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Saturday, 4 December 2021

Long hours at the Stokesley drapers' shops: 1856

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In the shopping season, a story with echoes of our time?  In the middle of the 19th century, Stokesley had up to half a dozen drapers' s...
Saturday, 6 November 2021

The unfortunate Edwin Orphan: 1832

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In January 1832, a young man called Edwin Orphan came before the magistrates.  He had smashed windows in Guisborough parish church because, ...
Saturday, 11 September 2021

Henry Savile Clarke of Guisborough & Lewis Carroll's Alice

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A few years ago I wrote about  Henry Savile Clarke of Guisborough (1841-93) , who produced the first stage musical of Lewis Carroll's Al...
Wednesday, 23 June 2021

The Eland family of Hutton Rudby

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 I've just made a correction and added extra information to the entry on the Elands in People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Easby to Em...
Saturday, 1 May 2021

14. Epilogue: 1688

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Alice had lived through many changes in her long life – and the restoration of King Charles II in 1661 wasn't the last of the political ...

13. Mrs Alice Thornton of East Newton: 1660-1707

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  East Newton Hall today  [By Roger Smith CC BY-SA 2.0] Alice made her home among her husband's people and remained at East Newton for t...

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...