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Showing posts with label Great Ayton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Great Ayton. Show all posts
Sunday, 13 July 2025

John Wrightson, the Wise Man of Stokesley

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In the days when people were nervous of witches, and called on the wake-wailer to come each evening before a funeral to sing the lyke wake t...
Saturday, 12 July 2025

Thomas Wayne (1727-1806) and the "Mystery of Angrove Hall"

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In the 1990s Peter Meadows was working on an article on the subject of a lost Cleveland house called Angrove (also Anngrove or Ann-grove) Ha...
Saturday, 28 October 2023

Dark nights in Great Ayton: 1889

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This sad little story is a reminder of village life before street lighting.  We are so conscious of light pollution nowadays, we can forget ...
Saturday, 6 March 2021

North Yorkshire dialect – & the White Horse of Kilburn

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As I said in On the Sea Cliffs of Cleveland , my last blogpost, one of William Stott Banks' great interests was Yorkshire dialect.   He ...
Monday, 30 April 2018

Joseph Hill Appleton (1811-80) and the Meynell family

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A reader has been in touch and would like to be in contact with anyone who has any information on the family of Joseph Hill Appleton (born i...
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Tuesday, 15 August 2017

Thomas Wayne of Angrove Hall

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York Herald, 15 August 1801 GAME WHEREAS the GAME within the Manors of HIGH WORSALL, HUTTON near RUDBY, AND KIRBY, belonging to THOMAS ...
Friday, 27 June 2014

Probate of Ralph Day, weaver of Great Ayton: 1704

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 Probate of Ralph Day 1704
Tuesday, 24 June 2014

Thomas Graham of Ayton Hall & his family

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More notes on Thomas Graham.  For this information I am very grateful to Trevor Littleton of the Cumbria FHS:- The parents of Monkhouse ...
Monday, 23 June 2014

Thomas Graham of Ayton Hall

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Ayton Hall stands near the River Leven in the large picturesque village of Great Ayton.  At the end of the 18th century it was the home...
Thursday, 6 March 2014

Smallpox by hospital-acquired infection in Hutton Rudby in 1893

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Two rather dark tales from the newspapers: Northern Echo Monday 2 October 1893 Stokesley Guardians   A case of scarlet fever was report...
Monday, 22 April 2013

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

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... from my working notes ... accuracy not guaranteed ... for explanatory note, see post of 14 Feb 2013 Mease Update 29 Feb 2020 :  Joh...
Wednesday, 23 January 2013

Will of Mark Barker of Great Ayton, 1838

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Another Will held at the Borthwick Institute.  Again, from my working notes and accuracy not guaranteed. Notes and details of Mark Barker...
Friday, 11 January 2013

1851 Ecclesiastical Census for Gt Ayton, Nunthorpe, Stokesley and Hutton Rudby

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On Sunday 30 March 1851, two censuses were taken.  One was the census of the entire population, and the other was the Ecclesiastical Census...
Friday, 28 December 2012

Chapter 18. The early 1850s

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In 1851, some months after her marriage, Marian Digby Beste and her new family left the country.  They sailed for the United States in a lar...
Thursday, 27 December 2012

Chapter 17. 1844 to 1851: Changing Times

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The parsonage house once completed, Mr Barlow and his household could leave Linden Grove and establish themselves in their new home. He se...
Monday, 17 December 2012

Chapter 11. 1832: The year of the Cholera

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The year 1832 was one of great political and social upheaval. The battle for the Reform Bill – witnessed close at hand by Lord Falkland, w...
Saturday, 15 December 2012

Chapter 9. Mr Barlow & his Neighbourhood

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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 ...