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Showing posts with label Richmond. Show all posts
Tuesday, 8 April 2025

The Bathurst Charity School in Hutton Rudby

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The connection between Hutton Rudby and the Bathursts began in the first half of the 17th century with the founder of the family fortunes, D...
Saturday, 1 May 2021

12. From Alice Wandesford's marriage to the return of the King: 1651-1660

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At Hipswell, 23 year old Christopher Wandesford was now head of the family.  He followed the custom of the time – there was a contract of ma...

11. The wars come to an end: 1651

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By this time, Alice's brother George, now aged 28, was reaching success in his endeavours to recover his sequestered estates and find a ...

8. Mrs Wandesford moves to Hipswell: 1644-1645

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In Kirklington, George feared he was a wanted man and he lay low for a while.  His sympathies were with the King, but he reckoned the King...

5. War in Yorkshire: 1642-1643

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In Chester, the Wandesfords found a welcome and were treated with kindness and friendship by the gentry families.  Within the strong walls o...

2. Mr Wandesford enters politics: 1620-1630

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From schooldays at Well near Kirklington – or perhaps only from university days at Cambridge, nobody is sure – Mr Wandesford was the friend ...
Sunday, 11 November 2018

Local newspapers report the news of the Armistice in 1918

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The North-Eastern Daily Gazette 12 November 1918 A DAY OF REJOICING  The rejoicings which began in Middlesbrough yesterday morning over ...
Saturday, 17 February 2018

The Revd Francis Blackburne (1748-1816) of Rudby-in-Cleveland

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In late March 1774, a new vicar came to Hutton Rudby.  He was the Revd Francis Blackburne, an unmarried man of twenty-six and the son of th...
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