North Yorkshire History

It's 14 February and so it's Valentine's Day – and on this day in 1855 a party of 28 people left the little North Yorkshire haml...

In order to make the preceding piece about Thomas Milner readable, I have moved a good bit of the detail into these notes.  Here you will f...

... from my working notes ... accuracy not guaranteed ... for explanatory note, see post of 14 Feb 2013 Wailes 1840 Whites:  East Rounto...

In the 18th and 19th centuries, a family called Jackson farmed at Lackenby and Lazenby, two small hamlets in the parish of Wilton, at the no...

1832  Burials Register, All Saints', Rudby-in-Cleveland Entries made by Revd R J Barlow The register shows: Name – Abode – Wh...

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...

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 them...

Most of the Faceby villagers settled in Weber County, which lies between the Wasatch Mountains and the Great Salt Lake.  It had been the hom...

The 4th Company was under Captain Richard Ballantyne .  He was 37 years old and Scottish by birth.  He had lived in America for many years a...

John and Elizabeth Etherington, aged 61 and 56, were travelling with four of their children: their two youngest, Thomas (19) and Mary (20); ...

Atchison in Kansas Territory was a new town, still under construction.  The people of Atchison were glad to welcome the Mormon emigrants bec...

More than half the Mormon emigrants on board the Siddons were stopping in the eastern states, to earn money to make the rest of the journey...

1855: Faceby to Liverpool In the bitter cold of early February 1855, the Faceby Saints made ready to leave.  Charles Hogg "delivere...

With Mitt Romney in the final days of his campaign to be President of the USA, this seems the ideal time for the story of the villagers of F...