About this Blog

Briefly a solicitor - a local historian for a long time now - until very recently I ran a local history website called www.jakesbarn.co.uk.  My main focus was the area round Hutton Rudby, where I lived for many years.

Unfortunately, the site was old and creaky and got hacked once too often.  I nearly gave it all up, but I know a lot of people had found it useful - so I've decided to try using a blog instead.  Here goes ...


17 comments:

  1. Dave Honneyman2 October 2012 at 18:44

    Great to see you back with these beautiful snippets of our history..Take care. Dave

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  2. nilly2 October 2012 at 20:15

    I was pleased to receive your email telling me about your new family history blog. I wonder if you plan to have have a way that one can subscribe to your blog, either by email or by becoming "follower"?
    M any thanks,
    Marilyn Hall.

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  3. Alice Barrigan2 October 2012 at 21:25

    Putting my mind to it shortly!

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  4. Alice Barrigan5 October 2012 at 22:03

    I've put it at the bottom of the page -

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  5. Anonymous5 September 2013 at 10:54

    I used to enjoy visiting Jakes Barn but this is even better. A superb site - not just amazingly informative but interestingly written. Keep up the amazing work - and thank you!

    Laurel Sayer

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  6. Anonymous17 October 2013 at 23:04

    Enjoying your blog very much - please keep going. A branch of my family, Rickatson, seem to have wandered to Hutton Rudby from Stainton in Cleveland in early (19th - while my direct line took a more extreme diversion all the way to NZ. So I have much too learn about what they had left behind.

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  7. Anonymous20 April 2014 at 18:07

    Fantastic site. I'm researching my family history and come from the Whorlton/Honeyman line, so whilst the name confusion still isn't cleared up at least I know I'm not going mad!

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  8. Pat Searle11 November 2014 at 12:06

    I've just come across your new website Alice when looking for a photo of All Saints Hutton Rudby to use on our Christmas Card. I will contact you for permission if it is decided to use one.

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  9. Alice Barrigan11 November 2014 at 12:57

    OK Pat!

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  10. Jonsey McD6 September 2015 at 22:53

    I am researching my family history, descended from Jane Flintoff who lived in this interesting village, but left (probably) with her brother Christopher or sisters Mary or Sarah around 1772-1774 to move to Nova Scotia on Canada's east coast. I think her father's name was also Christopher and in Nova Scotia, she married William Humphrey (another Yorkshire emigrant, thought to be from Northallerton). They had 5 children and interestingly the name Flintoff remained in the Humphrey family for 4 generations!

    I am coming to visit the area in mid Oct and would love to speak with a local historian who may be able to fill in some blanks. My email is
    jonseymcd@gmail.com look forward to seeing Hutton Rudby and meeting my past...

    thanks
    Joan McDougall

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  11. Andrew30 January 2016 at 12:01

    Great site! It's been really useful in researching my family tree. I'm related to both the Fawcetts of Crathorne and the Honeymans of Hutton Rudby. My great-great-grandfather George Fawcett married my great-great-grandmother Mary Honeyman in Seamer (near Stokesley) in 1876.

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  12. Dave Honneyman13 February 2016 at 12:39

    With regard to the Honeyman Families of Hutton Rudby, I've done quite a bit of research and am willing to share it.
    I have a website called the Honneybunch, you'd need to e-mail me for the access code: davehonneyman@live.co.uk

    I'm particularly interested in contacting "Andrew" (Fawcett/Honeyman line), and "Annonymous" (Whorlton/Honeyman line).
    cheers,
    Dave Honneyman.

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  13. Kathleen2 March 2021 at 14:02

    Hello Dave, I used to visit your website 'the Honeybunch' but I can't find it now. I lost my favourites bookmark. I am Ada Honeyman's Grandaughter, we have spoken before. I have tried tto email you but address is not working now. Perhaps you could let me know. Thank you

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  14. Noelle Ward (Ingledew/ Cook ancestry)6 June 2023 at 19:37

    Hello, my ancestor was Margaret Cook, born 1809, daughter of Mary (nee Richardson) and Robert Cooke weavers of Hutton Rudby. I’m trying to find if she was related to John Cook who died in the 1832 cholera epidemic. She died in 1873, residence Hutton Rudby named Margaret Lundy. I’m also trying to find what happened to John Ingledew her first husband (married in Hutton Rudby in 1828). Thanks

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    1. Alice Barrigan6 June 2023 at 19:54

      I'm afraid I have no more information than you can find on the blog at 'People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Coates to Cust' (posted in March 2013) and 'People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Illegitimacy to Ingledew' (posted in April 2013).

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  15. Diana Harmsworth Ullman25 October 2023 at 17:42

    Alice, I have just found your blog while researching Drumrauch. I recall very well meeting you in 2004 when visiting with my husband. I have a handful of original photos of Drumrauch including the post card shown in your blog, a few from the marriage of my great Aunt Helen Mabel Harmsworth and others when my mother lived there in the 1930's. Peter Sadler took the Blair name as the only son of GY Blair had died young and there was no heir to carry the Blair name. Family lore tells that when giving permission for the marriage, the condition was that Peter must take the Blair name. As a family historian myself, I enjoyed your stories and your writing very much.

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