North Yorkshire History

 Mrs Wandesford could now turn her mind to her sons' education.   She need have no worries for her eldest, George.  He was happy and saf...

This is something I meant to write before, but it got lost in other work.  I'm afraid the alignment of text in this is a little haphazar...

The entry on Emma Eteson of Knaresborough  among the dramatis personae of John Richard Stubbs' diaries caught the eye of a reader: Emm...

I like this story of Jane Stubbs' family because it's a reminder – at a time when everything to do with bringing up children seems ...

What happened to John's family in later years? Aunt Ann Pick died in 1860 at the age of fifty and her husband William in 1872.  Aunt B...

From 1855 John was a clerk in his uncle Hirst’s office, entering into articles later – he wrote to the legal stationers’ Butterworths in May...

Saturday January 1st 1853 Stayed at home in the morning & helped to clip the pony & had a ride in the evening on the pony John Ri...

The Stubbs family business has already appeared in this blog in the account of the Five Guinea Note from the Boroughbridge Bank . Ledgers ...