the twelve children who survived to adulthood, six were newly settled in Hutton Rudby in the 1851 Census:  Joseph, Thomas, Jane and Elizabeth at Hutton Grange Farm, and Mary and Dorothy lodging in the village.  A previous tenant of Hutton Grange was their relative, Harrison Terry.  Joseph became in some way incapacitated by 1861, and Thomas took over the farm.  The family remained there for many years.
Thomas Garbutt was churchwarden 1855-7; the churchwarden who signed the articles of inquiry 1857

20 Nov 1855:  Eland to Codling: Mustard Garth 1r 28p:  previously occ by Hannah Kay widow, then by Thomas Eland, now used as allotment gardens occupied by John Sidgwick, Robert Preston, Anthony Smith, Anthony Smith jnr, Thomas Milburn, Thomas Crook and Christopher Garbutt

1859 Whellan:  Hutton Rudby:  Mr Garbutt named as one of the principal proprietors of the soil.  “Hutton Grange is a large brick building with stone dressings a quarter of a mile west from the village”.

Jun 1866:  Thomas Garbutt lost 38 out of a herd of 40 “very valuable” cattle in the rinderpest outbreak.  Nearly ¾ of his loss took place before the Act of Compensation was passed, and his friends and neighbours, led by Henry Passman, Henry Chapman & George Wilson, made up a private subscription for his benefit:  Mr Barlow £2;  Henry Passman £10;  Henry Chapman £5;  E J Wilson £5;  Rev James Alder Wilson £2;  T Bowes Wilson, Sunderland £2;  John George Wilson, Durham £1;  Medd Scarth, Carlton £2;  Thomas Foster, Ober Green £5;  Allan Bowes Wilson £5;  George Wilson £10;  William Barugh, Seamer £5;  Miss D Boyes, Hutton £2;  Mr J Goldsbro, Hutton £1;  Mr W Goldsborough, Hutton £5;  Robinson Watson Esq, Stainton £5;  F Watson, Stockton £20;  Two friends G Coates & J Hogg £5;  A friend J Wallis 10/-;  T Nesham, Ormesby £1.  Total £93.10.0

1872 Post Office Directory:  Hutton Rudby:  Miss Garbutt, Enterpen
1872 Post Office Directory:  Hutton Rudby:  Christopher Garbutt, King’s Head
1872 Post Office Directory:  Hutton Rudby:  Mrs Elizabeth Garbutt, linen manufr
1872 Post Office Directory:  Hutton Rudby:  Thomas Garbutt, farmer, Grange

Oddfellows Board:  BG:  Matthw Garbutt, Barnsley, 16 Feb 1844, a50


Monday 25 March 2013

People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Falkland to Friendly Society

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



Falkland

The 10th Viscount Lucius Bentinck Carey 1803-84 married
(1)     Amelia, by whom he had a son Lucius William Charles Augustus Frederick, born 24 Nov 1831, married 11 May 1858 and died 6 Aug 1871.  Buried Penshurst, Kent. [Memorial in chancel]
(2)     Elizabeth Catherine, Dowager Duchess of St Albans (d 2 Dec 1893) on 10 Nov 1859.  She was the youngest daughter of Maj-Gen Joseph Gubbins of Stoneham, Hants and Kilfrush, Co Limerick.  She had married the 9th Duke in May 1839, as his second wife (his first wife, the widow of the banker Coutts, had died without issue); her son was 10th Duke of Saint Albans.
On the death of the 10th Viscount 12 Mar 1884 the UK Barony (he was made Baron Hunsdon by William IV) expired.

FS 461:  2 & 3 Feb 1831:  mortgage of Rudby manor etc by Lord Falkland

FT 547:  4 Feb 1831:  mortgage of Rudby manor etc by Lord Falkland

GG 130:  31 Oct 1835:  Thomas Spence of Hutton weaver & Dorothy his wife (1) Henry Collins of Stokesley gent (2):  2 houses now used as one, the weaver’s shop adjoinging & the garden or orchard of 1r behind, occ by Thomas Spence; the butcher’s shop adjoining the weaver’s shop occ by William Sherwood:  bounded by Lord Falkland to E, street to W, Mrs Kingston to N, Edmund Taylor to S; also Gowdie/Gowlay Hill Garth 1a with cowhouse occ by Thomas Richardson:  bounded by John Charlton to E, by Francis Stainthorpe to W, by street to N, by Jane Willans & Edward Meynell to S; also house with garden & garth behind 2r, occ by William Merrington:  bounded by street to E, William Wood to W, John Seamer to N, John Rymers & Francis Stainthorpe to S; also 3 closes formerly 2 closes called the Cottager 7a, previously occ by William Braithwaite as tenant to William Spence decd:  bounded by Robert Halliday Dobson to E, George Hunter & William Ableson to W, by Rounton road to N, by Richard Johnson to S; “& all other the messuages lands tenements and hereditaments formerly belonging to Thomas Smith late of Hutton yeoman decd and comprised in his Will”

In 1842 Lord Falkland first paid one third of the expense of cleaning the church (£1-15-11 ½d)

Lord Falkland gave £20 to School Acct 1874 – Barlow’s Notebook
Lord Falkland was a major landowner in Kirklevington; there the Archbishop of York held the advowson
In 1860 Lord Falkland added an acre of ground to the churchyard [Eddowes]

“Lord Falkland has come tonight” [letter from E Garbutt 17 Aug 1863:  Letters to a Miller’s Daughter]

Date of Will        16 May 1874, executed in Paris
Date of death        12 Mar 1884
Place of death        the Villa Nevet, Montpellier, buried in cemetery there
Date of Probate    13 Jun 1884
Value of estate        gross personalty £2360-18-9d

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]


Monday 18 March 2013

People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Coates to Cust

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



Coates

William Coates was a former occupant of East Side property bought by Edmund Taylor from John and Ann Pape in 1808

DY 88 & ET 601:  James Coates was a tenant of Philip Gowland in the Bay Horse area in 1816-1823

Robert Coates was churchwarden with James Catchasides in 1819

1823 Baines:  Skutterskelfe:  Robert Coates, Tame bridge, farmer

FT 511:  11 & 12 Jan 1830:  East Side:  Edmund Taylor of Hutton joiner, Thomas Eland of City of London currier, James Bainbridge bricklayer:  the land on which James Bainbridge has lately erected 4 new houses & other buildings, 79 ft x 14 ft, and the passage thereto from the street:  previously occ by Elizabeth Robinson, then by William Coates, then by Edmund Taylor and now by James Bainbridge or his undertenants:  bounded by Thomas Passman to E, by street to W, by Roger Bowes to N, by Edmund Taylor to S:  “heretofore the estate of Joseph Tunstall and his wife Catherine”

William Coates was a tenant of East Side property apparently sold by Edmund Taylor to James Bainbridge in 1830

FU 261:   22 & 23 Nov 1831:  north end of East Side:  James Bainbridge bricklayer & Elizabeth his wife to George Grenside of Stokesley gent:  piece of ground on which he had recently built 4 new houses and other buildings, 79ft long x 14ft wide, with the passage leading to them from the street:  previously occ by Elizabeth Robinson, then by William Coates, then by Edmund Taylor, and now by James Bainbridge or his undertenants:  bounded by Thomas Passman to E, by street to W, by Roger Bowes to N, by Edmund Taylor to S:  “heretofore the estate of Joseph Tunstall & Catherine his wife”

1851 Census:  North Side:  Richard Coates 44 butcher b Castle Levington and Alice 54, also b Castle Levington, with children Ann 18 dressmaker and Robert 15, both b Hilton

Margaret Coates was in the informant on Mrs Barlow’s death certificate in 1852; she signed with her mark

Jun 1866:  Two friends, G Coates & J Hogg, gave £5 to the subscription for Thomas Garbutt


Thursday 21 February 2013

People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Bousfield to Busfield

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


Bousfield

Oddfellows Board:  Bro:  P Bousfield, Hutton, 22 Apr 1853, a57 [farmer, JBTurner]


Bowes

Roger Bowes owned property on East Side:  deeds of 1817 and 1830

EC 354:  30 Oct 1817:  James Bainbridge bricklayer (1) William Richmond of Stockton mercer & draper (2):  2 houses with garden behind, occ by James Bainbridge & John Simpson:  bounded by messuage & garden of Roger Bowes to E, by messuage & garden of Edmund Taylor to W, by street to N, by Thomas Passman to S

FC 147:  14 Nov 1825:  James Bainbridge bricklayer (1) Hutchinsons & Place bankers (2) William Richmond of Stockton mercer & draper (3) Richard Nightingale the younger of Middleton St George (4):  2 houses, lately in 3 tenements, with garden behind, formerly occ by James Bainbridge, Richard Wood & Thomas Almond, then by James Bainbridge & John Simpson, now by James & John Bainbridge; and also 2 new erected houses now in 3 tenements lately erected by James Bainbridge in the garden, now occ by George Harker, Alice Pedlar & Ann Rudd:  all bounded by messuage & garden of Roger Bowes to E, by messuage & garden of Edmund Taylor to W, by street to N, by Thomas Passman to S

FL 58:  13 May 1827:  East Side, judging by occupants & boundaries:  2 houses lately used in 3 tenements with garden behind formerly occ by James Bainbridge, Richard Wood & Thomas Almond, then by sd James Bainbridge & John Simpson, then by sd James Bainbridge & John Bainbridge:  and the 2 houses used in 3 tenements “newly created” and “lately erected” by sd James Bainbridge in the sd garden, then occupied by George Harker, Alice Pedlar & Ann Rudd:  bounded by house and garden bel to Roger Bowes to E, by Edmund Taylor to W, by street to N, by Thomas Passman to S:  parties:   Richard Nightingale the younger late of Middleton St George gent and George Stanger of Pickton farmer:  reciting indre of 14 Nov 1825 to which James Bainbridge, George & John & Henry Hutchinson, Thomas Place, William Richmond and said Richard Nightingale were parties

Monday 21 January 2013

The Will of Thomas Passman of Hutton Rudby, 1828

More from my working notes.  Again, I can't guarantee accuracy.  Thomas Passman's Will is to be found at the Borthwick Institute, York.

Thomas Passman was a yeoman farmer. 

On his death in 1830, he owned houses, buildings, yards, garths and gardens and a 4 acre close called the Holme or Hunters Holme.  Part of the property had been bought by William Passman in 1729; part Thomas had bought from Elizabeth Souter and Robert Moon Souter in 1822.  His trustees were Thomas Tweddle and Thomas Kingston;  he left his estate to his daughter Mary Kingston and her family.  The Kingston family were related to the Hebbrons. 


Thomas Passman:  Will dated 20 Oct 1828, died 11 Sep 1830, aged 80

Summary
Executrix:  Mary Kingston, his daughter.  Trustees:  Thomas Tweddell and Thomas Kingston.  His houses and the close called the Holme to his trustees on trust for sale, with daughter Mary Kingston to have a life interest.  On her death, her daughters – Elizabeth, Margaret, Mary Ann & Eleanor - to have £20 each, and the residue to go to his grandson Thomas Kingston.  Household effects and ready money to Mary Kingston
This is the last Will and Testament of me Thomas Passman of Hutton near Rudby in the County of York Yeoman made the twentieth day of October in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight

Monday 14 January 2013

Notes on Hutton Rudby's industries in the 19th century

From my research notes for Remarkable, but still True.  I can't guarantee accuracy, but I thought it might be of interest to others to see the topics brought together in this way.  I have added internet links where I have found them available.

Agriculture

1808:  Graves noted that “there are no common, or uninclosed lands, which is a circumstance of some advantage and consequence to husbandry”.

1853-70:    The “Golden Age of Farming”

1877:  the price of wheat began to drop disastrously

1894:  Royal Commission noted that in the Stokesley area wheat growing land had fallen in value by two thirds since 1879, farmers had lost their capital and three had even applied for poor relief

This depression in farming only came to an end with the First War

1801 Census    
Skutterskelfe, Sexhow and East Rounton wholly agricultural
Hutton, Rudby and Middleton 20 % agricultural and 80 % manufacturing, trade or handicraft

1808   
Graves commented that in the parish the number of people engaged in agriculture and the number engaged in trade or manufactures was nearly equal.

1831-41   
Ord noted in 1846 a decrease in population between 1831 and (probably) 1841, and attributes it to “the removal of families to Middlesborough”.

1841-51    
the linen industry collapsed. 

1841 Census
there were 37 farmers, 2 hinds and 71 agricultural labourers, 62 % men and 38 % women.  9 of the women and 10 of the men were 65 to 85 years old

1851 Census
there were 94 farm labourers and 41 farm servants – 86  labourers were men, and only 5 men and 1 woman were over 65.  The young men had been displaced from the linen industry into agriculture. 

1861 Census
there were 52 farmers, 111 labourers and 38 speciality farm workers eg ploughmen, milkmaids.   
A number of Drainers are listed in the Census – 12 men aged between 24 and 50.  One was born in Hutton, one in Stockton, 4 were Yorkshiremen, two of them married to Hutton women, one was born in Lincoln and 5 in Ireland.


Monday 31 December 2012

Chapter 21. "My intense exertions"

In Mr Barlow's notebooks we can catch a glimpse of his interests and activities in the latter part of his life. 

In the Middleton Book in his early years in the village he had written out a "Catalogue of Books", which appears to be a record of his library.

It naturally included the classical authors and a range of religious works, such as Hebrew grammars, a Hebrew Psalter, sermons, commentaries, and Waldo on Liturgy [1], but also poetry and French authors such as Pascal, Racine and Mme de Sévigné, together with dictionaries.  There were also works by the Evangelical philanthropist Hannah More, who had sought to counter the arguments of Tom Paine (the author so admired by the radicals of Stokesley) with her Cheap Repository Tracts urging the poor to work hard, respect the gentry and trust in God – views echoed in Barlow's sermon of 1833.

However Mr Barlow, though classically educated, was not interested in the usual pursuits of the scholarly Victorian cleric.

He had little interest in theological debate, and the great questions of his day that had tormented so many – from the Tracts for the Times to Essays and Reviews – seem to have made little impression upon him.

Practical matters and technology fascinated him above all, and, as can be seen in the draft of a letter [2] entitled "Suggestions upon the construction and armour of ships of war", his preoccupations were not those normally expected of Victorian clergy.  The letter must date from the mid-1860s, as the Armstrong gun itself was only introduced in 1859:
My Lord Duke.  Having carefully studied the experiments lately made at Shoeburyness upon the Hercules target which resisted a 300lbs shot propelled by a 60lb charge target coated with 9in armour backed by wood and iron the bolt having merely penetrated the 9in plate … and finding that such target resisted a 300lb Armstrong gun with a charge of 60lbs of powder …
… bearing all this fully in mind I am of opinion that the plan I now submit to your Grace will in several respects be found superior to the Hercules target.  On the other side I give the sketch of a ships side from which it will be seen that my plan is to reduce the vital part of a ship to a minimum and to surround that portion with an impregnable belt …

Saturday 15 December 2012

Chapter 9. Mr Barlow & his Neighbourhood

Robert may have already visited his brother James in Hampshire, but it is possible that he had never set foot in England before his arrival in early 1831.

He was instituted vicar of Hutton Rudby on 3 January [1], and arrived in the parish a short while later [2], a young and energetic man dressed in the usual clothes of a gentleman – it was not then customary for clergymen to wear clerical dress. 

There was no parsonage house at Hutton Rudby.

Mr Grice had lived in Hutton and purchased property of his own in the parish, and Mr Shepherd seems to have rented Hutton House from Lady Amherst.  An earlier vicar, George Stainthorpe, had lived in Rudby "in a house which I farm of the Honourable Colonel", George Cary. 

Accompanied by his wife and possibly one of his spinster sisters to keep her company, Mr Barlow settled into a comfortable house a little way outside Enterpen.  This had previously been known as Suggitt's Grove, and had been the home of Benjamin David Suggitt, the gentlemanly yeoman farmer who had built the Primitive Methodists their chapel.  The planting of an avenue of lime trees had given rise to a new and more genteel name, Linden Grove, and it now belonged to Suggitt's nephew, Dr George Merryweather of Whitby.  Merryweather, who was the inventor of the  Tempest Prognosticator, a device using leeches in jars to forecast bad weather, let the property, with some additional farmland, to Mr Barlow.