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)

This page was revised, rewritten & reposted on 4 March 2022

The two letters quoted below were among the small collection of letters referred to in the post of 4 March 2022 about Jane's brother, the Revd William Atkinson.  I have made some alterations to spelling and punctuation for readability's sake.

Jane was born in 1751, the daughter of Thomas Atkinson of Scaling Dam (a hamlet on the Whitby to Guisborough road) and his wife Elizabeth Featherstone.  She grew up at Kirkleatham where her father was Master of the Blue Coat Boys at Sir William Turner's Hospital.  Her younger brother Thomas Atkinson was a surgeon who wrote a journal of a whaling voyage to the Davis Straits in 1774

Jane married Thomas Galilee on 4 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 

St Mary's Rotherhithe by Rob Kam

Jane and Thomas spent many years in Rotherhithe, where their daughters were born and baptised, living in a house that Thomas owned in Princes Street.  They were living there in 1788 when he wrote to his wife from Narva in Estonia on 21 May.  At the time, the main trade with the Baltic was in timber and Thomas was taking on a load of sawn boards ("deals").  

Narva, May 21st 1788

My Dear Jane, 

I have now the pleasure to acquaint you that I am all Loaded except one pram of deals which I hope to get on board to night.  We have had a very troublesome time of it in the Bay and very cold weather that several of my people is laid up.  I hope in God this will find you in good health and all my dear children as bless God I am at present and I hope soon to have a happy meeting.  I have no news to tell you as this is the first time I have been in town since I arrived – it seems to be a poor place and every thing is very dear so that I have not bought you anything.  Please to acquaint Mr. Richardson of my being loaded and not to forget the Insurance 

I hope soon to have the pleasure to see you, pray give my love to my children &c, I am your ever affectionate and

Loving Husband

Thomas Galilee

It seems he had two passengers with him – perhaps they were there for the experience – but they hadn't enjoyed the trip much.  He ends his letter

My Two young Gentlemen is very well but I fancy this Voyage will make them sick of the sea.

It seems very likely that, when the Ship News in the Kentish Gazette on 20 June 1788 reported that the "Amphion, Gallilee, from Narva" had passed Gravesend on 16 June, it was Captain Thomas Galilee returning home. 

The following year, the French Revolution began and in 1792 Britain and France were at war.  The days of peaceful sailing to the coasts of Europe were over and life must have become considerably more complicated for master mariners.  By the summer of 1795, Thomas and Jane had moved across the river to Number 168 Wapping High Street where Jane was now trading as a China and Slop-Seller, with help in the business from the older girls.  Because of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, Britain's Navy and merchant marine were of great size and enormous importance, so there must have been plenty of possibilities in selling slops – that is, clothing for sailors.  In 1797 Jane was left a widow with 6 daughters aged between 10 and 19 – I can't find out whether Thomas died on land or at sea. 

A letter written by Jane to her daughter Elizabeth on 18 March 1808 gives us a glimpse of her character and her situation.  Elizabeth was 28 years old and at home in Wapping.  She would soon be married to William Williamson, a master mariner.

Jane wrote from Stapleford near Cambridge where she had been looking after her brother William

My dear Girl 

I recd: your affection letter by the Fly [a light type of coach], accompanied by Margaret's, with both of which I was very well pleased.  I have since then had little to communicate and writing time is attended with great difficulty, as your Uncle now gets up as early as I do, he is very much amended since I wrote last, he eats very well and all his complaints diminish gradually, except his deafness, and that continues very much the same, he has walked in his Close almost every day but now that must be all over for a time as it is snowing very fast

She expected to be back in Wapping before long as she wasn't really needed in Stapleford any more. 

Give my kind love to Mr: W[illiamson]: I am much obliged to him for his kind attention to me, and I shall always make it my study to make every thing as agreeable to you both as I possibly can, it is my constant wish that you should remain with me until Michaelmas at least, and in all that time we shall be able to make a more prudent arrangement, than we possibly could in this short time

I'm not sure if that means that she wants Elizabeth to delay getting married or that she would like the newly-weds to live with her till September.  At any event, Elizabeth married Mr Williamson twelve days later in Wapping.  One of the witnesses was her married sister Mary Richmond and another was either her mother Jane, or her sister Jane.

Jane was now planning her own future.  Elizabeth's younger sister Harriet was at Stapleford as her uncle William's housekeeper and Jane Galilee intended to move there herself.  Her plans had taken a little careful management of her brother

I never mentioned the cottage to your uncle before yesterday, he said he never meant to let it until I could think of taking it, though it is a matter I often wished.  I was very doubtful whether to take it or not when it came within my reach, I explained to him all my motives for taking it, without reserve and how I wished to live there, and I could find, that his wishes and views were widely different to mine.  This was what I always expected, however I am quite decided to stick to my original plan, and he seemed very much pleased upon the whole, and I believe Harriet is the same.

Harriet's situation was clearly an important consideration for Jane 

I hope it should be a great relief to her, she is very much confined, and the rest of the people she does see can neither afford her much advantage or amusement, but we can talk all this over when we must, and I should [not] have mentioned [it] now, if I had not got this immense sheet of paper.

A little maternal advice was now in order:

It is gratifying to me to find that my dear Elizabeth is perfectly satisfied with the protection I have been able to afford her, and I will be equally candid in telling her, that I am thoroughly satisfied with the return she has made, I am proud to recollect some instances which placed her in a very amiable light, however I will not affect to misunderstand what you allude to, as I think it almost your only fault, to be rather hasty in your temper.  It is therefore my duty to advise you to correct it.  Your good sense will however point this out to you, as it sometimes happens that a few acrimonious words will disturb the harmony of my years.    

My dear Girl, if I thought you would be seriously hurt at what I have written I would blot it out, and I should not have so, if I did not think you alluded to it yourself, as it is a matter that never gave me any lasting pain, knowing as I did how good you were in essentials.

She then goes on to give the news.  They hadn't had so many visitors in the last two or three days.  A Mr Pagett had gone to London, a Mr B. to Norfolk.  The doctor hadn't come for a week and the judge was in Cambridge.  Elizabeth's sister Harriet 

has had several Fits this last week, I am much concerned for her

but that must have been something that Elizabeth knew all about, so Jane moved swiftly on to bonnets

I do not suppose I can do any thing for you or your Sister?  Harriet called at Mrs Rawlings with Mrs Martindale, but there was not a single Bonnet to be seen.  Mrs [illeg] says the straw is very cheap now, I had a mind to bring some home and get a Bonnet made in London.

I've made some guesses at some of last lines of the letter, which ends warm and affectionately:

I shall now conclude this unconnected Epistle, by desiring my dear Girl [should have] no scruple in expressing any wish that I can be ---ciable [?] in, as she may be assured that I will, now and ever, be proud and happy to do everything promote her comfort, and happiness

and Jane ends with her prayer for Elizabeth's married life

that both parties may mutually concur in deserving, and enjoying, that happiness, which the good and virtuous can only know, shall be ever the prayer of your Affectionate Mother  

Jane Galilee

My kindest Love to your Sisters

Jane spent her last years in the cottage in Stapleford where she died on 19 December 1817 aged 66.  She was buried at Whaddon, a few miles from Stapleford, because it was there that the graves of her parents and brother Isaac were to be found.   

Thomas Galilee and Jane Atkinson had 6 daughters who survived infancy:

• Mary Galilee (1778-1857)
• she was baptised at St Mary's, Rotherhithe on 26 August 1778
• she married Sunderland-born George Richmond (1790-1862), master mariner and shipowner on 29 January 1807 at Wapping parish church.  
• by the time of the 1851 Census, she and husband and their daughter Jane were living in the Trinity Almshouse at Greenwich 
• Mary died in 1857 and George in 1862
• Mary and George had two children:
• Jane Richmond (1812-1904) remained unmarried.  The censuses find her living with one or more of her unmarried nieces in various parts of London
• George Richmond (1817-85) was a journalist and editor of the Sussex Express and Surrey Standard.

George lived in Lewes, Sussex for many years until his death.  He and his wife Maria had 5 daughters and 3 sons. The report of his funeral in the Hastings and St Leonards Observer of 23 May 1885 said he was "the oldest Tory journalist in Sussex, and was the Editor of the Sussex Express before some of those writers who now call themselves middle-aged were born.  He was known as a very consistent man, and one who always upheld the policy of Conservatism"

• Elizabeth Galilee (1780-1867) 
• she was baptised on 22 March 1780 at Rotherhithe
• she married William Williamson (1790-1832), master mariner, on 30 March 1808 in Rotherhithe
• they had 3 children
• William Williamson (c1810-99)
• Emma Williamson (1817-1901)
• Harriet Williamson (1820-1903)

The story of the Williamsons is told in The Revd William Atkinson of Kirkleatham & Cambridge (1755-1830)

• Harriet Galilee (1782-1862) 
• she was baptised 31 July 1782
• she lived in Stapleford near Cambridge as her uncle William's housekeeper and afterwards with her unmarried sisters in Stapleford
• she died on 22 May 1862 aged 80 and was buried at Whaddon with her mother, uncles and grandparents

• Jane Galilee (1784-1856) 
• she was baptised 4 April 1784
• she was the second wife of George Langborne (1773-1832), master mariner, ship owner and ship builder of Whitby.  They married on 3 October 1811 at Wapping and lived in Whitby
• she and George had 7 daughters and 1 son:
• Jane Langborne (1812-58), b 15 Aug 1812, d 1 Feb 1858                          
• Nathaniel Langborne (1814-43)                  
• Ann Langborne (1817-49), wife of John Buchannan (1810-91), solicitor.  
• Mary Eleanor Langborne (1819-84)                                   
• Harriet Langborne (1821-89)                     
• Margaret Langborne (1825-1910)            
• Eliza Langborne (1826-66)                    
• Georgiana Langborne (1829-1903) 

For more on the Langborne family and Jane Galilee and the lives of her children see The family of Nathaniel Langborne (1739-1807), son of Michael & Eleanor Langborne 

• Margaret Galilee (c1785-1880)
• she was born c1785 (but I can't find her baptism)
• she never married.  She lived with her sisters Harriet & Henrietta in Stapleford and outlived them both, dying at the age of 94 on 17 August 1880.  I think, from her grant of Probate, that her niece Jane Richmond lived with her in her last days.  She is buried at Stapleford.

• Henrietta Galilee 1787-1872)
• she was baptised 1 August 1787
• she lived at Stapleford with her sisters until her death aged 84 on 17 February 1872 1872.  She is buried at Stapleford

St Andrew's Stapleford, Cambs. CC BY-SA 2.0 by John Salmon

Captain Thomas Galilee (1744-97) and his family

Jane Galilee (1783-1856), the second wife of George Langborne (1773-1832), was the daughter of Captain Thomas Galilee of Whitby and Jane Atkinson of Kirkleatham. 

Her father Captain Thomas Galilee and his brother Samuel (also a master mariner) are examples (as in the story of Captain Thomas King, merchant of Wapping of the link between Whitby and the River Thames.

Jane and her five sisters were all born in Rotherhithe,  where Jane was christened at St Mary's, Rotherhithe on 4 April 1784 at the age of one. 

Captain Thomas Galilee (1744-97) was the son of John Galilee and Mary Campion of the parish of Hinderwell, on the coast north of Whitby:


John Galilee married Mary Campion at Hinderwell in 1741.

Their children were
•    Jane Galilee, bap 8 Oct 1742
•    Thomas Galilee, bap 27 Feb 1744
•    John Galilee, bap 29 Sep 1747
•    Robert Galilee, bap 20 Sep 1750
•    Mary Galilee, bap 17 May 1753
•    Samuel Galilee, bap 9 Dec 1755
•    Hannah Galilee, bap 26 Oct 1758
•    Margaret Galilee, bap 23 Jul 1761
•    “female” (?Henrietta) Galilee, bap 2 Sep 1763

A note, written by a much later hand (possibly Capt Galilee’s granddaughter Miss Margaret Langborne 1825-1910) on the inside back cover of Thomas Atkinson's Whaling Journal was very useful in confirming that this was the family of Captain Thomas Galilee.  It states:

"Robert lived at Staithes and Jack at Sunderland both I believe also [drank?] like fishes as was the correct thing in those days for sailors.
Aunts Potter and Chilton were sisters"

[The word in square brackets is fairly illegible, but I’m afraid it does look very like “drank”!]

Ralph Hedley & Hutton Rudby

I've heard from Clodagh Brown with more details of places to see paintings by Ralph Hedley in June 2013, the centenary of his death.

The Shipley Art Gallery in Gateshead has an exhibition called  Ralph Hedley: Painting the North East, which is on from now until December 21st.

In mid-June, the Cathedral church of St Nicholas in Newcastle will have an exhibition on the subject of Hedley, who worked on the cathedral's choir stalls and misericords.  There will be a celebratory choral evensong - I will post details when I have them.

And of course there are the Hedley paintings in the Laing to visit.

When you go there, those of you with Hutton Rudby connections might like to take a close look at the The Sail Loft.

One of the bales of canvas is clearly marked "Geo Wilson, Hutton Rudby, Cleveland, Yorkshire":

detail: The Sail Loft

My earlier post on Ralph Hedley and Allan Bowes Wilson of Hutton Rudby is here

The family of Nathaniel Langborne (1739-1807), son of Michael & Eleanor Langborne

Nathaniel Langborne was born 26 December 1739. 
On 17 July 1766, he married Ann Baker; he is described in the parish register entry as Carpenter. 

Nathaniel Langborne (1739-1807) and Ann Baker (c1742-84) had 15 children in 18 years of marriage.
Nine of the children died in infancy, and two died in their teens. 

Ann herself died at the age of 42 and was buried on 29 Aug 1784, a week after the funeral of her last baby, Henry, who had lived only 12 days after his baptism.  She was survived by five of her children, but her daughter Anne died, aged 8 at her mother’s death, died ten years later.

The children were:

•    Michael, b 2 May 1767, bur 12 Jan 1768
•    Mary, b 1768, bur 6 Apr 1769   
•    Eleanor, b 22 Feb 1769, bur 29 Dec 1782 (aged 13)   
•    George, b 1 Feb 1770, bur 7 Oct 1770
•    Nathaniel Langborne (1771-1833)   
•    George, b 28 May 1772, died the same year   
•    George Langborne (1773-1832)   
•    Michael, b 12 Nov 1774, bur 23 Nov 1774     
•    Anne, b 3 Dec 1775, bur 11 July 1794 (aged 18)
•    Mary Langborne (1777-?)     
•    Frances, b 16 Feb 1778, bur 11 Apr 1778      
•    Michael, b 1779, bur 13 Sep 1779 (aged 3 weeks)
•    John Langborne (1781-1836)
•    Michael, bap 17 Dec 1782, bur 19 Dec 1782       
•    Henry, bap 10 Aug 1784, bur 22 Aug 1784       

Nathaniel, George, Mary and John lived to be mentioned in their father Nathaniel's Will.