People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Nattrass to Norman

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


Nattrass

Oddfellows Board:  Bro:  William Nattrass, Hutton, 9 Apr 1880, a21


Nellist

Yorkshire Gazette 12 Mar 1842:  John Nellist: “I am a farmer, and reside in the parish of Seymour …”  He found the bones of the man that was presumed to be William Huntley. 


Nelson

“Nelson my Hind” saw Meek and Jackson trespassing in May 1856 – Barlow’s Notebook

Jane Langborne's cookery book

Jane Langborne's cookery book & handwritten recipes

Jane Galilee (1783-1856), the second wife of George Langborne (1773-1832), owned a copy of Mrs Rundell's celebrated book,  A New System of Domestic Cookery; formed upon Principles of Economy: and Adapted to the Use of Private Families

The small volume is packed with recipes: Soles in the Portuguese way – rolled beef that equals hare – Spadbury's Oxford sausages – green sauce for green geese – eel pie – gooseberry fool – stewed golden pippins rout drop-cakes ...

There are instructions for the cook:  how to stew a shoulder of venison – how to salt pork – how to brew very fine Welch ale ... 

There are chapters of advice on how to manage the dairy and the poultry yard and on cooking for the sick and for the poor.  A chapter headed Various Receipts includes instructions on how to make Lavender Water, on how to make ink, and how to preserve furs and woollen from moths.

No wonder it was a publishing sensation in Britain and America, as this article in the Guardian explains.  Mrs Rundell was the Mrs Beeton or Delia Smith of her age. 

Jane's copy was the 1810 edition, published in London by John Murray.  A couple of recipes are jotted on the last page of the index.  One is a Receipt for making Ink:

5 oz of Powdered Gall
2 oz of Copperass
1 oz of Gum Arabic
1 oz of Rock Alum
1 Quart of Watter
Infuse them a month
stirring them every Day

("Watter" for "water" must be a reflection of the local dialect – as can be found in Wordsworth, in fact).

Useful recipes on slips of paper have been preserved between the pages: Calves Foot Jelly, Raspberry Vinegar, Plum Cake ...

For anyone eager to try it, here is a useful recipe for Parkin:

2 lbs of oatmeal
2 lbs of treacle, warmed
half a pound of brown sugar
½ an ounce of ground ginger
¼ lb of candid lemon
a table spoonful of carbonate of soda
½ lb of butter melted & mixed with the treacle
bake into dishes or tins well buttered in a slow oven

and in these straitened times, the recipe that Mrs Holtby kindly wrote out for Mrs Langborne might be useful:

A Cheap Plum Pudding

Half a pound of Potatoes, ¼ lb of Carrots boiled till they can be mashed quite fine, ½ lb of Flour, ¾ of Currants, ¼ of Suet shred fine, ¼ lb of Moist Sugar to be mixed with the Potatoes and Carrots when you mash them, 1 oz of Candied Lemon, a little Cinnamon, and Nutmeg, to your taste.  Mix all together over night, and boil it 4 hours.

[signed] Mrs Holtby

As you might have guessed, I did not spoil the charm by altering the spelling of the originals ...

Jane Atkinson of Kirkleatham, wife of Captain Thomas Galilee (1744-97)

This page was revised, rewritten & reposted on 4 March 2022

The two letters quoted below were among the small collection of letters referred to in the post of 4 March 2022 about Jane's brother, the Revd William Atkinson.  I have made some alterations to spelling and punctuation for readability's sake.

Jane was born in 1751, the daughter of Thomas Atkinson of Scaling Dam (a hamlet on the Whitby to Guisborough road) and his wife Elizabeth Featherstone.  She grew up at Kirkleatham where her father was Master of the Blue Coat Boys at Sir William Turner's Hospital.  Her younger brother Thomas Atkinson was a surgeon who wrote a journal of a whaling voyage to the Davis Straits in 1774

Jane married Thomas Galilee on 4 June 1775.

The Newcastle Courant of Saturday 17 June 1775 records: 

Last week at St Mary’s Church, Rotherhithe, London, Capt Thomas Galilee of Whitby, to Miss Atkinson of Kirkleatham 

St Mary's Rotherhithe by Rob Kam

Jane and Thomas spent many years in Rotherhithe, where their daughters were born and baptised, living in a house that Thomas owned in Princes Street.  They were living there in 1788 when he wrote to his wife from Narva in Estonia on 21 May.  At the time, the main trade with the Baltic was in timber and Thomas was taking on a load of sawn boards ("deals").  

Narva, May 21st 1788

My Dear Jane, 

I have now the pleasure to acquaint you that I am all Loaded except one pram of deals which I hope to get on board to night.  We have had a very troublesome time of it in the Bay and very cold weather that several of my people is laid up.  I hope in God this will find you in good health and all my dear children as bless God I am at present and I hope soon to have a happy meeting.  I have no news to tell you as this is the first time I have been in town since I arrived – it seems to be a poor place and every thing is very dear so that I have not bought you anything.  Please to acquaint Mr. Richardson of my being loaded and not to forget the Insurance 

I hope soon to have the pleasure to see you, pray give my love to my children &c, I am your ever affectionate and

Loving Husband

Thomas Galilee

It seems he had two passengers with him – perhaps they were there for the experience – but they hadn't enjoyed the trip much.  He ends his letter

My Two young Gentlemen is very well but I fancy this Voyage will make them sick of the sea.

It seems very likely that, when the Ship News in the Kentish Gazette on 20 June 1788 reported that the "Amphion, Gallilee, from Narva" had passed Gravesend on 16 June, it was Captain Thomas Galilee returning home. 

The following year, the French Revolution began and in 1792 Britain and France were at war.  The days of peaceful sailing to the coasts of Europe were over and life must have become considerably more complicated for master mariners.  By the summer of 1795, Thomas and Jane had moved across the river to Number 168 Wapping High Street where Jane was now trading as a China and Slop-Seller, with help in the business from the older girls.  Because of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, Britain's Navy and merchant marine were of great size and enormous importance, so there must have been plenty of possibilities in selling slops – that is, clothing for sailors.  In 1797 Jane was left a widow with 6 daughters aged between 10 and 19 – I can't find out whether Thomas died on land or at sea. 

A letter written by Jane to her daughter Elizabeth on 18 March 1808 gives us a glimpse of her character and her situation.  Elizabeth was 28 years old and at home in Wapping.  She would soon be married to William Williamson, a master mariner.

Jane wrote from Stapleford near Cambridge where she had been looking after her brother William

My dear Girl 

I recd: your affection letter by the Fly [a light type of coach], accompanied by Margaret's, with both of which I was very well pleased.  I have since then had little to communicate and writing time is attended with great difficulty, as your Uncle now gets up as early as I do, he is very much amended since I wrote last, he eats very well and all his complaints diminish gradually, except his deafness, and that continues very much the same, he has walked in his Close almost every day but now that must be all over for a time as it is snowing very fast

She expected to be back in Wapping before long as she wasn't really needed in Stapleford any more. 

Give my kind love to Mr: W[illiamson]: I am much obliged to him for his kind attention to me, and I shall always make it my study to make every thing as agreeable to you both as I possibly can, it is my constant wish that you should remain with me until Michaelmas at least, and in all that time we shall be able to make a more prudent arrangement, than we possibly could in this short time

I'm not sure if that means that she wants Elizabeth to delay getting married or that she would like the newly-weds to live with her till September.  At any event, Elizabeth married Mr Williamson twelve days later in Wapping.  One of the witnesses was her married sister Mary Richmond and another was either her mother Jane, or her sister Jane.

Jane was now planning her own future.  Elizabeth's younger sister Harriet was at Stapleford as her uncle William's housekeeper and Jane Galilee intended to move there herself.  Her plans had taken a little careful management of her brother

I never mentioned the cottage to your uncle before yesterday, he said he never meant to let it until I could think of taking it, though it is a matter I often wished.  I was very doubtful whether to take it or not when it came within my reach, I explained to him all my motives for taking it, without reserve and how I wished to live there, and I could find, that his wishes and views were widely different to mine.  This was what I always expected, however I am quite decided to stick to my original plan, and he seemed very much pleased upon the whole, and I believe Harriet is the same.

Harriet's situation was clearly an important consideration for Jane 

I hope it should be a great relief to her, she is very much confined, and the rest of the people she does see can neither afford her much advantage or amusement, but we can talk all this over when we must, and I should [not] have mentioned [it] now, if I had not got this immense sheet of paper.

A little maternal advice was now in order:

It is gratifying to me to find that my dear Elizabeth is perfectly satisfied with the protection I have been able to afford her, and I will be equally candid in telling her, that I am thoroughly satisfied with the return she has made, I am proud to recollect some instances which placed her in a very amiable light, however I will not affect to misunderstand what you allude to, as I think it almost your only fault, to be rather hasty in your temper.  It is therefore my duty to advise you to correct it.  Your good sense will however point this out to you, as it sometimes happens that a few acrimonious words will disturb the harmony of my years.    

My dear Girl, if I thought you would be seriously hurt at what I have written I would blot it out, and I should not have so, if I did not think you alluded to it yourself, as it is a matter that never gave me any lasting pain, knowing as I did how good you were in essentials.

She then goes on to give the news.  They hadn't had so many visitors in the last two or three days.  A Mr Pagett had gone to London, a Mr B. to Norfolk.  The doctor hadn't come for a week and the judge was in Cambridge.  Elizabeth's sister Harriet 

has had several Fits this last week, I am much concerned for her

but that must have been something that Elizabeth knew all about, so Jane moved swiftly on to bonnets

I do not suppose I can do any thing for you or your Sister?  Harriet called at Mrs Rawlings with Mrs Martindale, but there was not a single Bonnet to be seen.  Mrs [illeg] says the straw is very cheap now, I had a mind to bring some home and get a Bonnet made in London.

I've made some guesses at some of last lines of the letter, which ends warm and affectionately:

I shall now conclude this unconnected Epistle, by desiring my dear Girl [should have] no scruple in expressing any wish that I can be ---ciable [?] in, as she may be assured that I will, now and ever, be proud and happy to do everything promote her comfort, and happiness

and Jane ends with her prayer for Elizabeth's married life

that both parties may mutually concur in deserving, and enjoying, that happiness, which the good and virtuous can only know, shall be ever the prayer of your Affectionate Mother  

Jane Galilee

My kindest Love to your Sisters

Jane spent her last years in the cottage in Stapleford where she died on 19 December 1817 aged 66.  She was buried at Whaddon, a few miles from Stapleford, because it was there that the graves of her parents and brother Isaac were to be found.   

Thomas Galilee and Jane Atkinson had 6 daughters who survived infancy:

• Mary Galilee (1778-1857)
• she was baptised at St Mary's, Rotherhithe on 26 August 1778
• she married Sunderland-born George Richmond (1790-1862), master mariner and shipowner on 29 January 1807 at Wapping parish church.  
• by the time of the 1851 Census, she and husband and their daughter Jane were living in the Trinity Almshouse at Greenwich 
• Mary died in 1857 and George in 1862
• Mary and George had two children:
• Jane Richmond (1812-1904) remained unmarried.  The censuses find her living with one or more of her unmarried nieces in various parts of London
• George Richmond (1817-85) was a journalist and editor of the Sussex Express and Surrey Standard.

George lived in Lewes, Sussex for many years until his death.  He and his wife Maria had 5 daughters and 3 sons. The report of his funeral in the Hastings and St Leonards Observer of 23 May 1885 said he was "the oldest Tory journalist in Sussex, and was the Editor of the Sussex Express before some of those writers who now call themselves middle-aged were born.  He was known as a very consistent man, and one who always upheld the policy of Conservatism"

• Elizabeth Galilee (1780-1867) 
• she was baptised on 22 March 1780 at Rotherhithe
• she married William Williamson (1790-1832), master mariner, on 30 March 1808 in Rotherhithe
• they had 3 children
• William Williamson (c1810-99)
• Emma Williamson (1817-1901)
• Harriet Williamson (1820-1903)

The story of the Williamsons is told in The Revd William Atkinson of Kirkleatham & Cambridge (1755-1830)

• Harriet Galilee (1782-1862) 
• she was baptised 31 July 1782
• she lived in Stapleford near Cambridge as her uncle William's housekeeper and afterwards with her unmarried sisters in Stapleford
• she died on 22 May 1862 aged 80 and was buried at Whaddon with her mother, uncles and grandparents

• Jane Galilee (1784-1856) 
• she was baptised 4 April 1784
• she was the second wife of George Langborne (1773-1832), master mariner, ship owner and ship builder of Whitby.  They married on 3 October 1811 at Wapping and lived in Whitby
• she and George had 7 daughters and 1 son:
• Jane Langborne (1812-58), b 15 Aug 1812, d 1 Feb 1858                          
• Nathaniel Langborne (1814-43)                  
• Ann Langborne (1817-49), wife of John Buchannan (1810-91), solicitor.  
• Mary Eleanor Langborne (1819-84)                                   
• Harriet Langborne (1821-89)                     
• Margaret Langborne (1825-1910)            
• Eliza Langborne (1826-66)                    
• Georgiana Langborne (1829-1903) 

For more on the Langborne family and Jane Galilee and the lives of her children see The family of Nathaniel Langborne (1739-1807), son of Michael & Eleanor Langborne 

• Margaret Galilee (c1785-1880)
• she was born c1785 (but I can't find her baptism)
• she never married.  She lived with her sisters Harriet & Henrietta in Stapleford and outlived them both, dying at the age of 94 on 17 August 1880.  I think, from her grant of Probate, that her niece Jane Richmond lived with her in her last days.  She is buried at Stapleford.

• Henrietta Galilee 1787-1872)
• she was baptised 1 August 1787
• she lived at Stapleford with her sisters until her death aged 84 on 17 February 1872 1872.  She is buried at Stapleford

St Andrew's Stapleford, Cambs. CC BY-SA 2.0 by John Salmon

Captain Thomas Galilee (1744-97) and his family

Jane Galilee (1783-1856), the second wife of George Langborne (1773-1832), was the daughter of Captain Thomas Galilee of Whitby and Jane Atkinson of Kirkleatham. 

Her father Captain Thomas Galilee and his brother Samuel (also a master mariner) are examples (as in the story of Captain Thomas King, merchant of Wapping of the link between Whitby and the River Thames.

Jane and her five sisters were all born in Rotherhithe,  where Jane was christened at St Mary's, Rotherhithe on 4 April 1784 at the age of one. 

Captain Thomas Galilee (1744-97) was the son of John Galilee and Mary Campion of the parish of Hinderwell, on the coast north of Whitby:


John Galilee married Mary Campion at Hinderwell in 1741.

Their children were
•    Jane Galilee, bap 8 Oct 1742
•    Thomas Galilee, bap 27 Feb 1744
•    John Galilee, bap 29 Sep 1747
•    Robert Galilee, bap 20 Sep 1750
•    Mary Galilee, bap 17 May 1753
•    Samuel Galilee, bap 9 Dec 1755
•    Hannah Galilee, bap 26 Oct 1758
•    Margaret Galilee, bap 23 Jul 1761
•    “female” (?Henrietta) Galilee, bap 2 Sep 1763

A note, written by a much later hand (possibly Capt Galilee’s granddaughter Miss Margaret Langborne 1825-1910) on the inside back cover of Thomas Atkinson's Whaling Journal was very useful in confirming that this was the family of Captain Thomas Galilee.  It states:

"Robert lived at Staithes and Jack at Sunderland both I believe also [drank?] like fishes as was the correct thing in those days for sailors.
Aunts Potter and Chilton were sisters"

[The word in square brackets is fairly illegible, but I’m afraid it does look very like “drank”!]

Ralph Hedley & Hutton Rudby

I've heard from Clodagh Brown with more details of places to see paintings by Ralph Hedley in June 2013, the centenary of his death.

The Shipley Art Gallery in Gateshead has an exhibition called  Ralph Hedley: Painting the North East, which is on from now until December 21st.

In mid-June, the Cathedral church of St Nicholas in Newcastle will have an exhibition on the subject of Hedley, who worked on the cathedral's choir stalls and misericords.  There will be a celebratory choral evensong - I will post details when I have them.

And of course there are the Hedley paintings in the Laing to visit.

When you go there, those of you with Hutton Rudby connections might like to take a close look at the The Sail Loft.

One of the bales of canvas is clearly marked "Geo Wilson, Hutton Rudby, Cleveland, Yorkshire":

detail: The Sail Loft

My earlier post on Ralph Hedley and Allan Bowes Wilson of Hutton Rudby is here

The family of Nathaniel Langborne (1739-1807), son of Michael & Eleanor Langborne

Nathaniel Langborne was born 26 December 1739. 
On 17 July 1766, he married Ann Baker; he is described in the parish register entry as Carpenter. 

Nathaniel Langborne (1739-1807) and Ann Baker (c1742-84) had 15 children in 18 years of marriage.
Nine of the children died in infancy, and two died in their teens. 

Ann herself died at the age of 42 and was buried on 29 Aug 1784, a week after the funeral of her last baby, Henry, who had lived only 12 days after his baptism.  She was survived by five of her children, but her daughter Anne died, aged 8 at her mother’s death, died ten years later.

The children were:

•    Michael, b 2 May 1767, bur 12 Jan 1768
•    Mary, b 1768, bur 6 Apr 1769   
•    Eleanor, b 22 Feb 1769, bur 29 Dec 1782 (aged 13)   
•    George, b 1 Feb 1770, bur 7 Oct 1770
•    Nathaniel Langborne (1771-1833)   
•    George, b 28 May 1772, died the same year   
•    George Langborne (1773-1832)   
•    Michael, b 12 Nov 1774, bur 23 Nov 1774     
•    Anne, b 3 Dec 1775, bur 11 July 1794 (aged 18)
•    Mary Langborne (1777-?)     
•    Frances, b 16 Feb 1778, bur 11 Apr 1778      
•    Michael, b 1779, bur 13 Sep 1779 (aged 3 weeks)
•    John Langborne (1781-1836)
•    Michael, bap 17 Dec 1782, bur 19 Dec 1782       
•    Henry, bap 10 Aug 1784, bur 22 Aug 1784       

Nathaniel, George, Mary and John lived to be mentioned in their father Nathaniel's Will.

The family of George Langborne (1735-1817), son of Michael & Eleanor Langborne

George Langborne was baptised on 19 August 1735. 

On 10 Feb 1763, George married Mary Rymer of Whitby, by licence.  The entry in the register gives his occupation as Ship builder; the marriage was witnessed by Nathaniel Langborne and Michael Blackbeard.

George Langborne (1735-1817) and Mary Rymer (1733-96) had seven children:

•    Mary, born 10 Jan 1764 and buried 18 March
•    Michael (1765-90)   
•    John, born 13 March 1767 and was buried aged five on 15 Nov 1772
•    William (1768-1844)
•    Mary (1770-1804)          
•    Eleanor (1773-1804) 
•    Margaret (1774-1816)

Mary (Rymer) Langborne died on 8 Apr 1796, aged 62.  She had married at the age of 30 and had seen three of her children buried.  When she died the surviving four children were unmarried and in their twenties. 

Her husband George survived her by many years, dying in 1817.  He outlived five of his children and his granddaughter. 
His Will was proved by his son William, his nephew William Jameson and his nephew George Langborne.  His estate (gross personalty) was valued at under £8,000 and was divided into three parts: for his son William; his son-in-law William Grenside (husband of his daughter Mary); and his son-in-law Thomas Jones (widower of his daughter Margaret) and her children Thomas Rymer Jones, Mary, Edward and Eleanor.  He made further provision for his son William, who had recently bought lands and grounds in Newham Dunsley for £4,800, which had since considerably decreased in value; William was to receive money to cover the depreciation.

Brigantine (from Richard Weatherill's book)

William Langborne (1768-1844), son of George Langborne & Mary Rymer

William was born 17 May 1768. 
He married Anne Mead (born 9 Dec 1775) on 12 June 1798.
William is in the 1823 Baines' Directory as a Ship Owner living in Baxtergate.
Anne died on 21 Sep 1826 aged 50, and William on 3 Feb 1844. 
They had four children:

•    John Langborne was born 20 June 1799.  He was of ‘Fernhill’, Newholm.  He married 5 Feb 1822 Hannah Barrick.  She died on 27 Dec 1828.  The Whitby Panorama and Monthly Chronicle reported the death: “At Fernhill, Mrs Langborne, wife of Mr John Langborne, and daughter of the late Mr Thomas Barrick, Ship-builder, aged 28.” She left two very young sons, the youngest boy having died some months earlier:

o    John Medd Langborne, b 26 Feb 1823, died in Canada.  He is possibly the youth living in the house of Henry Barrick, shipbuilder, at the 1841 Census (perhaps learning his trade with his mother’s relations)
o    Thomas William Langborne, b 5 Dec 1824, d 7 Sep 1896.  Unmarried.  Probably the last of the Langbornes to be a shipowner.  He does not seem to have been a ship builder in his own name.  According to the list of shipping in Richard Weatherill's book in 1848 he held 16/24 share in the brig Ellen built by his maternal uncle Henry Barrick [1]. Thomas is to be found in the household of his uncle Henry Barrick for the 1861, 1871 and 1881 censuses.  After Henry Barrick's death he lived with Thomas Forrest, a retired master mariner, in Mulgrave Place.  Forrest was a widower; his niece Miss Mary Allot seems to have kept house for him.  Thomas Langborne left Forrest and his niece his clothing, jewellery and trinkets, with a legacy each, and asked to be buried "as near as may be" to his uncle's grave.
o    Henry Langborne, b 26 Jan 1827, bur 25 Mar 1827

•    George Langborne, b 4 July 1801, bur 18 Mar 1803
•    William Rymer Langborne, b 18 Sep 1804. He is listed as an attorney in the 1834 Directory.  He died in May 1846
•    George Langborne, b 18 Apr 1807, he is mentioned in the Will of Susannah Langborne, his uncle Nathaniel's widow, in September 1852.  He was married, and had a son born 7 Feb 1829.  It seems likely that he is the George Langborne born 1807 who gained his Master’s ticket in Feb 1852.

Mary Langborne (1770-1804), daughter of George Langborne & Mary Rymer

Mary was born 3 Sep 1770.  She married William Grenside, a surgeon, on 26 Jan 1804.  Baines' Directory 1823 gives his address as 10 New Buildings, along the road from the well-known Dr Loy.  This address was later known as St Hilda's Terrace.  He does not appear in the 1840 Directory.  They had sons:

•    Ralph Grenside, bap 5 Dec 1804.  Clergyman in Warwickshire.
•    George Grenside, bap 10 Jan 1807.  Solicitor, lived in the Stokesley area.

Eleanor Langborne (1773-1804), daughter of George Langborne & Mary Rymer

Eleanor was born 13 Jan 1773.  She married her cousin George Langborne on 10 Dec 1801.  In 1804 their daughter was born and within a week Eleanor was dead.  She was buried in the parish churchyard on 25 November.  Their daughter:

•    Mary Ann Eleanor Langborne, baptised on 18 Nov 1804.  She died at the age of three, and was buried on 5 Jan 1808.

Margaret Langborne (1774-1816), daughter of George Langborne & Mary Rymer

Margaret was baptised 23 Nov 1774.  On 30 Nov 1808 she married Lieut Thomas Jones RN, an Excise Collector.  She died in 1816, aged 41, leaving four young children:

•    Thomas Rymer Jones (1810-80), surgeon, academic and zoologist.  A photograph of his memorial in King’s College Chapel, University of London is here
•    Mary Jones, b 27 Oct 1811, bap 29 Oct 1811
•    Edward Jones
•    Eleanor Jones

Barque (from Richard Weatherill's book)

[1]  There were two contemporary Henry Barricks, shipowners, who were known as Henry Barrick of East Side and Henry Barrick of West Side [letter A J Buchannan to H P Kendall, 31 Jan 1934].  One of the Barricks had a dry dock which was used by the Langbornes in 1838.



… next time – the family of Nathaniel Langborne (1739-1807), son of Michael & Eleanor Langborne