An effortless way to visit the Faceby area:
This video, from Walking With The Taxi Driver, follows a walk in early spring from Swainby to Faceby and back, returning past Whorlton Castle - more photographs of which can be found on wikipedia.
The video walk takes a few minutes to download - it isn't on the Taxi Driver's youtube channel.
Friday 9 November 2012
Later arrivals join the Faceby Mormons in Utah
Family and friends had been left behind when the Faceby villagers left for America in 1855. Some of them were able to make the journey themselves much later.
James and Isabella Stanger travel to Utah 1869
The home of James Stanger and his wife Isabella had been the centre of Mormon missionary activity in Faceby, but in 1855 when their three youngest children left for Utah, they stayed behind with their sons James and John.
James Stanger junior(1815-98), a farm labourer, had married Ann Elliott of Hutton Rudby in 1839. Their eighth child, Henry, was baptised in Faceby in May 1855 - his uncles and aunt had, by then, arrived at Mormon Grove in Kansas Territory. James and Ann did not become Mormons. By 1861, James was farming 45 acres at Faceby on his own account, and within a few years he moved his family to Kirby Sigston, where he farmed 75 acres at Sigston Lodge. From there he went to be at the bedside of the Revd Robert Barlow of Hutton Rudby during his last illness, and registered the death recording his relationship to Mr Barlow as 'cousin'. He and his wife Ann are buried at Faceby.
By the time the Mormon missionaries arrived in Faceby, John Stanger (1819-98) and his wife Anna Winter were living about ten miles away, at Landmoth-with-Catto near Leake. They were farming 100 acres at 'Marrigold Hill' (later Marigold Hall, and now Marigold Farm) - this had been Anna's father's farm.
In 1852, their daughter Isabella was born, and in 1854, Anna gave birth to Mary Ann. But within weeks, Anna was dead and John was left with two small children. It seems very likely that his parents moved to Landmoth to help John after their younger children left for Utah. Within weeks of the departure of the Faceby Saints, John's baby daughter also died.
James and Isabella Stanger travel to Utah 1869
The home of James Stanger and his wife Isabella had been the centre of Mormon missionary activity in Faceby, but in 1855 when their three youngest children left for Utah, they stayed behind with their sons James and John.
James Stanger junior(1815-98), a farm labourer, had married Ann Elliott of Hutton Rudby in 1839. Their eighth child, Henry, was baptised in Faceby in May 1855 - his uncles and aunt had, by then, arrived at Mormon Grove in Kansas Territory. James and Ann did not become Mormons. By 1861, James was farming 45 acres at Faceby on his own account, and within a few years he moved his family to Kirby Sigston, where he farmed 75 acres at Sigston Lodge. From there he went to be at the bedside of the Revd Robert Barlow of Hutton Rudby during his last illness, and registered the death recording his relationship to Mr Barlow as 'cousin'. He and his wife Ann are buried at Faceby.
By the time the Mormon missionaries arrived in Faceby, John Stanger (1819-98) and his wife Anna Winter were living about ten miles away, at Landmoth-with-Catto near Leake. They were farming 100 acres at 'Marrigold Hill' (later Marigold Hall, and now Marigold Farm) - this had been Anna's father's farm.
In 1852, their daughter Isabella was born, and in 1854, Anna gave birth to Mary Ann. But within weeks, Anna was dead and John was left with two small children. It seems very likely that his parents moved to Landmoth to help John after their younger children left for Utah. Within weeks of the departure of the Faceby Saints, John's baby daughter also died.
Thursday 8 November 2012
The Faceby Mormons settle in Utah
Most of the Faceby villagers settled in Weber County, which lies between the Wasatch Mountains and the Great Salt Lake. It had been the home of the Ute and the Shoshone, and was well-watered, said to have rich soil, winters not too severe for the area, and plenty of game. The main settlement was Ogden, where many of the Faceby pioneers are buried.
They lived through eventful times.
They lived through eventful times.
Wednesday 7 November 2012
Faceby Saints in Captain Ballantyne's Company: July to September 1855
The 4th Company was under Captain Richard Ballantyne. He was 37 years old and Scottish by birth. He had lived in America for many years and was now returning home from mission in India.
The 4th Company was a train of 46 waggons and 414 people, three horses and a mule. To each waggon there were ten or eleven people, a yoke of oxen, and a yoke of young steers or cows. Nearly all the people were funded by the Perpetual Emigration Fund. They were therefore travelling comparatively light compared with the self-funding 2nd Company, as they were obliged to obey the P.E.F's baggage restrictions. These were necessary to reduce the burden on the Fund of the expense of transporting goods across the plains.
In this company travelled:
The 4th Company was a train of 46 waggons and 414 people, three horses and a mule. To each waggon there were ten or eleven people, a yoke of oxen, and a yoke of young steers or cows. Nearly all the people were funded by the Perpetual Emigration Fund. They were therefore travelling comparatively light compared with the self-funding 2nd Company, as they were obliged to obey the P.E.F's baggage restrictions. These were necessary to reduce the burden on the Fund of the expense of transporting goods across the plains.
In this company travelled:
- George Stanger, aged 22 (already secretly married to Mary Etherington)
- Thomas Stanger, aged 25, his wife Jane Wilson, and their toddler
- Jane Wilson’s brother Thomas
- Charles Hogg, aged 24, and his now very pregnant wife Ann Stanger, aged 27, and their son James, aged 2
“the teamsters were as wild and ignorant of oxen and how to yoke cattle as the oxen were, and I found I had my hands full.”
Tuesday 6 November 2012
The Etherington family cross the Plains: June to September 1855
John and Elizabeth Etherington, aged 61 and 56, were travelling with four of their children: their two youngest, Thomas (19) and Mary (20); Elizabeth (28) and her husband John Pugh, with their toddler and six month old baby; and Ann (25) with her small son and new baby.
Ann's husband Thomas Heslop had remained behind in Liverpool and Mary was keeping secret her marriage to George Stanger.
They travelled in the 2nd Company led by Captain Jacob Secrist, a 36 year old who was returning from mission in Germany. The Captain of the First Ten was Osmyn Merritt Deuel, with whom they had travelled on the Siddons.
There were 368 people in 54 waggons. More than half of the travellers were Danish. These were self-funding people who had been able to buy up their own supplies for the journey and their new life. Consequently their problem was not that they were short of provisions, but rather that they were overloaded.
They set out on Thursday 14 June, but they soon encountered difficulties. There was cholera and measles in the camp and on the 11th day, at Elm Creek on the way to the Big Blue River, they met with disaster.
Ann's husband Thomas Heslop had remained behind in Liverpool and Mary was keeping secret her marriage to George Stanger.
They travelled in the 2nd Company led by Captain Jacob Secrist, a 36 year old who was returning from mission in Germany. The Captain of the First Ten was Osmyn Merritt Deuel, with whom they had travelled on the Siddons.
There were 368 people in 54 waggons. More than half of the travellers were Danish. These were self-funding people who had been able to buy up their own supplies for the journey and their new life. Consequently their problem was not that they were short of provisions, but rather that they were overloaded.
They set out on Thursday 14 June, but they soon encountered difficulties. There was cholera and measles in the camp and on the 11th day, at Elm Creek on the way to the Big Blue River, they met with disaster.
Monday 5 November 2012
The Faceby Mormons make ready for the Plains: May & June 1855
Atchison in Kansas Territory was a new town, still under construction. The people of Atchison were glad to welcome the Mormon emigrants because they provided a workforce while they waited to set off for the west, and because they bought supplies in the town for their journey.
Camping at Mormon Grove
Charles Hogg remembered:
The emigrants, arriving there with ox-drawn waggons from the levee, were surprised by the appearance of this vast tent city, set out in orderly rows. There they were to spend May and June 1855 planting crops and making preparations for the journey across the Plains.
Camping at Mormon Grove
Charles Hogg remembered:
"We moved out on to camp ground May 14; about ten had to occupy one tent. The one we got was not finished. The first night came up a very heavy storm of wind, thunder, lightning, and rain. It blew many of the tents to the ground. The screams of women and children were painful to hear. We passed through three such nights in succession. We had never witnessed such awful storms as were so common in this country. We moved camp (after staying here a few days) to Mormon Grove, about eight miles west of Atchinson."There was an old Mormon campground near the levée, and they had bought 150 acres on the high prairie some five miles off. It was well watered and had a grove of hickory trees, and had been named Mormon Grove. There were high hopes for Mormon Grove – but unfortunately it had to be abandoned after 1855 because of the cholera.
The emigrants, arriving there with ox-drawn waggons from the levee, were surprised by the appearance of this vast tent city, set out in orderly rows. There they were to spend May and June 1855 planting crops and making preparations for the journey across the Plains.
Sunday 4 November 2012
The Faceby Mormons leave Philadelphia for Kansas Territory
More than half the Mormon emigrants on board the Siddons were stopping in the eastern states, to earn money to make the rest of the journey later – the Wake family from Faceby among them – but the rest of the Faceby Saints were going through to the Valley that season.
President Fullmer took the advice of the Elders in Philadelphia and arranged for the travellers to go by train on the Pennsylvania Central route to Pittsburgh, intending to take a packet ship from there. They were able to negotiate a price for the travellers, of $4.50 per adult, with 80lb baggage free.
So on Monday 23 April, the emigrants got up at 5 am to get their baggage ready for the Customs inspectors and at last reached the railway station at 11 o'clock.
They would be travelling throughout Monday and Tuesday, arriving at Pittsburgh at 4.15 in the morning.
Henry Stocks wrote:
President Fullmer took the advice of the Elders in Philadelphia and arranged for the travellers to go by train on the Pennsylvania Central route to Pittsburgh, intending to take a packet ship from there. They were able to negotiate a price for the travellers, of $4.50 per adult, with 80lb baggage free.
So on Monday 23 April, the emigrants got up at 5 am to get their baggage ready for the Customs inspectors and at last reached the railway station at 11 o'clock.
They would be travelling throughout Monday and Tuesday, arriving at Pittsburgh at 4.15 in the morning.
Henry Stocks wrote:
“I may say that we are nearly all the time traveling through woods, thousands & thousands of acres of timber… I viewed the engine … Not so neat as the English engines, they seem great & clumsy. Carriages is about 18 yards long, same width as English … Inside there is a passage from one end of the train to the other & seats with backs two feet high. A stove & potty (or necessary) & a water barrel …”
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