North Yorkshire History

I came across this fascinating report quite by accident.  It turns out that the Rev Robert Joseph Barlow of Hutton Rudby (c1804-78) invente...

This exchange of letters casts more light on the events of the Cholera Epidemic in Hutton Rudby in the autumn of 1832:  Mr Peacock uses Mr B...

Even in this short advertisement, somehow Mr Barlow's distinctive voice can be heard: York Herald, 7 April 1855 Wanted, at May-Day, ...

Oh dear, Mr Barlow ... Mr Barlow's carelessness in keeping records is  evident from the parish registers  and his eccentricities are ...

Life in the vicarage must have grown more lonely for Mr Barlow in the years following Nanny's death.  His sister Mary Sophia was suffe...

The 1871 census found a diminished household at the vicarage – Robert, his sister Mary (here called Maria), whose age is now given as 75, an...

In Mr Barlow's notebooks we can catch a glimpse of his interests and activities in the latter part of his life.  In the Middleton Book...

While Robert Barlow contemplated the success of his pamphlet, the nation was horrified to hear of the uprising in India. In late July 1857...

Mr Barlow had now reached the age of fifty and the full implications of his situation had become unavoidable. As a boy, he was ambitious...

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...

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

Local life at this period is brought vividly to life in the Stokesley press. The Stokesley News & Cleveland Reporter was launched by ...

On 20 June 1837 King William IV died.  It was a personal grief to his daughter Amelia, Lady Falkland, who had lost her sister Sophia in chil...

Mr Barlow, now established in his parish, was eager to make improvements to the church in Rudby.  On 2 July 1833, the churchwardens' acc...

After a time, however, legends began to gather round the episode.  The combination of a clergyman and a pestilence naturally brought echoes ...

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...

The area around his new home would have had much to interest Robert Barlow's lively mind.  He had a great interest in the physical world...

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 ...

The patronage of the living of Rudby-in-Cleveland went with the ownership of the manor of Rudby, but for a time in the early 19th century th...

 Into this lively township came the young Irish clergyman, Robert Joseph Barlow.  He must have carried with him a slight aura of exoticism...