Photographs and a sketch map of old Nunthorpe (Station - not old Nunthorpe Village) can be found on the Nunthorpe History Group website.
The sketch map identifies the houses of Duncan Stubbs and Gerald Cochrane, while the surrounding area can be seen more clearly on the old maps page of the site.
Sunday 11 November 2012
War begins - Nunthorpe, 1914
Thomas Duncan Henlock (“Duncan”) Stubbs was a 42 year old Middlesbrough solicitor when war broke out. He lived with his wife and family in the little rural hamlet that had grown up around Nunthorpe railway station. As a Captain in the Territorial Army in the Northumbrian (Heavy) Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery, he was called up immediately.
He began to keep a diary. It begins on Tuesday 4 August 1914 and it is written in ink and pencil on lined foolscap paper. It appears to be a fair copy, with additions and alterations, presumably (given the detail involved) from notes made at the time. He was a methodical man.
Extracts from the first ten days of the diary follow. They give a vivid picture of public reaction at the beginning of the War, on Teesside and Tyneside.
It begins with a summary of events in Europe:
He began to keep a diary. It begins on Tuesday 4 August 1914 and it is written in ink and pencil on lined foolscap paper. It appears to be a fair copy, with additions and alterations, presumably (given the detail involved) from notes made at the time. He was a methodical man.
Extracts from the first ten days of the diary follow. They give a vivid picture of public reaction at the beginning of the War, on Teesside and Tyneside.
It begins with a summary of events in Europe:
1914.
Tuesday 4th August
For a week past there has been talk of war. Austria’s declaration of War against Servia has started the ball rolling […]
Britain calls upon [Germany] to declare that the neutrality of Belgium shall be preserved. Germany declines stating that to do so would disclose an important part of her plan of campaign […]
The British fleet is fully mobilized, the reserves, even the Dartmouth cadets, are called up and about 7pm on Tuesday 4th August 1914 the order goes forth for the general mobilization of the whole British Army.and then Duncan Stubbs begins to document his own experiences:
This is a purely personal account of my own doings as Captain in the Northumbrian North Riding Heavy Battery, which Battery I have had the honour of commanding for about 12 months past.
Saturday 10 November 2012
Remembrance Day in Hutton Rudby 1927
12 Nov 1927:
By Lantern Light
Moving Night Scene at Village Shrine
Snow was falling heavily when Hutton Rudby’s ex-Servicemen, proceeding in three sections through the village, converged on the war memorial at 8 o’clock last night.
They formed in a crescent in front of the memorial and behind them took their stands a number of inhabitants who had been attracted by the storm lanterns carried by the ex-Servicemen as they came through the village.
The ceremony which followed was brief and simple. Major Williams, the senior officer on parade, called the names. Those present and then those of the 29 men whose names are inscribed on the war memorial.
Silence followed. This was broken by the Vicar (the Rev. Arthur L Leeper), who, facing the memorial, recited the following lines from the Toc H ceremony.
With proud thanksgiving let us remember our comrades.
They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn;
At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them.
To this the men on parade responded “We will remember them.”
A brief prayer by the Vicar that Light perpetual might shine upon the fallen ones, and then the ex-Servicemen faded silently away.
It was an impressive ceremony and some of those standing round the memorial were visibly affected.
Hutton Rudby & parish in 1872
Rudby parish as described in the Post Office Directory of 1872:
RUDBY-IN-CLEVELAND is a township, parish, and small village, 4 miles south-west from Stokesley, and 6 south-east from Yarm, in the west division of Langbaurgh liberty, Stokesley union and county court district, rural deanery of Cleveland, archdeaconry of Cleveland, and diocese of York, situated on the northern bank of the river Leven.
The church of All Saints is an old Gothic stone building in good repair, with a tower, nave, aisle, chancel, porch, and 3 bells; the interior contains a sarcophagus, with the date 1423, to the memory of Robert Wyclyft, rector of this parish; also a monument to the Layton family, dated 1594, and marble tablets to the memory of the Honorable George Cary, son of Lucius Henry Viscount Falkland, who died April 11, 1792, aged 81; also his wife, Isabella Cary, who died the 12th day of April, 1799, aged 81. The register dates from the year 1584.
The living is a vicarage, with Middleton and East Rounton annexed, joint yearly value £270, with residence, in the gift of Viscount Falkland and held by the Rev. Robert Joseph Barlow, M.A of Trinity College, Dublin. The vicarage is a neat modern building, situated on a commanding eminence about a mile from the village, erected by the present incumbent in 1843.
Adjoining to the churchyard, to the west, is a school-house, erected and endowed about the year 1740, at the expense of Charles Bathurst, esq., for the education of boys and girls.
The charities, bequeathed by Lady Amherst, are of £10 yearly value. Viscount Falkland is lord of the manor and chief landowner.
The soil is loamy; subsoil, strong clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans and oats. The population in 1861 was 69, and in 1871, 61; the area is 880 acres; gross estimated rental, £1,341; rateable value, £1,222.
Parish Clerk, Spencer Holmes.
The nearest post office is at Hutton Rudby.- Henry Willins, receiver. Letters arrive from Yarm at 9.35 a.m; dispatched, 4.15 p.m. Yarm is its money order office.
CARRIERS TO -
MIDDLESBROUGH – James Sidgwick, Friday
STOCKTON – John Bainbridge, Wednesday and Saturday; William Richardson & James Sidgwick, Wednesday
STOKESLEY – William Richardson, Saturday
RUDBY-IN-CLEVELAND is a township, parish, and small village, 4 miles south-west from Stokesley, and 6 south-east from Yarm, in the west division of Langbaurgh liberty, Stokesley union and county court district, rural deanery of Cleveland, archdeaconry of Cleveland, and diocese of York, situated on the northern bank of the river Leven.
The living is a vicarage, with Middleton and East Rounton annexed, joint yearly value £270, with residence, in the gift of Viscount Falkland and held by the Rev. Robert Joseph Barlow, M.A of Trinity College, Dublin. The vicarage is a neat modern building, situated on a commanding eminence about a mile from the village, erected by the present incumbent in 1843.
Adjoining to the churchyard, to the west, is a school-house, erected and endowed about the year 1740, at the expense of Charles Bathurst, esq., for the education of boys and girls.
The charities, bequeathed by Lady Amherst, are of £10 yearly value. Viscount Falkland is lord of the manor and chief landowner.
The soil is loamy; subsoil, strong clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans and oats. The population in 1861 was 69, and in 1871, 61; the area is 880 acres; gross estimated rental, £1,341; rateable value, £1,222.
Parish Clerk, Spencer Holmes.
CARRIERS TO -
MIDDLESBROUGH – James Sidgwick, Friday
STOCKTON – John Bainbridge, Wednesday and Saturday; William Richardson & James Sidgwick, Wednesday
STOKESLEY – William Richardson, Saturday
Friday 9 November 2012
Walking from Swainby to Faceby - the video
An effortless way to visit the Faceby area:
This video, from Walking With The Taxi Driver, follows a walk in early spring from Swainby to Faceby and back, returning past Whorlton Castle - more photographs of which can be found on wikipedia.
The video walk takes a few minutes to download - it isn't on the Taxi Driver's youtube channel.
This video, from Walking With The Taxi Driver, follows a walk in early spring from Swainby to Faceby and back, returning past Whorlton Castle - more photographs of which can be found on wikipedia.
The video walk takes a few minutes to download - it isn't on the Taxi Driver's youtube channel.
Later arrivals join the Faceby Mormons in Utah
Family and friends had been left behind when the Faceby villagers left for America in 1855. Some of them were able to make the journey themselves much later.
James and Isabella Stanger travel to Utah 1869
The home of James Stanger and his wife Isabella had been the centre of Mormon missionary activity in Faceby, but in 1855 when their three youngest children left for Utah, they stayed behind with their sons James and John.
James Stanger junior(1815-98), a farm labourer, had married Ann Elliott of Hutton Rudby in 1839. Their eighth child, Henry, was baptised in Faceby in May 1855 - his uncles and aunt had, by then, arrived at Mormon Grove in Kansas Territory. James and Ann did not become Mormons. By 1861, James was farming 45 acres at Faceby on his own account, and within a few years he moved his family to Kirby Sigston, where he farmed 75 acres at Sigston Lodge. From there he went to be at the bedside of the Revd Robert Barlow of Hutton Rudby during his last illness, and registered the death recording his relationship to Mr Barlow as 'cousin'. He and his wife Ann are buried at Faceby.
By the time the Mormon missionaries arrived in Faceby, John Stanger (1819-98) and his wife Anna Winter were living about ten miles away, at Landmoth-with-Catto near Leake. They were farming 100 acres at 'Marrigold Hill' (later Marigold Hall, and now Marigold Farm) - this had been Anna's father's farm.
In 1852, their daughter Isabella was born, and in 1854, Anna gave birth to Mary Ann. But within weeks, Anna was dead and John was left with two small children. It seems very likely that his parents moved to Landmoth to help John after their younger children left for Utah. Within weeks of the departure of the Faceby Saints, John's baby daughter also died.
James and Isabella Stanger travel to Utah 1869
The home of James Stanger and his wife Isabella had been the centre of Mormon missionary activity in Faceby, but in 1855 when their three youngest children left for Utah, they stayed behind with their sons James and John.
James Stanger junior(1815-98), a farm labourer, had married Ann Elliott of Hutton Rudby in 1839. Their eighth child, Henry, was baptised in Faceby in May 1855 - his uncles and aunt had, by then, arrived at Mormon Grove in Kansas Territory. James and Ann did not become Mormons. By 1861, James was farming 45 acres at Faceby on his own account, and within a few years he moved his family to Kirby Sigston, where he farmed 75 acres at Sigston Lodge. From there he went to be at the bedside of the Revd Robert Barlow of Hutton Rudby during his last illness, and registered the death recording his relationship to Mr Barlow as 'cousin'. He and his wife Ann are buried at Faceby.
By the time the Mormon missionaries arrived in Faceby, John Stanger (1819-98) and his wife Anna Winter were living about ten miles away, at Landmoth-with-Catto near Leake. They were farming 100 acres at 'Marrigold Hill' (later Marigold Hall, and now Marigold Farm) - this had been Anna's father's farm.
In 1852, their daughter Isabella was born, and in 1854, Anna gave birth to Mary Ann. But within weeks, Anna was dead and John was left with two small children. It seems very likely that his parents moved to Landmoth to help John after their younger children left for Utah. Within weeks of the departure of the Faceby Saints, John's baby daughter also died.
Thursday 8 November 2012
The Faceby Mormons settle in Utah
Most of the Faceby villagers settled in Weber County, which lies between the Wasatch Mountains and the Great Salt Lake. It had been the home of the Ute and the Shoshone, and was well-watered, said to have rich soil, winters not too severe for the area, and plenty of game. The main settlement was Ogden, where many of the Faceby pioneers are buried.
They lived through eventful times.
They lived through eventful times.
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