People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Dale to Dunning

... from my working notes ... accuracy not guaranteed ... for explanatory note, see post of 14 Feb 2013



Dale

1872 Post Office Directory:  Hutton Rudby:  Frederick Dale, F.R.C.S., surgeon, Enterpen

Frederick Dale M.D was the doctor who certified Mr Barlow’s death in 1878

Frederick Dale was born in Yarm, and baptised 13 Feb 1843.  His parents were both from Yarm.  He took the MRCS England in 1866, then MD at Edinburgh in 1867, where he had studied.  In 1871 he was a widower with a housekeeper and groom and lived in Enterpen, but within months he had remarried, to Mary Weatherill [cf Letters to a Miller’s daughter].  The 1873 directories give his address as Layton House. 

1877 & 1880 Medical Directories:  medical officer for Hutton Rudby District of Stokesley Union

1881:  he was succeeded by Dr Melvin as medical officer, and in the census is to be found in Stokesley, once more a widower, but now with three children under the age of 8 [cf Miller’s daughter], and practising from College Square.  Directory entries show this address until 1885, adding that he was a certified factory doctor.  Bickford’s Hull Medical Directory shows a Dr Frederick Dale, with the same qualifications, at 40 Charlotte Street, Hull, practising as an accoucheur in 1882.  In 1886 the Medical Directory shows Dale at Weston super Mare, holding the posts of medical officer to the Great Western Railway, and to an Assurance Society (probably part-time posts) [Dr Geoffrey Stout]

People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Coates to Cust

... from my working notes ... accuracy not guaranteed ... for explanatory note, see post of 14 Feb 2013



Coates

William Coates was a former occupant of East Side property bought by Edmund Taylor from John and Ann Pape in 1808

DY 88 & ET 601:  James Coates was a tenant of Philip Gowland in the Bay Horse area in 1816-1823

Robert Coates was churchwarden with James Catchasides in 1819

1823 Baines:  Skutterskelfe:  Robert Coates, Tame bridge, farmer

FT 511:  11 & 12 Jan 1830:  East Side:  Edmund Taylor of Hutton joiner, Thomas Eland of City of London currier, James Bainbridge bricklayer:  the land on which James Bainbridge has lately erected 4 new houses & other buildings, 79 ft x 14 ft, and the passage thereto from the street:  previously occ by Elizabeth Robinson, then by William Coates, then by Edmund Taylor and now by James Bainbridge or his undertenants:  bounded by Thomas Passman to E, by street to W, by Roger Bowes to N, by Edmund Taylor to S:  “heretofore the estate of Joseph Tunstall and his wife Catherine”

William Coates was a tenant of East Side property apparently sold by Edmund Taylor to James Bainbridge in 1830

FU 261:   22 & 23 Nov 1831:  north end of East Side:  James Bainbridge bricklayer & Elizabeth his wife to George Grenside of Stokesley gent:  piece of ground on which he had recently built 4 new houses and other buildings, 79ft long x 14ft wide, with the passage leading to them from the street:  previously occ by Elizabeth Robinson, then by William Coates, then by Edmund Taylor, and now by James Bainbridge or his undertenants:  bounded by Thomas Passman to E, by street to W, by Roger Bowes to N, by Edmund Taylor to S:  “heretofore the estate of Joseph Tunstall & Catherine his wife”

1851 Census:  North Side:  Richard Coates 44 butcher b Castle Levington and Alice 54, also b Castle Levington, with children Ann 18 dressmaker and Robert 15, both b Hilton

Margaret Coates was in the informant on Mrs Barlow’s death certificate in 1852; she signed with her mark

Jun 1866:  Two friends, G Coates & J Hogg, gave £5 to the subscription for Thomas Garbutt

The Richardson brothers: Mayors of Stockton & Middlesbrough

In 1857, Dr William Richardson became mayor of the ancient market town of Stockton-on-Tees.

In 1858, Dr John Richardson became mayor of the new industrial town of Middlesbrough.

They were brothers.

William and John Richardson were born near York.  They both received their medical training at the University College Hospital, London. 

William Richardson (1814-71) was the elder brother.  He must have come to Stockton soon after qualifying, as he is to be found living on the North Side of Silver Street in the census of 1841 – and with him was his younger brother John, as “surgeon pupil.”

William was an important and active figure in the medical, civic and sporting life of Stockton.

He was surgeon to the Stockton Dispensary, a magistrate, alderman, and Mayor of Stockton in 1857-8.  He was for many years the President of the Stockton Cricket Club.  He was instrumental in running the Whitsuntide Sports held at the Cricket Ground and in reviving Stockton Races at the new site at Mandale in 1859.

He and his wife Ann lived at 65 High Street; it seems they did not have children.

Descendants of the Jacksons of Lackenby

My Canadian contact, the source of my information on the family of the Revd Thomas Todd and his wife Elizabeth Jackson, has begun a blog to share the family history information that she has gathered over the years.

So if there are any descendants of the Jacksons of Lackenby and Lazenby out there, do keep an eye on Ancestral Road.

William Weatherill of Guisborough (1807-73)

The obituary of William Weatherill (1807-73) captures the social change of the 19th century.  He was the second son of a Marske farmer – his father, also William, had the old Hob Hill Farm.  He was born in the violent heyday of smuggling, and in his childhood illicit cargoes were run up from the Saltburn beaches and hidden in the clay holes near his home. 

Smuggling was a huge illegal industry, as this report from the year of William’s birth shows:

Leeds Intelligencer, Monday 26 January 1807 

The smuggling trade on the north coast of Yorkshire, and on the opposite shores in Durham, has been carried on lately to a height almost beyond imagination.  It is computed that upwards of eight or nine hundred tons of different kinds of goods were landed and run in the course of the last two months in the old year; a circumstance loudly calling for the attention of Government.

Ten years later, there was little change in the situation:

Leeds Intelligencer, Monday 24 March 1817 

A terrible engagement took place on Wednesday night, near Whitby, betwixt a revenue cutter and a smuggling vessel. – Both vessels, from the severity of the storm, were run ashore, four of the cutter’s men and seven of the smugglers were killed.  Ten of the men belonging the latter went through York, unpursued, on Thursday and Friday, by the coaches for London.

Thomas King of Kirkleatham, brewer & smuggler

Was Captain Thomas King of Wapping related to Thomas King of Kirkleatham?

No link has been found, but later descendants of the Jacksons of Lackenby certainly speculated about a possible connection.

Thomas King of Kirkleatham was the partner of John Andrew, the famous smuggler of Saltburn.

Smuggling was from 1700 to 1850 an enormous illegal industry:

Leeds Intelligencer, Tuesday 26 December 1769 

Accounts from Redcar, Saltburn, and several other places on the Yorkshire coast, mention that the smuggling trade never was carried to so great a height as at present.  The great number of country people that daily attend the coast, (and who seem to have no other employ but to convey off the goods) is almost incredible. – The revenue officers are very active, and have made several considerable seizures; yet notwithstanding their vigilance, it does not appear possible to suppress this pernicious trade, which is highly detrimental to the revenue and fair trader unless the Honourable Commssioners of his Majesty’s customs please to order a sufficient number of cutters with experienced commanders to be stationed upon the coast at proper distances:  This would certainly have the desired effect, and also prevent wool and sheep being exported, which there is great reason to believe that those delinquents are frequently guilty of. –  That our woollen manufactories have for several years past been upon the declension, is an alarming truth; and certain it is, that the French, thro’ the cheapness of labour, and (it’s to be feared) by getting materials from England, have been enabled to undersell us in foreign markets

The work of the Revenue men was both unpopular and dangerous:

Leeds Intelligencer, Tuesday 20 April 1773 

Last week a smuggling cutter appeared off Witby [Whitby]: She is about 200 tons burthen, carries 14 carriage guns, besides swivels, &c. and about 50 stout men, several of whom were on shore near Saltburn, where they landed a great quantity of spirits, &c. and appear to be a very daring and desperate gang. – An officer belonging to the Customs near that place, endeavouring to seize some goods they had landed, very narrowly escaped with his life. – One of the King’s cutters gave chace to the smugglers, but finding the danger of such an attempt, thought it prudent to depart in peace. –  It is now evident that there is no way to put a stop to this illicit practice, but by repelling force to force.

Occasionally the forces of law were successful.  In the following case, the riding officers (mounted men charged with the duty of patrolling the coast) seized a fine cargo of gin and tea:

Leeds Intelligencer, Tuesday 31 January 1775 

Thursday se’ennight Mr William Fenwick, of Marsk, and Mr Macdonald, of Skiningrave [Skinningrove], riding officers, attacked a smuggler’s long boat, full mann’d, near Saltburn, and seized 58 casks of geneva, and four large bags of fine tea, which they brought off in defiance of the whole crew, and lodged it in the Custom-House warehouse.

For a lively account of the life of a riding officer, have a look at The Worst Jobs in History: Two Thousand Years of Miserable Employment by Tony Robinson (of Time Team and Blackadder) and David Willock!

The Day Book of Thomas Jackson (1775-1834)

Thomas Jackson (1775-1834), son of George Jackson and Elizabeth King, farmed at Lackenby all his life.  Over a period of years, he kept a Day Book, which was continued after his death by his son John (1808-94).

It is a book of notes and jottings (which may explain the spelling and punctuation) and covers a wide variety of subjects, including records of important family events, household accounts, details of court cases, and notes on farming matters.

There are many miscellaneous farming notes.  He jots down the recipe given him by Robert Thompson for a horse “bad in is wind”:

Robt Thompson Reseat [receipt]
        A Medison for a Horse Bad in is wind take 4 ounces of Garlic 4 ounces of Tax 4 ounces of Flour of Brimstone shread the Garlic small and mix it together into Balls size of a small nutmeg and give it every other Morning The Horse may work as usual

In 1806, he recorded the cost of a threshing machine:

1806  Feb 10    The following is an account of the expense of the Threshin Mushin that I Thos Jackson erected below Lackenby ………..£103. 3. 7