People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Selby to Sidgwick/Sedgwick

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


Selby

Oddfellows Board:  Bro:  James Selby, Sum. Houses, 5 Dec 1875, a27


Sextons

8 Jan 1722:  William, son of William Rain sexton and Elizabeth Outon/ ?Orton b/bap

13 May 1784:  burial of William Stockdale, sexton of Rudby Church
19 Feb 1790:  burial of Thomas Seamore, a 74, Sexton of Rudby Church

Sarah Hebron was elected Sexton on 2 July 1833 “to have £2/12 per year for doing the duty of a Sexton to attend to the fires and keep the church clean.  The Churchwardens to see about getting the stove in repair”.
The sexton has the care of the fabric of the church and is responsible for digging the graves and ringing the bells.  It is not clear from the churchwardens’ accounts who was the previous sexton;  it may have been Nathaniel Smithson.  The records do not show who the vestry appointed to take care of the bells and, particularly, the gravedigging.


Seymour/Seamer

“Seymour for well 2s 6d” appears in William Sayers Calculations 1815 in the Middleton Book

7 Aug 1822:  B D Suggitt left £20 a year to his servant Mary Seymour, if still residing with him at the time of his death

1823 Baines:  Hutton:  William Seamer, linen manufacturer

FQ 434:  14 & 15 Apr 1829:  John Seamour occupied land belonging to Elizabeth Sleigh

T Seymour was in A List of Boys – Middleton Book

GG 130:  31 Oct 1835:  Thomas Spence of Hutton weaver & Dorothy his wife (1) Henry Collins of Stokesley gent (2):  2 houses now used as one, the weaver’s shop adjoining & the garden or orchard of 1r behind, occ by Thomas Spence; the butcher’s shop adjoining the weaver’s shop occ by William Sherwood:  bounded by Lord Falkland to E, street to W, Mrs Kingston to N, Edmund Taylor to S; also Gowdie/Gowlay Hill Garth 1a with cowhouse occ by Thomas Richardson:  bounded by John Charlton to E, by Francis Stainthorpe to W, by street to N, by Jane Willans & Edward Meynell to S; also house with garden & garth behind 2r, occ by William Merrington:  bounded by street to E, William Wood to W, John Seamer to N, John Rymers & Francis Stainthorpe to S; also 3 closes formerly 2 closes called the Cottager 7a, previously occ by William Braithwaite as tenant to William Spence decd:  bounded by Robert Halliday Dobson to E, George Hunter & William Ableson to W, by Rounton road to N, by Richard Johnson to S; “& all other the messuages lands tenements and hereditaments formerly belonging to Thomas Smith late of Hutton yeoman decd and comprised in his Will”

Tithe Map from Elizabeth Sleigh:  John Seamer occ 137, 138, 141, 142

John Seamer was a subscribers to the Wesleyan Youth’s Instructor in 1840

1841 Census:  John Seymour 40 linen weaver, William 30 linen weaver and John 25 linen weaver, North End.  Next door, in household of Thomas Biggins, Mary Seymour 12.
1841 Census:  Thomas Seymour 40 linen weaver and family, North End

John Seymour, weaver, is listed as one of the Trustees of Hutton Rudby Wesleyan chapel – date not given, possibly mid 1850s

1851 Census:  North End:  John Seymour widower 55 hand loom weaver linen
1851 Census:  North End:   John Seymour widower 37 hand loom weaver, and children Mary 5 and Elizabeth 10 mths
1851 Census:  North End:  William Seymour 41 handloom weaver linen b Hutton and Mary 32 also handloom weaver linen b Dodsworth, Yks
1851 Census:  North End:  Thomas Seymour 49 handloom weaver linen and Ann 49, with children Mary 18, Dorothy 11 and Elizabeth 8;  and lodger Richard Richardson single 26 handloom weaver linen;  all b Hutton

Oddfellows Board:  Bro:  Thomas Seymour, Middlesbrough, 25 Sep 1875, a53

1887:  memorial stones at the new Primitive Methodist chapel were laid by K Rickatson, W Seymour (Spout Bank), Mrs Honeyman, Mrs Eden, Mrs Hall and Mr E Bainbridge; and on behalf of Viscount Falkland, G Y Blair, and Rev Oliver Jackson, a Primitive Methodist minister born in Hutton Rudby [G Milburn’s notes]

People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Sadler to Seamer

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


Sadler

ET 257:  2 & 3 Jan 1823:  garth, orchard & houses, probably North End:  William Sadler was an occupier

1840 Whites:  Hutton Rudby:  William Sadler, farmer, Well Hill

1841 Census:  Thomas Sadler 30 linen weaver and Ann 30 linen weaver, Tisbut Row
1841 Census:  Ann Sadler 65 ag lab, Jane 25 servant, Alice 25 linen weaver, William 12 ag lab and Andrew 8, North End
1841 Census:  Butter Hill:  Ann Saddler 40 servant with Thomas Legg
1841 Census:  Belle Vue:  Sadler

From George Tweddell’s ‘Stokesley News & Cleveland Reporter’ 1 Nov 1842:
“Odd Fellow’s Funeral.  On Friday morning, October 28th, the members of the Traveller’s Home Lodge, of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, assembled at the house of Mr Wm Robinson, the King’s Head Inn, Hutton, for the purpose of paying their last token of respect, to the remains of the late Host of their Lodge, Mr Jeremiah Raney, of the Wheat Sheaf Inn.  After the usual funeral ceremony of the Order had been read in the room, to the asembled brothers, by Mr Thos Saddler, N.G…[qv Oddfellows]

1851 Census:  North Side:  Ann Sadler 44 weaver’s wife and niece Elizabeth Barker 3 both b Hutton

Oddfellows Board:  PG:  Thomas Sadler, 1869, a62
Oddfellows Board:  Bro:  William Sadler, Sexhow, 24 Dec 1869, a19


Sage

T Sage and J B York, both members of the chapel, took down the old Primitive Methodist chapel for £5 for the rebuilding in 1887 [G Milburn’s notes]

1887:  active members of the Primitive Methodist chapel at the time of building included Edward Bainbridge, Robert Maughan, William Graham Hall, Thomas Sage and Kilvington Rickatson of Trenholme Bar [G Milburn’s notes]

Simon Frederick Thompson's Legal Diary for 1886

This diary belonged to Simon Frederick Thompson (1862-1928), solicitor, Middlesbrough.  His name does not appear in the list of solicitors for the town in the 'Country Solicitors' section, so possibly he was not yet on the Roll, or had only recently been admitted. 

He seems to have started work in March and his first entry in the diary is for Sunday 21 March 1886:

Mother died at ten minutes to two in the afternoon

(His mother Ann was born in Langley, Northumberland, and was the wife of John Thompson, iron works engineer).

The next is for Tuesday 23 March 1886:

paid £60 into Bank
Paid Gibson £10.12.6

He soon begins to enter a brief note of  matters he has been dealing with each day, eg.:

Wednesday 21 April 1886
Imeson v Armstrong….Preparing swearing & filing affdt of service

Simon Frederick Thompson was in practice at 11 Albert Road, Middlesbrough; by the middle of the 20th century, the office was the home of the firm Thompson, Trotter & Gray.  In 1911, he and his wife Mary Grace Goodyear Beech were living at Cleveland Villas, Grove Hill, Middlesbrough; they had been married 19 years and had no children.  He died in 1928.

Local solicitors in 1886

from Waterlow Bros & Layton’s Legal Diary and Almanac for 1886

Extracted from:

List of Country Solicitors
Corrected by comparison with the Roll of the Incorporated Law Society; the list of Commissioners to administer oaths, and list of Perpetual Commissioners, and from direct correspondence

Perpetual commissioners were those appointed to take acknowledgments of deeds made by married women.  This finally became unnecessary after the Married Women's Property Act 1882.

The year stated against each entry is the date of admission to the Roll.  

The name in brackets is that of the firm, but it is not always stated.  

The name in italics is that of the firm of solicitors that acted as the solicitor’s London agents.

Coatham, near Redcar (Yorks.)

Meek, J M (M.A.) – 1872, p. com. and at Middlesborough ..... Adam Burn

Spry, S – 1876, com. oaths, and at Middlesbrough and South Bank ..... Williamson, Hill & Co

Wethey, R E – 1884, 5, Albert-road, and at Middlesboro' ..... Smiles & Co


Guisborough (Yorksh.)

Buchannan, A – 1870, com. oaths, clerk to lieutenancy of North Riding, coroner for Langbaurgh East district, clerk to guardians and rural sanitary authority, clk. to Guisbro’ local and burial bd., Guisbro’ school bd., Skelton local bd. and burial bd., and Brotton local bd., hon. sec. South Durham and North Yorkshire law soc., solr. to Guisbro’ and dis. bldg. soc ..... Pitman & Son

Carrick, W L – 1880 ..... Gray & Mounsey

Ord, C O – 1840, p. com., com. oaths ..... R M & F Lowe

Richardson, W – 1882 ..... Pitman & Son

Trevor, W C – 1866, p. com., com. oaths, deputy clk. of the peace for North Riding, clk. to mags. for div. of Langbaurgh East, and at Northallerton ..... R M & F Lowe


Hutton Rudby (Yorks.)

Kindler, A W – 1882, and at Stockton-on-Tees ..... H F Wood

People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Rickarby to Rymer

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


Rickarby

FK 513:  22 Feb 1828:  mortgage of house in Hutton occ by Richard Rymer and closes adjoining:  Robert Baillieur late of Trenholme now of Castle of York innkeeper and Robert Nelson Wilson late of Yarm now of Castle of York yeoman: bounded by Richard Shepherd to N & S, by John Rickarby to E and by Christopher Oxendale to W

FQ 204:  9 Dec 1829:  Robert Baillieur late of Trenholm innkeeper but now of Yarm yeoman (1)  Robert Nelson Wilson of Yarm gent (2) John Harker of Yarm jobber [?] (3):  house, orchard, garth, stable & outbldgs in Hutton Field occ by Richard Rymer and closes adjoining:  bounded by Richard Shepherd to N & S, John Rickarby to E, Christopher Oxendale to W

FS 577:  9 Jun 1831:  Robert Norman paper maker to Robert Holliday Dobson of Potto gent:  6a close in Hutton known as the Cottages bounded by Widow Johnson to S, road to the Rountons to N, William Spencer to W, Mr Rickaby to E, occ by Robert Norman


Rickatson

John Rickatson of Hutton was churchwarden in 1832 and at the time of the Call Book for the Visitation 1857

1840 Whites:  Hutton Rudby:  John Rickatson, farmer

1851 Census:  Gardenstone:  John Rickatson 49 widower farmer of 90 acres b Kirby, with sons Thomas H 10 and Charles 8, and servants Margaret Featherstone single 40 b Ayton, Hannah Easby 16 general servant b Ayton and Robert Burdon 22 farm servant b Osmotherley

“Principal inhabitants” signing the record of exchange of bounties on 28 Sep 1857:  Robert Braithwaite, John Rickatson, George Wilson, Henry Willins, John Robinson, Thomas Sidgwick, John Sidgwick, George Davison [Terriers]

1851-71 (inc) Census:  Gardenstone:  Rickatson
1861 & 71 Census:  Belle Vue:  Rickatson

1872 Post Office Directory:  Hutton Rudby:  John Rickatson, farmer, Gardenstone
John Rickatson, 38, of New Close Farm married Anne Catterson, 31, of Gardenstone Farm on 4 Dec 1839.

Barlow’s Notebook lists the times he “crossed by the old style way through Rickatson farm”

1887:  active members of the Primitive Methodist chapel at the time of building included Edward Bainbridge, Robert Maughan, William Graham Hall, Thomas Sage and Kilvington Rickatson of Trenholme Bar [G Milburn’s notes]
1887:  memorial stones at the new Primitive Methodist chapel were laid by K Rickatson, W Seymour (Spout Bank), Mrs Honeyman, Mrs Eden, Mrs Hall and Mr E Bainbridge; and on behalf of Viscount Falkland, G Y Blair, and Rev Oliver Jackson, a Primitive Methodist minister born in Hutton Rudby [G Milburn’s notes]

1930:  Dorothy Rickatson was invited to switch on the new electric lights in the Primitive Methodist chapel [G Milburn’s notes]

People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Race to Richardson

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



Race

11 Jan 1846:  Hutton Rudby:  Thomas Stringer, grocer, of Appleton Wiske, son of Tobias Craddock Stringer, miller married Ann Davison, daughter of George Davison, shoemaker;  witnesses:  Byers Race and William Hebbron

Byers Race was churchwarden in 1848-50 and the churchwarden who signed the articles of inquiry 1849


Ramshaw

Ramshaw cut Mr Barlow’s hedge, after harvest 1850 – Barlow’s Notebook

1851 Census:  Linden Grove:  Forbes MacBean 60 Lt Col Artillery full pay b Annapolis Nova Scotia British subj, wife Eliza 65 b St Petersburg British subj, daughters Elizabeth 25, Margaret Murray 20 & Marianne Georgina 18, all b Woolwich; wife’s sister Miss Marianne Scougall 45 indep also b St Petersburg;  servants:  groom Joseph Dawson 21 b Baysdale, housemaid Elizabeth Trenham 35 b Stokesley, cook Mary Wailes 23 b HR and boy groom William Ramshaw 13 b HR

1851 Census:  South Side:  Mary Ramshaw (married) ag lab b Ingleby
1851 Census:  South Side:  James Ramshaw 50 ag lab b Hutton and Jane 25 b Liverton, with his brother Robert Ramshaw, single, 26 common carrier b Hutton

People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Parish Clerk to Pyman

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


Parish Clerk

“A man appointed to assist the parish priest and who held his office for life.  He was paid from church funds.  His duties included making arrangements for services and leading the responses.”  [Oxford Companion to Local & Family History]

Thomas Atkinson d 30 Aug 1787, Clerk of Middleton [PRs]

16 Feb 1783    James Catchaside carpentr & clark of the parish of Hutton Rudby which office he discharged 36 years & died of a fevr aetatis suo 63.o anno

John Eland jnr, sieve maker, (1747-1822) was clerk of this parish for 38 years, according to his memorial inscription.  He was clerk after James Catchasides’ death in 1783, until about 1820.

1823 Baines:  Hutton:  Samuel Hebron, wheelwright & parish clerk

Samuel Hebron (wheelwright) was the Parish Clerk for 1820-1836:  eg 1829/30 £1 salary to Samuel Hebron clerk.  He also played the Bass Viol in church:  1830/1:  “ditto playing Bass Viol £1”.  1831/2:  his salary £1 and his Bill £1-7-6d

William Hebron was parish clerk, paid £1 a year.  He was the clerk described by the wardens in 1857 as “A man very capable but very neglectful”.  His predecessor was Samuel Hebbron.

1872 Post Office Directory:  Rudby:  Spencer Holmes, parish clerk and master of the National School


Parlor

Parlor is listed in “Recpts for 1854” – Barlow’s Notebook

1851 Census:  Doddle Hill:  Peter Parlour 30 farmer of 188 acres employing 3 labourers b Darlington, Yorks and wife Sarah 31 b Lofthouse, and son John 4 mths b Hutton Rudby;  with niece Elizabeth Thompson 15 scholar b Easby and farm servants Robert Hunt 21  b Ingleby Greenhow and William Truman 17 b Topcliffe