Threading through the diary entries are glimpses of Boroughbridge and the countryside around: John records taking visitors to see the Devil’s Arrows or the Aldborough Pavement; riding his cousin Richard Hirst’s mare to the top of Gibbet Hill; going to the river “to bathe through the pasture and jolly it was”; walking down the river past Ramsdens; walking through Langthorpe down Dog Kennel Lane; going to the Water Cress Spring near Low Dunsforth; walking to the Ouseburn Bar. 

People appear, mentioned fleetingly.  In April 1856 John had his hair cut at Bulmer’s and his watch mended at Glew’s.  He got a dog from Capes, that Capes had bought from Mr Peacock, the relieving officer.  He went fishing and ferreting with Slater, the Roecliffe gamekeeper, or at the Mill with Baldrey (possibly the young schoolmaster lodging at Whixley in 1851).  He and his friend Smallwood walked up the river to drink porter at Bickerdikes.  On summer evenings he would play or watch the cricket – on 3 July 1856 he watched the match between Langton Wold and Boroughbridge.

There were annual events: the fairs, November the Fifth – in 1856 John walked round the town to see the fireworks on November 5th (Dr Sedgwick had his display two days earlier).  There were visiting attractions – travelling circuses  (Cookes or Pablo Fanque’s) were always a great favourite but sometimes the entertainment was rather more unusual:

Monday January 14th 1856
Went to Office   Sat with Aunt Hirst as all the rest were at Eagles Clairvoyant Entertainment   Read Blackstone

Miss Eagle of Eagles Clairvoyant Entertainment was staying at the White Horse Inn – a couple of days later Bessie Carrass went to ask her for news of John’s uncles Richard and Giles Henlock, who had emigrated to New Zealand in about 1835.  Miss Eagle (inaccurately) predicted Richard’s return in 1857.  Both are mentioned in Uncle William Henlock’s Will made in 1865 and it seems Richard died in Australia in 1876.

Monday November 7th 1859
to office.   At night read Equity at the office.   Went at noon to call at Mrs Parkers   Went at night to Miss Grace Egertons entertainmt at the White Horse

Mrs Morrell of the White Horse also kept vehicles for hire – in May 1857 the cab was hired to take John’s parents, sister Jane and Mr Capes to Joe’s wedding in York; in March 1858 John and his friend Mark Smallwood went in Morrells’ phaeton to Ripon to visit friends; in February 1859 John and a friend went in Morrells’ dogcart to a party in Humburton; and in November 1859 a large party of ten people took Morrells’ omnibus to Thornton Bridge to a party at Thomas Lund’s house.

There were concerts :

Monday October 13th 1856
Went to Office.   At Noon Walked up Topcliffe Road  Went to Capes’s  At Night Uncle Hirst gave me a tickett to the Concert (Singers Miss Barwick & Miss Newbound  Mr Wilson Lambert & Delavanti)  It was very nice  All passed off well.   I went to Capes’ to sup  Heaton Clark, Uncle & Aunt Pick were there.   Got home about 11

It is not clear where this concert took place, with the celebrated Mrs Lockey and others:

Tuesday October 13th 1857
Went to office   At Noon about home   At Night went to Concert   Heard Mrs & Mr Lockey & Miss Banks sing & Blagrove the violinist & brother the Concertina player also Mr Aylward on the Violin cello   It was most glorious   Supped with Smallwood  Young Johnson was there

Young Johnson was probably Tom Mason Johnson, who was training as a doctor with Dr Crosby of Great Ouseburn.

On September 8th 1858 John and Smallwood attended the Leeds Musical Festival at the Town Hall, opened the previous day by Queen Victoria in a wildly successful visit.  After a morning at work they drove Mrs Morrell’s phaeton to Starbeck station and went on by train to Leeds, still lavishly decorated from the Royal visit.  They heard some of the greatest singers of the 19th century – including Madame Clara Novello, Madame Alboni, Sims Reeves – in a programme that included the first performance of William Sterndale Bennett’s The May Queen.  It “was glorious.”  John finally got home at about a quarter to three in the morning.

There was also amateur music – on 23 February 1858 there was an Oratorio in the Schoolroom.  John’s friend William Stott Steele sang “and several others” – and more informally, in the autumn of 1857, John went glee singing at Miss Stott’s and the Sedgwicks’.

At the beginning of May 1857 he was involved in days of preparation for the Bazaar to be held in the schoolroom – the great attraction was to be the “German Tree”, which must have been a May variant of the newly introduced Christmas tree:

Friday May 1st 1857
Went to Office  At Noon Capes  Jane  Joe & I dined with Aunt Bell.   At Night Smallwood & I walked to Crows to see him about a ham for the tea party on the night of the Bazaar

The Crow brothers of Ornhams Hall were bachelor farmers, related to the Howes of Ouseburn.

Saturday May 2nd 1857
Went to Office.   At Noon was about home.   At Night I was at the School Room with Smallwood  Owen & Leond Sedgwick making arrangements for the German Tree

Monday May 4th 1857
Went to Office.   At Noon Read Equity.   At Night was decorating the school room in preparation for the German Tree tomorrow

Tuesday May 5th 1857
Went to Office.   At Noon Joe & I had a walk up the River.   At Night went to the School Room to tea & to the German Tree.   Put into several loteries   got a cushion which I sold to [Revd] Owen for 12/-   got an antimacassar  a pr of slippers  &c   Had a very pleasant evening   got home about ten

A few weeks later he drove his cousins Mary and Sophy Hirst in their father’s dogcart to the Brafferton Bazaar, where they “had some good fun raffleing &c &c”

In September there was the annual Ouseburn Feast:

Monday September 21st 1857
Went to Office   Left about ten   walked to Ouseburn Feast   Dined at Uncle Picks   Capes dined with us   went to tea at Uncle Wms   Called at Crosby’s   Smallwood came on after tea & had supped with us at Uncle Wms   Lascelles & wife  Miss Haddon  Howe & wife  Old Pick & wife   Richd Paver  Ellison & wife were there   Smallwood & I walked home   arrived about 11.50 pm  

Mr Ellison was the steward for Lord Stourton of Allerton Park. 

Sometimes there were Missionary Meetings:

Thursday May 19th 1859
Came home by train from Helperby.   To office   at noon read law.   In the afternoon Capes Joe & I were ferretting with Poulter at the Mill    At night I rode to Ouseburn  but the good people there had gone to a missionary meeting so I did not see them

The Boroughbridge church anniversary was celebrated:

Friday July 24th 1857
Went to Office at ½ past six   stayed till after eight   At ½ past eight Smallwood Steele Joe & I went to Langthorpe   Miss Stott was getting in a stack   we took our dogs & killed loads of mice & twelve rats.   Got back about ½ past eleven.   At Noon was about home.   At Night went to Church  Revd Arthur Maister preached   it was the anniversary of the Church opening   Supped at Joes.   Father & Mother came home from Mrs Workmans.   Two Miss Scholfieds came to Capes’

and alterations made to the organ

Sunday May 9th 1858
Morning & Evening to Aldbro Church   Afternoon to Kirby Hill   No service at BB Church on acct of alterations in the Organ   Hy Redmayne slept with me at Uncles

Henry Redmayne had evidently come over from Settle.

A couple of times John records a fire in the town:

Tuesday February 5th 1856
… Mrs Powells house was on fire, not much damage done

Friday November 27th 1857
Went to Office.   At Noon Mr Harrisons Stables & Chamber over were on fire …

and living at the Bridge Foot, the river was always important:

Sunday September 28th 1856
Went twice to BB [church] & once to Aldbro   We had a very high River   moved the things out of the Kitchen but it did not come in

Sunday December 7th 1856
Very high Water   it got into our kitchen and it was in the Street  had not been such a high water of 35 years.   Went once to BB Church.   Joe was in York.   I was very busy all day.

Monday December 8th 1856
Did not go to Office  Before Breakfast the water was across the road  Went after in Robert Pettys Rulley.   At Noon we had the Boat at the Crab Mills & rowed Jane Capes Dora & Mary about in the Tut   I rode Joes Mare in the field.   At Night I read Margaret & her bridesmaids  Went to the Station to meet Joe

A rulley was usually a flat four-wheeled wagon.  Margaret and her Bridesmaids by Julia Stretton was published in 1856.  John often records the books he was reading.

Monday December 5th 1859
To office.   Had tea with Joe & was about home   all the night we had a very high water just did get in to our kitchen  got to bed about ½ past 3

and on occasion fatal:

Saturday May 14th 1859
To office.   At Noon Steele Capes Joe & I went to Chr Lofthouses stable to see a corpse which was found in the Canal.   At night went to Aldbro  Had a walk with Capes

Christopher Lofthouse kept the Grantham Arms at Langthorpe.

Devil's Arrows, Boroughbridge (early C20 postcard)

Death was never far away. 

Monday January 26th 1857
… Rode Joes Mare to Humberton to enquire of Lydia Smith who was very ill not likely to get better …

Saturday March 12th 1859
…   Mrs Clark of Ellinthorp Hall was confined   child dead  Mother was there

Tuesday March 22nd 1859
To office.   At Night went to a spread to Mrs Powells   Two Miss Smiths of Burton   Charlesworth  Miss R Stott   Steele  Capes & I were there     we played cards    got home about ½ past eleven
Annie Sedgwick died today

In September 1858, John’s parents and Uncle and Aunt Hirst had gone away with friends and family to Redcar for a holiday.  Mary Hirst and her sister Jane were with them, but the others had remained behind:

Tuesday September 28th 1858
To office.   At Noon went down to the Cricket field.   At Night went to Joes & from there to the train to meet the Hirsts & Miss Thompson coming from Duncombe Park.   Leonard Sedgwick was telegraphed for to Aunt Hirst who was ill at Redcar

Wednesday September 29th 1858
To office.   At Noon at the Cricket Field.   About 3 o’clock Rd Hirst came with a note which Mr Roger Buttery had brought from Redcar to say Dora  Sophy & Rd [Hirst] were to go by the 6 train to Redcar as Mrs Hirst was very ill   They went by the train but received a message at Pilmoor [station] to say they were to return as poor Aunt was dead.   Leond came home from Redcar & Mary Hirst also came with him.   She died about 3 o’clock of paralysis apoplexy

Thursday September 30th 1858
To office.   Had breakfast at Uncles  At noon Father & Mother came from Redcar also Uncle Hirst & Mrs Chas Stubbs and the corpse came by Ripon  At night Had tea at Joes

Mrs Charles Stubbs was the Hirsts’ eldest child Jane, now thirty four years old.  She had married one of the London cousins, Charles Stewart Stubbs, when she was twenty.  Four years later she was widowed when Charles died in a riding accident.  Her third child, Alice, was born three months later. 

Saturday October 2nd 1858
To office.   At Noon at Uncles directing funeral cards …

Monday October 4th 1858
To office.   At 12 o’clock we committed the remains of poor Aunt to the grave.   She was borne shoulder height by 6 men & a pall was borne by 8 ladies.   There was a large funeral.   Holdsworth & Owen performed the ceremony   At Night read law

John’s aunt Elizabeth Hirst – his father’s sister, still commemorated in stained glass in Boroughbridge church – had been a loving companion to her husband Henry:

Monday November 3rd 1856
Went to Office  Had breakfast at Uncles as he was going to London & Aunt wanted to go to the Station to see him off …

She kept a cow:

Tuesday November 25th 1856
Went to Office.   Retd to Breakfast   At Noon Had a walk with Capes towards Kirby Hill by the fields.   At Night Joe & I walked to see Aunt Hirsts cow which they were expecting to calve.   Went home  read Law

and, like John, she too sorted the letters for the post:

Friday February 15th 1856
Was at the Office   Had breakfast at Uncles   went to Howells with a letter Aunt had missed putting into their bag …

Naturally enough, John’s diaries show the lives of his female relations only when they touch his own, but we catch glimpses of them – busy housekeepers, active countrywomen:

Sunday July 25th 1858
Morning & evening to Gt Ouseburn Church  In the afternoon Aunt [Henlock] & I took the Dogs down the Croft S[mallwoo]d walked on & I returned to BB with him after church at night  Rd Paver set us part of the way

Thursday September 25th 1856
Went to Office.   Walked to Aldbro to see Robert Thompson & Mr Holdsworth on business   At Noon Walked with Dora Hirst & Mary & the children to the Top of Gibbet Hill   At Night went to Pilsmoor as we expected Aunt Redmayne from York but she had walked on to Helperby   Mr & Mrs Roger Buttery drove her home

John’s younger sisters and girl cousins were away at school – Lizzy, Alice and Mary Redmayne went to Miss Adcock’s at Ilkley Hall and Sophy Hirst to Middlethorp Hall, York.  Sophy was a particularly lively companion:

Monday June 9th 1856
Went to office   Went down to see the Cricket  there was a match betwn BB & Aldbro   Uncle Hirsts ladies were there   At Night I had tea at Uncles   We then rowed Uncle Hirsts ladies to Westwick   Steele  Jim S[edgwick] & Capes & I   we went into Vyners grounds [Newby Hall] & had some jolly fun up & down the Hill Jim & Sophy & Miss Dixon & I.   Steele was called away   I went & had supper at Uncles   Miss Calder was also with us & after a jolly chat I went home along with Miss Calder

Tuesday August 26th 1856
I drove Aunt R  Aunt Bell & Sophy to Bowerley  made a call there & then went to Settle   I saw Mr Ingelby [sic] & Mr Foster   Mr F asked me to go & spend tomorrow with him   I then walked home & left Uncle to drive the Ladies   After dinner had some music   Sophy & I ran up to the Top of the Rock opposite   I went into the wood with Joe Hodgson but did not get anything

The girls too enjoyed outdoor games, boating, playing ball.  Schooldays over, they went on frequent and lengthy visits to family and friends.  The return visits enlivened the social scene for their brothers:

Thursday May 15th 1856
Went to office   At Noon read Blackstone  went to Aunt Bells   At Night I walked to Ouseburn   Joe was there  he had taken Aunt Bell to stay at Atkinsons  I met Uncle & Aunt Pick going to BB   I went & found Joe at Crosby’s   I saw Miss Johnson   She played & sang  I turned over the leaves  she has a very sweet voice   we stayed ½ an hour & then came home   got home a little before 9

Tuesday November 18th 1856
Went to Office & retd to Breakfast.   Joe & I walked down the Banks at Noon.   Miss Kate & Miss Lucy Collinson came to Uncle Hirst’s today.   At Night I went to a party at H.E.  Clark’s  had a jolly dance   got home at ½ past one

Saturday November 22nd 1856
Went to Office   Retd to Breakfast.   Dined as soon as I got home   Went to Newsroom after dinner & stayed there till Office Time   At Night after tea I went to Uncles.   Lucy Collinson & I walked arm in arm round their garden for a short time in the dark   Mary Hirst & Kate C did the same    Did not stay

They were all, naturally, good walkers – and walking together, for men and women, was a companionable activity.  Accompanying people on their journey and ‘setting’ people on their way was an important part of life:

Wednesday May 14th 1856
Went to Office.   At Noon read Blackstone.   Expected to go with Dora & Mrs Hy Powell but by a mistake Joe went instead of me   At Night went & sat a little at Uncle Hirst’s   went & had supper with [Aunt] Bell [Henlock] we had it in the kitchen.   Sophy & Dora came just after  we had a jolly chat   I set them home & then returned to my own home

Monday May 26th 1856
Went to Office   At Noon wrote to Tom  settled my Cash book &c   At Night went to Practise at the School   Saw Mr Frankland after the Practise   Sophy M.Dixon & I walked up the Common & round by Minskip   Dora met us & a jolly walk we had

Saturday March 12th 1859
To office.   At Night went in to Uncles   Sophy & I set M Sedgwick nearly home … 

John mentions no dangers on these walks, but records one surprise:

Friday February 8th 1856
…  Tonight as Mrs Davies was going home to Minskip she met two men one of whom gave her a kiss “very delightful indeed"

Interior of St James's Church, Boroughbridge (early C20 postcard)

Weddings in John’s circle were not celebrated on the large scale of today.  When John’s brother Joe was married to Sarah Sedgwick in York, John did not go:

Tuesday May 12th 1857
Father & Mother  Capes & Jane set off in Mrs Morrells Cab to Joes Wedding at ½ past seven.   Went to office.   At Noon was about home.   At Night I went to Uncles   Miss Milnthorp  Mrs M Smith & Miss Fretwell were there

Wednesday May 20th 1857
Had breakfast at Uncles.   At Noon went to Langthorpe.   At Night Rode Uncle Hirsts pony to Marton with Grafton on business & from there to Ouseburn   Had supper at Uncle Picks   got home at ¼ to ten   Got a pickle Fork Aunt Ann got in York for me to give to Joe & Sarah

Joe and Sarah were away only a couple of days, before they returned to live in Langthorpe:

Friday May 22nd 1857
Had breakfast at Uncle’s   At Noon went to Langthorp.   At Night Capes & I went up the River   I shot 2 rats  Joe & Sarah came home   Uncle came home from London

Sarah was a cousin of the Sedgwicks of Aldborough.  Her father Leonard Sedgwick, brother of Dr Roger, was a wholesale tea dealer in York.

John’s sister Jane’s wedding had been celebrated on a much more handsome scale.  John presented his sister with his present a month before the wedding day – “a butter dish & silver knife with pearl handle” which had cost him eleven shillings and sixpence.  Some of the family came from Settle for the event:

Tuesday September 9th 1856
Went to Office   Tom came   At Night Tom & I drove Uncle Hirsts Dog Cart to Dishforth   Uncle Redmayne Polly & Lizzy came.   I slept at Uncle Hirsts

but John’s mother evidently did not feel equal to going to the church for the ceremony, which was followed by the Wedding Breakfast, attended by the Revd Owen, and the traditional races.  When Jane and Henry Capes left for their Wedding Tour in Wales, the rest of the party had a day out at Studley:

Wednesday September 10th 1856
Did the Mail   Went home   helped to arrange about the Weddg breakfast   got Dressed   We all went to Church except Mama   I had Sophy  Mr Owen had breakfast with us   had races &c &c   After the bride & Groom left we took 2 carriages & Uncles Dog Cart to Studley   I drove one Cab   Very jolly it was   Got home to supper then went into the Drawingroom   The Servants all had supper & drunk healths &c &c  A very jolly Day   Slept at Uncles

Jane and Henry Capes’ arrival back in Boroughbridge after a fortnight’s holiday was the signal for the round of parties that followed a wedding – “to meet” the married couple:

Tuesday October 14th 1856
Went to Office   At Noon I took a walk with Pincher & Tip to the Plantation going towds Kirby Hill by the fields   they got a Hedgehog & worried it   At Night I went to Miss Stotts to meet Mr & Mrs Capes [Jane & Henry]  Miss Smith & Lydia  Emma Eteson & Jacob  Mrs Elgood & Mrs Crawshaw  Mrs Powell  Sedgwicks &c &c  Played at Cards  Speculation & Loo  Had a little singing  Had very pleasant evening  Got Home about ¼ to 11

Later John would be old enough to attend the bachelor party before a wedding:

Saturday January 1st 1859
To office.   At night walked with Steele to H.E.Clark’s to tea (the last time as a bachelor) as he is to be married on Wednesday.   Jacob Smith & Thos Lund were there    played cards.   Steele was called away   I got home a little before 12

Heaton Edwin Clark's bride-to-be was Martha Eliza Hallewell, the daughter of a Leeds wine merchant.  A month later, when she was settled in her new home, the parties began:

Wednesday February 9th 1859
To office.   At Night walked down to Ellenthorp Hall with a note asking the Clarks to our house to meet Heaton Edwin Clark & his bride on Tuesday next.   Mrs Millar was there   we played whist   I got home soon after ten

Monday February 14th 1859
To office   At Night went to meet HE Clark & his wife at Miss Stotts   Played Cards   Miss Ruth Stott & I played Capes & Mrs Powell   Got home about 12

Tuesday February 15th 1859
To office.   At Noon called at Sedgwicks where I stayed dinner   at Night we had a party to meet HE Clark & his wife   Played Cards   they left about 12

The following month, the Clarks held their own party:

Tuesday March 29th 1859
To office.   At Noon read law.   At Night  Capes & I had a cab to Ellinthorp Lodge to the return bridal party   we played cards & a very jolly evening we had.   Miss Ellen & Miss Lucy Hallewell were there.   We got home about ½ past twelve

No wonder it was important to a bride that her wedding dress would be useful for the parties afterwards.

The wedding of John’s cousin Jane Redmayne to his friend Dr Leonard Sedgwick was a grander affair altogether – but still without the lengthy preparations of today.  Leonard asked John to be his groomsman on December 10th 1857 and a few days later John went to York to order his clothes for the occasion.  In early January there was the bachelor party:

Monday January 11th 1858
To Office   Had breakfast at Uncles.   The Workmans left Uncles this morng   At Noon about home   At Night went to see Jane Capes   Went to Leonard Sedgwicks to sup   H.E.Clark   J.Smith  Wm Morley   Smallwood   Steele   Joe & I were there   played Cards   Got home about ½ past one

Two days later, Leonard, his sister Mary and brother Tom went with John to Settle:

Wednesday January 13th 1858
Went with Leonard & Mary Sedgwick to Taitlands to Leonards Wedding   he paid my fare   Tom Sedgwick joined us at Leeds   Fanny Stubbs met us at Settle Station   Had a Fly to Taitlands  Had tea there    Tom Sedgwick   Wm Nixon & I went to sleep at Stackhouses    Leonard went to Richardsons

Fanny Stubbs, who kindly met them at the station, was John’s cousin, a sister of the Revd William Stubbs (later Bishop of Oxford).  She was one of the bridesmaids and it seems that her brother was one of the groomsmen.  There were five groomsmen, paired with five bridesmaids.  Margaret Ingleby of Lawkland was a friend and neighbour of the bride, while Miss Nixon was probably a schoolfriend – she lived at Woodlands, 3 Clarence Grove, Everton, according to John’s 1853 diary. 

Thursday January 14th 1858
Went to Taitlands to 1st breakfast & helped Uncle to arrange.   Went back to Stackhouse’s   got dressed   Took Leond to Church & they got wed.   Tom Sedgwick  I  Wm Stubbs  Wm Nixon & Hy Redmayne were Groomsmen    Miss Nixon   Mary Redmayne  Mary Sedgwick   Fanny Stubbs & Margaret Ingelby were bridesmaids.   Went to Taitlands   Sat down 30 to breakfast at ½ past 12 Bride & Groom started about 2.   We some of us walked to Stainforth Foss & on to the rock in front of Taitlands   went & had a 1st tea at Stackhouses    Went to Taitlands  we were above 50 of us  Had a splendid dance   Got to Stackhouses about ½ past 3   Went to bed about 5  Everything passed off firstrately

This wedding was followed by a dance at the home of the brides’ parents – but when John’s cousin Sophy Hirst married in Boroughbridge two years later they still had the traditional races.  Sophy married William Thompson, a London auctioneer and son of a wine merchant:

Thursday July 12th 1860
Sophy Hirsts wedding day    I was groomsman     went with the bridegroom & Mr Jas Thompson to Church at ¼ to 11    they got married   had lots of races &c    Had breakfast about ½ past 12   The bridal pair left about two    Had all sorts of games in the field after that then Joe Steele & I rowed Miss Thompson Mr Jas Thompson & Mary Hirst to Westwick        I supped at Uncles

John gives few details of Christmas celebrations.  Family letters from the 1870s show that they had a turkey for dinner, hung mistletoe, gave presents and ate plum cake, but in his 1850s diaries John records only one Christmas present:

Thursday December 23rd 1858
To office.   At night rode Joes mare to Uncle Picks.   Aunt gave me two white pocket handkerchiefs & a £1  for a Christmas Box  Got home about ten

It was not often that all the family could be together, so this must have been a precious time for John’s mother.  We have a glimpse of one such occasion in the following terse entries from 1856, which record John’s cold journey to Starbeck station to meet his brother Tom, the drive back in the dark, taking communion together at Boroughbridge church, the walk with the dogs in thick snow and the evening by the fire …

Wednesday December 24th 1856
Went to Office   Retd to Breakfast  Had a letter from Tom saying I was to meet him at Starbeck at 8.25 tonight.   At Noon had a walk up Topcliffe Road   At Night Drove to Starbeck to meet Tom  Left here at six   Got home about half past ten   Had some mulled Ale at Starbeck   It was very dark

Thursday December 25th 1856
Christmas Day
Went to Office   Did the Mail   Went to BB Church in the morning   Stayed Sacrament  Father Tom & I went to Aldbro in the Afternoon  After we came back had a walk with the Dogs a mile up Topcliffe Road & back  It snowed hard.   Dick Hirst & Aunt Bell had tea with us.   Sat & talked all the evening

St James's Square, Boroughbridge (early C20 postcard)

What happened to John's family in later years?

Aunt Ann Pick died in 1860 at the age of fifty and her husband William in 1872.  Aunt Bell, the active spinster aunt, died in 1880 at the home of her niece Jane Capes.

Uncle William Henlock died in 1866.  In his Will he left the sum of £200, the interest of which was to

William Henlock of Great Ouseburn

be distributed to the poor of the parish by the Vicar and Churchwardens.  His wife Ellen died in 1885.  They are both commemorated in a memorial on the wall of the church of St Mary the Virgin at Great Ouseburn, where there is also a plaque recording Mr Henlock's legacy.

Uncle William Hirst died in 1879 at the age of eighty-one.

He had outlived his daughter Dorothy, who died the year before.  John recorded her funeral on 28 November 1878:   

went to poor Dora Hirst’s funeral at 3 o clock.  She was buried at BB Church.  Tremendous funeral.  All the Shops closed.  Grannie [his mother] and Alice went and so did all from Uncles except Uncle who is still very poorly.  It is indeed a sad day at BB. 

She was fifty-one years old and is commemorated by a stained glass window in the church to which she had been devoted through her life.  Her unmarried sister Mary Barker Hirst lived alone in Boroughbridge after the death of Dora and her father.

Their sister Sophy Hirst married William Thompson, a London auctioneer with family in Bridlington.  They lived in Russell Square in some style – they were holidaying in Nice in 1880.  After Sophy's death in 1900 and William's retirement, he and his unmarried daughter Edith Wharton Thompson moved north to Harrogate.

John's cousin Mary Redmayne, wife of his friend James Sedgwick, the Boroughbridge doctor, was a  sociable, kind and active neighbour often mentioned in letters by John's mother.  She died “of apoplexy” on the night of Whit Sunday 1892 “very suddenly at Victoria Station London”.  She was fifty years old.  James and his unmarried son and daughter left Ladywell House and the practice to Dr Daggett and moved to Wimbledon, perhaps to be near his son Hubert Redmayne Sedgwick and his family; Hubert was a surgeon at St Thomas's.
Mary's parents, Thomas and Jane Redmayne, died within a week of each other in the early spring of 1862 and are commemorated in St Peter's, Stainforth.  Their son Henry died aged twenty-six in 1868 and was buried at Stainforth:

the Volunteers of which he was Ensign attended the funeral and carried him shoulder height all the way from Taitlands to Stainforth church and the band played the Dead March and 3 volleys were fired over his grave

John's sister Jane Stubbs and her husband Henry Hawkesley Capes moved from Aldborough to Knaresborough a few years after their marriage in 1856.  By the 1871 Census they had moved to Harlow Carr and they spent the last decades of their lives at Belmont, Starbeck.  They  had a large and lively family of eight children, described by Jane's Aunt Bell as "a wild company".  Jane's first baby was born when she was thirty-one years old and her last when she was aged forty-three.  Jane was seventy-five when she died in 1902; she was buried at Harlow.  Henry died three years later in Ilkley at the age of seventy-eight.

Joe Stubbs and Sarah Sedgwick took over the family business and lived at the Bridge Foot.  Their two eldest children (Lillie and Willie) were close in age; their third, Tom, was born when Willie was thirteen years old and Sarah was thirty-nine.  She died quite suddenly in 1887 "of a stoppage of the bowels" when Tom was fifteen.  Joe died in 1906, "he has been long ill" recorded John.

Tom died suddenly and unexpectedly in London at the age of thirty-two on 10 January 1866 and is buried in Highgate Cemetery.  He was not married.

Lizzy married William Workman Dunhill from Doncaster, a 28 year old pharmaceutical chemist.  From his name and home we can guess that he was a relation of the Workmans of Arksey, the family whose hospitality John had enjoyed so much.  Lizzy and William had two daughters, Edith and Mary.  William died in 1887 and Lizzy in 1914.  Her last years were spent with Edith at Cony Garth, Arksey.  Her daughter Mary married Dr Henry Ingledew Daggett, James Sedgwick’s partner and then successor at Boroughbridge.  The Daggetts lived with their three children at Ladywell House.

Alice Stubbs never married.  When Joe took over at the Bridge Foot Alice and her mother moved to St James’s Square where Alice remained for the rest of her life.  Her great niece remembered her as a tiny, dainty and spotless figure.  She was devoted to her brother John and found a dear friend in his wife Ellis.

Miss Alice Stubbs at her home on Armistice Day 1918

This seems to be the draft of an account of the proclamation of the young Queen Victoria, written for the Intelligencer:

The solicitor William Hirst was married to John Richard Stubbs' aunt Elizabeth Stubbs (1798-1858).

He was of a local family – one uncle was Thomas Dew, borough bailiff and a partner in the Boroughbridge Bank with Thomas Stubbs and others; another uncle was Henry Hirst, a Northallerton solicitor. 

Hirst’s career bridges the old and the new.  He was the agent for the Duke of Newcastle, who owned the rotten boroughs of Boroughbridge and Aldborough in the last days before Parliamentary Reform.  And he was Boroughbridge's first Postmaster.  He must have had a finger in every pie in Boroughbridge during his years in practice!

A glimpse of the life of Alice Stubbs:

Alice Stubbs lived all her life in Boroughbridge.  She was born at 6 o'clock in the morning on 2 August 1844 at Bridge Foot, where her father, a grocer and wine merchant, was the third generation to run the family business.

Alice was the youngest of the six children.  When she was thirteen years old, she went to school at Miss Adcock's in Ilkley with her elder sister Lizzy and her cousin Mary Redmayne of Stainforth.  The following year, in August 1859, she and Mary went to school in Blackheath near London, while Lizzy, aged seventeen, had left education and was making lengthy stays with family and friends.

When Alice's father Thomas died in 1867 Alice was the only child left at home.  Her eldest sister Jane and her growing family had moved to Knaresborough, while Lizzy lived in Doncaster with her husband and new baby.  John was establishing himself as a solicitor in Middlesbrough, and the family must barely have recovered from the loss of Tom, who had died suddenly in London the previous year when aged only thirty-two.  Alice and her mother moved out of the Bridge Foot, leaving it to her eldest brother Joe and his wife, and set up home in St James's Square.  She was twenty-three years old and it was to be her home for the rest of her days

We do not know whether Alice chose spinsterhood.  There is no hint in the family papers that she suffered any disappointment in love – unlike her cousin Fanny Stubbs, the Bishop of Oxford's sister.  Fanny had told John of "her smash with George Robinson" as they walked together to the Castleberg in Settle in August 1856; when she died at the age of forty-one she was still unmarried.  Alice, like Fanny, was the mainstay and companion of her widowed mother Mary.

We can glimpse her daily life through family letters. 

She had local duties and obligations to fulfil.  This included visiting the poor ("districting" as her mother called it), teaching in the Sunday School and helping at the National School.  There were calls to be paid and shopping – or, as her mother still said, "marketing"– to be done.  Alice played tennis, went for walks, and of course attended church.  There were frequent visitors to stay and people called on them and were entertained at meals.  Alice and her mother very much enjoyed "romping" with the little children who were brought to the house. 

Alice herself went to stay with friends and family, for amusement and to be useful.  She went to Redcar, visited Cambridge for the May Bumps “and had great gaiety” when a young relative Charlie Stubbs was rowing in the races, to Hychin Hall near Bury St Edmonds with her cousin Mary Redmayne, to Scarborough with Aunt Henlock.  Aunt Henlock was clearly very fond of Alice –
wrote Alice to John in Feb 1869.

Aunt Henlock's generosity, though it made Alice a little embarrassed, was very welcome.  Finances were a constraint, as although their lives were comfortable their incomes were fixed.  Alice was unable to get to Redcar to see her new nephew soon after the birth because of
wrote Mary in March 1872.

"Transferring money does not suit those who have only a limited income   payment deferred for a few months is very inconvenient"

she wrote in April 1872. 

Keeping the balance between the necessity for careful housekeeping and the level of hospitality that she had been accustomed to offer guests – and perhaps felt was expected of her – must have required care.

Alice took her share of the work in the house – and it is clear that they enjoyed their garden:
Mary had run a large household, entertaining customers and family for days in succession during the Fair, and was clearly an excellent manager.  The housekeeping skills possessed by Mary and Alice were valued by the rest of the family:
Mary wrote in September 1875. 

"I have only been able yet to get you the small ham but if Ellis still wishes for a large I have no doubt we can get one and then shall be sent off by luggage train when we hear from you."

Alice made marmalade for the family, and thereby earned a little more income:

"she has put it into bottles to travel best and altogether has cost 6/-"

wrote her mother to John.

For all housekeepers in Boroughbridge, the seasonal house-cleaning was a major undertaking.  Social life came to a temporary halt while the house was turned out, scrubbed, dusted and whitewashed.  Gas had come to the town in about 1860, but even if the house in St James's Square had replaced oil lamps and candles with gas lighting, the light afforded was dim by comparison with the electricity of the 20th century.  When spring brought brighter sunshine into the darker corners and shadier passages, the grime of a winter of coal fires and smoky wicks would have been all too visible.

"We very much wished to be cleaning"

wrote Mary in March 1872 when it became clear visitors would prevent them, and they were forced to put it off until the beginning of May.  It must have been a trying time, and that year they were unfortunate in the weather.  They were assisted as usual by Bessy (who had been the children's nurse) while her husband Henry Carass the butcher was their whitewasher.  By dint of their combined efforts they were nearly finished by 18 May, but the unseasonable coldness – "it is like Christmas"– made it rather unpleasant.  And it was all to be done again in late autumn, ready for winter.

 "We have had a busy day cleaning the dining room putting down the old carpet etc"

wrote Mary at the end of October, and again on 7 November,

"I do not think we have anything more to tell you everybody is cleaning for Martinmas." 

The stone passages were not easy to keep clean and warm: 
wrote Mary in April 1873. 

Another comment by Mary in May 1873 shows how consuming an occupation cleaning was for the whole community:
Unsurprisingly, Mary grew increasingly reluctant to take on the burden without Alice.  In 1874, when she and John were attempting to fix a date for Alice to visit him at Coatham, Mary wrote

"We must have house cleaning and I do not feel equal to undertaking it alone."

 The house was turned upside down in the process.  When in May 1874 her daughter Jane Capes wrote in the middle of cleaning
In spring 1875 Mary was 72 years old – that year she found

"the extra work of dusting &c has made my sight rather more dim for we have had a very busy week and thankful it is over."

John and his wife Ellis made Alice the fine present of a sewing machine.  Isaac Singer improved on earlier machines and patented his own design in 1851, achieving such success that by 1860 Singers were the market leaders.  When Ellis prepared her own trousseau in March 1871 she had the use of a sewing machine, remarking to John in a letter from her mother's house in Helensburgh

"10 bodies.  No easy task"

as she sewed her underwear.  She must have realised how very useful Alice would find one.

The machine was set up on the table that Mary used for writing letters.  On 22 February 1872, she wrote to John
and the following month

"Alice is machining by me petticoat bottoms &c   she does prize her valuable gift it has done a great deal this week bed curtains &c &c"

It enabled Alice to earn a little money by carrying out commissions for the family.  She did some sewing for Ellis and the children: 

"tell Ellis the frock was sent off to her on Monday"

wrote Mary in February 1874. 

The sisters-in-law both evidently enjoyed discussing clothes and Ellis must have been a useful source of information for Alice.   Boroughbridge had become a much quieter town since the railways came, while Coatham and Redcar were popular seaside resorts, giving Ellis the opportunity to see the lady visitors in their best holiday attire.  The sewing machine must have been particularly valuable in the 1870s, when dresses were decorated with a uantity of elaborate trimmings:

"Am I to have Pekay [piqué] dress or what else can you recommend for I have 6 yards of embroidery to trim it with?"

wrote Alice to Ellis in April 1872.

"Alice begs I will tell Ellis she wore her blue dress"

Mary wrote in July 1873.

Ellis went to visit John’s family for the first time on 28 December 1870. She had met John in late November when they were fellow guests of Thomas Vaughan, the ironmaster.  Tom was a friend of John's, and his wife Kate Macfarlane was Ellis's cousin.  Ten days after their first meeting, John and Ellis were engaged to be married.  Ellis's first visit to Boroughbridge was naturally a matter of great importance, and as he was unable to accompany her, he depended on the post for news.

Her letters give us a glimpse of life in St James's Square.  She wrote to him of sitting in her room beside such a cosy fire, watching old Bessie in the kitchen preparing a turkey, coming in

"from such a nice dinner – and as Alice insisted in me taking some port you must excuse bad writing!?!"

coming home from church and

"taking a nice warm cup of coffee to lunch."

 A few months later, when he was staying at Boroughbridge, she wrote,
Alice died on 23 July 1921.  A loving soul, she was much loved herself.  In a letter to his mother on 15 February 1885 John wrote,
 In 1909 Alice wrote to Ellis,

"words will never express what you have been to me throughout the whole of your married life and it was one of dear Granny’s great causes of thankfulness that John had chosen such a wife.  Also that I had gained such a true and loving sister."

I like this story of Jane Stubbs' family because it's a reminder – at a time when everything to do with bringing up children seems so particularly fraught with anxiety – that the idea we make for ourselves of childcare of the past may not be quite accurate … …

Jane Stubbs was born at the Bridge Foot at seven o'clock on the morning of 5 July 1826, and was twelve years older than John.  She makes only rare appearances in his early diaries – a teenage boy would hardly notice the activities of a sister who was a young unmarried woman of twenty-seven.

By early 1856, Jane is more frequently noticed in his diary entries and always in connection with a young solicitor in their uncle Hirst's office, Henry Hawkesley Capes.  He was a year younger than Jane, and came from Whitgift in Yorkshire, the son of solicitor Thomas Hawkesley Capes and his wife Ann.  He and Jane were now to be found walking together and playing chess.

At some point the marriage must have been announced, but John does not record it.  We might guess that Jane must have been making preparations for her wedding when she went to stay in York in May and came back with a black undress Coat for her younger brother.   With quantities of clothes and underwear to make or buy and the new home to get ready, it is not surprising to find her going to York again in early August, this time with her mother.

York was also the natural place to find a wedding present, and John entrusts this task to his eldest brother Joe who, with the help of his fiancée Sarah Sedgwick of York, buys something suitable:

 “gave Jane a butter dish and silver knife with pearl handle for a wedding present   it cost 11/6”. 

On Wednesday 10 September 1856 Jane and Capes were married.

John did the mail at the office, went home and

“helped to arrange about the Weddg breakfast   got Dressed  We all went to church except Mama”. 

John was a groomsmen, and he had his lively young cousin Sophy Hirst, one of the bridesmaids, on his arm.  The wedding breakfast was followed by the traditional outdoor races and when Jane and Capes left for a Wedding Tour of Wales, everyone else took two carriages and Uncle Hirst’s dog cart to Studley for the afternoon.  Finally they

“got home to supper then went into the Drawing room  The Servants all had supper and drunk healths &c &c  A very jolly day”.

Jane and Capes were away for a little over a fortnight, returning to their new home in Aldborough on Friday 26 September.  John had supper with them there a few days' later. 

They embarked on their social life as a married couple – the parties given by friends and neighbours “to meet” the newly weds made the time after a wedding particularly sociable.  By May 1857, when Capes and Jane went with her parents to York for Joe's wedding to Sarah, she was in the early months of pregnancy.  It seems to have made little difference to her activities.  She still went out in the boat in May and August, out to parties, and on walks.  In September she went off with her husband and cousin Mary Hirst to Redcar, where her parents were already on holiday.  She is not mentioned by John during November and December, but Capes himself  is only mentioned once, when he went rabbiting with the others one December afternoon. 

John called to see Jane a couple of times in the New Year and then on Friday 22 January 1858 he recorded “went to Aldbro Mrs Capes was confined of a son”.  The next day he noted that mother and baby were “going on very nicely” and they were clearly doing well enough for John to dine at the house a fortnight later.  Capes went to a large family tea party at the Bridge Foot without Jane a couple of days later, and out to sup with Smallwood, and finally, two months after the baby was born, John records that Jane went out to dinner at the Bridge Foot. 

By the time Baby spent his first Christmas at the Bridge Foot, Jane was already four months pregnant with the next. 

Again, John's diaries reflect that two months after the birth, Jane is out and about again on visits, outings on the river, on holiday in Bridlington, to parties, and to a wedding in Faxfleet – and three weeks before Christmas she was busy moving house with her family to Knaresborough.  By this time she was pregnant once more, with the baby due in June.  This delivery did not go so smoothly, and three weeks after Mary’s birth Jane was “still very poorly”.  She was much better by the first week of July.  Five more babies followed, so that by the time Jane was forty-three years old she had had eight children in under eleven years.

By February 1872 they had moved to Harlow Carr.

In William Grainge’s “Harrogate and the Forest of Knaresborough” 1871, he describes Harlow Carr as
It seems likely that this hotel was the home of the Capes – there seem to have been few other houses in Harlow Carr big enough for them and they seem to have had plenty of room: 

“Jane and I walked to the end of the fields to meet Henry and found him playing croquet on our return  we had missed him in the garden” [Mary Stubbs 25 July 1874].

This large and lively family does not quite conform to today's stereotype of the well-behaved children of the Victorian professional man.

In size, it was not untypical – but it is very interesting to note that Mary Stubbs rather disapproved of it.  She herself had six children well spaced out between 1826 and 1844, a pattern also to be seen in the Hirst family.  Breastfeeding may have been enough to enable some nursing mothers to make yearly pregnancies less likely and certainly Mary was a strong advocate of mothers breastfeeding their own babies;  she approved of John's wife Ellis feeding her babes to the age of six months. 

They were such a very large household:

 “We are always seventeen in the house to begin with which is a fearful family”,

wrote Mary Stubbs from Harlow on 11 July 1874. 

Not only did Mary feel that the size of the family was a problem, but she believed that Jane would have found it easier to keep governesses if the children had been more obedient.  This problem of getting staff was a constant theme of Mary's letters to John in the 1870s

“as so many objected to the large family and I’m sure I should if I were a maid”

she wrote.

An additional cause of conflict was the growing habit of household daily prayers, which was not appreciated by all.  On 20 April 1872, Mary wrote to John

 “Poor J Capes has lost both their maids  they would not go into prayers and Henry spoke to the Cook whom I suppose refused to obey so he told her she must leave then the housemaid said she would go too and forfeit her wages” ,

and later the same year,

"Poor Jane Capes cannot hear of servants, and her Governess will not stay, is it not trying?  I told them I did not think the children were taught to be implicitly obedient when they were very young, for I do believe it cannot be too early instilled by firmness not punishment dear lambs" [7 November 1872]. 

Aunt Bell told John in a letter of 18 February 1873 that the Capes children were “a wild company”. 

A few days later, Mary wrote,

“Jane thinks her Governess will do and her maids offer tolerably she likes them all so far”,

but by the end of March she informed John,

“We have Minnie with us and Dora [Hirst] has Ella and Mabel for the Governess is again gone home ill and the housemaid too”. 

A month later,

“Poor Jane has got a housemaid but not a Cook yet”. 

They continued to have problems the following year:

“about the 24th the Governess arrives so we are to give her the greeting poor thing   I do hope she may be happy and do well for them” [12 July 1873]. 

The governess problem was solved for the time being, but difficulties with maids continued: 

“Jane looks thinner but says she now feels well again, but all her maids are leaving her at Martinmas which makes her fidgety” [1 October 1873]. 

Henry Capes' comment in late November 1873 perhaps hints at the radical change that would come to middle-class life after the Second World War, when live-in domestic service finally disappeared, on the whole apparently missed neither by employees nor employers:

“I really think,” he wrote to his mother-in-law, “we get on better without the two servants, than with them, but I suppose when the novelty wears off we should not think so.  Both Minnie and Ella are most useful, and Miss Kerr and Nurse ready to do anything.” 

A week later Mary Stubbs wrote,

 “Jane Capes has got her new Domestiques and I do hope they may settle and do well for she seems always in turmoil with them but they are a fearful family to enter poor things.”

Sickness in the family made matters worse, as can easily be imagined.  On 25 September 1872 Mary wrote,

“Poor Jane and Henry … have five of the youngest bad in whooping cough it was really depressing to hear them then poor Jane expects to part with all her maids at Martinmas and Miss Kerr gone that we left her rather flat and now wishing not to have a Governess till Xmas she has much to undertake”   

Mary continued to feel that teaching the children to obey the governess was important, and repeated the advice to John on 8 April 1876: 

“if you get a nice nurse your darlings must be taught to obey her for I am sure obedience is the great lesson in the path of duty darlings this is their Grannys anxious wish for them”.

The many children and the fluctuating cast of servants were not the only members of the household.  Jane and Henry also kept some animals:

 “Poor things they have lost two valuable Cows lately but amateur farming is never profitable though it may be pleasant   their hens too die off sadly”

wrote Mary, herself a farmer's daughter, on 1 February 1873.  John had a smallholding of his own and Mary wrote from Harlow on 3 July 1875,

“How do your Chickens go on  here the feeding is quite a concern and still fifteen little pigs but the Calf is gone to the butcher”.  

Mary clearly found it all quite exasperating, but to the reader today this glimpse of a lively, rackety family in 19th century  Harrogate is really rather attractive!  And the brief glimpses we have of Jane and Capes confirm the suspicion that they would have been fun to know.

Here is Capes acting in charades to admiration, from a letter by Mary in January 1874:

“We have had rather a gay week … Thursday we were all at Uncles to a meat tea  the Sedgwicks Joes and ourselves  they acted charades, James and Henry were admirable performers”.

And here is a letter written by Jane to her brother,  soon after the birth of his first child.  The subject matter is very serious – her eight-year-old daughter Amy had suffered a bad riding accident and was kept in bed in a splint until she could be allowed up and be taken out for air in a perambulator  – but there is a liveliness of tone and a fluency which is most engaging:


(Amy made a full recovery; she married the Great Ouseburn doctor Arthur Thompson when she was twenty years old, and had two sons.)

These are my original working notes, made quite a few years ago in the days before broadband and easy access to census records etc.  I have done a certain amount of extra work in getting them ready to post here, so some of the entries are now up-to-date. 

They include quotations from George Whitehead's Journals, ed. Helier Hibbs, which have been an invaluable resource for which I am very grateful. 

As with the A-Z of Hutton Rudby people, my accuracy is NOT guaranteed!  And I'm afraid they are not quite in alphabetical order.


John APPLETON of/in    Dishforth?
Diary references:
?? Jan 1853 a/c:  “for Appleton    6d”

9 Feb 1856:  “At Night went with Mr Capes to Dishforth to hear a little more about Cousin Marks Horse Cause    Mr Charles Mason & John Appleton were there”

26 Jul 1857:  “Mr & Miss Barroby went to Wm Richardsons childs christening   I came home at night with John Appleton in the pony carriage  They came to meet the Bulls from Salisbury which came tonight”


The Misses D & Sarah APPLETON of Dishforth
Diary references:
17 Jan 1857:  “At Night....to Dishforth   Ryotts children were all there & a Miss Rhodes from Thirsk & the Misses Appleton of Dishforth   we had a dance”

30 Dec 1858:  “At Night Went to Capes   Miss D  Miss Sarah Appleton of Dishforth  Miss Clarke of Minskip  Miss Calder  Jane Sedgwick & Mary  Alice & Lizzy Joe & I were there   got home about ten”

3 Jan 1859:  “...in Stotts phaeton to Clarks of Minskip to tea   Miss Calder  The Misses Appleton & Miss McCleod were there...”
24 Feb 1859:  “we had Miss Appleton & Sarah Appleton & Sophy to tea”
25 Feb 1859:  “tea at Uncles  The Appletons & Mrs Powell were there”
They are at tea or supper with the Stubbs or Hirsts five times in April, three times in August, and have tea at Bridge Foot once in December

Whites 1840: Dishforth:  Thos Appleton, yeoman

Tithe Map c1840
Thomas Appleton has in hand no316, house, and land, and tenants on most of his farmland; his house is on the west side of the main street of Dishforth, south of Mr Barroby’s
William Appleton has tenants on his 59 acres



Mrs APPLETON of LANGTHORPE
Diary references:
25 Jan 1856:  “At Noon went with a note for Mrs Appleton of Langthorp from Uncle Hirst”

Mr ATKINSON decd   

Diary references:
30 Aug 1859:  “Went to the Fulford Road Cemetery [York] for a cert.e of Mr Atkinsons burial”

Rev Thomas ATKINSON vicar of GT OUSEBURN
Diary references:
6 Apr 1856: (at church) “Had Mr Atkinson at BB in the morng & Aldbro in the afternoon”
15 May 1856:  “walked to Ouseburn   Joe was there  he had taken Aunt Bell to stay at Atkinsons”
31 Jul 1858:  “Sd  Aunt Bell  Fanny Stubbs & I drove Mrs Morrells phaeton to Uncle Picks  met the Howes  Chas & Alice Atkinson & Tom Johnson there  had a game of ball in the field..”

Slaters 1849: “Atkinson, Rev Thos, Ouseburn”

1851 Ouseburn:  this is the house before “the end of the village of Gt Ouseburn, part of”  Cottage Farm, Moor Farm and the Workhouse follow, in this, the section of Gt Ouseburn extending westerly from the church:       
Atkinson, Thomas (44), vicar, b in Lancs
Henrietta (31), wife, b Yarmouth
Charles    (8), b Raskelf
Alice (5), b Copmanthorpe
George (3), b Gt O
Georgina (2) do.-
Thomas (7mths) do.-
Ann Coates U (31), cook, b Ribston
Eliz. Longthorne U (23), nurse, b Barmby Moor
Ann May U (17), housemaid, b Raskelf

George Whitehead’s Journals:
Mr Steward gave up Gt Ouseburn living.  He got clear out July 9, and the Rev Thos ATKINSON from Copmanthorpe succeeded him in the living  1846
The Revd Thomas Atkinson read himself in at Gt Ouseburn on Sunday Sep 13  He came to live at Ouseburn in Mr Henlock’s house, & Mr Henlock removed into this house this side of the church about Oct 9th or 10th   1846           
The Rev Thos Atkinson preached his farewell sermon at Gt Ouseburn church  Sunday night  Nov 15th  he had been 22 years  he has got the living at Kirby Sigston  & left Ouseburn  Nov 19th  they had a sale  Nov 24th  Mr Schofield is going to succeed him at Ouseburn 1868


Alice ATKINSON of GREAT OUSEBURN
Daughter of the vicar

Diary references:
31 Jul 1858:  “Sd  Aunt Bell  Fanny Stubbs & I drove Mrs Morrells phaeton to Uncle Picks  met the Howes  Chas & Alice Atkinson & Tom Johnson there  had a game of ball in the field..”

26 Jun 1859:  “[at Henlocks, in Ouseburn] Alice Atkinson dined with us”

??  21 Jan 1860  “Miss Atkinson & Miss Allan were at Uncle Wms to tea”


Charles ATKINSON of    GREAT OUSEBURN
Son of vicar

Diary references:
31 Jul 1858:  “Sd  Aunt Bell  Fanny Stubbs & I drove Mrs Morrells phaeton to Uncle Picks  met the Howes  Chas & Alice Atkinson & Tom Johnson there  had a game of ball in the field..”

6 Feb 1859:  “[at Picks’]  Chas Atkinson called in the afternoon”
21 Aug 1859:  “went to Aunt Picks  had a walk with Chas & Geo Atkinson”
22 jan 1860  “Chas Atkinson came in the afternoon”


George ATKINSON of GREAT OUSEBURN
Son of vicar

Diary references:
21 Aug 1859:  “went to Aunt Picks  had a walk with Chas & Geo Atkinson”


Rev Thomas ALLANSON, Vicar of KIRBY HILL

Diary references:
2 Sep 1858:  “...met Charlesworth at Kirby Hill  we walked down to Ellenthorp Hall & waited till Mr Allansons Frank came...”

Slaters 1849: “Allanson, Rev. Thomas, Vicarage, Kirby Hill”


Mr Leonard ARMSTRONG and his wife

Diary references:
8 Aug 1859:  “to tea at 8 to L W Sedgwicks  Leond Armstrong & wife & Tom Sedgwick were there  The Armstrongs left early”

Possible candidate:
1851:  Ouseburn index
Armstrong, Henry, 50, b Chollerton, Nbland, fol 381
Mary A, 48, b Bamburgh   
Luke, 15, b Allenwash, Nbland
Leonard, 13, b Chollerton


Bell BALDWIN, Mary Jane BALDWIN of CRAVEN (met in Ouseburn)

Diary references:
21 Mar 1856:  “Bell Baldwin & her little girl Mary Metcalf Aunt & Uncle Henlock were at Uncle Picks..”
24 mar 1856:  “At 4 o’clock Joe & I set off & walked to Ouseburn to see the Craven party mentd on the 21st”
26 Mar 1856:  “...the Ouseburn party mentd above came to dine at our house”
27 Mar 1856:  “at night went to Aunt Bells to meet the Ouseburn party   I played with Mary Jane Baldwin & Alice in the Kitchen”
29 Mar 1856:  “..Bell Baldwin Mary Metcalf & I walked up to Uncle Wms”
30 Mar 1856:  “I am entitled to a pr of Gloves from Bell as she was asleep & I kissed her”
4 Apr 1856:  “..Mrs Baldwin gave me a pr of gloves (see 30th ulto)
5 Apr 1856:  “Called Bell Baldwin & Mary Metcalf up went into their bedroom & had a little talk   I then wished them goodbye as they were going away to day”
14 Apr 1856:  “..I read the letters they [Uncle & Aunt Pick] had had from Bell Baldwin  Mary Metcalf & Mary Jane..”


Mark BARROBY of DISHFORTH"Cousin Mark"
cf. Bishop Stubbs Genealogical History p32

The Barrobys were related to the Stubbs, and both were related to the Morleys.  Thomas’s mother Jane Morley was the daughter of William Morley and Elizabeth Barroby of Dishforth.  Elizabeth’s brother Mark Barroby had several children, all of whom were friends of Thomas and Mary.  Mark Barroby of Dishforth is mentioned very often:  unmarried himself, but obviously very family-minded, he was very hospitable to the younger generation.  His older brother Francis had died in 1837 and presumably Mark had inherited the family lands in Dishforth from him.  Mark was a yeoman farmer and lived with his sister Elizabeth at the north end of Dishforth main street, where he had his house, yard and gardens, garth and willow garth.  Twice John mentions him sending his bulls to shows in Salisbury and Chelmsford, and John’s parents’ cow was bulled by Mr Barroby’s Bull.  He paid for the building of a new school in Dishforth in the mid C19, and according to Whelan’s directory of 1859 “in the pleasure grounds attached to the residence of Mr Barroby, are some antiquities, viz. a Saxon cross, a stone battle axe, &c”.  He died unexpectedly:  “Poor Mr Barroby dropped down dead in his bedroom today” on 2 Dec 1858.  Christopher Barroby lived at Baldersby with his family, and there were two married daughters, Ann Richardson and Mary Richardson.

Diary references:
many visits to Dishforth from
22 Jan 1853:  “Rode back from Dishforth with Cousin Mark....” to
2 Dec 1858:  “Poor Mr Barroby dropped down dead in his bedroom today”

22 Jan 1853 a/c:  “Recd from Cousin Mark  10/-”
May 1855 a/c:  “paid to Cousin Marks men 1/-”

7 Feb 1856:  “Mr Barroby came   he invited me to go & spend Sunday with him which I accepted”
9 Feb 1856:  “At night went with Mr Capes to Dishforth to hear a little more about Cousin Marks Horse Cause”
12 Feb 1856:  “Rode over to Dishforth to fetch a letter from Cousin Mark which he had recd about the jury at Malton”
14 Feb 1856:  “Uncle & Mr C being at Malton   Mr Barroby’s horse trial being heard today...”
15 Feb 1856:  “Mr Barroby lost owing to a stupid Jury  £30 verdict”
    written above 7 Apr 1856:  “Our Cow was bulled by Mr Barroby’s Bull to night (Monday)”
29 May 1856:  “went to Mr Barrobys  I had 2 glasses of Sherry  I did not go into the Dining room as they had company”
20 Jul 1856:  “In the afternoon Cousin Mark & I went to Thirsk......Mr Barroby’s bull came home from Chelmsford having been to the show & got the 2nd prize”

20 Jul 1857:  “Mr Barroby started 3 bulls for Salisbury Show”
26 Jul 1857:  “Mr & Miss Barroby went to Wm Richardsons childs christening   I came home at night with John Appleton in the pony carriage  They came to meet the Bulls from Salisbury which came tonight”

2 Dec 1858:  “Poor Mr Barroby dropped down dead in his bedroom today”

Pigots 1834
Whites 1840:“Mark Barroby, yeoman”

Post Office 1857:    “Dishforth:  The present new school was built upon the site of an old one, by the liberality of Mark Barroby, Esq, of this village”

Tithe Map c1840:     
has in hand 132a 2r 27p, and houses & gardens let to tenants
his house, yard & gardens, garth and willow garth are at the north end of the Dishforth main street

Whellan:  York & the North Riding Vol II 1859
“Dishforth Township ... The present new school was built on the site of an old one, by the liberality of Mark Barroby, Esq, of this place.  In the pleasure grounds attached to the residence of Mr Barroby, are some antiquities, viz. a Saxon cross, a stone battle axe, &c”


Miss BARROBY of DISHFORTH

Diary references:
26 Jul 1857:  “Mr & Miss Barroby went to Wm Richardsons childs christening   I came home at night with John Appleton in the pony carriage  They came to meet the Bulls from Salisbury which came tonight”

5 Dec 1858:  “In the afternoon rode Joes mare to Dishforth to see Miss Barroby & Mrs Richardson  Mr & Mrs C Barroby were there   Left directly after tea”

visits 3 times in 1860:  July, Sept and Nov

Christopher BARROBY, Mrs BARROBY & Fanny of BALDERSBY
Brother of Mark

Diary references:
28 Apr 1856:  “I went into the fair with Mr Chr Barroby”
27 Feb 1857:  “..Chr & Mark Barroby were here today”
15 Aug 1858:  “[while staying at Baldersby]  Mrs C Barroby  Annie Morley & I walked to Skipton church in the morning”
25 Oct 1858:  “Mr Chr Barroby  Mr Jas Morley  Uncle Wm  Uncle Pick & Mr Miles Rainforth dined with us”  [fair time]
5 Dec 1858:  “In the afternoon rode Joes mare to Dishforth to see Miss Barroby & Mrs Richardson  Mr & Mrs C Barroby were there   Left directly after tea”

11 Jun 1859:  “At 3/5 o’clock drove to Dishforth where I stayed tea  ... drove to Baldersby to spend tomorrow at Mr Barroby’s  Chas Nicholson who was at Waterloo was there”
12 Jun 1859:  “In the morng Mr & Mrs Barroby & Fanny & I drove to Topcliffe Church & came home by Catton......At night Mrs Barroby & I walked to St James’ Church..”
Post Office 1857:    in Trade Directories: 
Farmers:  “C Barroby, Baldersby, Topcliffe, Thirsk”
under Baldersby:  “The Rt Hon Visct Downe...& Mr Barroby are owners of the soil, which is chiefly clay and good barley and turnip soil”                     
“Christopher Barroby, tanner & farmer”


BUTTERY family of/in HELPERBY

Thomas Stubbs of Ripley (1735-1805)’s sister Sarah married Roger Buttery in 1764
His daughter Sarah (1771-1817) married Thomas Buttery in 1801
His wife Elizabeth’s sister Ann Walls married John Buttery of Brafferton

The Butterys and the Stubbs were related by the marriage of Thomas Stubbs of Ripley’s sister Sarah to Roger Buttery in 1764, their daughter Sarah’s marriage to Thomas Buttery in 1801 and his wife’s sister’s marriage to John Buttery.  Mr and Mrs Roger Buttery of Helperby were particular friends in the 1850s, going on holiday to the Lakes and to Redcar with the Stubbs and the Hirsts.  Mrs Roger Buttery and Sophy Hirst went together to hear Jenny Lind sing, and John, his cousins and sisters often stayed at the Butterys’.    It seems likely that Richard Hirst lived at the Butterys’ to learn farming.  Thomas Buttery lived at Brafferton:  “called at Thos Buttery’s  he was in a very wild state” wrote John on 16 Jun 1856.  Thomas, Roger and William Buttery are listed as farmers and yeomen in the directories, and in 1840 Thomas Buttery junior is described as a maltster.  In the 1881 Census William Buttery aged 68, unmarried and a retired farmer, is to be found living at Dunriel in Helperby with his sister in law the widowed Mrs Ann Buttery, aged 76 and born in Kirby Hill; she is presumably Mrs Roger Buttery.
Diary references:     eg
30 Jul 1856:    “Uncle Hirst  Dora & Mrs Charles set off with Mr & Mrs Roger Buttery to the                 Lakes  they drove”
25 Sep 1856:    “...Aunt Redmayne...had walked on [from Pillsmoor] to Helperby   Mr & Mrs                 Roger Buttery drove her home”
12 Apr 1856:    “...went to Mrs Buttery’s had a glass of ale   we then went to Mrs Rogers & had             supper...”
16 Feb 1856:    “went with Mrs Roger Buttery & Sophy to the Station”
15 Mar 1856:    “went forward to Mrs Roger Butterys of Helperby & in so doing lost my way”
27 Mar 1856:    “Mrs Roger Buttery dined with us”
9 Apr 1856:    “Joe drove Mrs Roger Buttery & Sophy Hirst to York to hear Jenny Lind”
9 May 1856:    “met Joe who had been at R Butterys to shoot their rooks”
16 Jun 1857:    “had supper at Mrs Roger’s & walked home”
9 Jul 1857:    “supped at Mrs R Buttery’s”
21 Aug 1857:    “walked to Helperby   called at Mrs Rogers”
3 Sep 1858:      “I...Joe & Capes...to Helperby to the anti Felony association   Supped at Mr Roger             Butterys...”
15 Sep 1858:    “...went by train to Roger Butterys  supped there & stayed all night”
29 Sep 1858:    “...Rd Hirst came with a note which Mr Roger Buttery had brought from Redcar
        to say Dora  Sophy & Rd were to go by the 6 train to Redcar as Mrs Hirst was             very ill...”
    stays at, has tea or dinner at Roger Buttery’s five times in 1859
18 Sep 1859:  “in the afternoon I walked to Helperby to take a letter from Bridlington to Mrs             Roger  Sophy Hirst was there”

16 Mar 1856:  “went to Brafferton church...called at Thos Buttery”
16 Jun 1856: “went to Helperby...called at Thos Buttery’s  he was in a very wild state”

13 Dec 1856:  “Wm Buttery had breakfast [at Bridge Foot]”

24 Oct 1857: “dined at Uncle Hirsts with Roger & Wm Buttery & Rd Hirst”

18 Sep 1859:  “I walked to Helperby to take a letter from Bridlington to Mrs Roger”

Whites 1840:
Helperby:  Thos Buttery, gent; Thos Buttery, jun., maltster; Roger & Thos Buttery, yeomen

Post Office 1857:    in Trade Directories, Farmers:
“Buttery T & W: Helperby, Brafferton, Easingwold”
 “Buttery, R: Helperby, Brafferton, Easingwold”
under Brafferton, farmers include
 “Thomas & William Buttery, Roger Buttery..”

IGI:
Roger Buttery marr Sarah Stubbs 18 Oct 1764, Hampsthwaite
Thomas, son of Roger, was christened    16 Dec 1766, Brafferton   
Roger, son of Roger, was christened 2 Oct 1772, Brafferton
William, son of Roger, was christened 22 Feb 1775, Brafferton
Thomas, son of John, was christened 6 Oct 1776, Brafferton


Mr BAINBRIDGE   

Diary references:     mostly with Charlesworth, eg
18 Oct 1858:  “At Night called on Mr Bainbridge”    [first mention]
10 Nov 1858:  “Went to sup at Charlesworths to meet Bainbridge & Steele  a very pleasant evening”
13 Nov 1858:  “At Night went by train with Charlesworth & Bainbridge to Humburton  Had a very pleasant evening”
24 Nov 1858:  “Went to Bainbridges to sup   Charlesworth & Steele were there”
26 Nov 1858:  “Went to Bainbridges to sup of oysters”
14 Dec 1858:  “Charlesworth  Steele & Bainbridge supped with us    They left about eleven”

9 Jan 1859:  “Supped with Charlesworth at Bainbridges”
11 Feb 1859:  “At night Bainbridge & I went in Morrells Dog Cart to Humburton to meet the bride & groom (HE Clark & wife)”
20 Feb 1859:  “Charlesworth & Bainbridge had tea with us”
26 Mar 1859:  “At night Charlesworth  Bainbridge & I walked to Norton  called on the old Folks & then on the Young Folks”
14 Apr 1859:  “I went to sup at Charlesworths of wild duck & pike to meet Bainbridge”
26 May 1859:  “At night Capes Joe Steele Charlesworth Bainbridge & I rowed up to Westwick”
3 Aug 1859:  “At night Leond & Tom Sedgwick Capes & Bainbridge had tea & supper with us”


BALDREY of/in BOROUGHBRIDGE
Might be Samuel Baldrey, b 1830, schoolmaster lodging with a family at Whixley 1851C??

Diary references:
3 Aug 1859:  “In the afternoon Tom & I went with Baldrey to ferret at the Mill   he got 9 before we went and six after we went”

and ferreting with Baldrey on six occasions in September, and once in Dec 1860


The BASHALL family of/in/near SETTLE

Diary references:
4 Aug 1859:  “At night went down in the carriage to the Bashals to tea   Jack Ingleby  Mrs & Miss Wood & ourselves were there   got home about 12”
8 Aug 1859:  “Hy & I then walked to call on the Bashalls  Miss Margt & Miss Alice were there”


BURTON family of MINSKIP

Diary references:
3 Nov 1859:  “At night went with Steele & his sister & Miss Stott in their phaeton to Burtons of Minskip to tea  Mrs Trotter & Mr Musgrave Burton were there”
    also
14 Apr 1859:  “At night Dora & Sophy  Miss & Miss Sarah Appleton Miss Burton Joe & Sarah had tea with us”
25 Jul 1859:  “At night we had Burton & wife  HE Clarke & wife  Miss Smith & Miss Hood at the Bridge Foot”
28 Dec 1859:  “At night Richd Hirst  Hy Hewitt the Misses Appleton & Miss Burton had tea with us”

20 Jan 1860:  “At night I went to Mr Burtons of Minskip & Mr Chr Clarke was there  we had a very jolly good rubber”

These are my original working notes, made quite a few years ago in the days before broadband and easy access to census records etc.  I have done a certain amount of extra work in getting them ready to post here, so some of the entries are now up-to-date.

They include quotations from George Whitehead's Journals, ed. Helier Hibbs, which have been an invaluable resource for which I am very grateful. 

As with the A-Z of Hutton Rudby people, my accuracy is NOT guaranteed!  And I'm afraid they are not quite in alphabetical order.

Henry Hawkesley CAPES (1827-1905) of  BOROUGHBRIDGE
John's brother in law

Diary references:
first mentioned 20 Jan 1853:  “in the evening we had a few friends as M & S Hirst   M & J/L Sedgwick & Mr Capes”
15 Sep 1855:  “Capes & I walked round by All Arm....”
through 1856: sometimes ‘Capes’, sometimes ‘Mr Capes’, occasionally ‘Mr Henry Capes’.  I have come to the conclusion that this is all HHCapes.
4 Feb 1856:  “Mr Cape came home from Gainsbro”
9 Feb 1856:  “At night went with Mr Capes to Dishforth to hear a little more about Cousin Marks Horse Cause”
14 Feb 1856:  “Uncle & Mr C being at Malton   Mr Barroby’s horse trial being heard today...”
21 Feb 1856: “Capes & Jane went walking”  [first mention of the two together]
27 Mar 1856:  “Jane & Capes played Chess”
29 Apr 1856:  “At Night Capes  Joe & I rowed their boat up to Roecliffe for the first time”
10 Jun 1856:  “At Night I had tea with Capes   we went down to play Cricket & a jolly practice we had”
17 Jun 1856:  “Capes & his cousin Scholfield”
11 Jul 1856:  “At Night Jane & Capes came from Taitlands”
27 Aug 1856:  “Had a letter from Capes...”
10 Sep 1856:  [wedding]
26 Sep 1856:  “Capes & Jane came from their Wedding Tour in Wales”
30 Sep 1856:  “Capes & Jane came   I went with them to their house & filled up some orders of Removal & stayed & supped with them”
14 Oct 1856:  “At Night I went to Miss Stotts to meet Mr & Mrs Capes...”
8 Nov 1856:  “At Night went to Capes for some Newspapers & took same to Mrs Powells”
12 May 1857:  “Father & Mother   Capes & Jane set off in Mrs Morrells Cab to Joes Wedding”
14 May 1857:  “Mr Capes was at Faxfleet”
15 Jul 1857:  “went to Cookes Circus  A very fair performance   Uncle & Aunt Pick went   Joe & Sarah, Capes, Lizzie & Alice, Steele & Smallwood”
24 Jul 1857:  “2 Miss Scholfields came to Capes’”
10 Sep 1857:  “At Noon saw Capes  Jane & Mary Hirst off to Redcar”
18 Sep 1857:  “Capes came from Redcar to stay with me until Tuesday next”
22 Sep 1857:  [Tues] “Capes went to Redcar”
2 Oct 1857:  “Capes & Jane came from Redcar”

22 Jan 1858:  “Went to Aldbro   Mrs Capes was confined of a son”
24 Mar 1857:  “Got a first rate dog from Capes   he got him from Peacock relieving officer”
26 Jun 1858:  “Jane Capes & Baby were at Taitlands”
29 Jun 1858:  “Mr Capes went to Taitlands”
9 Jul 1858:  “Capes & Jane came from Taitlands”
3 Sep 1858:  “Went by train & Joe & Capes walked to Helperby to the anti Felony association”
25 Dec 1858:  “Capes  Jane & Baby dined with us”
30 Dec 1858:  “At Night Went to Capes   Miss D  Miss Sarah Appleton of Dishforth  Miss Clarke of Minskip  Miss Calder  Jane Sedgwick & Mary  Alice & Lizzy Joe & I were there   got home about ten”

21 Mar 1859:  “At night Capes  Joe & I went to the Greyhounds to the sale of Charltons land  when Capes bot same for Mr Owen for £640”
14 May 1859:  “At Noon Steele  Capes Joe & I went to Chr Lofthouses stable to see a corpse which was found in the Canal”
23 Aug 1859:  “Capes wife & family went to Bridlington”
3 Sep 1859:  “Mr Capes came from Bridlington for a day or two yesterday”
16 Sep 1859:  “Capes & Jane & babies came home from Bridlington”
31 Oct 1859:  “...Mr Capes was at Gainsbro..”
8 Nov 1859:  “Mr Capes & I drove to Knaresbro & purchd the practice of the late Mr Warwick Solr (for £300 to include the library & papers &c) who died the other day”
6 Dec 1859:  “Capes & family went from Aldbro to live at Knaresbro”

8 Dec 1859:  “...went with Capes (who went to Mr Crosby’s funeral & from there here) to Minskip to attend at Township Meeting”
15 Dec 1859:  “Nelly Scholfield was married today  Capes & Jane were there”

& walks with on numerous occasions, goes rook shooting with in May, ferretting with, boating with, shooting with &c

through 1860, Capes visits BB and is visited in Knaresbro, goes shooting with J and advises him on his career

Family Bible: married Jane Stubbs 10 Sep 1856 at St James’, Bbdge
Bishop Stubbs: p71 describes him as “of Belmont” under which TDHS has written “Starbeck”
Notes by TDHS etc: born 3 June 1827
Whites 1867:           
Gainsborough:  Mr Robt Capes, Trinity St
Mrs Sarah Elizabeth Capes, Bridge St
The Lawyers Companion & Diary 1876:   
Boroughbridge:
Hirst, William, Cl. to mags., steward of manor of aldboro., and Henry Hawksley Capes, com. for oaths and affts., cl. to gr. ouseburn un. sup. reg., steward of manor of rockliffe (and at Knaresborough and Harrogate)   
W. Stubbs and Sharp & Ullithorne

Censuses:
1851 Census: Boroughbridge, next door to the Hirsts
Ann Freeman, widow, 35, lodging house keeper, b Aldborough (with teenage children)
Henry H Capes lodger 23, solicitor's articled clerk, b Whitgift, Yorks
The other lodger is railway station master

Parish Registers:
Bbdge: 10.9.56: HHC - full age - bachelor - solicitor - Bbdge - father, Thomas Hawkesley Capes, solicitor = Jane Stubbs - full age - spinster - Bbdge - father, Thomas Stubbs, wine merchant.  Witnesses: Sarah Sedgwick, Dorothy Hirst, Jos Stubbs, Leonard W Sidgwick, L [?J] Steele

Notes: 
Whitgift is on the south bank of the Humber, not far from Faxfleet ie West Riding
It appears from the diaries that after their marriage the Capes lived in Aldbro
His brother John is mentioned in the diaries Sep 1 1857: “Mr Capes brother John died last night”
There is a burial entry for Boroughbridge “George Frederick Capes of Bbdge - bd 11 Mar 1855 age 21”.  The use of the name Frederick suggests this is the same family.

Hirst & Capes, Solicitoes, Raglan Street [?], Harrogate, still in existence

George Whitehead’s Journals:
Mr CAPES & Miss STUBBS both of Bbridge  Married Sep 10th I believe    1856
Arthur Hirst Thompson (our Doctor) & Miss Capes  Married July 24 1884
Fred S Capes began acting in his Father’s place as Clerk to G.O Union Jany 1st 1892  [the letters include several to Fred Capes on matters such as sanitary rates, etc]
Mrs H H Capes died Apr 2 aged 76 years 1903
Henry Hawkesley Capes Solicitor Borobridge & Harrogate died Dec 12 aged 78 yrs   1905


George CAPES, Solicitor of Grays Inn

Diary references:
31 Jan 1857:  “Wrote to George Capes Esq to ask him to get me ‘Stephens Commentaries’”
28 Dec 1857:  “Commence reading Stephens Commentaries on the laws of England as I got them today”

In spring 1860 JRS, in London for his Law Socy exams, calls at Capes’ offices on several occasions, works at the office briefly, etc.  Capes is his London agent when he sets up business on his own in Middlesbro in 1861

Jane CAPES née Stubbs   
John's sister

Diary references:
21 Feb 1856: “Capes & Jane went walking”  [first mention of the two together]
27 Mar 1856:  “Jane & Capes played Chess”
11 Jul 1856:  “At Night Jane & Capes came from Taitlands”
10 Sep 1856:  [wedding]
26 Sep 1856:  “Capes & Jane came from their Wedding Tour in Wales”
29 Sep 1856:  “Sophy & I called at the Brides”
30 Sep 1856:  “Capes & Jane came   I went with them to their house & filled up some orders of Removal & stayed & supped with them”
14 Oct 1856:  “At Night I went to Miss Stotts to meet Mr & Mrs Capes...”
8 Nov 1856:  “At Night went to Capes for some Newspapers & took same to Mrs Powells”

4 Jan 1857:  “Called at Capes’ at Noon.  Jane was better”
12 May 1857:  “Father & Mother   Capes & Jane set off in Mrs Morrells Cab to Joes Wedding”
10 Sep 1857:  “At Noon saw Capes  Jane & Mary Hirst off to Redcar”
18 Sep 1857:  “Capes came from Redcar to stay with me until Tuesday next”
22 Sep 1857:  [Tues] “Capes went to Redcar”
2 Oct 1857:  “Capes & Jane came from Redcar”

22 Jan 1858:  “Went to Aldbro   Mrs Capes was confined of a son”
23 Jan 1858:  “Mrs Capes & Baby going on very nicely”
26 Jun 1858:  “Jane Capes & Baby were at Taitlands”
29 Jun 1858:  “Mr Capes went to Taitlands”
9 Jul 1858:  “Capes & Jane came from Taitlands”
25 Dec 1858:  “Capes  Jane & Baby dined with us”

18 May 1859:  “Jane Capes was confined of her 2nd son”
23 Aug 1859:  “Capes wife & family went to Bridlington”
16 Sep 1859:  “Capes & Jane & babies came home from Bridlington”
6 Dec 1859:  “Capes & family went from Aldbro to live at Knaresbro”
15 Dec 1859:  “Nelly Scholfield was married today  Capes & Jane were there”
    also boating, walking on occasion, tea & supper at Bridge Foot & elsewhere, & J is frequently at Capes’ for dinner, tea or supper

On 12 June 1860, Jane has her first daughter, Mary.  She is very poorly later in the month, but recovers, and goes to Taitlands in August with the children. 

Notes
Jane & Henry’s children were: [Alice Stubbs' Bible]
Thomas Hawkesley b 22 Jan 1858
Frederick Schofield b 18 May 1859
Mary b 2 Jun 1860
Alice Isabella b 5 Jan 1862; married Arthur Thompson of Gt Ouseburn:   children Harold Sigston Thompson b 25 Apr 1885 & Alfred Tullock Thompson b 29 Jun 1887
Robert    b 14 May 1865
Mabel Jane Henlock b 16 Feb 1867 d 6 Feb 1887
Florence Redmayne b 7 Oct 1869

George Whitehead’s Journals:
Mr CAPES & Miss STUBBS both of Bbridge  Married Sep 10th I believe 1856
Arthur Hirst Thompson (our Doctor) & Miss Capes  Married July 24 1884
Fred S Capes began acting in his Father’s place as Clerk to G.O Union Jany 1st 1892 
    [the letters include several to Fred Capes on matters such as sanitary rates, etc]
Mrs H H Capes died Apr 2 aged 76 years 1903
Henry Hawkesley Capes Solicitor Borobridge & Harrogate died Dec 12 aged 78 yrs   1905

Notes
She inherited from her grandmother, Mrs Jane Henlock of Ouseburn, according to the “copy holographic Writing purporting to be the Will” dated 8 Dec 1843:  a “garnett brooch to my granddaughter Jane Stubbs”

Thomas Hawkesley CAPES
nephew of JRS

Diary references: cf also Jane Capes
22 Jan 1858:  “Mrs Capes was confined of a son”
26 May 1858:  “Thos Hawkesley was christened today”

22 jan 1859:  “At night went to Capes to tea.  it was Hawkesley’s birthday”

31 Jul 1860:  “Aunt Bell  Mrs Capes & the 2 boys came & spent the day with us”

Frederick Schofield CAPES of BOROUGHBRIDGE

Diary references:
18 May 1859:  “Jane Capes was confined of her 2nd son”
17 Jun 1859:  “Uncle & Aunt Redmayne came to Fredk Scholfield Capes’ christening”

31 Jul 1860:  “Aunt Bell  Mrs Capes & the 2 boys came & spent the day with us”

Kellys 1908: [Public Establishments & Offices]    F.S. Capes Clerk of the Cemetery, Steward of the Manor of Aldborough & Deputy, Steward of the Manor of Grafton-with-Grindall, Steward of the Manor of Roecliffe
[Commercial] Frederick Scholfield Capes (firm Hirst & Capes) solicitor and commissioner for oaths, clerk to the guardians & assessment committee of Great Ouseburn Union, to Great Ouseburn Rural District Council & superintendent registrar of Great Ouseburn district,; and at Harrogate & Knaresborough

George Whitehead’s Journals:
Fred S Capes began acting in his Father’s place as Clerk to G.O Union Jany 1st 1892  [the letters include several to Fred Capes on matters such as sanitary rates, etc]

John CAPES
Diary references:
1 Sep 1857:  “Mr Capes brother John died last night”


CLARKS     of Ellinthorp, Heaton House & The Lodge
In 1860, there were Heaton House Clarks, The Lodge & The Hall Clarks [27 Jun]
It is not always clear who is being referred to …

Diary references:
eg.    
20 Feb 1856: J collects Jane, Aunt Pick, Aunt Bell & Miss Calder from Clarks of Ellinthorp Hall, & plays cards & has a dance first; 21 Apr 1856 Wm Hirst is this Clark’s solicitor; 18 Oct 1856 this Clark goes on holiday to Redcar at same time as Hirsts & Stubbs and goes to Yarm Fair

3 Nov 1857 “Mr & Mrs Clarke of Ellinthorpe Hall were married today”
This is Heaton Clark and Jane Hewit Cunynghame

The entries for Feb 1858 refer to parties given in honour of the newly married couples
   
then no mention until Feb 1858:
18 Feb 1858:  “Had a party at Uncle Hirsts to meet Mr & Mrs Clark of Ellenthorpe & Mr & Mrs L W Sedgwick”
25 Feb 1858:  “Had an evening party at the Bridge Foot   Mr & Mrs Clark & Mr & Mrs L W Sedgwick”
11 May 1858:  “At Night Hy Redmayne & I went to Clarks of Ellenthorp Hall  stayed supper.  Aunt Bell was there”
12 Oct 1858:  “At Night Uncle Wm & Aunt & Mrs Clark of Ellenthorp dropped in to Tea”
27 Dec 1858:  “Rd Hirst & Mrs Clark of Ellenthorp dined with us”

10 Feb 1859:  “At night went to tea at LW Sedgwicks to meet Mr & Mrs Edwin Clark [Heaton Edwin Clark?].  We danced & had a very merry party about 21 or 22 there”

12 Mar 1859:  “Mrs Clark of Ellinthorp Hall was confined  child dead   Mother was there”
20 May 1859:  “At night walked to Ellinthorp Lodge  Mr & Mrs Clark & Mr & Mrs Price (Mrs Clark’s sister) were there   The Hall people walked with me as far as the Hall on my way home”
    J sees the Clarks a half a dozen times in 1859, at Ellinthorp or at Bridge Foot
    J sees the Clarks on several occasions in 1860
27 Jun 1860:  “went to Uncle Hirsts to tea   met the Heaton House Clarks  The Lodge & The Hall Clarks  Had a very pleasant evening”

EDWIN CLARK of Ellinthorpe Hall
Married Mary Stott.  Father of Edwin Charles Clark
Son of Thomas Clark and brother of Heaton Clark
d1854

No diary entries, but relevant for relationship to the other Clarks

Whites 1840: “Ellinthorpe Hall is the property & seat of EC Esq”
Slaters 1849: “Clarke, Edwin, Esq, Ellinthorpe Hall”
Slaters 1854:  “Clarke  Edwin, Esq.  Ellinthorpe Hall”

Censuses:
1851 Aldborough: Ellinthorpe Hall
Edwin Clark, widower, 52, farmer of 300 acres, 11 labs b Ellinthorpe
2 house servants and 5 farm servants

Parish Registers:
4 Oct 1831:  Aldborough
Edwin Clarke of this parish =  Mary Stott of this parish
witnesses:  Hugh Stott, Charles Richard Clark, Charlotte Stott, Heaton Clark

General histories etc:
“New Yorkshire Gazeteer” 1828:  Ellingthorpe NR ...a small hamlet in the township of Milby...1 mile E from Boroughbridge....Ellingthorpe Hall is the seat of Thomas Clark Esq”
[presumably EC’s father]

George Whitehead’s Journals:
Edwin Clark of Ellenthorpe d July 20   aged 58 yrs 1854
The Stock Implements & Furniture of the late Edmund Clark of Ellenthorpe sold Mar 20, 22, 23    1855                   
Heaton Clark of Ellenthorpe went to his brother Edwin farm & young Clark of Heaton Hse went to Uncle Heaton farm &  -- Wilson of York went to Heaton Hse    Lady Day 1855


Heaton CLARK, Esq of (pre 1855) ELLINTHORPE LODGE then Ellinthorp Hall
c1790-1861
Son of Thomas Clark and brother of Edwin Clark
married Jane Hewit Cunynghame in 1857

Diary references:
none until
12 Oct 1859:  “got to Knaresbro about 12.  Had dinner at Kirks & rode home with Mr Heaton Clark”
23 Jul 1860:  “Called at ... Uncle Wms  I came home with Heaton Clark”       

Whites 1840:         “Ellinthorpe Lodge is the seat of HC Esq”
Slaters 1849:        “Clarke, Heaton, Ellinthorpe Lodge”
Slaters 1854:          “Clarke, Heaton, Esq, Ellinthorpe Lodge”

Censuses:
1851 Aldborough: Ellinthorpe Lodge
Heaton Clark, U, 60, farmer 100 acres 8 labs b Ykshire
housekeeper, 2 house servants and 5 farm servants
IGI:

Parish Registers:
is a witness on 4 Oct 1831 to the marriage of Edwin Clarke and Mary Stott, in Aldbro

York Herald 7 November 1857
Clark - Cunynghame - At 25, Pilrig-street, Edinburgh, on the 3rd inst., by the Rev Dr Bell, Heaton Clark, Esq., Ellinthorpe Hall, to Jane Hewit, eldest daughter of the late Wm Cunynghame, Esq., writer, Linlithgow

Yorkshire Gazette 21 Sep 1861
The Late Heaton Clark, Esq of Ellinthorpe Hall
The remains of the above deceased gentleman were interred at Aldborough parish church on Thursday last.  The funeral was attended by a large circle of sorrowing friends and neighbours.  The public life of the late Mr Clark leaves behind it a useful lesson to society, exemplifying the result of vast energy of mind and body.  Fifty years of untiring usefulness in a district cannot fail to have resulted in much good to many acknowledged recipients of advice and information, more especially when that advice was given with the greatest frankness and urbanity.  Mr Heaton Clark was the fifth son of the late Thos. Clark, Esq., of Ellinthorp Hall, and nephew of the celebrated architect, Alderman Carr, of York, who three times held the office of Lord Mayor.  The son of an energetic father, he was early initiated into his future pursuit in life, and by an early association with the most eminent farmers, breeders, and graziers of that date, (the pioneers of the vast improvement made in agricultural pursuits during the last twenty years), he soon acquired that knowledge and taste for short horn stock, which ever was his pride to see grazing on his lands.  Rejoicing in the sports of the field, in early life we find him an ardent hunter, displaying in many a long run the true spirit of the sportsman ad the ardour of the daring horseman.  His constant attendance at the "meet," his long remembered jocose and mirthful demeanour, and above all the liberality and energy (along with a few kindred spirits, neighbours and friends in his own district,) which marked his coming to the rescue in the preservation (for a time) of the Boroughbridge Harriers, and the ready assistance always judiciously given to the promoters of the hunt, secured for him a well merited share of public esteem.  He was a Conservative in politics.  His name was associated with every local movement intended to forward the progress of agriculture, and the religious and social institutions around him.  As a frequent judge and numberless agricultural societies throughout the country, his keen observation, sound judgment, and judicious decisions, secured to him the esteem of comparative strangers, whilst his inflexible adherence to the merits due to true bred stock stamped his opinions with authority and weight. As a practical farmer his attendance at all societies and movements calculated to improve the physical and mechanical progression of agriculture, his slow but steady adoption of new improvements, with a genuine love of his profession, enabled him to secure a standing in his own neighbourhood long to be remembered and worthy of close imitation.  The wide spread friendship of the deceased gentleman was but a part of that reciprocity of kindly feeling and courteous hospitality so often experienced by his friends.  Mr Clark had arrived at the ripe age of 71 years, and having married late in life, he leaves a wife and young child to mourn his loss.

Notes
Heaton Clark is the uncle of Heaton Edwin Clark.  Before 1855, he lives at Ellinthorpe Lodge.  On Lady Day 1855 he leaves the Lodge for his nephew, and he moves to his brother Edwin’s farm

George Whitehead’s Journals:
Spink Brown left Heaton House & H E CLARK went to his farm 1843
Edwin Clark of Ellenthorpe d July 20   aged 58 yrs 1854
The Stock Implements & Furniture of the late Edmund Clark of Ellenthorpe sold Mar 20, 22, 23    1855
Heaton Clark of Ellenthorpe went to his brother Edwin farm & young Clark of Heaton Hse went to Uncle Heaton farm &  -- Wilson of York went to Heaton Hse    Lady Day 1855
Heaton Clark of Ellenthorpe died Sep 13  aged 71  1861
The Stock Implements & Furniture of the late Heaton Clark of Ellenthorpe sold Mar 17, 18, & 19  1862

unfortunately, 1861 diary is missing


Heaton Edwin CLARK, Esq of HEATON HALL/HOUSE & then ELLINTHORPE LODGE
brother of Charles Francis George Clark
nephew of Heaton Clark, married to Martha Eliza Hallewell of Leeds
he was farming at Heaton House from 1843 – in 1855 he moved to Ellinthorpe Lodge

Diary references:
eg.   
17 Aug 1855 “with HE Clarks pty to Hack Fall”
15 Jan 1856 John plays whist in a party that includes Edwin Charles Clarke & HE Clark
22 Feb 1858 “I & Joe went in Morrells phaeton to HE Clarks evening party”

1 Jan 1859:  “At night walked with Steele to HE Clark’s to tea (the last time as a bachelor) as he is to be married on Wednesday.  Jacob Smith & Thos Lund were there  played cards”
       
he married Miss Martha Hallewell [cf Whitehead’s journal]
   
J goes to parties “to meet” HE Clark & his bride at the Stotts, the Stubbs & the Hirsts.
29 May 1859:  “At night Capes & I had a cab to Ellinthorp Lodge to the return bridal party   we played cards & a very jolly evening we had.  Miss Ellen & Miss Lucy Hallewell were there”
     
The “usual” rook shooters meet at HE Clark’s in May

27 Jun 1860:  “went to Uncle Hirsts to tea   met the Heaton House Clarks  The Lodge & The Hall Clarks  Had a very pleasant evening”
28 Jun 1860:  “I went with Capes  Steele & E C Clark to dinner at 5 at Heaton House  Holdsworth Owen & Mr Davis of Dudley  Sedgwick Jacob Smith & H Edwin Clark were there”

IGI:
Heaton Edwin Clark bap 7 May 1820, son of John Robert Clark and Mary Ann Addey, at Royston, Yks

? Slaters 1854:  Royston:  Mr John Clark, Oakes, Darton
Slaters 1849: “Clarke, Heaton Edwin, Esq, Heaton Hall”
Slaters 1855: “Clarke, Heaton Edwin, Esq, Heaton Hall”

Censuses:
1851 Aldborough: Heaton House
Heaton Edwin Clark, U, 29, farmer of 237 acres 3 outdoor labs, b Royston
housekeeper, housemaid and 4 farm servants

1861 Aldborough: Ellinthorp Lodge
Heaton E Clark, 41, farmer of 640 acres 7 lab & 8 farm servants b At New Lodge, Parish of Roylton, Yorkshire
Martha E, wife, 35, b Leeds
Miss Helen K Hallewell, visitor, 25, gentlewoman
Miss Lucy W Hallewell, visitor, 19, gentlewoman, both b Leeds,
Housemaid, diary maid, 4 ploughmen, groom, plough boy

Sheffield Independent 2 Nov 1861
Clark - On the 27th ult, aged 41, Heaton Edwin Clark, Esq., of Ellinthorp Lodge, Boroughbridge, youngest son of the late John Robert Clark, Esq., New Lodge, Barnsley

National Probate Calendar
Heaton Edwin Clark late of Ellinthorpe Lodge gentleman died 27 Oct 1861 at Ellinthorpe Lodge, exors: James Fawcett of Wakefield, merchant, Jacob Smith of Humburton, farmer, and Charles Francis George Clark of Heaton House nr Boroughbridge

His widow Martha Eliza (daughter of the late Benjamin Hallewell Esq of Highfield House, Leeds) married William Lupton of Leeds in London on 9 Feb 1864

Notes:  Heaton Hall:  “Heaton House” appears on the 1880 O.S. map, off the Aldbro-York road
John refers to “Wilson of Heaton House”: “Mr & Mrs Wilson called 3 Mar 1856” - they farmed Heaton House after 1855, when HEC went to Ellinthorpe Lodge

George Whitehead’s Journals
Spink Brown left Heaton House & H E CLARK went to his farm 1843
Heaton Clark of Ellenthorpe went to his brother Edwin farm & young     Clark of Heaton Hse went to Uncle Heaton farm &  -- Wilson of York went to Heaton Hse    Lady Day 1855
Heaton Edwin Clark of Ellenthorpe Lodge & Martha Eliza Hallewell of Highfield House, Woodhouse, Leeds   married Jany 5th 1859
Mr Wilson left Heaton House &  -- Clark, nephew to Heaton Clark took it & began Lady Day 1860
Heaton Edwin Clark of Ellenthorpe Lodge d Oct 27 aged 41  he was nephew to the late Heaton Clark of Ellenthorpe   1861
The Stock Implements & Furniture of the late Heaton Clark of Ellenthorpe sold Mar 17, 18, & 19  1862
Charly Clark sale at Heaton House  Sept 15th  He left about same time & Mr Burnet came to the farm   1868

unfortunately, 1861 diary is missing


Charles Francis George CLARK of HEATON HOUSE
Brother of Heaton Edwin Clark
Brought his family to Ellinthorpe some time after Edwin's death.  Had been a chemist in Dudley.  A few years after his brother Heaton Edwin's death he gave up farming and went back to Dudley.
?His son Charley was at Stonyhurst (one or both parents therefore Catholic)

Diary references:
27 Jun 1860:  “went to Uncle Hirsts to tea   met the Heaton House Clarks  The Lodge & The Hall Clarks  Had a very pleasant evening”

There is an evening party at Clarks in Jul 1860, and they come to tea at Bridge Foot and to the Hirsts

19 Dec 1860:  “Mr Chas Clark had tea with us   he went to meet his son Charley who came from school & then he took Marian home from our house”

Marr Amelia Hicks in 1843 in London

1861 Heaton House, Aldborough
Amelior Clark, wife, 46, farmer's wife and children Marianne 17 and Heaton A Clark 8, all b Dudley, Staffs with visitor Harriet M Stocks 50 b Barnsley and cook, housemaid, and 3 carters
Charles Francis George Clark bap 20 Feb 1818 at Royston, York, son of John Robert Clark and Mary Ann Addey

1881 New Building , Wellington Rd, Dudley
Charles Francis G Clark 63, chemist and druggist, b Barnsley Carlton
Amelia, 66, wife, b Liskeard Cornwall, Jane Amelia Clark, relative, 4, b Dalston London and a servant

York Herald, 29 July 1893
Clark - On the 25th inst. at Ellinthorpe, Pedmore, Worcestershire, Charles Francis George Clark, late of Heaton House, Boroughbridge, aged 75 years. No cards.

George Whitehead’s Journal:
Mr Wilson left Heaton House &  -- Clark, nephew to Heaton Clark took it & began Lady Day 1860
Charly Clark sale at Heaton House  Sept 15th  He left about same time & Mr Burnet came to the farm   1868

Geo Frank & Miss Clark   Heaton House  marr Jun 11   1867

J records for 1 Jan 1862, “Rode ... to Heaton House ... only saw Charley.”


Edwin Charles CLARK of/in Ellinthorp
son of Edwin Clark of Ellinthorp Hall
1835-1917
       
Diary references:   in gatherings for boating, cards, parties etc, eg
25 Jun 1856: “At night the Clarks of Ellinthorp  Steele & E.C.Clarke ....were at our house to tea”

15 Jan 1857:  “went to sup at the Doctors   Steele  Edwin Chas Clarke  H.E. Clark  Jacob Smith  Leond  Thos S  Jim S  Joe & I  we had 2 tables of Wist...”

14 Jun 1858:  “At Night  Capes  Joe  Charlesworth  Steele  E.C. Clark  Smallwood & I went boating”

3 Jan 1859:  “At night went with Miss Stott, Steele & EC Clark in Stotts phaeton to Clarks of Minskip to tea”

Alumnae Cambridgienses: Edwin Charles. Clark
College:     TRINITY
Entered:     Michs. 1854
Died:     20 Jul 1917
More Information:     Adm. pens. at TRINITY, Feb. 7, 1854. S. and h. of Edwin, of Ellinthorp Hall, Boroughbridge, Yorks. B. there Nov. 5, 1835. School, Shrewsbury. Matric. Michs. 1854; Scholar, 1856; 1st Chancellor's Medal; Browne Medal; B.A. (Senr. Classic) 1858; M.A. 1861; LL.M. 1871; LL.D. 1875. Fellow, 1859. Fellow of St John's, 1883. Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, Sept. 23, 1858. Called to the Bar, 1862. Lecturer in Law. Regius Professor of Civil Law, 1873-1913. As head of the Law Faculty greatly furthered the progress of the school; devoted much time to the fitting up of the Squire Law Library, of which he was a generous benefactor. Took a keen interest in the Foundation of the Society of Public Teachers of Law, 1908. Of Newnham House, Cambridge. Author, Early Roman Law; Practical Jurisprudence; History of Roman Private Law, etc. Died July 20, 1917, aged 81, at Cambridge. Father of the next. (The Times, July 21, 1917.)

1911 Census Newnham House, Cambridge
Edwin Charles Clark, widower, 75, University Professor Barrister, b Aldborough
Mary Margaret Webber, daughter, married 11 yrs 2 children both living: Evelyn May 9 and Julia 5 all b Cambridge
cook, parlourmaid, housemaid, kitchenmaid, nurse

Yorkshire Post & Leeds Intelligencer 21 July 1917
Dr E C Clark, A Famous Cambridge Professor
The death occurred yesterday, at his residence, Newnham House, Cambridge, of Dr Edwin Charles Clark, who from 1873 to 1913 was Regius Professor of Civil Law at Cambridge University.  Professor Clark had Yorkshire connections both by birth and marriage, for he was the son of Mr Edwin Clark, of Ellinthorpe Hall, Boroughbridge, and he married Miss Mary Kiston, a daughter of the late Mr James Kitson, of Elmete Hall, and a sister of the late Lord Airedale.  His wife died about 30 years ago, and he is survived by a son, Lt-Col Kitson Clark of Leeds, and a daughter, Mrs WEbber, of Cambridge.
Professor Clark, who died in his 82nd year, had had a distinguished scholastic career, and he was a great authority on civil law.  Educated first at Richmond, in Yorkshire, and next at Shrewsbury, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge, and came out seventh in the Senior Optime Mathematical Tripos.  In 1858 he was Senior Classic and first Chancellor's Medallist, and he was also the Browne Medallist for Epigrams.  He was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1862, and for a short time practised as a conveyancer in London.  He was the author of several legal publications, among them being [ ... ...].  Among his hobbies was that of coin collecting, and he was also a keen student of archaeology and architecture.  For the last four years he had lived in retirement at Cambridge ...

Mr & Miss CLARK of MINSKIP

Diary references:
11 Jun 1858:  “We had a glass of beer at Mr Clarks of Minskip on our return”
30 Dec 1858:  “...went to Capes....Miss Clarke of Minskip [& others] were there”

3 Jan 1859:  “At night went with Miss Stott, Steele & EC Clark  in Stotts phaeton to Clarks of Minskip to tea   Miss Calder  The Misses Appleton & Miss McCleod were there  Had a good dance  John Clark drove the Sedgwicks & Alice & Lizzy & me home  got home about 12”
    the Clarkes of Minskip go on the picnic on 12 July (32 in the party)
    J asks Clarke of Minskip if he has a ferret to sell on 6 Sep 1859
7 Sep 1859:  “..if Clarke had got a ferret but he had not  His brother from Huddersfield was there”
2 Dec 1859:  ...to Minskip.....Had tea at Chr Clarkes...”

    social events in 1860

Censuses:
1851:  Minskip
Christopher Clarke,39, farmer of 250 acres employing 9 men b Ellerton
Jane Eliza 37, farmer's wife, b Topcliffe
Rebecca 9 and John 8 both b Catton
farm labourer 60, blacksmith, 3 young farm labourers

George Whitehead’s Journals:
Thos Abbay flitted from the Hunday Field to the house opp G.O Church  Nov 3rd  CLARK OF MINSKIP went to the Hunday field same time   1863
Christopher Clark of Minskip sold up Feb 9, 10 & 12   I expect he is going on again with the farm 1866
John Clark son of Christopher Clark of Minskip died Jun 16 aged 24  1867
Christopher Clark of Minskip d Oct 14  aged 61 years  1872
Mrs Chr Clark of Minskip d Nov 29  aged 27 years   1893

These are my original working notes, made quite a few years ago in the days before broadband and easy access to census records etc.  I have done a certain amount of extra work in getting them ready to post here, so some of the entries are now up-to-date.

They include quotations from George Whitehead's Journals, ed. Helier Hibbs, which have been an invaluable resource for which I am very grateful. 

As with the A-Z of Hutton Rudby people, my accuracy is NOT guaranteed!  And I'm afraid they are not quite in alphabetical order.

Bessie CARASS of BOROUGHBRIDGE
Bessie may have been John's nurse and features in the life of the family for many decades

Diary references:
16 Jan 1856:  “...played cards at Henry Carass’  Joe & I beat the two Henrys had only one rubber  Bessie went to ask Miss Eagle a Clairvoyant Lady at Mrs Morrells about Uncle Henlocks...”
27 Jun 1856:  “At Noon was at Capes’ with Arthur Powell to dinner   I gave Mrs Stevenson a pair of Sissors & Bessie Carass a pair”
15 Sep 1856:  “Called to see Bessie Carass & Aunt Bell & then went home”

30 Oct 1857:  “At Night sat with Bessie Carass”

no references in 1858 or 1859
while in London, JRS wrote to Bessie (9.2.60)

Censuses:
1851:  Boroughbridge
Henry Carass, 32, butcher, b BB
Elizabeth Carass, 34, wife, b Topcliffe

Letters from Ellis Macfarlane to John Stubbs on her first visit to Boroughbridge after their engagement: “I am to see old Bessie tomorrow” she wrote on her first night, and the next day, “Last Night I went to the kitchen to try to get old Bessie tell me something bad about you, but of course failed altogether.  This morning I watched her prepare a turkey for cooking.  So you see I am beginning already!!” 

Bessie offered to come and look after Ellis when the babies were due, made cushions for Ellis and went for holidays to stay with John and Ellis in Coatham. 

Bessie also worked for other families.  She was left £10 by Mrs Wood in 1872, and a letter of Mary’s in May 1874 shows how busy Bessie and Henry were:  “Bessy is very busy.  She has loads of washing.  We have had Henry one day this week and again tomorrow whitewashing.  The Sedgwicks have the Mackaskeys at dinner tomorrow and Bessy is making jelly &c for them”. 

Aunt Bell remembered Bessie in her Will “as a small acknowledgment of all her kindness”, and in a letter of 1886 Mary told John she wished on her death that the maids should each have full mourning and that Bessie Carass was to have “a gown and bonnet and cap” in the traditional way.
Henry CARASS of BOROUGHBRIDGE
d 22 Mar 1898

Diary references:
JRS is a frequent visitor at noon & in the evening in 1856, especially in second half of Jan
16 Jan 1856:  “In the evening Joe  Henry R & I went & played cards at Henry  Carass’  Joe & I beat the two Henrys had only one rubber  Bessie went to ask Miss Eagle a Clairvoyant Lady at Mrs Morrells about Uncle Henlocks...”
24 Jan 1856:  “Joe & I ...went to Henry Carass’   Stewart was there   we played Old Maid”
25 Jan 1856:  “I & Joe went to H Carass’ for five minutes”
30 Jan 1856:  “..went to H Carass’ for newspaper”
6 Mar 1856:  “At Noon I went & sat with Henry Carass”
3 May 1856:  “At Noon I went to Hy Carass’  Mrs Hy Powell & Sophy were there”
23 Jul 1856:  “At Night went to Hy Carass’s   the children were there at tea”
29 Dec 1856:  “At Noon rode Joes Mare in the field.  Went to Hy Carass’   At Night went to Henry Carass’  Read the Paper”

There are fewer references for 1857, but the great majority are again in January and February
25 Sep 1857:  “At Noon walk part of the way to Langthorp   went to Hy Carass’ to market...”

no references in 1858

one reference in 1859:
27 Dec 1859:  “had tea & supper at Hy Carasses with Joe Lizzie & Alice & Eliz Stubbs”

27 Oct 1860:  “Drew & ingd Henry Carass’s Will & attested with Mrs Simpson the execor of it”

Slaters 1849: Butchers:  Henry Carass, Boroughbridge & William Carass, Bbdge
Slaters 1854: Butchers:  John Carass, Bbdge
Shopkeeper & Retailer of Beer:  Joseph Carass, Bbdge

Tithe Map c1840
William Carass owns, and Carass & Marten occupy no.1, two houses & garden (near St James Sq)
Joseph Carass owns & occupies no.78, house & garden (on the east side of the Gt North Rd)

Censuses:
1851 Boroughbridge
Henry Carass, 32, butcher, b BB
Elizabeth Carass, 34, wife, b Topcliffe

Edward Gomersall CHARLESWORTH of/in BOROUGHBRIDGE
Clergyman at Kirby Hill until December 1859, when he is replaced by Mr Sale
1829-1900

Diary references: eg
On several occasions in June 1858: eg. 1 June “Capes Joe Charlesworth & I went ratcatching to the mill”
2 Sep 1858:  “...met Charlesworth at Kirby Hill.....we went out shooting....went down to Humburton .... & had tea”
8 Sep 1858:  “...to a concert at the [Leeds] Town Hall...Charlesworth & Steele were there..”
18 Sep 1858:  “...supped at Charlesworths  A Cousin of his a Solicitor from Leeds...”
10 Nov 1858:  “Went to sup at Charlesworths to meet Bainbridge & Steele  a very pleasant evening”
12 Nov 1858:  “At four o’clock walked with Charlesworth & Steele to Woods of Skelton   Had tea   set off home about ½ past 7”
13 Nov 1858:  “At Night went by train with Charlesworth & Bainbridge to Humburton  Had a very pleasant evening”

20 Feb 1859:  “Charlesworth & Bainbridge had tea with us”
13 Mar 1859:  “Charlesworth preached at BB at night”
26 Mar 1859:  “At night Charlesworth  Bainbridge & I walked to Norton  called on the old Folks & then on the Young Folks”
14 Apr 1859:  “I went to sup at Charlesworths of wild duck & pike to meet Bainbridge”
26 May 1859:  “At night Capes Joe Steele Charlesworth Bainbridge & I rowed up to Westwick”
4 Dec 1859:  “in the afternoon to Kirby Hill Church when Charlesworth preached his farewell sermon”
    also walking with on half a dozen occasions, rook shooting with in May &c. 

Charlesworth is at Bridge Foot, at Miss Stott’s, at the Sedgwicks’ do, at Scotts, at Hirsts, at Thos Lund’s party. 

no mention in 1860

He was in Settle at about the time that John was at school, and he was later vicar in Acklam.

Baptism: Edward Gomersall Charlesworth, b 30 Sep 1829, bap 11 Nov 1829 St Peter's, Leeds, son of Edward and Anne Charlesworth

Poems by the Rev E G Charlesworth, curate of Tosside, near Settle, pub 1856

Leeds Intelligencer 24 Dec 1859
The Rev E G Charlesworth, late curate of Kirby Hill, Boroughbridge, has been appointed to the curacy of St Mark's, Old-street, London

Marr Isabella Sheraton in Darlington in Jun qtr 1864

Poem by George Markham Tweddell:
To the Rev. E.G. Charlesworth, Vicar of Acklam and Author of “Ecce Christus,” &c
(Composed whilst Smoking and Evening Pipe of some Choice Tobacco, which he had considerately sent me, as “a Christmas Present.”
George Markham Tweddell website

Archives of The Spectator 28 Nov 1874
Ironopolis. By the Rev. E. G. Charlesworth. 2 vols. (Morgan and Hebron.)—One expects from the title a tale about manufacturers and artisans, -with the scene laid in some busy town of forges. But "Ironopolis "—an unnecessary and atrocious barbarism, by the way— has very little to do with the story. A certain bank in it comes, or very nearly comes, to ruin, and puts the hero of the story, if there be a hero, to much inconvenience, and that is the only important fact that we hear about it, except, indeed, that one of the characters commits a forgery, which has something to do with it. Generally the scene of the story lies elsewhere. Though not positively ill written, it is a very rambling and ill-contrived affair. Does not Mr. Charlesworth know, for instance, what a prejudice he excites against himself in every sen- sible person by such a name as "Stethoscope," with which he labels his first sketch? Surely this is a very rude way of letting us know that this particular character is too self-conscious or too fond of self- inspection. All that we can say for the novel is that it is a little better than the last which we saw from the same pen.

1881 Census: West Acklam, Middlesbrough
Acklam Vicarage: Edward Gomersall Charlesworth, 51, vicar of Acklam West, b Leeds
Isabella 47, b Melsonby Yks
housekeeper & gardener

Died in Harrogate 3 Apr 1900, Probate 2 May 1900   

General histories etc:
“The churches of North Craven”
A Mr Charlesworth was one of those who “took great interest in the restoration” of Giggleswick church in 1890

Mrs CRAWSHAW of/in BOROUGHBRIDGE

Diary references:
14 Oct 1856, she is at a large evening party at Miss Stotts
2 Sep 1859:  she is at LW Sedgwicks’, a party to meet Mr Richardson, vicar of Stainforth

Whites 1840: “Jonathan Crawshaw, Langthorpe” in “Brewers”
Slaters 1849:  “Jonathan Crawshaw, Langthorpe” in “Maltsters” and “Brewers”
Slaters 1854: do.-

Mr CROW of Ornhams Hall

Diary references:
frequently mentioned through 1857 as in “Walked past Mr Crows”
1 May 1857: “At Night Smallwood & I walked to Crows to see him about a ham for the tea party on the night of the Bazaar”

17 May 1859:  “At night walked up thro Mr Crows Yard & on to Grafton Lane”
21 Dec 1859:  “At night Steele & I went to Mr Crows when he gave us £10 for BB Church Endowment Fund”

Slaters 1849: “George Crow, Esq, Ornhams Hall”
Kellys 1908:  “Richard George Paver-Crow, Ornhams Hall”

1851: Ornham's House: George Crow, unmarried, 59, landed proprietor b Well and his brother Edmund, 52, farmer of 470 acres emp 11 labourers, niece Elizabeth Kirk, 20, housekeeper b Roecliffe.

General histories etc:

“On the Blowing Wells near Northallerton” by T Fairley FRSE (1881):  three blowing wells, one being “The well at Ornhams, Boroughbridge, [which] I only know from description from Mr Paver Crow, of Ornhams Hall”

George Whitehead’s Journals:
Richard Howe [Gt Ouseburn Moor] & Catharine [& Elizabeth CROW from Ornhams]  Married [Feby] 1840
Edwin Crow, Ornhams, died Nov 27  1861
George Crow Esqr  Ornhams died Jan 27 aged 80 yrs  1872
Richard PAVER flitted from Grassgills to Ornhams  Feb 10 or 12th  1872  Mr Crow died & left him all
Mr Paver Crow sale at Ornhams Apr 15th  he sold the stock & implements & gave up farming  he     built a new farm house & let the farm to Mr --  1887
A C Holtby of Heaton House BB & Mary Paver Crow of Ornhams marrd at Aldbro Oct 29  1889          she died Apl 30  a20 yrs  1890

Miss CUNNYNGHAM / Cunynghame
Diary references:
15 Mar 1856 “went home with Miss Cunnyngham from there to Burton.....”
In Oct 1856 she goes to Redcar with the Hirsts, Stubbs etc

she is mentioned once in 1857 and once in 1860

Rev CARTMAN of/in BOROUGHBRIDGE

Diary references:
27 Sep 1857 “twice to BB Church.  Dr Cartman preached both times”


John CROSBY, doctor of Great Ouseburn
Diary references:
5 Jan 1853:  “in the afternoon went to call on Mr Crosby & stayed tea there”
7 Jan 1853:  “went to dine with Mr.. Crosby of roast illeg & plum pudding   stayed tea & stayed all night”
18 Jan 1853:  “[at Ouseburn]...had Crosbys neices & nephew after tea   nephew stayed all night”

6 Mar 1856:  “[at Ouseburn]..had dinner Uncle Williams as they had been coursing   We then had tea   after tea a rubber at wist   two table  Uncle Henlock   Crosby  Len Sedgwick & I sat at one table.  Gudgeon  Uncle Pick  Capes & Joe at the other...”
10 Mar 1856:  “At noon Joe & I went up the River for a walk..............Crosby had a dinner party to day   Joe & Len Sedgwick went   Capes & Aunt Bell   Jane was going but she had such a bad cold”
29 Mar 1856:  “[at Ouseburn] ...I called at Crosby’s   he was not in”
30 Mar 1856:  “back to Uncle Picks to tea   After tea Crosby called   gave me a letter for Miss Jepson who was staying with Aunt Bell”
4 Apr 1856:  “At Night I walked to Ouseburn to have tea at Crosby’s to meet the Ouseburn party  we played at Bagatelle and Cards   we left about a ¼ past eleven” [ie the people staying at Ouseburn:  Bell Baldwin & her little girl   Mary Metcalf]
12 May 1856:  “At night went to tea at Aunt Bells   Miss Jepson from Ouseburn & a Miss Johnson from Easingwold who was staying at Crosbys......Miss J is rather a nice girl  rather good looking &c &c”
15 May 1856:  “I went & found Joe at Crosby’s  I saw Miss Johnson  She played & sang   I turned over the leaves   she has a very sweet voice   we stayed ½ an hour & then came home”
1 Nov 1856:  “Wrote to decline an invitation of Mr Clarks of Ellinthorp Hall...also to Crosby of Ouseburn for Tuesday..” [presumably because Uncle Hirst is to be away - on such occasions JRS stays at Hirsts’]
3 Nov 1856:  “Had letter from Crosby of Ouseburn pressing me to go on Tuesday but I wrote back & declined”
4 Nov 1856:  “At night Joe went with Sedgwicks   Steele & Mary Hirst & Richd went with Capes & Jane in a Cab to Crosbys party   I went home to tea...”

28 Apr 1857:  “..At ½ past 4 Smallwood & I set off & walked to Ouseburn   Had tea at Aunt Picks.  Called at Crosby’s & Uncle Williams...”
5 Aug 1857:  “Uncle  Aunt [Pick] Tom & I went to Manchester   spent the day in the Exhibition.....we took a Cab to Salford    called on Crosby but he was out...”
21 Sep 1857:  “...walked to Ouseburn Feast   Dined at Uncle Picks ... tea at Uncle Wms   Called at Crosby’s...”
17 Oct 1857:  “At Night Uncle & Aunt Pick came & took me home with them   Went to call at Crosby’s”
17 Dec 1857:  “..went to York to order clothes for Leonards Wedding.  Dined at Park Place [Joe’s parents in law to be]  Had tea at Crosby’s house of business  Smallwood supped at our house”

13 Jun 1858:  “[staying at Picks’] Called at Crosby’s & Uncle Williams”
11 Sep 1858:  “At Night Sd & I walked to Ouseburn  Called at Crosbys & Uncle Wms  Supped at Uncle Picks” [Smallwood is to leave for Scarboro on the 15th]

19 Nov 1859:  “...Called at Uncle Picks & then went on to Uncle Wms to stay till Monday.  Mr Crosby came in & we had a rubber”
2 Dec 1859:  “..Poor Crosby of Ouseburn died at Kings Cross Station London either yesterday or today very suddenly”
8 Dec 1859:  “At night I went with Capes (who went to Mr Crosby’s funeral & from there here) to Minskip...”

9 Jul 1860:  “dined at Uncle Picks  went to Browns to the sale of the late Mr Crosby’s property”


Censuses:
1851
Great Ouseburn:  fol 365: this is the first house listed in this section of the township  (east of the church to Aldwark bridge): it comes after Kirby Hall
Crosby, John , W, 53, MRCS Eng LLA [?], b Newton, Yorks
with 3 servants:  a groom & labourer, a housekeeper & a general servant
then follows a shoemaker, the schoolmaster and then the Horse Shoe Inn

Notes:
JRS’ handwriting in 1853 was not clear, and it appeared to say ‘Mrs Crosby’.  Crosby is a widower in 1851, there is no record of him remarrying, and so this will not refer to a wife

When JRS writes to J A Sharpe on 14 Feb 1861 he mentions that he has an introduction to Mr Crosby the County Court Registrar at Stockton

George Whitehead’s Journals:
Mr Crosby left his house & went to Mr Seaton’s first week in April 1844
Walkers left Lund House, & went to live at Mr CROSBY’s house, Apr 6th 1844
Jeremh Addison G.O. got the Bailiffs into the house (by Dr Crosby) Jan 9th  the sale was Jan 25th      it is reported that he has failed about £2000 debt 1849
Benjamin Cass died at Mr Crosby’s  Jun 13  1849
Emelia had her first tooth drawn by Mr Crosby  Feb 24 1850
I had my first tooth drawn by Mr Crosby Apr 1  1856
John Roecliffe of Crosby Field Grange & Christiania Jebson niece to Dr John Crosby Esqr G.O. marr Oct 1  1857
Doctor Crosby of G.O. died at London Dec 1  he went to consult a Physician but died before he got back  1859
Mr Haworth began Doctoring at G.O. about Dec 31st  he succeeded John Crosby Esq  1859
The stock, furniture &c of the late Dr Crosby sold, Jan 16, 17 & 18  1860
IJohn Crosby Elsworth d 1901

Edward CROSBY of/in GREAT OUSEBURN

Diary references:
24 Mar 1856:  “At 4 o’clock  Joe & I set off & walked to Ouseburn to see the Craven party mentd on the 21st.  Miss Jepson & Edwd Crosby  our Jane & Capes were there   we had tea & supper  played at Cards...”


Miss CALDER of/in BOROUGHBRIDGE
Miss Calder and Miss Fretwell are on several occasions to be found in the diaries having tea with Mrs Mary Stubbs.  “Miss Calder Aunt Bell & Dora were having tea at our house   It was thought rather rude my going out to tea” wrote John in March 1856.  Miss Calder is mentioned the more frequently, on a dozen occasions, and John noted in his diary years later that his nephew Joseph William in 1898 married Miss Isabel Maud Calder, daughter of Rev Wm Calder, at Kingston upon Thames, which suggests there was some family connection between the two Misses Calder of different generations.

Diary references:
20 Feb 1856:  “At night Joe Capes & I went to Clarks of Ellenthorp Hall to fetch home Jane  Aunt Pick  Aunt Bell & Miss Calder”
24 Feb 1856:  “...took...Aunt Bell to Church in the even  I then joined Miss Calder”
4 Mar 1856:  “...Miss Calder  Aunt Bell & Dora were having tea at our house   it was thought rather rude my going out to tea”
26 Mar 1856: “...dinner at 2 o’clock as the Ouseburn party...came to dine at our house...had tea  Miss Calder came & Miss Jepson..”
2 Apr 1856:  “At night went to Uncle Hirsts to tea to meet the Ouseburn party, the Sedgwicks, the Stotts & Steele, Miss Fretwell & Miss Calder..”
9 Jun 1856:  “......went & had supper at Uncles  Miss Calder was also with us & after a jolly chat I went home along with Miss Calder”
19 Sep 1856:  “...at night Aunt Redmayne went to York   Miss Calder came & sat with us..”
3 Oct 1856:  “...went to Crawshaws to have tea   Leond Sedgwick & Mary  Dora & Mary Hirst  the Stotts & Steele  Mrs Powell & Miss Calder were there  Mrs Elgood   it was rather sticky...”
21 Nov 1856:  “..Miss Calder was at our house”

10 Mar 1857:  “..at night went to Capes’  The Hirsts & Emily Stead  The Stotts  Miss Fretwell  Steele  Smallwood  Miss Calder  Joe & I were there..”

30 Dec 1858:  “At Night Went to Capes    Miss D  Miss Sarah Appleton of Dishforth  Miss Clarke of Minskip  Miss Calder  Jane Sedgwick & Mary  Alice & Lizzy  Joe & I were there”

3 Jan 1859:  “...in Stotts phaeton to Clarks of Minskip to tea   Miss Calder  The Misses Appleton & Miss McCleod were there...”

These are my original working notes, made quite a few years ago in the days before broadband and easy access to census records etc.  I have done a certain amount of extra work in getting them ready to post here, so some of the entries are now up-to-date.

They include quotations from George Whitehead's Journals, ed. Helier Hibbs, which have been an invaluable resource for which I am very grateful. 

As with the A-Z of Hutton Rudby people, my accuracy is NOT guaranteed!  And I'm afraid they are not quite in alphabetical order.

Mrs ELGOOD of/in  BOROUGHBRIDGE
Diary references:
3 Oct 1856: “..to Crawshaws to have tea...Leond [etc] were there Mrs Elgood  it was rather sticky”
14 Oct 1856: “..to Miss Stotts...Mrs Elgood & Mrs Crawshaw...&c &c....”


Emma ETESON of/in  Knaresborough
Diary references:
9 Jul 1855: “ Emma Eteson &c to tea”
14 Oct 1856:  “..to Miss Stotts...Emma Eteson & Jacob...&c &c”
15 Oct 1856: “..to Mrs Powells party  Had cards  Emma Eteson & I played Joe & Miss Smith”
21 Oct 1856: “..to Humburton..had a large party  Emma Eteson was there  had a jolly dance”

20 Jan 1857:  “Mother was at Mrs Powells at tea.  Mrs Eteson of Knaresboro was there”


Mr & Mrs ELLISON of/in OUSEBURN
Diary references:
21 Sep 1857:  “..supped...at Uncle Wms  Lascelles & wife  Miss Hddon  Howe & wife  Old Pick & wife  Richd Paver  Ellison & wife were there”

EDMONDSON family of SETTLE
Diary references:
31 Aug 1856:    “went to Langcliffe Church where I saw Jane & Sally Edmondson & Robinson”
2 Sep 1856:    “called at Edmondsons   saw dear Sally”

Whites 1837:        “Attorneys:  Edmondson & Cowburn, Market Place, Settle”
Slaters 1849:        “Attorneys:  Cowburn, John, Settle”
Post Office 1857:    “Mrs Sarah Edmundson, Market Place, Settle”

Tithe Map c1840
Sarah Edmondson is a tenant of Mary Ann Shepherd, at TM no 74.  This is on Church Street, in the area where Mrs Ann Redmayne (Mrs Robert) is living at the time of the Census.  Mrs Edmondson appears to have moved from there at some time between the Tithe Map and 1851, to somewhere in the south-eastern block of the Market Place

Censuses:
1851: Settle:  Market Place                [p 58]
Sarah Edmondson, head, W, 44, annuitant, b Lancaster [?Warton]
daughters Jane 19, Ellen 17, Sarah 12 and son Christopher 15 (all b Settle)
Lodgers – scholars: R.H. Kilby 18, b Wakefield; Arthur Dunn 16 b Scarbro; Benjamin Hinde 18 b Featherstone
and servant Judith Foster 22

General histories etc:
“The churches of the deanery of North Craven”:  the first interment in Settle church was in 1839 - Christopher Edmondson, solicitor, of Settle

Notes
John Cowburn is a neighbour of Isabella Henlock, at The Terrace, in 1851 [p39]


Charlotte FARMERY of LANGTHORPE
Diary references:
30 Apr 1856:  “Went..with Joe to Charlotte Farmerys to ask her to let them anchor the boat of her field end”

Slaters 1849:    “Taverns & public houses:  Fox & Hounds, Charlotte Farmery, Langthorpe”


Mrs FLETCHER of  MINSKIP
Humphrey Fletcher of Minskip was a partner in the Boroughbridge Bank

Diary references:
3 Mar 1856:  “..to meet Aunt Hirst  Mama & Aunt Bell coming from Mrs Fletchers of Minskip”
13 Apr 1857:  “..rode Joe’s mare to Minskip to inquire after Mrs Fletcher”

3 May 1859:  “Walked with Uncle on business to Mrs Fletchers of Minskip”

calls on Mrs Fletcher once in July 1860

Pigots 1834: “Humphrey Fletcher, Minskip”
Slaters 1849: “Mrs Arabella Fletcher, Minskip”

Censuses:
1851: Borobridge:  Minksip Lodge
Arabella Fletcher, widow, 63, Proprietor of land etc, b Ripon
three servants

FLETCHER of/in    BOROUGHBRIDGE
worked for Stubbs family

Diary references:
3 Jun 1856:  “Mary Dixon & Sophy were set by Fletcher to Sampsons”
6 Jun 1856:  “Fletcher drove Dora & Mary Stubbs”
27 Jun 1856:  “Fletcher bro.t. back the dog cart”
27 Jun 1857:  “..went to Taitlands  Fletcher drove us to Starbeck”

Miss FRETWELL of/in BOROUGHBRIDGE
Miss Mary Fretwell kept a boarding and day school in Boroughbridge.  Her father was Lieut John Fretwell, a timber merchant, and they were related to the Stott family.  In the 1881 Census Miss Fretwell, aged 63, still kept her school at “New Street Ivy House”; a teacher Miss Lonsdale, aged 30, was also in the house.

The Story of Boroughbridge and of two Versatile Clerics at the Church of St James in the C19 (1987) by Kathleen M Reynolds:  John Fretwell was managing clerk to the Boroughbridge Bank.  His son Richard was proprietor of The Crown and on his death in 1811 his brother-in-law Dr Hugh Stott took it over.

Miss Fretwell and Miss Calder are on several occasions to be found in the diaries having tea with Mary.  “Miss Calder Aunt Bell & Dora were having tea at our house   It was thought rather rude my going out to tea” wrote John in March 1856.  Miss Calder is mentioned the more frequently, on a dozen occasions, and John noted in his diary years later that his nephew Joseph William in 1898 married Miss Isabel Maud Calder, daughter of Rev Wm Calder, at Kingston upon Thames, which suggests there was some family connection between the two Misses Calder of different generations

Diary references:
21 Jan 1856:  “...Miss Stott  Miss Fretwell Sophy & Aunt Bell to tea”
9 Jul 1856:  “At night Edwin Charles Clarke  Steele  Miss Ruth Stott & Miss Fretwell & I rowed up as far as Mulwith”
[etc  often at parties]

    mentioned 3 times in 1857, not in 1858-60

Pigots 1834:        “Fretwell, Lieut John, Borobridge”
Slaters 1849:        “Academies & Schools: Fretwell, Mary Ruth (boarding & day),

Censuses:
1851: Borobridge
Jane Fretwell (64), pensioner as a naval officer's widow, b Stokesley & daughter Mary R Fretwell (35) b Borobridge

Parish Registers:
Aldboro:
bap:25 Jan 1817, Mary Jane, dau: of John & Jane Fretwell, Bbdge, timber merchant, Borobridge:
bap: 3 Oct 1824, Charlotte, dau: of John & Jane Fretwell, gentleman

General histories etc:
“Records of a Yorkshire Manor” by Sir Thos Lawson Tancred 1937
In 1779 Sir Thomas Tancred conveys to Mr John Fretwell those 5 several mess: &c in Bbdge occupied by Francis Naylor, W Naylor, John Stead, Matthew Glenton and Hugh Stott.

Notes
Aldbro PR’s:  15 May 1810:  Hugh Stott = Dorothy Fretwell, spinster; witnesses:  Elizabeth [Stead], Dorothy Hirst, Richard Fretwell, Jno Fretwell

Mrs & Mrs William FOSTER of LANGCLIFFE
Mr & Mrs FOSTER of HORTON
James FOSTER

Diary references:
16 Aug 1856: “drove Sophy Jane & Aunt to Langcliffe...saw Mrs Wm Foster”
19 Aug 1856: “went to Billy Bowskills  Wm Foster was there”

26 Aug 1856: “saw Mr Foster...asked me to go & spend tomorrow with him”
27 Aug 1857:    “did not go to Horton it was so wet   Wrote to Mrs Foster to fix tomorrow if fine”
29 Aug 1856:    “went to Horton to Fosters but they were both out”
30 Aug 1856:    “got up early to go to Horton but met Mr Foster going from home so I turned             back with him & said I would go on Monday”
1 Sep 1856:   
“went to Mr Fosters at Horton  Mrs Foster gave me some sandwiches  I shot 10 rabbits..got very wet about the legs....Mrs Foster lent me a pair of trowsers  stockings & shoes  We dined at six  had beef a brace of grouse  plumb pudding &c”
2 Sep 1856:    “Mrs Foster of Horton called at Taitlands”

6 Dec 1858:  “Aunt Redmayne & Harry came to Bradford & James Foster came to us”

10 Oct 1859:  “...with Uncle & Thos Stackhouse to Austwick Wood to shoot   Mr Foster  Mr Ingleby  John Ingleby  Robt Hargraves  Thos Clapham  Joe Birkbeck  Thos Stackhouse  John Hartley  Uncle & I were there.  We shot 46 hares  17 pheasants & 18 rabbits   We all dined at Thos Claphams at 7 o’clock”

JAMES FOSTER is mentioned March to May 1860 in London

Post Office 1857:    “Attorney:  at Townhead, William Foster, Union clk, h in Langcliffe”


Mr FAWCETT & Miss Ellen FAWCETT of HELPERBY
Mr Fawcett & Mr Fawcett, clergymen
Diary references:
31 Aug 1859:  “....cheap trip to Scarbro  Waited 4 hours at Pilmoor  Got to Scarbro about 2 o’clock    Michl Smith of BB, Miss Lambert  Chr Lambert   Fawcett & his sister all of Helperby went...”
8 Sep 1859:  “to Helperby... Miss Ellen Fawcett  Tom Roulston & Richd went with me to the train”
13 Sep 1859:  “.. to Helperby ... Rd Hirst & Miss Fawcett set me to the station...”

8 Jan 1860:  “Mg & evg to the new church at Knaresbro  Mr Fawcetts eldest son preached in the mg & his youngest son at night”

1851 Census, Helperby
William Fawcett U 29 Landed proprietor b Ampleforth
Ellen Fawcett, sister 14, b Brafferton
and housekeeper

These are my original working notes, made quite a few years ago in the days before broadband and easy access to census records etc.  I have done a certain amount of extra work in getting them ready to post here, so some of the entries are now up-to-date.

They include quotations from George Whitehead's Journals, ed. Helier Hibbs, which have been an invaluable resource for which I am very grateful. 

As with the A-Z of Hutton Rudby people, my accuracy is NOT guaranteed!  And I'm afraid they are not quite in alphabetical order.

Sir Willam GALLWEY of PILMOOR HOUSE
MP for Thirsk

Diary references:
15 Feb 1856:  “I wrote a letter to Sir W G telling him Uncle had not arrived at home as he expected him this morng”
no other references 1816-Apr 1858

Post Office 1857:     
“Pill Moor House is the residence of Sir William P Gallwey, Bart, MP; it is a new building, pleasantly situated 1 ½ miles from the village.  Brickmaking is carried on extensively near here”


William GATENBY of/in    BOROUGHBRIDGE
Diary references:
11 Mar 1856:  “When I got home [from York] I went to James Swales & Wm Gatenby to ask them to go & speak a good word for Hodgson who was going to be tried with Kirby of Marton for night poaching as I met his mother in the Castle Yard & she asked me if I would  but they declined going”

Slaters 1849:        “Joiners & Cabinet makers: Gatenby, William, Borobridge”
            “Shopkeeper & Baker:  Gatenby, John Walker, Borobridge”
Post Office 1857:    “Farmers at Helperby/ Brafferton:  William Gatenby”

Censuses:
1851: Borobridge
William Gatenby, widower, 45, joiner & cabinet maker master b BB
with 6 children under 16       
Lady GOOCH of/in BOROUGHBRIDGE
Diary references:
19 Apr 1856:  “Went to Mr Lawson’s on business   Lady Gooch was dying  she died shortly after I left”

Notes
Andrew Lawson 1800-1850 married Marianne Gooch in 1823. 


GLEW of/in BOROUGHBRIDGE
Diary references:
17 Apr 1856:  “At Noon took my watch to Glews to mend”

15 Aug 1860:  “went with Hy Steele Willie Stubbs Glew & Hy Carass fishing up the river in the boat”


Robert GREEN of/in LANGTHORPE
Diary references:
5 Mar 1856:  “had a walk up to Robert Greens farm & down past Slaters & round by the Road home”
? 15 Jul 1856:  “Steele & EC Clarke were out in Greens boat”

Whites 1840 “Boat builder: Robert Green, Langthorpe”
Slaters 1849:       
“Coal Merchant:  Green & Brown, Langthorpe”
“Timber Merchant & boat builders:  Green & Brown, Langthorpe”
“Conveyance by Water:  To & from Ripon & Hull, the Navigation            
Company’s vessels weekly - Robert Green, agent”

1851: Langthorpe
Robert Green, 60, farmer of 115 acres 4 labs, b Skeldergate, York
his wife Jane Green, 50, timber merchant's wife b BB
Joseph Green 16, timber merchant's son b Langthorpe
John Green, 14, do.
& house servant


Rev William GRAY vicar of BRAFFERTON
Diary references:
12 Jun 1858:  “went by train on business to Mr Grays of Brafferton”

and presumably
15 Apr 1857:  “[at Mark Barroby’s] had tea  3 Misses Gray & a gentn of Brafferton had tea with us”

Whites 1840: “Brafferton:  Rev Wm Gray, canon of Ripon, vicar”

1851 Census: Vicarage, Brafferton
William Gray, 65 b St Saviour York,
2 unmmarried daughters:  Ann Elizabeth Gray 34, Margaret Haydon 26 and grandson William Howard Gray 6


GUDGEON of/in GREAT OUSEBURN
Diary references:
6 Mar 1856:  “...had dinner at Uncle Williams as they had been coursing  We then had tea  after tea a rubber at wist  ............ Gudgeon  Uncle Pick  Capes & Joe at the other [table]”
1 Apr 1856:  “At night Capes  Joe & I walked to Marton to get a gun for me from Gudgeon  Uncle Wms gamekeeper  had some Ale with him..”
   
goes shooting with Gudgeon and Tomy Gudgeon in autumn 1860. 

Censuses:
1851:
Great Ouseburn
Christopher Gudgeon, 37, ag lab, b Gt Ouseburn, wife Charlotte 35 b Melmerby, children Thomas 11, John 8, Catherine 5 and William 1.  3 eldest children b Gt Ouseburn, youngest b Co Durham


GREENWOOD of Giggleswick
Diary references:
in the Giggleswick class lists 1853

These are my original working notes, made quite a few years ago in the days before broadband and easy access to census records etc.  I have done a certain amount of extra work in getting them ready to post here, so some of the entries are now up-to-date.

They include quotations from George Whitehead's Journals, ed. Helier Hibbs, which have been an invaluable resource for which I am very grateful. 

As with the A-Z of Hutton Rudby people, my accuracy is NOT guaranteed!  And I'm afraid they are not quite in alphabetical order.

William & Ellen HENLOCK of  GREAT OUSEBURN
William Henlock 1805-66 is the brother of John's mother
Ellen Henlock, nee Thornber, of Settle, born ca1807, died 1885

JRS often calls there, stays there, they dine at Bridge Foot &c

Diary references: eg
Jan 1853:  “Recd from Aunt Henlock  26/-”

6 Mar 1856:  “walked to Ouseburn and had dinner Uncle Williams as they had been coursing    We then had tea    after tea a rubber at wist   two table   Uncle Henlock  Crosby  Len Sedgwick & I sat at one table.  Gudgeon  Uncle Pick  Capes  & Joe at the other...”
1 Apr 1856:  “walked to Marton to get a gun for me from Gudgeon  Uncle Wms gamekeeper...”
19 Jul 1856:  “Uncle Wm & Aunt came home from Redcar”
22 Sep 1856:  “went to Uncle Wms   Mrs H gave me a tart or two & a glass of wine”

28 Apr 1857:  “Uncle Wm lent me a gun which I brought home”
14 Jul 1857:  “Smallwood & I walked to Ouseburn   Had some fruit at Uncle Wms   the good people were out at the other house”
28 Jul 1857:  “Uncle Wm came & left his pony & carriage at our house until he returned from Driffield”
21 Sep 1857:  “..walked to Ouseburn Feast.....supped...at Uncle Wms  Lascelles & wife  Miss Haddon   Howe & wife  Old Pick & wife  Richd Paver  Ellison & wife were there.....”

5 May 1858:  “At Night  Sd & I walked to Uncle Wms Plantation  Met Harry Redmayne there with the gun”
8 May 1858:  “At Night  Harry Redmayne  Sd & I walked to Uncle Wms Cottages”
25 Jul 1858:  “Morning & evening to Gt Ouseburn Church   In the afternoon Aunt & I took the Dogs down the Croft”
25 Dec 1858:  “After dinner I walked to Ouseburn   Had tea at Uncle Picks  then I went to Uncle Wms to stay until Monday mg”

20 Mar 1859:  “In the afternoon Aunt Henlock & I walked down to Uncle Picks...”
19 May 1859:  “At night I rode to Ouseburn but the good people there had gone to a missionary meeting so I did not see them”
20 Aug 1859:  “Mrs Henlock & I went to see some sheep & had a good course”
27 Oct 1859:  “Aunt Henlock gave me a gold chain”
20 Nov 1859:  “Uncle Wm had a letter to say Miss Marriner was dead”
    J stays at Henlocks’ in August and November

    J stays at Henlocks’ in January 1860 and for much of October 1860, for the shooting
17 Aug 1860:  “Went with Uncle Pick to Uncle Wms cottage...”

    Aunt Henlock goes to Harrogate on 4 Oct 1860, stays at Settle in December and
10 Dec 1860:  “[J goes to York Cattle Show]  I bought 2 flannel shirst which Mrs Henlock said she would pay for”

Censuses:
1851 Gt Ouseburn:in the part of Gt Ouseburn “which extends easterly from the church including Aldwork bridge”
this is the last household before the bridge - presumably the last house in the village    
William    Henlock, 44, farmer of 280a employing 10 men    b Gt O
Ellen 42    farmer’s wife b Settle
Ann Cawood U    22 servant b Spofforth
Mary Best U 14    servant    b Goldsborough

General histories etc:
“Records of a Yorkshire Manor” by Sir Thos Lawson Tancred 1937: 
“The following surnames occur throughout the records of the C14.......[inc] Henlock”
A William Henlock is assessed for Poor Rate on 6 Feb 1659 at 2d
The name Henlock occurs through the parish registers 1538-1703, and in parish records for the C14 and C15
There is an Inventory of Boroughbridge Hall dated 1718 of the goods of Thomas Wilkinson Esq decd - the appraisers were Wm Mann, George Henlock, John Clarke and George Lawson.

Notes
The farm of 127acres for which we have the Sales Particulars for 2 Mar 1867 was on the other side of the village, to the west of the Roman Road
He is named as executor for his mother Mrs Jane Henlock of Ouseburn in the copy holographic writing purporting to be her Will dated 8 Dec 1843. 
In this Will, Mrs Henlock leaves        “- ring marked John Henlock to my son William & my watch chain & seals also ring marked George Henlock*, locket marked Eliza Henlock, plain black brooch, gilt buckle & one cameo bracelet”. 
She leaves him the residue of the furniture, including her own portrait; those of the Henlock sons who went to New Zealand she leaves to Isabella and Ann Henlock.
   
George Whitehead’s Journals:
Mr Wm Henlock, Gravestone Cottage    built 1843
Mrs Henlock GO died Jany 25  aged 68 years 1844
The Revd Thomas Atkinson read himself in at Gt Ouseburn on Sunday Sep 13  He came to live at Ouseburn in Mr Henlock’s house, & Mr Henlock removed into this house this side of the church about Oct 9th or 10th   1846
Henlock Cottages & Barn &c built at Cottage     1848
Wm Henlock Gt O Married Dec 20     1849
Mr Wm Henlock Gt O died Sep 18 aged 61 years     1866
The cottage farm (Henlock’s) containing about 128 acres offered for sale by auction at the Crown Inn Borobridge  March 2nd  Mr Thompson bought it by private shortly after  1867
The stock & implements of the late Wm Henlock sold Apl 1st & 2nd 1867
Tomy Kettlewell left the cottage & took some grass land of Mrs Henlock & went to live at Gt Ouseburn spring of 1867
Henry Reed second wife died  Feby 10   he is Mrs Henlock’s man 1882
Mrs Henlock Gt Ouseburn died Nov 7 aged 77     1885
The furniture & effects of the late Mrs Henlock (Widow of the late Wm Henlock) sold by auction Jany 25 & 26  1886 
The houses & land offered for sale at the Crown Inn Borobridge on the 23rd inst   Mr Maw bought the two cottages joining his house & the garth at back for £420
Mrs Thompson (Dr Thompson’s mother) bought the house from the     Executors of the late Wm Henlock joining Gt Ouseburn Churchyard & the two cottages joining & all the yards & gardening & came to live in it  I think in Oct 1886


Miss Isabella HENLOCK of/in Boroughbridge   
"Aunt Bell"

Isabella Henlock 1806-1880, sister of Mrs Mary Stubbs, Mrs Jane Redmayne, Mrs Ann Pick and Mr William Henlock

visits Settle etc, hold suppers etc, goes to parties, entertains younger relations etc

Diary references: eg
Mar 1853 a/c:  “Borrowed from Aunt Bell    5/-”

2 Feb 1856:  “....to Aunt Bells read Blackstone & attested her signature to a purchase deed of ten Railway Shares North Staffordshire”
24 Aug 1856:  “In the afternoon fetched Aunt Bell in the pony carriage from the Terrace to see James Brown who had come from Australia”
1 Oct 1856:  “At Noon Father  Mother  Aunt Redmayne & Uncle  & Aunt Bell & Sarah Sedgwick went to Redcar..”
25 Dec 1856:  “It snowed hard.  Dick Hirst & Aunt Bell had tea with us”
31 Dec 1856:  “Aunt Bell had dinner  tea & supper with us    Spent a very pleasant evening”

2 Mar 1857:  “Aunt Bell came from Knaresboro”
27 Jun 1857:  “Aunt Bell & I went to Taitlands”
16 Nov 1857:  “Went to Station to meet Aunt Bell who came from Taitlands”

20 Jul 1858:  “At Night after tea went with Capes  Joe  Sd  Mary Redmayne   Sarah  & Aunt Bell boating”
27 Jul 1858:  “At Night Had a young party at Aunt Bells”
7 Sep 1858:  “Uncle & Aunt Pick  Aunt Bell Sd  Sophy Hirst & I went to Pable Fanque’s Circus”

In 1859, J sees Aunt Bell fourteen times:  she is at the Bridge Foot, the Picks’, the Hirsts, Mrs Parker’s, L Sedgwick’s, he & Tom had breakfast with her, &c
15 Nov 1859:  “At night Capes & Jane  Joe & Sarah  Aunt Bell  Charlesworth  Miss Ruth Stott  Steele & his sister went in Morrells omnibus to Thos Lunds to a party  played cards  charades &c &c & a very pleasant evening we had”

5 Apr 1860:  “[in London] Had a spice loaf from Aunt Bell which came in a hamper for Mrs Charles”

Census: 1851Boroughbridge, a visitor in the Hirst household
Isabella Henlock 44 b Gt Ouseburn

Notes
According to the “copy holographic writing purporting to be the Will of Mrs Jane Henlock” dated 8 Dec 1843, Isabella inherited from her mother:  
    after debts etc, the money divided between Isabella & Ann -  £100 betwixt them in lieu of furniture & plate - the wearing apparel & ornaments, “linen in plate chest”  “my writing desk, work box & a work box made by Miss Wilkinson & also the Punch Bowl given by Miss Baker, the best Tea Service and dessert service”  “poney carriage & harness”  “the portaits of my sons John Giles & Richard Redmayne Henlock” divided between them  -  “woollen bed quilt given me by Mr Parkinson”  -  “my black bracelets, black brooch and ring marked Alice Foster”


Miss Isabella HENLOCK of The Terrace, Settle 
b 5 July 1805, the aunt of Bishop Stubbs.  Buried 17 Aug 1860 at Settle

Diary references:
    It is apparent from the 1853 diary that John is living in Settle and going into school twice a day.  He visits Taitlands and old Aunt Redmayne at Town Head.  It appears probable that he is boarding with Miss Henlock - he visits the Terrace frequently on all subsequent visits to Settle.
20 Aug 1856:  “[Taitlands]  Wm Stubbs & Mrs  Miss Henlock  Fanny & Aunt Bell dined with us”

27 Jun 1858:  “called at ... the Terrace  was introduced to Mr Walter Hills”

27 Sep 1859:  “Uncle brot Lizzie who had been staying at the Terrace home with him”

Slaters 1854:  “Academies:  Henlock, Isabella, Settle”
Post Office 1857:  “Academies:  Henlock, Isbla, Duke St”

1851 Settle: The Terrace   
Isabella    Henlock, head, U, 45, schoolmistress, b Knaresbro
Mary Ann Stubbs, sister  W. 47,    b do.-
Frances     Stubbs,  sister’s dau, 15    pupil at home, b do.-
boarders:
Mary Jane Hardacre, 17 pupil b Long Preston
Thomas     Bramley,  15 pupil at grammar school, b Leeds
William    Skelton,  14 do.- b Leeds
Robert    Earnshaw, 14 do.-,  b Colne, Lancs
Henry L    Hunter,  nephew, 10,  do.- b Wetherby
Edward N Harrison 12    do.- b West Indies, Jamaica
William H Harrison 10    do.-    do.-           
   
Agnes Noble, servant W  28, household servant    b Giggleswick
Eliz. Burniston, do.  U 16 do.- b Long Preston

Memorial Inscriptions:
Settle Church:  the first window on the south side, showing the Holy Family, has the inscription “To the glory of God and in memory of Isabella Henlock, who fell asleep in Jesus, August 17th 1860” [ “The churches of the deanery of North Craven”]


William HIRST, solicitor of Boroughbridge
Married to JRS’ aunt.  Dies 1879.
Solicitor, postmaster, acted for the Duke of Newcastle.

The Story of Boroughbridge and of two Versatile Clerics at the Church of St James in the C19 (1987) by Kathleen M Reynolds:   he built and occupied Chatsworth House.  Was first Postmaster of Boroughbridge.  "One room in Chatsworth House was used as a Post Office.  'Money Order Office' was indicated on the north wall of the building".  Details of William Hirst's professional life with accounts p144 onwards.

Diary references:
many throughout:  cf Mrs E Hirst

Feb 1855 a/c:  Recd from Hirst & Co £5
23 Jan 1856:  “Went to the Office   Uncle H gave me a very pretty neck tie”
6 Mar 1856:  “At ½ past three Uncle Hirst let me off    I walked to Ouseburn......”
12 Jun 1856:  “went...to the station to meet Uncle, Jane Stubbs, Mary Hirst, Cook & the children who came from London tonight”
30 July 1856:  “Uncle Hirst   Dora & Mrs Charles set off with Mr & Mrs Roger Buttery to the Lakes    they drove”

15 Mar 1857:  [Sunday] “Went to do the Mail in the evening as Uncle left tonight for London  Had tea & supper at Uncles & stayed all night”
25 Mar 1857:  “Uncle came home tonight”
14 May 1857:  “Uncle Hirst went to London   Mr Capes was at Faxfleet so I was left alone”
22 May 1857:  “Uncle came home from London”
3 Aug 1857:  “Uncle Hirst  Dora  Mary  Sophy  Hebe & Nelly Scholfield & Leond Sedgwick went to Manchester [Exhibition] this morning”
4 Aug 1857:  “drove Uncle Hirsts Dog Cart to Starbeck  Uncle & party came from Manchester today & brot home the Dog Cart”

Also to his dog cart and pony

For 1856-1858:  he goes to Paris, to Warwickshire, to Redcar, to London
29 Apr 1858:  “Drove Aunt Hirst to Northallerton   Had the management of the sale of the goods &c of the late Mr Hy Hirst   Uncle Hirst came by train   Slept at the Golden Lion”
30 Apr 1858:  “.....Attended sale & got home by the last train at night   went to sup at Uncles  Aunt & Uncle drove home in the afternoon”

31 Oct 1859:  “...to Ouseburn Workhouse to attend the Guardians meetg ... Uncle Hirst called with the Dog Cart & brot me home on his return from Whixley”
1 Nov 1859:  “Uncle Hirst & I walked to Grafton to hold the Court...”
In 1859, there are many references to J having meals at Uncle Hirsts.  Wm Hirst goes to London in March, April and November, Wales from 28 July to 6 Aug, to tea or supper at HE Clarks, Bridge Foot

In 1860, J buys The Times for Uncle Hirst in January, calls there frequently, sees him in London etc

10 Jan 1860:  “Uncle had a telegraphic message to say his brother Godfrey was dead”
28 Sep 1860:  “[at review of Yorkshire Volunteers] Hy Redmayne & Uncle & Capes were reviewed”

Pigots 1834:       
Boroughbridge:  Attorney:     
William Hirst (& land agent to the Duke of Newcastle)
Post Office:  “William Hirst, Postmaster - Letters from London and all parts of the South arrive every evening at seven minutes past six, and are despatched every morning at ten minutes past six . -  Letters from Cumberland, Westmoreland and the North of Scotland arrive every morning at ten minutes past six , and are despatched every evening at eighteen minutes before seven. - Letters from Yarm, Stockton, Sunderland and Shields arrive every morning at half-past four, and are despatched every evening at thirty five minutes past eight.  - Letters from Ripon arrive (by mail cart) every morning at ten minutes before six & afternoon at thirty-five minutes past three, and are despatched every morning at twenty-five minutes past six, and evening at half-past six . - Letters from Leeds arrive every evening at thirty-five minutes past eight, and are despatched every morning at half-past four. - Letters arrive from Knaresbrough and Harrogate (by mail cart) every afternoon at five minutes before four, and are despatched every morning at twenty-five minutes past six. - Letters from York, Beverley, Hull, &c arrive every evening at fifteen minutes past six, and are despatched every afternoon at four. - Letters from Thirsk and all parts of the North arrive (by mail cart) every morning at thirty-five minutes past five, and are despatched every evening at a quarter before seven”

Slaters 1849:       
Boroughbridge: Attorneys:     
William Hirst (& land agent to the Duke of Newcastle)
Post Office:  “William Hirst, Postmaster - Letters from all parts arrive every morning at five minutes past nine, and are despatched every afternoon at a quarter past four”
Northallerton:  Attorneys: Henry Hirst

Slaters 1854: Northallerton:  Attorneys:  Hirst, Henry (& clerk to the magistrates)
       
Boroughbridge:   
Hirst, William, Cl. to mags., steward of manor of aldboro., and Henry Hawksley Capes, com. for oaths and affts., cl. to gr. ouseburn un. sup. reg., steward of manor of rockliffe (and at Knaresborough and Harrogate)   
W. Stubbs and Sharp & Ullithorne

Tithe Map c1840:
Wm Hirst has in hand   
63    Beckside Close           
107    Hollin Carr Close           
108    house, garden & grass land           
109    do.-   
113    land           
69    2 cottages & garden
he has    
Emanuel Heathwaite in no 89, house & garden
Tebb & Johnson     in no 106, house & yard
Warwick, S N  114 & 115, house, yard & garden
total:  4a. 8p.
His house is on the west side of the Great North Road

General histories etc:
“Records of a Yorkshire Manor” by Sir Thos Lawson Tancred 1937
“A Petition regarding the election of the Boroughbridge Bailiff”             29 Apr 1829       
In the King’s Bench
This is the battle for patronage between the Duke of Newcastle and the Lawsons
“......the said Duke [Ncsle] ....holds a court in which Mr Wm Hirst his Grace’s resident Agent presides as Steward”
“...the Deponents say that of late years the Steward of the Court and the Burgage tenants of his Grace have exerted themselves ..... to promote and have promoted the election of a borough Bailiff from amongst his Grace’s Burgage Tenants exclusively..”
Hirst is accused of acting on Newcastle’s behalf; one of the deponents is a Lawson tenant and also an attorney, William Grey.
The Deponents allege that a notice of election of bailiffs was signed by Hugh Stott, but was in the handwriting of one of Hirst’s clerks, and that Stott was a Newcastle tenant, and that Hirst was guiding Stott in which votes to accept, in violation of the proper way of voting   
       
Petition to Parliament 1830, by Andrew Lawson and Wm A Mackinnon
alleges that Newcastle, by means of Hirst, controlled the election.  “The said Postmaster, being there employed in receiving collecting and managing the revenue of the Post Office at the said Borough, illegally and unconstitutionally interfered in procuring the Precept for the Election of the said Borough, and in the Election of the person who was to preside at the Election for the said Borough as returning Officer, and the Uncle of the said Postmaster and Agent of the said Peer was nominated to be the Assessor at the said Election, and the Brother in law of the said Postmaster and Agent of the said Peer was nominated to be the Poll Clerk”
[allege that William Gray had been elected Bailiff and so “only legal returning officer” and at the poll taken by Gray, Lawson and Mackinnon were elected]

[p364]    from “Yorkshire Gazette 24 Dec 1830”
Lawson and Mackinnon objected to 19 votes admitted at the election.  Parliamentary Committee took an objection to one vote, and decided it to be a bad vote.  L & M attempted to establish as valid 18 votes cast for them which were rejected at the election.  Five were admitted “and the Committee in a subsequent part of the proceedings intimated that 3 out of those 5 had been held good votes, mainly upon the evidence of a witness, whose testimony they had since discovered to be totally unworthy of credit.”  The Petitioners failed to upset the appointment of Mr Dew
“It is scarcely necessary to add, that the statement which has appeared in some of the newspapers ‘that the Duke of Newcastle’s steward & agent was also foreman of the jury and returning officer at the election’ is altogether incorrect”

followed by a letter from Mr Coates, Lawson’s agent, denying it all

from letter from John Lawson to Andrew Lawson 16 Feb 1831, re the election of 1831
Boroughbridge
“Gray sent a protest to Dew and also posted up a notice on the Chapel Door similar to Dew’s.  It was not expected that Dew would be able to preside as he had been very ill and was tapped the day before for the dropsy.  However, he was brought in to the Chapel on a sofa and sustained with supplies of wine and jellies. Gray made the old objections to 19 of the votes and also to Glover Slater as not being a bona fide tenant:  but no evidence was gone into:  Hirst advised more openly than ever .... Hirst refused to insert any objections to the Blue Votes on the Poll ...”
[pinks = Lawsons, blues = Duke]

Fletcher, Stubbs, Dew & Stott - banks at Boroughbridge & Northallerton - cf p73 Bp Stubbs’

Children:     
Jane (1824-?)  married Charles Stewart Stubbs d 1848
Dora (Dorothy) (1827-78)
Richard  (1831-?)
Mary  (1834-?)
Sophy (Sophia)  (1837-1900), married 12 Jul 1860 William Thompson of Russell Square, London.   Had children                    
       
George Whitehead’s Journals :
Mr Hirst solicitor Borobridge died Feby 18th aged 81     1879
Arthur Hirst Thompson (our Doctor) & Miss Capes Married July 24 1884 [this suggests that the Thompsons were related to the Hirsts]

His brother Godfrey Hirst died in 1860


Mrs Elizabeth (STUBBS) HIRST of/in BOROUGHBRIDGE
1798-1858.  Sister of Thomas Stubbs, John's aunt

Diary references:
14, 17, 22 Jan 1856:      “Sat with Aunt Hirst as all the rest were at Eagles Clairvoyant Entertainment”  “Mr & Mrs M L Smith & Aunt Hirst to tea”  “Had tea with Aunt Hirst”
15, 22, 26 Feb 1856    “went to Howells with a letter Aunt had missed putting into their bag”  “...went to Capes’ to sup  Aunt Ann, Aunt Bell, Aunt Hirst, Father  Mama Joe & I”  “walk down Milby Lane with Capes & Aunt Hirst to meet Uncle & Sophy”
3, 13, Mar 1856    “Joe & I went to meet Aunt Hirst  Mama & Aunt Bell coming from Mrs Fletchers of Minskip”  “......tea at our house”
28 Jun 1856:    “Aunt & Uncle Hirst have gone to Skipton today”
14 Jul 1856:    “Father  Aunt Hirst & Mary went with the Sedgwicks to Scarbro”
14 Aug 1856:    “Aunt Hirst & I went to Dishforth  we stayed till after tea”
6, 7 Oct 1856:    “Uncle & Aunt Hirst having gone to Leeds I stayed all night at Uncles”   “Uncle & Aunt Hirst came home”
3, 6, 19, 20, 25 Nov 1856:  “Uncle... was going to London & Aunt wanted to go to the station to see him off”  “Aunt Hirst went to Dishforth for a few days”  “Walked at noon with Aunt & Uncle Hirst towards Kirby Hill by the fields”  “Aunt & Uncle set off at ½ past six to drive to Wakefield”  “At night Joe & I walked to see Aunt Hirsts cow which they were expecting to calve”
11 Dec 1856:    “Went & slept at Uncles as Uncle & Aunt had gone to Northallerton”

6, 21 Jan 1857:    “...stayed all night as Uncle & Aunt had gone to Northallerton”  “..home to tea”
18 Sep 1857:    “Aunt Hirst  Mrs Charles  Dora & the children came from Redcar today”

17 mar 1858:      “...dined & had tea at Uncles   it was Aunts birthday”
29, 30 Apr 1858:    “Drove Aunt Hirst to Northallerton”  “Aunt & Uncle drove home in the afternoon”
9 Sep 1858:    “...Aunt & Mary went to Redcar...”
28 Sep 1858:     “Leonard Sedgwick was telegraphed for to Aunt Hirst who was ill at Redcar...”
29 Sep 1858:    “...Dora Sophy & Rd...to go by the 6 train to Redcar as Mrs Hirst was very ill   They went but received a message at Pilmoor to say there were to return as poor Aunt was dead.  Leond came home from Redcar & Mary Hirst also came with him.  She died about 3 o’clock of [‘paralysis’ deleted] apoplexy”
30 Sep 1858:    “...At noon Father & Mother came from Redcar also Uncle Hirst & Mrs Chas Stubbs and the corpse came by Ripon..”
4 Oct 1858:  “At 12 o’clock we committed the remains of poor Aunt to the grave.  She was borne shoulder height by 6 men & a pall was borne by 8 ladies.  There was a large funeral.  Holdsworth & Owen performed the ceremony.”

Memorial Inscriptions:
Stained glass window in Boroughbridge Church dedicated to Elizabeth Hirst, died 29 Sep 1958, aged 60

Parish Registers: Boroughbridge
Burial:  4 oct 1858:  Elizabeth Hirst, Boroughbridge, aged 60

Jane HIRST the younger     of Boroughbridge   
became Mrs Charles Stewart Stubbs (qv)

Parish Registers::  Boroughbridge
28 Nov 1824 Jane, daughter of William & Elizabeth Hirst, solicitor, baptised


Dora HIRST of BOROUGHBRIDGE
cousin of John
Diary references: eg she goes to the Practice, walks with family & friends etc

22 Jan 1856:  “Uncle Hirst & Dora came home from London & Ann Stubbs came with them”
14 May 1856:  “went & had supper with Bell   we had it in the kitchen.  Sophy & Dora came just after   we had a jolly chat”
5 Jun 1856:  “we went on to the top of the tower of the church.........Dora was very frightened on the top of the tower   she seemed quite nervous”
6 Jun 1856:  “had tea at Uncle Hirsts  had a game at ball  Dora struck the ball into Miss Dixon’s face    she cried poor thing”
11 Jun 1856:  “we all 3 [Capes, Mama & J] set Dora home & had a chat with her & Sophy on the front door steps”
30 July 1856:  “Uncle Hirst   Dora & Mrs Charles set off with Mr & Mrs Roger Buttery to the Lakes    they drove” [returned on Aug 8]
27 Aug 1856:  “[staying at Taitlands]  Had a letter from Capes & one from Dora saying I might stay on another week”
26 Sep 1856:  “Drove Dora & Mary Hirst to Harrogate”
8 Oct 1856:  “Dora Hirst & Mary went to Wooton”
3 Nov 1856:  “Aunt went to the station to meet Dora & May [?Mary] comg from Hessle”
3 Aug 1857:  “Uncle Hirst  Dora  Mary  Sophy  Hebe & Nelly Scholfield & Leond Sedgwick went to Manchester [Exhibition] this morning”
4 Aug 1857:  “drove Uncle Hirsts Dog Cart to Starbeck  Uncle & party came from Manchester today & brot home the Dog Cart”

In 1859, J meets Dora half a dozen times.  She is at Joe’s, at Bridge Foot, at Capes, &c.  On 28 Jul she goes to Wales, and on 6 Sep he records that she returns from Llandudno

In 1860, J mentions Dora 9 times - at Bridge Foot, Dishforth, Knaresbro, Joe’s, Heaton House & going to Redcar

Memorial Inscriptions:
Stained glass window in Boroughbridge Church to Dorothy Hirst, died 25 Nov 1878, aged 51

Parish Registers::  Boroughbridge
25 Mar 1827  Dorothy, dau: of William & Elizabeth Hirst, solicitor, baptised
with the notes “Private” and “christened 14 August 1834” added

Mary HIRST of BOROUGHBRIDGE
cousin of John
Diary references: eg        goes to the practice, walks, drives, visits etc
Jun 1855 a/c:  “to Mary Hirst for collars 5/-”
12 Jun 1856:  “went...to the station to meet Uncle, Jane Stubbs, Mary Hirst, Cook & the children who came from London tonight”
14 Jul 1856:    “Father  Aunt Hirst & Mary went with the Sedgwicks to Scarbro”

26 Sep 1856:  “Drove Dora & Mary Hirst to Harrogate”
8 Oct 1856:  “Dora Hirst & Mary went to Wooton”
3 Nov 1856:  “Aunt went to the station to meet Dora & May [?Mary] comg from Hessle”
4 Nov 1856:  “At Night Joe went with Sedgwicks   Steele & Mary Hirst & Richd went with Capes & Jane in a Cab to Crosbys party”

10 Jun 1857:  “In the afternoon I drove Mary & Sophy Hirst in their Dog Cart to Brafferton Bazaar”

3 Aug 1857:  “Uncle Hirst  Dora  Mary  Sophy  Hebe & Nelly Scholfield & Leond Sedgwick went to Manchester [Exhibition] this morning”
4 Aug 1857:  “drove Uncle Hirsts Dog Cart to Starbeck  Uncle & party came from Manchester today & brot home the Dog Cart”

6 Jul 1859:  “Had breakfast at Uncle’s  Drove Mary & Sophy to Norton le Clay  from there a very nice party (who were at Thos Lunds wedding yesterday) of us went on an omnibus to Hack Fall & a very jolly day we had...”
    J meets Mary from HE Clark’s, from Aldbro, at Clarks of Minskip, Woods of Skelton, Bridge Foot, &c.  Mary goes to Wales on Aug 6 and returns with Dora on Sep 6.

    J mentions Mary 6 times - going to Langdon, on the river and at Bridge Foot


Richard HIRST   
cousin of John
Diary references:
    first mentioned at a party at Mrs Roger Buttery’s, 19 Feb 1856
    is about at Boroughbridge, but apparently visiting
16 Mar 1856:  “called at Thos Buttery  went with Dick Hirst to chop turnips for the sheep”
6 May 1856:  “At Night Rd Hirst was here     he rode a grey mare..........had tea & supper at Uncle Hirsts & then Richd went home”
6 Jun 1856:  “[party with Miss Dixon & Hirsts to Studley]......R. Hirst was there”
4 Nov 1856:  “At Night Joe went with Sedgwicks   Steele & Mary Hirst & Richd went with Capes & Jane in a Cab to Crosbys party”
25 Dec 1856:  “Dick Hirst & Aunt Bell had tea with us   Sat & talked all evening”

18 Apr 1859:  “At night Capes & Jane Aunt Bell & I had tea & supper with the Misses Appleton at Uncle Hirsts   It was Richard’s birthday...”
24 Aug 1859:  “About ½ past one Steele Rd Hirst & I drove to Starbeck & took train to Bradford where we were joined by Hy Redmayne   we all went to St George’s Hall to hear a grand concert it being the biennial festival  ......  Hy set us to the station & we caught a train for Leeds about eleven where we stayed all night at a Lodging House”
8 Sep 1859:  “Rd Hirst came over & I went back with him to Helperby...”
    Richard stays overnight in April and May at Bridge Foot.  J sees him some 20 times in 1859; he appears to be living at Helperby, twice walking with Miss Fawcett to set J to the station there

    J mentions Richard 38 times in 1860: mainly they shoot together, but also pay many social calls and on one occasion bathe in the river

In 1881 Census, Richard and his family were living in Helperby

Sophy HIRST of/in BOROUGHBRIDGE
cousin of John

Diary references:     goes to the practice, often walked there by JRS, walks, to parties, on visits, often with JRS
Nov 1855 a/c:  “To S Hirst  1/-”
19 Feb 1856:  “in the afternoon there was a letter from Sophy who was staying at Helperby to ask me to a party to Mrs Rogers tonight”
9 Apr 1856:  “Today Joe drove Mrs Roger Buttery & Sophy Hirst to York to hear Jenny Lind”
14 May 1856:  “went & had supper with Bell   we had it in the kitchen.  Sophy & Dora came just after   we had a jolly chat”
30 May 1856:  “Drove Sophy & Mary Dixon to Harrogate & Knaresboro saw all there was to see it was a splendid day”
6 Jun 1856:  “At 9 o’clock Sophy  Miss Dixon & I drove to Studley [Dora, Mary, Richard & Sedgwicks also there] Got home about 7  Sophy drove some part of the way & Miss Dixon some part & I drove the rest”
11 Jun 1856:  “we all 3 [Capes, Mama & J] set Dora home & had a chat with her & Sophy on the front door steps”
25 Jun 1856:  “Sophy H   Mary Sedgwick & I went into the fair to buy pins &c of Mrs Dickinson”
26 Aug 1856:  “[at Taitlands]  After dinner had some music   Sophy & I ran up to the Top of the Rock opposite”
10 Sep 1856:  “[his sister Jane’s wedding]  helped to arrange about the Weddg breakfast  got Dressed  We all went to Church except Mama   I had Sophy .....had races &c &c”
1 Oct 1856:  “Cousin Jane, Sophy, Willey & Alice went to London this morning”

10 Jun 1857:  “In the afternoon I drove Mary & Sophy Hirst in their Dog Cart to Brafferton Bazaar”
29 Jul 1857:  “[from picnic at Westwick]  Leond & Sophy rowed one oar & Nelly & I rowed the other”
1 Aug 1857:  “At Night Jim Sedgwick & Mary  Hebe & Nelly  Sophy & Mary Hirst & I walked up Minskip Beck  Had a very jolly go in”
3 Aug 1857:  “Uncle Hirst  Dora  Mary  Sophy  Hebe & Nelly Scholfield & Leond Sedgwick went to Manchester [Exhibition] this morning”
4 Aug 1857:  “drove Uncle Hirsts Dog Cart to Starbeck  Uncle & party came from Manchester today & brot home the Dog Cart”

6 Jul 1859:  “Had breakfast at Uncle’s  Drove Mary & Sophy to Norton le Clay  from there a very nice party (who were at Thos Lunds wedding yesterday) of us went on an omnibus to Hack Fall & a very jolly day we had...”
22 Aug 1859:  “At night met the Appletons  Charlesworth  Capes & wife  Joe & Aunt Bell at Uncles  it was Sophy’s birthday   went boating”
  
J meets Sophy about 20 times in 1859:  she is at Powells’, Bridge Foot, Joe’s, Capes’, HE Clark’s, Clarks of Minskip, &c

  
J mentions Sophy a dozen times in 1860:  she visits Navestock with Mrs Charles, he sees her while in London, and in July she is married
12 Jul 1860:  “Sophy Hirsts wedding day    I was groomsman  went with the bridegroom & Mr Jas Thompson to Church at ¼ to 11   they got married   had lots of races &c   Had breakfast about ½ past 12   The bridal pair left about two   Had all sorts of games in the field after that ...”


Parish Registers:  Boroughbridge
12 Jul 1860
William Thompson  -  35  -  bachelor  -  auctioneer  -  4 Kings Road, Bedford Row, London  -  (father)  James Thompson, wine merchant    
married
Sophia Hirst  -  22  -  spinster  -  Boroughbridge  -  (father) William Hirst, solicitor
by licence
witnesses:  William Hirst,  JR Stubbs, Dora Hirst,  HH Capes, Mary B Hirst

These are my original working notes, made quite a few years ago in the days before broadband and easy access to census records etc.  I have done a certain amount of extra work in getting them ready to post here, so some of the entries are now up-to-date.

They include quotations from George Whitehead's Journals, ed. Helier Hibbs, which have been an invaluable resource for which I am very grateful. 

As with the A-Z of Hutton Rudby people, my accuracy is NOT guaranteed!  And I'm afraid they are not quite in alphabetical order.

JOHN LEES & FRANCES ELIZA HUNTER & family of/in KNARESBOROUGH
Alexander, John & Frances HUNTER met with at  GT OUSEBURN

Frances Eliza STUBBS b 18 Jan 1801, aunt of Bishop Stubbs.  Married John Lees Hunter.  Buried Feb 1881 at Knaresborough. [Bishop Stubbs p 6]

Diary references:
5 Sep 1856:  “Mrs Wm Stubbs   Aunt Bell & Aunt Redmayne & I set off....We stayed & had tea at Hunters of Knaresbro   had a cab from there   Frances came with us & she returned in the Cab”
16 Oct 1856:  “went with [Sedgwicks] in their dogcart to Uncle Picks Party....Fras Hunter was there  played Cards had some fine fun..”
13 Jun 1858:  “Twice to Gt Ouseburn church  Alexr Hunter  John Hunter  Frances Hunter & Rd Paver spent the day with us”

1851 Settle:  The Terrace
Henry L Hunter is a pupil at the Grammar School and is boarding with his aunt Miss Henlock.
He is 10 years old, and was born at Wetherby

Mr, Miss Ellen & Miss Lucy  HALLEWELL     of LEEDS
The father and sisters of Martha Eliza, wife of Heaton Edwin Clark of Ellenthorpe

Diary references:
16 Jun 1856:  “Mr Hallewell called at our house”

29 Mar 1859:  “At night Capes & I had a cab to Ellinthorp Lodge to the return bridal party   we played cards & a very jolly evening we had.  Miss Ellen & Miss Lucy Hallewell were there  We got home about ½ past twelve”

George Whitehead’s Journal:
Heaton Edwin Clark of Ellenthorpe Lodge & Martha Eliza Hallewell of Highfield House, Woodhouse, Leeds  married Jany 5th 1859

Mr HARRISON of/in BOROUGHBRIDGE
Diary references:
27 Nov 1857:  “Went to office.  At Noon Mr Harrisons Stables & Chamber over were on fire”

Whites 1840:        “Thomas Harrison, farmer, Langthorpe”
Slaters 1849        “Richard Harrison, shopkeeper, Aldbro”


Miss HAYDN of/in BOROUGHBRIDGE
Diary references:
8 Sep 1855:  “Aunt Bell  Mrs Lascelles & Miss Haydn called”


HODGSON of/in BOROUGHBRIDGE
Diary references:
to be tried with Kirby of Marton for night poaching  cf 11 Mar 1856

Rev George HOLDSWORTH Vicar of Aldborough
Diary references:
“Read a law book as all the people were at Miss Holdsworths wedding” [10 July 1856]
John sees Mr H on business, & meets Mr H & Miss Lila while at the station [10 Oct 1856]
There may be a son: “Holdsworth  Davies & I had tea with Owen at the Hall” [13 May 1856]
4 Oct 1858:  “At 12 o’clock we committed the remains of poor Aunt to the grave.  She was borne shoulder height by 6 men & a pall was borne by 8 ladies.  There was a large funeral.  Holdsworth & Owen performed the ceremony.”

2 Dec 1859:  “In the afternoon I went to Mr Holdsworths on business”

Mr Holdsworth dines at Heaton House with many others 29 Jun 1860

Slaters 1849: “Holdsworth, Rev George, Adborough”

1851: Aldborough Vicarage
Albinia Holdsworth , marr, 51, b Lichfield and daughters Susanna 20 and Elizabeth 9, visitor and servants

Parish Registers:
10 July 1856    Henry Windham Phillips, artist of George St, Hanover Sq, London, (father) Thomas Phillips, artist, married Susanna Catherine Holdsworth of Aldbro, (father) George Holdsworth, clerk

General histories etc:
“The Church of St Andrew, Aldborough”:   Mr George Kelly Holdsworth was vicar 1822-63.  He married Albinia (1798-1859), daughter of Lt Col John Dalton of Slenningford.  The family gave several windows to the church.

George Whitehead’s Journals:
Revd George Kelly HOLDSWORTH of Aldbro died Aug 22 aged 70  1863
The Rev Richard Walker Marriott got Aldbro living  Sep   he succeeded Mr Holdsworth  1863

Mr & Mrs HOLMES of/in BOROUGHBRIDGE
Diary references:
1 Feb 1856:  “Had tea at Uncle H’s.  Holmes & his wife had tea at our house”


young HOUSEMAN in/of BOROUGHBRIDGE
Mr John and Mr William Houseman                   
Diary references:
22 Jun 1857:  “At Night Richd Paver, Young Houseman  Joe  Capes & I had a stroll in the fair”
23 Oct 1858:  “It was the fair today.  Uncle Pick  Mr Jno & Mr Wm Houseman dined with us”

1 Nov 1859:  “to Grafton to hold the Court   after the Court ... I stayed dinner & a very jolly party we had  I went with Jno Houseman & John Akers to tea at Hick’s”


HOWELL of/in BOROUGHBRIDGE
Diary references:
25 Jan 1856:  “we had Howells Newfoundland & Nel”
15 Feb 1856:  “Went to Howells with a letter Aunt had missed putting into their bag”
28 Feb  1856: “walked up the river past Howells to opposite Slaters”
29 Feb 1856:  “walked up the River  Howells great dog followed us”
15 Jul 1856:  “Howells dog Tig tried to drown Pincher but we stopped him”

       
“Corn Merchants: Howell  John Job, Steam Mill, Langthorpe, Bbdge”
“Millers:  Howell  John Job, Steam Mill, Langthorpe, Bbdge”
“Seed Crushers:     Howell  John Job, Steam Mill, Langthorpe, Bbdge”


The Misses HOWE, & HOWE & wife of/in GREAT OUSEBURN
Diary references:
18 Apr 1857:  “...At night I walked to Ouseburn...Two Misses Howe  Miss Wisdom  Miss Lockey  Mrs Pick & Richd Paver were at Aunt Anns  I set them a short way home”
19 Apr 1857:  “After Church at night I set Mrs Howe  Miss Wisdom  two Misses Howe  Miss Lockey & Rd Paver past the workhouse”
21 Sep 1857:  “...supped..at Uncle Wms  Lascelles & wife  Miss Haddon  Howe & wife  [etc] were there”

Censuses:
1851
Gt Ouseburn (west of the church):  (this follows Cottage Farm, and comes before the Workhouse)
Moor Farm:                   
Richard    Howe, 56, farmer 140a emp 3 in- & 2 outdoor labourers, b Gt Ouseburn
Rosamund, 44, wife, b Copgrove
Elizabeth, 10, b Gt Ouseburn
Catherine 7, do.-
Georgiana 3, do.-
Mary Ann 2, do.-
governess, 2 house servants, 3 farm labourers

George Whitehead’s Journals:
Richard Howe [Great Ouseburn Moor] & Catharine [& Elizabeth CROW from Ornhams]  Married [Feby] 1840


Miss HADDON of/in OUSEBURN
Diary references:
21 Sep 1857:  “supped...at Uncle Wms  Lascelles & wife  Miss Haddon  Howe & wife  Old Pick & wife  Richd Paver  Ellison & wife were there...”


Mrs HEDDON of/in BALDERSBY
Diary references:
15 Aug 1858:  “[while staying at Baldersby] Met Mrs Heddon  was introduced to her”

Post Office 1857:       
Baldersby:     
Heddon, Ann (Mrs), farmer, Wide How Farm
Heddon, Robert, farmer


Miss HARGER of/in SETTLE
Diary references:
20 Aug 1856:  “Went to John Tathams  Miss Hargers & the Terrace”

Tithe Map c1840
The Harger family own a good deal of property

Censuses:
1851:  Settle
Mrs Ellen Harger, widow, 67, retd farmer’s wife    b Masongill   
Nancy 34 b Settle
Robert    25 do.-
living with a housemaid & 2 farm servants in Church St   

Miss Elizabeth Harger, 38, confectioner, b Settle
with a servant & a lodger who is manager of the cotton mill, in Duke St   


Miss & Mr HARGRAVES     of/in SETTLE
Diary references:
30 Aug 1856:  “Miss Hargraves was at Taitlands at tea”
1 Jul 1857:  “Henry  Mary R & I rode the Carriage horses & Jessie to Stockdale   called on Hargraves”

10 Oct 1859:  “...with Uncle & Thos Stackhouse to Austwick Wood to shoot   Mr Foster  Mr Ingleby  John Ingleby  Robt Hargraves  Thos Clapham  Joe Birkbeck  Thos Stackhouse  John Hartley  Uncle & I were there.  We shot 46 hares  17 pheasants & 18 rabbits   We all dined at Thos Claphams at 7 o’clock”

Slaters 1849:  “Gentry & Clergy:  Mr Richard Hargreaves, Long Preston”

Censuses:
1851: Stockdale, Settle
Stephen  Hargraves, 59, landed prop & farmer of ?2550 acres emp 4 labs ,b Giggleswick
Isabella     57, [wife] do.-
Anne 27, farmer’s dau: b Stockdale
Robert 23, farmer’s son emp on the farm, b Stockdale
Jane 22, farmer’s dau:, do.-
with a house servant and two farm labourers       

Notes
Stockdale is at the “end of the Ecclesiastical district of a detached portion of the township of Settle” - the household that comes before it in the Census is David Hall Dale at Cleatop, and after it comes the hamlet of Mear Beck.
Cleatop is perhaps a mile south of the southern limit of present day Settle.  Stockdale is presumably between Cleatop and Mearbeck, half a mile further south


HARRISON, Dr HARRISON & Mrs Jefferson HARRISON of/in SETTLE
Diary references:
Giggleswick class lists 1853

19 Aug 1856:  “to Settle...I stayed & dined at Dr Harrisons”
20 Aug 1856:  “....Mrs Jefferson Harrison..[etc] took tea with us”
25 Aug 1856:  “We called at Harrisons & the Terrace”

27 Sep 1859:  “...walked to Settle  I called at the Terrace  Mrs Roberts & Mr Harrisons”

Pigots 1834:  “Surgeons:  Harrison, Edward, Settle”
Slaters 1849:  “Surgeons:  Harrison, Edward, Settle”

Censuses:
1851
Settle:  The Terrace
boarding with Miss Henlock are Edward N Harrison (12) and William H Harrison (10) both pupils at the grammar school, both born in Jamaica


James HARTLEY     of/in SETTLE
Diary references:
19 Aug 1856:  “I stayed & dined at Dr Harrisons   Saw James Hartley”

Pigots 1834: “Gentry etc:  Mrs Sarah Hartley, Long Preston”

Slaters 1849:       
“Gentry etc:  Mr John Hartley, Giggleswick”           
“Attorneys: George Hartley, Settle  & superintendant registrar of Settle”
“Braziers & tinmen:  John Johnson Hartley, Settle (& ironmonger)”
“Inns & posting houses: Golden Lion, Isabella Hartley, Settle”

Post Office 1857:  “John Hartley, esq, Catterall Hall, Giggleswick”

Censuses:
1851
No James Hartley in the Census, but George Hartley, who is 47 is married and could have a son then from home

General histories etc:
“Ancient Parish of Giggleswick” (photographs”:  Catterall Hall, home of the Catteralls in the C17, later owned by the Hartleys, who built the C19 facade, is now part of Giggleswick School

“The churches of the Deanery of North Craven”:  windows in Giggleswick Church:  one given by John Hartley of Clapham in memory of John & Esther Hartley of Catterall Hall; one by Misses Mary, Ellen & Ann Hartley in memory of their brother John (1831-1903); and one given by the Misses Hartley in memory of their brother and sister George and Elizabeth Hartley, and their uncle George Dudgeon Hartley and his wife Mary.

“The Craven & NW Yks Highlands” by Harry Speight 1892:
....more than 70 years ago, the old Lion Inn at Settle (where the coaches always stopped) was kept by a Mrs Hartley, who was one of the most capable and popular landladies in the North of England during the coaching days..........”


John HARTLEY of/in SETTLE
Diary references:

10 Oct 1859:  “...with Uncle & Thos Stackhouse to Austwick Wood to shoot   Mr Foster  Mr Ingleby  John Ingleby  Robt Hargraves  Thos Clapham  Joe Birkbeck  Thos Stackhouse  John Hartley  Uncle & I were there.  We shot 46 hares  17 pheasants & 18 rabbits   We all dined at Thos Claphams at 7 o’clock”

Slaters 1849:  “Gentry etc:  Mr John Hartley, Giggleswick”
Post Office 1857:  “John Hartley, esq, Catterall Hall, Giggleswick”

Miss HARTLEY   
Diary references:
12 Aug 1858:  “At night walked with Aunt Redmayne to [Bbdge] station to see off Mr & Mrs Jefferson of Northallerton & Miss Hartley who had been spending the day at Sedgwicks”


HEATON of Giggleswick School
Diary references:
Giggleswick class lists 1853


John HEELIS of/in SETTLE
Diary references:
Giggleswick class lists 1853
16 Oct 1857:  “Wrote to John Heelis Esquire”
10 Nov 1857:  “Wrote to Heelis”
11 Nov 1857: “Posted letter for Heelis”

Post Office 1857:   
in list of acting magistrates in W. Riding:  “John Heelis, esq, Brown hill, Burnley”

HIND of/in SETTLE
Diary references:
16 Aug 1856:  “..went to call at Dr Buttertons   Saw Hind an old school fellow”


Joe HODGSON    of/in SETTLE
Diary references:
26 Aug 1856:  “I went into the wood with Joe Hodgson but did not get anything”
3 Aug 1856:  “I shot at Joe Hodgsons hat   blew it nearly all to pieces”


HOLT of Giggleswick School
Diary references:
Giggleswick class lists 1853


Rev John HOWSON of/in SETTLE
"Old Howson"
Diary references:
31 Aug 1856:  “..went with Thos Stackhouse to Giggleswick church...saw Old Howson”
Pigots 1834:       
“Gentry & Clergy:  Rev John Howson MA, Giggleswick”           
“Academies & schools:  Free Grammar School, Giggleswick:  Rev John Howson MA, second master”

Slaters 1849: “Gentry & clergy:  Rev John Howson MA, Giggleswick”

Tithe Map c1840:
Giggleswick: Rev Howson has a house (no 11) & garden (no 76)

Henry, Mary Ann, Robert, and William HEWITT   of/in DONCASTER
Robert, Catherine and Henry Hewitt are listed in the household of Robert Workman at Arksey in the 1851 census: nephews and niece

Diary references:
J goes to the ball with Henry & Robert on Jan 12 1859.  They have tea at Wm Hewitt’s on Jan 12, 14, & 16
J goes shooting & hunting with Robert Hewitt during his stay at the Workmans, & Robert sends him a newspaper cutting of the juvenile ball.
23 Dec 1859, Henry Hewitt comes to stay at the Hirsts, bringing the dressing case J commissioned Mrs Workman to get for him.  Henry goes to Picks and Henlocks with J, and has tea at Bridge Foot

Whites 1867:         
Doncaster:
Hewitt, John, butcher,     34 ½ St Sepulchregt without; h Regent street
Hewitt, John, greengrocer, 19 Cleveland st
Hewitt, Wm W, grocer, 72 Frenchgate

These are my original working notes, made quite a few years ago in the days before broadband and easy access to census records etc.  I have done a certain amount of extra work in getting them ready to post here, so some of the entries are now up-to-date.

They include quotations from George Whitehead's Journals, ed. Helier Hibbs, which have been an invaluable resource for which I am very grateful. 

As with the A-Z of Hutton Rudby people, my accuracy is NOT guaranteed!  And I'm afraid they are not quite in alphabetical order.

Jack, Christopher, Margaret and Old  INGLEBY/INGILBY  of/in  Settle/Lawkland Hall
Miss INGLEBY of  CLAPHAM
Diary references:
20 Aug 1856:  “Jack Ingleby  Old Ingleby  Mrs Jefferson Harrison [etc] took tea with us”
26 Aug 1856:  “..went to Settle   I saw Mr Ingelby & Mr Foster”
2 Sep 1856:  “Went to Lawkland Hall    Saw Margt Ingleby  .....rode home by Austwick  saw Jack Ingleby”
29 Jun 1857:  “Went to Skipton Sessions  Mr Wm Foster drove me to Settle station   dined with Chr Ingelby at the Devonshire & then retd to Taitlands”
14 Jan 1858:  “[at Leond Sidgwick & Jane Redmayne’s wedding] [etc] & Margaret Ingleby were bridesmaids”

24 Sep 1859:  “ ... to Austwick  I called to see John Ingleby  Chr Ingleby & young Clapham”
3 Oct 1859:  “Uncle [Redmayne] went to Clapham Fair    Aunt   Henry  Lizzie & I went to Clapham in the large carriage   I drove there  We had dinner & tea at Miss Redmaynes   Called at the vicarage & Miss Ingleby’s & had some good fun in the fair  Hy Marriner was at home”
4 Oct 1859:  “... to the Bashals to tea  Jack Ingleby Mrs & Miss Wood & ourselves were there”
10 Oct 1859:  “...with Uncle & Thos Stackhouse to Austwick Wood to shoot   Mr Foster  Mr Ingleby  John Ingleby  Robt Hargraves  Thos Clapham  Joe Birkbeck  Thos Stackhouse  John Hartley  Uncle & I were there.  We shot 46 hares  17 pheasants & 18 rabbits   We all dined at Thos Claphams at 7 o’clock”

Pigots 1834:       
“Gentry etc:  Mr Robert Ingleby, Lawkland green”
“Gentry etc:  Thomas Ingleby esq, Lawkland Hall”

Slaters 1849:       
“Gentry etc:  Charles Ingleby esq, Austwick”           
“Gentry etc:  Mr Robert Ingleby, Lawkland green”

1851 Census: Austwick
Christopher Ingelby, marr 27, Attorney & solicitor, b Lawkland Hall
Anne, wife, 34, b Westmorland
groom
house servant

INGRAM of/in SETTLE
Diary references:
Giggleswick class lists 1853

Pigots 1834:       
“Gentry & clergy:  Ingram, Rev Rowland, B.D., Giggleswick”
“Gentry & clergy:  Ingram, Rev Rowland jun (curate), Settle”
“Academies & schools:  Free Grammar School, Giggleswick - Rev Rowland Ingram, B.D. head master”

Slaters 1849:       
“Gentry & clergy:  Ingram, Rev Rowland, D.D., Giggleswick”
“Gentry & clergy:  Ingram, Rev Rowland jun. Settle”

Tithe Map c1840
Giggleswick
Rev Rowland Ingram snr has Tanpit Croft (no 12) and house & garden (no 13)
Rev Rowland Ingram jun rents house & garden (no 98) and gardens (nos 99 & 100) from Wm Robinson

General histories etc:
“The churches of the Deanery of North Craven”
“the font....with a fine lofty Gothic wood cover suspended with a pulley, the gift of the Rev Rowland Ingram, vicar, 1840.”
Rowland Ingram was vicar 1839-1853.  He was the son of the Rev Rowland Ingram, headmaster of Giggleswick School 1800-1845.
The headmaster R.I. laid the foundation stone of the new Settle church in 1836

JESSOP of Giggleswick School
Diary references:
Giggleswick class lists 1853


Tom JOHNSON    of/in GREAT OUSEBURN
Diary references:
20 Jun 1858:  “..walked as far as Uncle Pick’s at Ouseburn   Tom Johnson set us part of the way back”
29 Jul 1858:  “Sd  Aunt Bell [etc etc] ... to Uncle Picks   met the Howes  Chas & Alice Atkinson & Tom Johnson”
26 Dec 1858:  “[at Uncle Henlocks]  Tom Johnson came in after church at night”

In 1859, J meets Tom five times at Ouseburn, either at Picks’ or at Henlocks’


Miss JEPSON of/in OUSEBURN
Diary references:
24 Mar 1856:  “...went to Ouseburn to see the Craven party ...Miss Jepson & Edwd Crosby our Jane & Capes were there..”
26 Mar 1856:  “...dinner at 2 o’clock as the Ouseburn party came to dine at our house...Miss Calder came & Miss Jepson..”
27 Mar 1856:  “”[at Aunt Bell’s]...Joe & Aunt Bell played Miss Jepson & me  we beat them hollow”
28 Mar 1856:  “...went up to the Practise at the church with Aunt Bell & Miss Jepson”
30 Mar 1856:  “...After tea Crosby called [at Uncle Pick’s] gave me a letter for Miss Jepson who was staying with Aunt Bell...”
12 May 1856:  “ ..At Night went to tea at Aunt Bells   Miss Jepson from Ouseburn & a Miss Johnson from Easingwold who was staying at Crosbys [etc]  we went & rowed up as far as Slaters.....Joe & I went home with Miss Jepson & Miss Johnson...”
18 Sep 1856:  “...At Night I went after tea to Aunt Bells   Aunt Pick & Miss Jepson were there”


Mr W T & Mrs JEFFERSON, Solicitor of NORTHALLERTON
Diary references:
12 Aug 1858:  “with Aunt Redmayne to [Bbdge] station to see off Mr & Mrs Jefferson of Northallerton & Miss Hartley who had been spending the day at Sedgwicks”

In 1860, J does some business for Mr Jefferson of Northallerton(copies of his letters are in his Manifold Writer).  In November Mr Jefferson asks J to work for him, but he is busy with Hirst & Capes

Diary references:
23 Mar 1857:  “Had the Surveyors (Mr King & Mr Winch) of the Post Office over today”
14 May 1857:  “Borrowed Kings Gun”


Miss & Miss Eliza KYME     of/in BOROUGHBRIDGE
Diary references:
16 May 1856:  “Miss Kyme & Miss Eliza Kyme who were staying with the Walburns”

7 May 1859:  “to Stotts to tea   Miss & Miss Jane Walburn & Rd W.  Miss Kyme & Miss Eliza Kyme were there   we went out into a field & played Tessey & after that we had a polka in the house  Had a very pleasant evening  got home about ½ past ten”

These are my original working notes, made quite a few years ago in the days before broadband and easy access to census records etc.  I have done a certain amount of extra work in getting them ready to post here, so some of the entries are now up-to-date.

They include quotations from George Whitehead's Journals, ed. Helier Hibbs, which have been an invaluable resource for which I am very grateful. 

As with the A-Z of Hutton Rudby people, my accuracy is NOT guaranteed!  And I'm afraid they are not quite in alphabetical order.

Rev Edward R LASCELLES, vicar of LITTLE OUSEBURN
Diary references:
8 Sep 1855:  “Aunt Bell  Mrs Lascelles & Miss Haydn called”
10 Sep 1855:  “Took Aunt Bell to illeg  Supped Lascelles
21 Sep 1857:  “supped..at Uncle Wms   Lascelles & wife ..[etc]..were there”

20 Mar 1859:  “...to Uncle Picks.   Aunt Bell came with Mr Lascelles governess (Miss Welch) & one of Lascelles boys to Church at night  Aunt Bell stayed at Uncle Picks   I set the Governess home to Little Ouseburn but I did not go in”
24 Apr 1859:  “Had tea at Aunt Bells   Two Miss Lascelles & the Governess were there”
12 Nov 1859:  “BB Hirings  Mr & Mrs Lascelles  Mr & Mrs Henlock & Mr & Mrs Pick dined with us”

1851: Gt Ouseburn
Lascelles   
Edward R Lascelles 42    vicar of Little Ouseburn    b Surrey       
Frances        46    wife        
Catherine     8     [all children b Little Ouseburn]                       
Anna         7                           
Charles     5                           
John W        4                           
Arthur        2                       
Egbert        9mths                       
Elizabeth May    U    20    cook   
Betsey Glossop    U    29    nurse   
Elizabeth Mark    U    15    housemaid

George Whitehead’s Journal:
Revd Robert Edward LASCELLES & Fanny Watson  Married  Dec 7th 1841
Charles Edward Lascelles son of E R Lascelles b May 9th 1845
Mr Lascelles got first gig they ever had  May 25th 1846
Mr Lascelles Drop’d down in a sick fit in the reading desk at Church Feb 11th 1849
Lascelles got their first governess viz Miss Chapman  Sept 6th  a south countrywoman  1851
Revd Edward Robert Lascelles vicar of Little Ouseburn d Aug 6th a55     years (he was the vicar at         L.O. about 27 yrs)  1864
Mrs Lascelles sale at L.O. Mar 28th  they left L.O. & went to live at Bbdge Apr 6th 1865
Charles Lascelles got to be Bbdge Post Master, spring of 1870
Charles Lascelles & --  Married 1880
Mrs Lascelles d Feb 16 a78 yrs  1884
Chas Ed Lascelles son of Ouseburn late clergyman d Jan 3rd a46 yrs  1892

The children of the Revd Lascelles are frequently mentioned in the 1870s letters from Mrs Mary Stubbs.  Three of the Lascelles children were to die before they reached the age of 27 and Charles Lascelles, who became Boroughbridge postmaster in 1870, was taken very ill in 1873 with what seems to have been a stroke in his mid twenties.  Charles recovered, and in the 1881 Census is to be found in Harrogate, working as a solicitor’s managing clerk.  His mother and sister Anna are in the same household; Anna sometimes went on holiday with the Stubbs family. 

Mr LAWSON of Boroughbridge
Andrew Sherlock LAWSON           
Diary references: (goes on business - inc..)
9 Feb 1856:  “Went to Mr Lawsons with 2 petitions”
6 Oct 1856:  “Went to Mr Lawsons to try two men for begging”
2 Jan 1857:  “went to a party at Owens met the illeg & the Lawsons”

23 Nov 1858:  “drove [a surveyor of Post Office to Helperby] in Uncle Hirst’s Dog Cart   Had luncheon at Mr Roger Butterys & had old port & claret at Mr Lawsons”

22 Jul 1859:  “at the Cricket Ground where Mr Rhodes’ 11 played Lawsons 11  but the former had the better of it”

4 Aug 1860:  “went to the White Horse to a sale of property at Roecliffe by the Trustees under the Will of the late Mr Lawson”

Pigots 1834:       
“Lawson, Andrew esq (magistrate)           
“Lawson, Mrs Barbara Isabella, Boroughbridge Hall”

Slaters 1849:       
“Andrew Lawson Esq (magistrate), Boroughbridge Hall”
Post Office 1857:    
in acting magistrates for West Riding:             
“Andrew Sherlock Lawson, esq, Aldborough Hall, Boroughbridge”

Kellys 1908:        
Andrew Lawson, Aldborough Hall; John C W Smith, Boroughbridge Hall

Tithe Map c1840:  major landowner, Borobridge, including the Hall

General histories etc:
“Records of a Yorkshire Manor” by Sir Thos Lawson-Tancred 1937         
The Wilkinson family built Boroughbridge Hall.  They purchased the site of the manor of Boroughbridge from the Tancreds in 1659.
       
Early in the C19, the Rev James Wilkinson, last of the Wilkinsons of Bbdge Hall, died leaving his property to his niece, who had married the Rev Marmaduke Lawson.  Marmaduke Lawson died 1815.  His son  Andrew Lawson (1800-1850) built the present Aldbro Manor in 1825, by adding on to an existing house called Aldbro Lodge.  He had come to live there soon after his marriage to Marianne Gooch in 1823.  His mother, Mrs Barbara Isabella Lawson, was living in Boroughbridge Hall at this point, and up to her death in 1834 (or 1838?).  After Mr Lawson bought the manorial rights in 1850 the Lodge became known as Aldbro Manor.  [This is not reflected in the Directory entries?]

Notes
Isabella Bird (Mrs Bishop) the noted Victorian traveller was born at Boroughbridge Hall 15 Oct 1831.  So presumably Mrs Lawson was not living in the hall at this point

There are two Miss Lawsons he meets at parties in 1856

George Whitehead’s Journal:
Andrew Sherlock LAWSON heir of A S Lawson Aldbro born Feby 22 1855
Mr Lawson Aldbro died May 22  aged 47 years  1872

Mr LEAF of SPELLOW GRANGE
Diary references:
31 May 1856:  “...drove Mary Stubbs & Dora to Humberton to call   M. Dison & Sophy walked  we then drove on to Mr Leafs of Spellow Grange   made a call & retd”

4 May 1858:  “Walked with Sd to Leafs of Spellow   got leave to shoot rabbits” [went 4 times that month, 4 times in June]
5 Jul 1858:  “At Night Sd & I walked round by Spellow & Staveley  called at Mr Leafs”

In 1859, J goes on half a dozen occasions to Mr Leaf’s, & has porter with him on 23 July

Not mentioned in 1860

George Whitehead’s Journals:
Edward LEAF Spellow Grange near Staveley d Nov aged 75  1865
Mrs Leaf sale at Spellow Grange Apr 2nd & 3rd 1866

Mr & Mrs LOCKEY & Miss LOCKEY of/in    BOROUGHBRIDGE/OUSEBURN
Diary references:
18 Apr 1857:  “.....Two Misses Howe  Miss Wisdom  Miss Lockey Mrs Pick & Richd Paver were at Aunt Anns  I sent them a short way home”
19 Apr 1857:  “After [Gt Ouseburn] church at night I set Mrs Howe Miss Wisdom  two Misses Howe  Miss Lockey & Rd Paver past the workhouse”
13 Oct 1857:  “went to the Concert   Heard Mrs & Mr Lockey sing...”

J meets Miss Lockey twice at Grassgills in 1860

Thomas LUND                of/in    BOROUGHBRIDGE
Diary references: eg
14 Jun 1856:  “... to the Station met with Thos Lund  set him nearly to Kirby Hill Lane”
13 Feb 1857:  “..to Norton to young Rich Walburns  Thos Lund was there”
16 Feb 1857:  “..Joe & I took Pincher & Button to Thos Lund’s..”
26 Sep 1857:  “..walked to Broom Close   Thos Lund was from home”
13 Sep 1858:  “..at ½ past nine I drove Smallwood in Uncles Dog Cart to Dishforth   from there to Norton to Thos Lunds...” [Sd to leave for Scarboro 15 Sep]
6 Jul 1859:  “..to Norton le Clay  from there a very nice party (who were at Thos Lunds wedding yesterday) of us went on an omnibus to hack Fall & a very jolly day we had  Miss Lund was there (a very nice girl)”
15 Sep 1859:  “went to meet Thos Lund & his bride at Miss Stotts”

No mention in 1860

Miss LAMBERT    in/of HELPERBY
Christopher LAMBERT               
Diary references:
19 Feb 1856:  “a party to Mrs Rogers [Buttery]....[.Miss Lambert among those present]”
31 Aug 1859:  “....cheap trip to Scarbro  Waited 4 hours at Pilmoor  Got to Scarbro about 2 o’clock    Michl Smith of BB, Miss Lambert  Chr Lambert  Fawcett & his sister all of Helperby went...”

Slaters 1854:       
Brewers:  William Lambert, Helperby

Wilson LAMBERT of/in    Boroughbridge
Diary references:
13 Oct 1856:  “At Night Uncle Hirst gave me a ticket to the Concert (Singers Miss Barwick & Miss Newbound  Mrs Wilson Lambert & Delavanti)  It was very nice  All passed off well”

Christopher LOFTHOUSE of/in    BOROUGHBRIDGE
Diary references:
14 May 1859:  “At noon Steele  Capes Joe & I went to Chr Lofthouses stable to see a corpse which was found in the canal”

Slaters 1854       
“Taverns & public houses:  Grantham Arms, Langthorpe, Christopher Lofthouse”

Mr LEE of/in SETTLE
Diary references:
22 Oct 1853:  “Spent the day at Taitlands  H & Mr Lee came”

Notes
Thomas Lee, aged 47 in 1851, master blacksmith in Settle

LEEMING of Giggleswick School
Diary references:
Giggleswick class lists 1853

Old LOEWE of/in SETTLE
Diary references:
16 Aug 1856:  “...went to Settle  saw Old Loewe & came home”

LUPTON of Giggleswick School
Diary references:
Giggleswick class lists 1853

Rev Arthur MAISTER of/in BOROUGHBRIDGE
Diary references:
Friday 24 Jul 1857:  “At night went to Church  Revd Arthur Maister preached”

The Miss MIL(N)THORPE of/in BOROUGHBRIDGE
Diary references:
6 May 1857:  “..to Mr Michael Smiths   Two Misses Milthorp were there”
8 May 1857:  “..to M L Smiths...Miss Mary Milthorp & I played [cards]”
12 May 1857:  “...to Uncles   Miss Milnthorp  Mrs M Smith & Miss Fretwell were there”

Notes
Elizabeth (53) Fowler (31) Joseph (33) and William (47) Milthorpe are in the 1851 Boroughbridge Census Index, fol 254

Edwin MITCHELL of/in    BOROUGHBRIDGE
Diary references:
19 Jun 1857:  “Edwin Mitchell came to Barnaby   Jas Morley & he dined with us...Edwin Mitchell slept in my room”
20 Jun 1857:  “Mr Barroby & Edwin Mitchell dined with us”
17 Jun 1858:  “Edwin Mitchell dined with us”

15 Nov 1860:  “business to Wetherby  Dined at the Market Table at The Angel  Edwin Mitchell was there”

Slaters 1849:       
“Mitchell, John, bookseller, stationer & printer, Borobridge”

Notes
John (69) John (29) and Anne (27) are in the 1851 Boroughbridge Census Index

Mr John MITCHELL  at Barnaby Fair
Diary references:
22 Jun 1857:  “After dinner Mr John Mitchell & I had a walk in the fair”

Mrs MORRELL of BOROUGHBRIDGE
Diary references:
16 Jan 1856:  “Bessie [Carass] went to ask Miss Eagle a Clairvoyant Lady at Mrs Morrells about Uncle Henlocks”

12 May 1857:  “Capes & Jane set off in Mrs Morrells Cab to Joes Wedding”
14 Aug 1857:  “...with Capes  Jane  Sophy  Hebe & Nelly to Joes in Morrells Cab”
2 Feb 1857:  “Capes & I went to sale of books at the White Horse”

22 Feb 1858:  “At Night Sd & I & Joe went in Morrells phaeton to H.E.Clarks evening party”
10 Mar 1858:  “Smallwd & I went about 3 o’clock in Morrells phaeton to Ripon”
29 Jul 1858:  “At Night Sd  Aunt Bell   Fanny Stubbs & I drove Mrs Morrells phaeton to Uncle Picks”
8 Sep 1858:  “At One o’clock Sd & I drove Mrs Morrells phaeton to Starbeck   went on by train to Leeds”
29 Oct 1858:  “Went to dine with the Borobridge Jury at Mrs Morrells where we had a splendid dinner   left about 5 o’clock”

11 Feb 1859:  [Morrells Dog Cart]
15 Nov 1859:  [Morrells Omnibus]

14 Aug 1860:  “Rd Hirst & I rowed Tom Morrell his children & his wifes sister to Westwick”

Pigots 1834:       
“Porter Merchants:  Morrell, Joseph, Boroughbridge”           
“Inns at Boroughbridge:  White Horse, Mary Morrell”   
“Subscription News Room, White Horse Inn - Wm Hogg, secretary”

Whites 1840
Slaters 1849: “White Horse (& excise office)  Mary Morrell”

Notes
He never indicates where the newsroom is, but likely still to have been at the White Horse


William, Hugh & Miss MARRINER of/in    SETTLE area
The Marriners were related to the Redmaynes.  Miss Mary Redmayne “gentlewoman annuitant” lived at Clapham (Yorkshire) with her niece Miss Mary Marriner.  John Marriner was the vicar of Clapham from 1841 to 1876. 

Diary references:
Giggleswick class lists 1853

In Payments section 1853 diary:  “Mrs J Marriner, 12 South Place, Finsbury, London”
21 Aug 1856:  “Wm Marriner & Hugh came to tea”
2 Sep 1856:  “..went to Clapham had tea with Miss Marriner  Miss R  Mrs M & Mr Marriner were out”

3 Oct 1859:  “Uncle [Redmayne] went to Clapham Fair    Aunt   Henry  Lizzie & I went to Clapham in the large carriage   I drove there  We had dinner & tea at Miss Redmaynes   Called at the vicarage & Miss Ingleby’s & had some good fun in the fair  Hy Marriner was at home”
20 Nov 1859:  “Uncle Wm had a letter to say Miss Marriner was dead”

Censuses: 1851
Clapham with Newby:
Redmayne    Mary    head    U    59    gentlewoman annuitant    b Yks, Ingleton
Marriner    Mary    niece    U    47    do.-                do.-
Walker        Ellen    serv    U    37    cook                b Lancs
Flemming    Sarah    serv    U    21    house servant            b Westmorland

General histories etc:    “The Craven & North West Yorkshire Highlands” by Harry Speight 1892
The incumbent of Clapham Vicarage 1841-76:  John Marriner

Mary METCALFE of/in SETTLE
Diary references:
21 Mar 1856:  “...walked to Ouseburn  Bell Baldwin & her little girl  Mary Metcalf  Aunt & Uncle Henlock were at Uncle Picks..”
24 Mar 1856:  “...walked to Ouseburn to see the Craven party mentd on the 21st”
26 Mar 1856:  “...went home to dinner at 2 o’clock as the Ouseburn party mentd above came to dine at our house”
27 Mar 1856:  “...to Aunt Bells to meet the Ouseburn party”
29 Mar 1856:  “Bell Baldwin Mary Metcalf & I walked up to Uncle Wms”
5 Apr 1856:  “Called Bell Baldwin & Mary Metcalf up went into their bedroom & had a little talk  I then wished them good bye as they were going away”
14 Apr 1856:  “I read the letters they [Uncle & Aunt Pick] had had fom Bell Baldwin  Mary Metcalf & Mary Jane”
27 Aug 1856:  “Sophy & I went to the [Settle] station with Leonard in the pony carre   called for Mary Metcalfe as we came back.....James took Mary home at night”

Censuses:
1851:
Settle:
Redmayne    Ann    head    W    62    stamp distributor    b Lancs, Tunstal
Metcalfe    Mary    dau:    U    39    at home        do.-        Church St.

Notes
cf Ann Redmayne

Annie MORLEY 
John's grandmother was Jane Morley(1794-1833)                 
Diary references: eg
14 Jun 1857:  “Called at Morley’s   Annie was from home”
4 Dec 1857:  “At night went to Langthorp  Mary & Charlotte Smith  Miss Morley and Annie & Jacob Smith   Leond Sedgwick & Mary were there”
9 Dec 1857:  “Spent evening at Uncle Hirsts   Miss & Annie Morley were there”
10 Dec 1857:  “Miss Morley  Miss Annie  Dora & Sophy had dinner tea & supper at our house”
15 Aug 1858: [while staying at Baldersby] “Mrs C Barroby  Annie Morley & I walked to Skipton church in the morning..”

12 Jun 1859:  “[at Baldersby]  in the afternoon I went to see Annie Morley”

J sees Annie twice in 1860

Tithe Map c1840:    Dishforth
Thomas Morley had 130a in hand, & a Crown tenant also, holding the better part of 150a from the Crown, and also gardens, woodyard & a house which he held with the Rev Thos Paley (probably therefore trustees)

James MORLEY
John's grandmother was Jane Morley (1794-1833)                  
Diary references:
19 Jun 1857:  “Edwin Mitchell came to Barnaby   Jas Morley & he dined with us”
15 Aug 1858:  [while staying at Baldersby] “I walked home with James & Annie Morley”
25 Oct 1858:  “Mr Chr Barroby  Mr Jas Morley  Uncle Wm  Uncle Pick & Mr Miles Rainforth dined with us - at noon was in the fair with Uncle Pick”

Post Office 1857:        Baldersby:  Morley, James, farmer

Miss & Miss Annie MORLEY of EFFINGHAM, NEAR DORKING
John's grandmother was Jane Morley(1794-1833)   
Diary references:
28 Nov 1857:  “At Night had tea at Uncles   Miss & Miss Annie Morley of Effingham were there”
29 Nov 1857:  “Miss Morley   Annie & I had a walk on the Common”

4 Jul 1859:  “at Sedgwicks  ... Annie Morley of Effingham”

22 May 1860:  “Went by train to Dorking   Mr Morley met me half way in the Dog Cart & I went on to Effingham  Mrs Morley Jane Lizzie Fanny Bill & Mr Morley were at home...”
   
J goes to watch the Derby with Bill & Mr Morley, and travels north with Bill on 26 May, Bill going to Humburton, which suggests they are related to the Yorkshire Morleys


Charles MASON of/in DISHFORTH
Diary references:
13 Nov 1855:  “Helped Thos Mason with steam thrashing machine  rode down with Chas mason to Mr Barrobys men on B.B. Road”

9 Feb 1856:  “At Night went with Mr Capes to Dishforth to hear a little more about Cousin Marks Horse Cause    Mr Charles Mason & John Appleton were there”
20 Jun 1856:  “...was in the fair   Thos Mason of Dishforth & Chas dined with us”
4 Oct 1856:  “Mr Barroby & Chas Mason came & I went back with them........we all went to Chas Mason’s to tea   Thos Mason came in after”

18 Jan 1857:  “[at Barrobys’]  After [Dishforth] Church   Thos Mason & Chas   Cousin Mark & I had a walk”

18 Jun 1859:  “At noon in the fair.  Thos & Chas Mason  Peter Stevenson jr  Uncle Redmayne & Uncle Wm dined with us”
   
J met Charles at Tom Mason’s in Oct 1860


Thomas MASON of/in DISHFORTH
Diary references:
13 Nov 1855:  “Helped Thos Mason with steam thrashing machine  rode down with Chas mason to Mr Barrobys men on B.B. Road”

20 Jun 1856:  “...was in the fair   Thos Mason of Dishforth & Chas dined with us”
21 Jun 1856:  “Thos Mason & I went out & shot a Leverite”
22 Jun 1856:  “I had tea with Thos Mason”
6 Jul 1856:  “At night Thos Mason  Cousin Mark & I walked up to Windsor Castle from there on to the Moor & home   went & sat with Thos Mason a short time & then went home”
4 Oct 1856:  “Mr Barroby & Chas Mason came & I went back with them........we all went to Chas Mason’s to tea   Thos Mason came in after”

18 Jan 1857:  “[at Barrobys’]  After [Dishforth] Church   Thos Mason & Chas   Cousin Mark & I had a walk.   I had tea with Thomas Mason”
19 Jul 1857:  “Thomas Mason had tea with us”

11 Jun 1859:  “drove to Dishforth ... called to see Thos Mason”
18 Jun 1859:  “At noon in the fair.  Thos & Chas Mason  Peter Stevenson jr  Uncle Redmayne & Uncle Wm dined with us”
   
J mentions Tom Mason twice in 1860

Whites 1840: Dishforth:  John & Thos Mason

These are my original working notes, made quite a few years ago in the days before broadband and easy access to census records etc.  I have done a certain amount of extra work in getting them ready to post here, so some of the entries are now up-to-date.

They include quotations from George Whitehead's Journals, ed. Helier Hibbs, which have been an invaluable resource for which I am very grateful. 

As with the A-Z of Hutton Rudby people, my accuracy is NOT guaranteed!  And I'm afraid they are not quite in alphabetical order.

Miss NEWBOUND of/in     BOROUGHBRIDGE
Diary references:
13 Oct 1856:  “Uncle Hirst gave me a tickett to the Concert (Singers Miss Barwick & Miss Newbound  Mr Wilson Lambert & Mr Delavanti”

NIDSDALE of Giggleswick School
Diary references:
Giggleswick class lists 1853

Miss  Mary NIXON of Everton, met in Settle
Diary references:
5 Oct 1853:  “..drove Aunt B  Cousin Jane & Miss Nixon to Settle..”
14 Oct 1853:  “Went to see Miss Nixon off by 1st train”
In the December receipts section of 1853 diary:  “Miss Nixon, Woodlands, 3 Clarence Grove, Everton, Nr Liverpool       Recommended me to read Frank Fairley”
14 Jan 1858:  “Miss Nixon  Mary Redmayne  Mary Sedgwick  Fanny Stubbs & Margaret Ingleby were bridesmaids”
22 Jan 1858:  “[at Bbdge ] set Mary Sedgwick home to Aldbro.  Met Leonard  called for ½ a minute & saw Miss Nixon”
26 Jan 1858:  “went to Sedgwicks  Had tea with them  Miss Nixon was with them...”
8 Feb 1858:  “Sophy & I set Miss Nixon to Leonards”
9 Feb 1858:  “...to Langthorp  Mrs Leonard Sedgwick & Miss Nixon were there   I walked home with them & bid Miss Nixon good bye as she leaves tomorrow”
9 Sep 1858:  “Miss Nixon was married today”
10 Sep 1858:  “...Had wedding cards from Miss Nixon...”

Mary Stubbs wrote to John in October 1875,
“You remember Mrs Killick, poor Mary Nixon, she had just buried two little girls in scarlet fever then took it herself and died from it and has left five children”.  
In the 1881 Census her widower Charles Killick, an East India Merchant, and four children aged between 13 and 21 are living at 21 Wellington St East, Broughton in Salford, Lancs.  They have three female servants and Miss Mary Sedgwick of Aldborough is visiting them.

William NIXON    in SETTLE area
Diary references:
13 Jan 1858:  “Tom Sedgwick  Wm Nixon & I went to sleep at Stackhouses”
14 Jan 1858:  “Tom Sedgwick  I  Wm Stubbs  Wm Nixon & Hy Redmayne were Groomsmen”

Notes
It would appear that Settle was not his home, as he was spending the night at Stackhouses.  Brother of Miss Nixon?

Charles NICHOLSON at BALDERSBY
Waterloo veteran
Diary references:
11 Jun 1859:  “At 3/5 o’clock drove to Dishforth where I stayed tea  ... drove to Baldersby to spend tomorrow at Mr Barroby’s  Chas Nicholson who was at Waterloo was there”

James OLIVER of/in BOROUGHBRIDGE
Diary references:
27 Mar 1857:  “Wrote to Mr King inclosing a letter from Jas Oliver repenting of his neglect of duty”

Rev Robert OWEN, vicar of BOROUGHBRIDGE
Mr Owen, was a good friend.  He came to the parish in July 1847 when he was nearly 24 years old, and so was only three years older than Thomas and Mary’s eldest child Jane.  Mr Owen said in the address he gave at the dedication of the choir vestry given by the family in Mary’s memory that she “was, throughout my long residence in this parish, one of my most steadfast and consistent friends.  I valued her friendship very highly”.
 He retired at the age of 76 and died in 1904.

The Story of Boroughbridge and of two Versatile Clerics at the Church of St James in the C19 (1987) by Kathleen M Reynolds:  has full details of his career

Diary references:
28 Apr 1856:  “..went to Mr Owens to delr a message from Mr Barroby  I stayed & had tea with him  Mr John was there...had a very jolly evening”
26 Jun 1856:  “went to the church to see Miss Owen married  it was a jolly wedding”
2 May 1857:  “At Night I was at the School Room with Smallwood  Owen & Leond Sedgwick making arrangements for the German Tree”
5 May 1857:  “At Night went to the School Room to tea & to the German Tree.  Put into several loteries   got a cushion which I sold to Owen for 12/-....”
13 May 1857:  “went to shoot rooks at Owens at Night  Had some very good sport  Holdsworth  Davies & I had tea with Owen at the Hall”
4 Oct 1858:  “[Aunt Hirst’s funeral]  There was a large funeral   Holdsworth & Owen performed the ceremony”

21 Mar 1859:  “At night Capes  Joe & I went to the Greyhounds to the sale of Charltons land  when Capes bot same for Mr Owen for £640”

2 Jan 1860:  “At night Steele Sedgwick Scholfield E.C.Clark & I dined at Owens & a very pleasant evening we had  got home about 12”
   
J calls on Owens at the end of the month, and meets Mr Owen at a dinner at Heaton House in June

Kellys 1908:    “the living is a vicarage in the gift of the vicar of Aldbro”

Tithe Map c1840

1851:  Boroughbridge Index:
Owen        Robert        27    b Marchington, STS    fol 22

Parish Registers:
Bbdge:  marr:  26 Jun 1856:  Mary Elizabeth Owen, spinster, daughter of John Owen, gentleman, to Christopher Empson, esquire, of Headingley, son of Amaziah Empson, gentleman  
perhaps she is Mr Owen’s sister?

Notes
from the published versions of his first and last sermons: 
he was born 23 Oct 1823, ordained curate in sole charge of Bbdge in July 1847, and resigned the vicarage in Oct 1899, aged 76.
On 20 Nov 1892 he preached a sermon at the dedication of the new choir vestry, given by the family in memory of Mary Stubbs:  “The consistent lover of our Church in whose memory our new choir vestry has been dedicated, was, throughout my long residence in this parish, one of my most steadfast and consistent friends.  I valued her friendship very highly ...”

George Whitehead’s Journals:
Revd Mr OWEN Borobridge clergyman had a sale of furniture &c  Oct 12, 13, & 14  he has given up the living  1899
Revd Mr Owen d Oct 20 (3 days off 81 years old)  he was clergyman at Borobridge a many years 1904

Mr & Mrs OUTHWAITE    of LONDON
Diary references:
14 Aug 1858:  “to Baldersby to stay till Monday  Mr & Mrs Outhwaite of London were there”


Mrs Ann PICK of GREAT OUSEBURN, née Henlock
"Aunt Pick"
1810-60 Daughter of John Henlock & Jane (Redmayne) Henlock. 
Sister of William of Gt Ouseburn, Mrs Mary Stubbs, Mrs Jane Redmayne of Taitlands,     John & Richard of New Zealand, and Miss Isabella Henlock (Aunt Bell)

Diary references: eg
Jan 1853 a/c:  recd from Aunt Pick 2s 6d
23 Mar 1853:  “To tell Uncle Henlock the flower at Aunts is done & Aunt Pick that she wants a ham”
24 Mar 1856:  “After dinner went with Joe to Station to see if some oranges had come from Liverpool for Aunt Pick”
30 Mar 1856:  “Aunt Pick gave me a pair of gloves”
19 Jun 1856:  “At Night Uncle & Aunt Pick came   did two or three errands for Aunt”
12 Jul 1856:  “At Night Uncle & Aunt Pick brought home the children”
6 Apr 1857:  “Wrote to Aunt Ann   sent her a pound of sausages for a present”
20 May 1857:  “Got a pickle fork Aunt Ann got in York for me to give to Joe & Sarah”
30 May 1857:  “At Noon wrote to Aunt Ann & sent her 4 rooks”
7 Jul 1857:  “Aunt Pick gave me half a sovereign”
15 Jul 1857:  “At Night went to Cookes Circus   A very fair performance   Uncle & Aunt Pick went   Joe & Sarah, Capes, Lizzie & Alice, Steele, & Smallwood”
4 Aug 1857:  “I went on to Liverpool   Uncle & Aunt Pick were there   we stayed at the Stork”
5 Aug 1857:  “Uncle   Aunt   Tom & I went to Manchester   spent the day in the Exhibition & most superb it was...”
6 Aug 1857:  “Spent the day in Liverpool.....”
7 Aug 1857:  “Aunt  Uncle & I went to Blackpool  walked about on the Sea Side  At Night played Cards at the Inn  We had a very large party”

7 Sep 1858:  “Uncle & Aunt Pick  Aunt Bell  Sd  Sophy Hirst & I went to Pablo Fanque’s Circus”
23 Dec 1858:  “Aunt gave me two white pocket handkerchiefs & a £1 for a Christmas Box”

4 Feb 1859:  “Had a note from Aunt Ann asking me to go tomorrow to spend Sunday with them”
19 May 1859:  “At night I rode to Ouseburn but the good people there had gone to a missionary meeting so I did not see them”

10 Feb 1860:  “wrote to Dora & Aunt Pick”
9 Mar 1860:  “After dinner a box arrived from Aunt Ann containing a beautiful Ham  some bacon  above a score eggs & about the same number of tarts  ...  wrote to Aunt Ann thanking her for sending me a ham some bacon eggs & tarts”
22 Mar 1860:  “Mrs Trapwell fetched Toms half of Aunt Anns ham”
24 may 1860:  “Poor Aunt Ann Pick died early this morning” [J returns from London with Bill Morley and Wm Thompson on 26th, meeting Jane Redmayne Sedgwick in York]
28 May 1860:  “Joe ... Lizzie & I took a Cab to Ouseburn & we buried Poor Aunt Ann today  we stayed dinner & tea at Uncle Picks”

Censuses:
1851
Great Ouseburn:  west from the church, in the village.  After them comes 3 households, then a blacksmith, 3 households & then an Inn      
William Pick, 34, farmer 100a, emp 2 in- & 2 outdoor labourers & 1 boy, b Gt Ouseburn
 wife Ann, 36, b Gt O
house servants Mary Ann Robinson 19 and Rebekah Pearson 18
farm labourers William Berry 21 and John Scratcher 16   

TDHS notes:
She was born 1 Jun 1810, and died 24 May 1860

Notes:
The holograph Will purporting to be that of her mother, Jane (Redmayne) Henlock, made at Taitlands 8 Dec 1843, and amended by a Codicil made the same day, shows Ann to be still unmarried at that date.  She and Isabella take the bulk of the estate:  dividing the money, ornaments, linen in the plate chest, “my writing desk, work box & a work box made by Miss Wilkinson & also the Punch Bowl given by Miss Baker, the best Tea Service and dessert service....poney carriage & harness”, the “portraits of my sons John Giles & Richard Redmayne Henlock” & clothing between them.  She is left the “white quilt given me by my brother Wm Redmayne...it is marked W Redmayne”, and a black bracelet.  The sentence structure is ambiguous, but Thomas Redmayne is an executor, and Jane Redmayne takes only a ring, and they presumably knew how the bequests were to be made.

George Whitehead’s Journals:
William Pick & Miss Ann Henlock both of GO  Married Oct 1  it is said he is worth £20000  1846

William PICK of GREAT OUSEBURN
Husband of Ann Henlock
d 1872
He was about to marry his nurse/housekeeper Miss Wing when he died suddenly of heart failure.  She later kept a boarding house in Harrogate.

Diary references:
6 Jan 1853:  “Had the steam threshing machine at Uncle Picks  got wet through with going to see the sheep”
23 May 1856:  “had a glass of ale at Uncle Pick’s”
22 Sep 1856:  “Went to Uncle Picks  he had finished breakfast  I had beef & bread & 2 glasses of Ale”
16 Oct 1856:  “to Uncle Picks Party....played Cards had some fine fun  Got home about twelve”

3 Apr 1857:  “Uncle Pick had a sale of Stock &c at his Low House Farm today”
15 Jul 1857:  “At Night went to Cookes Circus   A very fair performance   Uncle & Aunt Pick went   Joe & Sarah, Capes, Lizzie & Alice, Steele, & Smallwood”
4 Aug 1857:  “I went on to Liverpool   Uncle & Aunt Pick were there   we stayed at the Stork”
5 Aug 1857:  “Uncle   Aunt   Tom & I went to Manchester   spent the day in the Exhibition & most superb it was...”
6 Aug 1857:  “Spent the day in Liverpool.....”
7 Aug 1857:  “Aunt  Uncle & I went to Blackpool  walked about on the Sea Side  At Night played Cards at the Inn  We had a very large party”
8 Aug 1857:  “Was about Blackpool.....at two o’clock  Uncle & I started home...”

12 Jun 1858:  “At Night Uncle Pick fetched Capes & me in the Dog Cart to spend tomorrow at Ouseburn”
20 Dec 1858:  “Uncle & Aunt Pick were at Harrogate”

In 1859 J sees Uncle Pick at Bridge Foot, at Joe’s, and J calls at the Picks and stays there in Oct

In 1860, after Aunt Pick’s death, J stays with Uncle Pick for much of June, & once again in July.  Alice & Lizzie also stay in July.  J and other family members call frequently, and J gives Uncle Pick a pheasant he has shot in Oct and a hare in Nov.  He goes with Uncle Pick to the Cattle Show at York, and stays with him again for two days before Christmas

10 Aug 1860:  “Uncle Pick had a steam thrasher at work”

George Whitehead’s Journals:
Mrs PICK, GO, burried Aug 18th 1845
William Pick & Miss Ann Henlock both of GO  Married Oct 1  it is said he is worth £20000  1846
Mr Thos Abbay lost part of his land joining the Workhouse & William Pick  of GO got it   Mr Abbay got some Helvick fields in exchange Lady Day     1855
William Pick of GO had a sale at his Low House farm near Low Dunsforth  Apr 3rd   He let the Farm to John Curtis   he entered to it Lady Day 1857
Mr Wm Pick GO died Sep 16th aged 58 1872
Stock & implements belonging to the late Mr Wm Pick of GO sold January 20th 1873
Furniture plate &c belonging to the late Wm Pick of GO sold by Auction March 31st & Apl 1st     1873
Thos Abbay sale of stock & implements at LO, Mar 17th   he is giving up farming & Wm Johnson has got part of his land & the house & the land Mr Pick had in our Township    1873
Robert Bell went to the house at GO which Mr Pick had occupied   Lady Day 1873 ...

Old PICK & wife     of/in OUSEBURN
Diary references:
21 Sep 1857:  “...supped... at Uncle Wms  Lascelles & wife  Miss Haddon  Howe & wife  Old Pick & wife  Richd Paver   Ellison & wife were there”

Mr & Mrs PICK  of/in GRASSGILLS
Diary references:     eg
13 Mar 1856:  “At night Uncle & Aunt Pick  Mrs Pick of Grassgill & Richard Paver  Aunt & Uncle Hirst  & Aunt Bell came and had tea at our house”
9 May 1856:  “...took Union Books to the Workhouse  went from there to Picks of Grassgills for bonds of Officers”

In 1860, J sees Mr & Mrs Pick at Grassgills on a call with Richd Hirst

George Whitehead’s Journals:
Mrs Pick left Grassgills & went to live at York    May or Jun 1866
Mrs Pick widow of the late Wm Pick of Grassgills died at York Oct 11th aged 72 years     1867

PICK of/in MARTON MOOR
Diary references:
5 Sep 1857:  “..rode Uncle Hirsts pony to Grassgill Richd Paver went with me to Picks of Marton Moor on business”

Miss PALEY of/in  BOROUGHBRIDGE
Diary references:
30 Dec 1857: “Went to get a deed executed by Miss Paley at Aldbro”

Pigots 1834:   
in Borobridge, “George Paley, Aldbro, Boot & shoemaker”
Whites 1840:    
in Dishforth, “Rev Thos Paley MA, sub-curate”

Slaters 1849:    
in Knaresborough, “Miss Paley, High Street”
in Borobridge, “Mrs Mary Ann Paley, Aldbro
Cornwallis Paley, attorney, Borobridge”

Slaters 1854:               
“Paley, Mrs Mary Ann, Aldborough”
“Attorneys: Paley & Walker, Boroughbridge”

Richard PAVER    of/in GRASSGILLS
Miss PAVER
Richard Paver was the son of the vicar of Brayton near Selby and the nephew of William Pick of Grassgills

Diary references:
(frequent)
19 Apr 1857:  [staying with Uncle & Aunt Pick] “After [Gt Ouseburn] church at night I set Mrs Howe Miss Wisdom two Misses Howe Miss Lockey & Rd Paver past the workhouse”
5 Sep 1857:  “...At Night rode Uncle Hirsts pony to Grassgill   Richd Paver went with me to Picks of Marton Moor on business..”
5 Feb 1859:  “at Aunt Pick’s  ... Miss Paver & Richard & Tom Johnson were there  we played cards”

9 Aug 1860:  “Richd Paver & Rt Rheeder came to Uncle Picks to measure some beasts”
18 Oct 1860:  “spent the afternoon at Uncle Picks  Rd Paver came to ask him to dinner but did not stay tea”

Kellys 1908:       
“Ornhams Hall - Richard George Paver-Crow”

George Whitehead’s Journals:
Edwin Crow, Ornhams, died Nov 27  1861
Richard PAVER of Grassgills & Elizabeth Howe Ouseburn Moor  Married Jun 26  1866
George Crow Esqr  Ornhams died Jan 27 aged 80 yrs  1872
Richard PAVER flitted from Grassgills to Ornhams  Feb 10 or 12th  1872  Mr Crow died & left him all
Mr Paver Crow sale at Ornhams Apr 15th  he sold the stock & implements & gave up farming  he built a new farm house & let the farm to Mr --      1887
A C Holtby of Heaton House BB & Mary Paver Crow of Ornhams marrd at Aldbro Oct 29  1889  she died Apl 30  a20 yrs  1890
Mr Paver Crow died at Ornhams interred at Aldbro Church  June 23 a68 years  1905

Richard Paver is very frequently mentioned in the diaries.  He lived at Grassgills and in 1866 married Elizabeth Howe of Ouseburn Moor.  Richard inherited Ornhams Hall from Mr Crow in 1872.  Mary Stubbs wrote, “Richard Paver enters upon everything as it stands – the house all furnished with three hundred aces of land besides being residuary legatee […] some of [Mr Crow’s] relatives say it is a most unjust Will as the Howes get almost all amongst them.  They have sent me a card & gloves this morng”.
Richard took the name Paver Crow; he died in 1905 “worth £20, 609” according to George Whitehead.

PEACOCK, the relieving officer    of/in    BOROUGHBRIDGE
Diary references:
24 Mar 1858:  “Got a first rate dog from Capes  he got him from Peacock relieving officer”

Notes
Possible Peacock?, from the 1851 Census Index:Ouseburn:John C (45) bRainton
fol 376, Whixley Parish (part of)

George Whitehead’s Journals:
Mr Peacock  Relieving Officer  Whixley  died May 17  a67  1872

Robert PETTY of/in BOROUGHBRIDGE
Diary references:
8 Dec 1856:  “..water was across the road  W/Lent after in Robert Petty’s rulley”

Tithe Map c1840:  Boroughbridge
Robert Petty rents no 102, house & garden from the Banking Company York City & County

Censuses:
1851: Borobridge Index:  fol 16
Petty    Robert        49    b Aldbro   
    Joseph N    23    b Darlington
    Jane N        20    do.-
    Sarah         14    b Borobridge
    Robert         13    do.-
    Gowland    11    do.-
    Margaret    8    do.-
    Elizabeth    5    do.-

Mr Henry, Mr Arthur & Mrs POWELL of/in BOROUGHBRIDGE
Diary references:
frequent - tea, parties
5 Feb 1856:  “Mrs Powells house was on fire, not much damage done”
19 May 1856:  “Mrs Powell’s young ladies were at our house at tea.  I missed them which was a good job”
27 Jun 1856:  “at noon was at Capes with Arthur Powell to dinner..”
8 Nov 1856:  “..at night went to Capes for some Newspapers & took them to Mrs Powells”
29 May 1857:  “Arthur Powell & I went down by train to Helperby...”
19 Nov 1857:  “..took Sophy & Mrs Hy Powell to Uncle Hirsts..”
21 Sep 1858:  “...Aunt Bell was at Mrs Powells...”
22 Mar 1859:  “At night went to a spread to Mrs Powells  ...  we played cards  got home about ½ past eleven”

Pigots 1834:       
“Coal Merchants: Hugh Powell, Borobridge”

Slaters 1849:       
“Gentry etc: Hugh Powell, Borobridge

Tithe Map c1840:
Hugh Powell rented house, yard & garden from the Banking Company in the block of houses near Bridge Foot

PYBUS    of/in BOROUGHBRIDGE
Diary references:
14 Jan 1853:  “A polling day concerning rates   in the evening had a riot & the poll was postponed  Pybus was [”kicked out” deleted] turned out

Slaters 1849:       
“Inns & Posting houses:  Crown (& commercial) John Pybus, Borobridge”
“Grocer & tea dealer:  Thomas Pybus, Borobridge”

Slaters 1854:       
“Inns & Posting houses:  Crown (& commercial) John Pybus, Borobridge”

Tithe Map c1840:
John Pybus rented a house, yard & garden nos 132 & 133 from Edwin Greenwood, just before the road to the main street

Censuses:
1851: Borobridge Index:
Pybus        John    40    b Kirby Fleetham    fol 19
        Mary     40    b Clayton        fol 19
        Frances    65    b Knaresboro        fol 36

Notes
Hugh Stott had the Crown in the 1834 Directory

Mrs PARKER of/in LANGTHORPE
Diary references: eg
29 Sep 1857:  “went & had supper at Mrs Parkers at Langthorpe”
28 Jan 1858:  “Went to Mrs Parkers of Langthorp to fetch Mother & Sarah”
15 Jul 1859:  “Tom & I ... called at Scotts & ... Sampsons & Parkers & had supper at Joes”

Whites 1840:        “Wm Parker, farmer, Langthorpe”

Notes
Mrs Elizabeth Parker, Aldborough, is listed in 1854 Slaters
Francis Parker, Auctioneer, Boroughbridge is listed in 1854 Slaters

POULTER of BOROUGHBRIDGE
ratcatcher
Diary references: [mentioned 4 times 1856, 4 times 1857, once 1858]
first mentioned on
18 Apr 1856: “Joe  Capes & I went to our Milby Lane Field   Poulter brot a live rabbit & his two dogs   we had a capital course   Pincher took the Rabbit   Poulters old Bitch was in the heat.....”

16 Feb 1857:  “....Poulter the Ratcatcher was there...”

Tithe Map c1840:  Boroughbridge
Wm Poulter        in hand        no77    house & garden

Parish Registers: eg
Dowson, son of Wm & Jane Poulter, Roecliffe, bap 17 Oct 1817
Amy, dau of Wm & Jane Poulter, Roecliffe, Publican, bap 8 Mar 1822

the Misses PRESTON of/in SETTLE
The Misses Preston of Settle must also have been friends of John's mother, as one of them was his sister Alice’s godmother.
Diary references:
20 Aug 1856:  “Jack Ingleby [etc].. and the Misses Preston of Settle took tea with us”
28 Aug 1856:  “We all went & had tea with Thomas Stackhouse   Two Misses Preston from Settle were there”

Slaters 1849:       
“Gentry etc:  the Misses Preston, Settle”

1851 Settle: Preston       
Miss Jane Preston, 66, house proprietor, b Settle
Miss Margt, 54           
Miss Eliz., 49   
with 2 servants in a large house near to The Terrace

Mr POOLEY of/in SETTLE area
Diary references:
21 Aug 1856:  “..Mr Pooley came tonight”
22 Aug 1856:  “Uncle & Pooley went shooting”
4 Sep 1856:  “Pooley & I walked to Settle”

These are my original working notes, made quite a few years ago in the days before broadband and easy access to census records etc.  I have done a certain amount of extra work in getting them ready to post here, so some of the entries are now up-to-date.

They include quotations from George Whitehead's Journals, ed. Helier Hibbs, which have been an invaluable resource for which I am very grateful. 

As with the A-Z of Hutton Rudby people, my accuracy is NOT guaranteed!  And I'm afraid they are not quite in alphabetical order.

Mrs Jane REDMAYNE of Taitlands, née HENLOCK
1809-1862.
"Aunt Henlock"
Daughter of John Henlock of Ouseburn and Jane Redmayne of Stainforth, sister to Mrs Mary Stubbs, William Henlock, Isabella Henlock, & Mrs Ann Pick
She married Thomas Redmayne of Taitlands

Diary references:
23 Mar 1853:  “To tell Uncle Henlock the flower at Aunts is done & Aunt Pick that she wants a ham”
Oct 1856:  Aunt & Uncle Redmayne at Redcar with JRS family
3 Aug 1858:  Uncle & Aunt Redmayne come to stay at Bridge Foot

17 Jun 1859:  “Uncle & Aunt Redmayne came to Fredk Scholfield Capes’ christening”
21 Sep 1859:  “Had a letter from Aunt Redmayne asking me to go to Taitlands some day this week”
3 Oct 1859:  “Uncle [Redmayne] went to Clapham Fair    Aunt   Henry  Lizzie & I went to Clapham in the large carriage   I drove there  We had dinner & tea at Miss Redmaynes   Called at the vicarage & Miss Ingleby’s & had some good fun in the fair  Hy Marriner was at home”

5 Mar 1860:  “Wrote to Mother & Aunt Redmayne”
28 Mar 1860:  “Wrote to Aunt Redmayne who is staying at Knaresbro”
28 May 1860:  “Aunt & Uncle Redmayne were at Ouseburn”
6 Jul 1860:  “[Uncle Pick] came home with us to dinner  Aunt Redmayne with Capes”
9 Jul 1860:  “Mr Pick  Father  Aunt Redmayne Capes & I dined at Uncle Picks”
28 Sep 1860:  “... to York  I went to Miss Sutcliffes  Had lunch there   Aunt Redmayne & Mary  Aunt Bell Mrs Stackhouse Miss Cragg & I took a Cab & saw a review by Genl Cathcart of the Yorkshire Volunteers on Knavesmire & a very pretty sight it was   Hy Redmayne & Uncle & Capes were reviewed”
Censuses:
1851:  cf Thomas

Memorial Inscriptions:
Stainforth Church:  Window in memory of Jane & Thomas:  containing the charge of St Peter, with the words, “Feed My sheep; Feed My lambs” and the inscription “To the glory of God and in memory of Thomas and Jane Redmayne, died February 18th and 23rd, 1862.  Erected in 1867.”
Stainforth Church:  no39:  Thomas Redmayne d 23 Feb 1862 a65, and Jane his wife d 18 Feb 1862 a52

TDHS notes::
She was born 25 Feb 1809 and died 18 Feb 1862

Notes
She had two children:  Mary & Henry
In her mother’s Will, she received a ring mounted turquoise and pearl, and [possibly] one ring marked William Hesildon [sentence construction is unclear].  Her sisters Isabella and Ann, then unmarried, were the main beneficiaries.  Thomas Redmayne was an executor, and the Will was made at Taitlands.

Thomas REDMAYNE of    TAITLANDS
c1790-1862
Diary references:
30 Jun 1857:  “Drove Uncle Redmayne’s carriage & pair to meet ladies...”
1 Jul 1857:  “Henry  Mary R & I rode the Carriage horses & Jessie to Stockdale....Jane R went with us to Settle on the black horse”
7 Aug 1858:  “Lizzie & Alice & Mary Redmayne went to School.  Uncle Redmayne went with them on his way to Taitlands”

22 Jan 1859:  “Uncle Redmayne came to Leond Sedgwicks for a day or two”
17 Jun 1859:  “Uncle & Aunt Redmayne came to Fredk Scholfield Capes’ christening”
3 Oct 1859:  “Uncle [Redmayne] went to Clapham Fair    Aunt   Henry  Lizzie & I went to Clapham in the large carriage   I drove there  We had dinner & tea at Miss Redmaynes   Called at the vicarage & Miss Ingleby’s & had some good fun in the fair  Hy Marriner was at home”
8 Oct 1859:  “Uncle   Henry & I went above Stainforth with the greyhounds”
10 Oct 1859:  “...with Uncle & Thos Stackhouse to Austwick Wood to shoot   Mr Foster  Mr Ingleby  John Ingleby  Robt Hargraves  Thos Clapham  Joe Birkbeck  Thos Stackhouse  John Hartley  Uncle & I were there.  We shot 46 hares  17 pheasants & 18 rabbits   We all dined at Thos Claphams at 7 o’clock”
27 Oct 1859:  “to Ouseburn to see Uncle Redmayne who was staying at Uncle Wms”

6 Feb 1860:  “I walked down to Kings Cross Station rather expecting to see Uncle Redmayne & Mary but they did not turn up”
28 May 1860:  “Aunt & Uncle Redmayne were at Ouseburn”
31 May 1860:  “I dined at Uncles    Uncle Redmayne came over”

Tithe Map c1840
Thomas rents land in Stainforth from Elizabeth Brown.  He has in hand 41a 1r 28p, and has tenants, the main one being Richard Armistead, in some 125a in Stainforth, and Richard Armistead (51a) in Settle, and 41a in Langcliffe.  No 347 is house, gardens, road & coachhouse, and no 348 is Taitlands & plantation.

Censuses:
1851:  Stainforth
no1:  Taitlands
Thomas  Redmayne    head    M    54    landed proprietor, 18a [sic], farmer 27a
                        [this does not correspond with Tithe map],
                        emp 1 labourer            b Stainforth
Jane Redmayne        wife    M    41                    b Ouseburn
Jane            dau    U    16    dau                b Taitlands
Henry            son        9    at home            do.-
Mary            dau        8    do.-                do.-
Henry Parker        serv    U    40    coachman            b Settle
Hannah Wharf        serv    U    24    house servant             b Marton
Mary Bateson        serv    U    21    do.-            b Burton in Lonsdale
Isabella Dinsdale    serv    U    20    do.-                b Hawes
Rebecca Wilcock    serv    U    15    do.-                b Stainforth

IGI:
[possibly]
Children of Richard Redmayne and Ann Batty:
Richard, bap 25 Jan 1794 Giggleswick
Ellin, bap 11 June 1795 Giggleswick
Thomas, bap 18 Oct 1796 Giggleswick
Giles, b 13 June 1799, bap 25 July 1799 Giggleswick

Memorial Inscriptions:
Stainforth Church:  Window on south side at the west end in memory of Jane & Thomas:  containing the charge of St Peter, with the words, “Feed My sheep; Feed My lambs” and the inscription “To the glory of God and in memory of Thomas and Jane Redmayne, died February 18th and 23rd, 1862.  Erected in 1867.”
Stainforth Church:  no39:  Thomas Redmayne d 23 Feb 1862 a65, and Jane his wife d 18 Feb 1862 a52
NB  Stainforth church was built from 1839.  Thomas Redmayne subscribed £200 to the building
[possibly]

Giggleswick church:  brass inlaid on church floor to Richard Redmayne of Stainforth d 13 Jun 1799 a31

Notes
Taitlands, built in the C18, is now a Youth Hostel - large house,  cf “The Ancient Parish of Giggleswick” (photos)
Redmans are amongst the oldest families in Ingleton, as cited in the parish registers which commence 1607
Major John Redmayne lived at the old hall of Thornton in the time of Cromwell

Jane REDMAYNE of Taitlands, wife of Dr Leonard William Sedgwick
1834-
daughter of Thomas Redmayne's marriage to Jane Brown, who died 1836
Diary references:
4 Sep 1856:  “After dinner I helped Jane to pack up my things”
26 Nov 1856:  “At Night made a draft copy letter to Jane Redmayne...”
27 Nov 1856:  “Wrote to Jane Redmayne at The Hermitage Caton having drafted the letter last night”
1 Jul 1857:  “Henry  Mary R & I rode the Carriage horses & Jessie to Stockdale....Jane R went with us to Settle on the black horse”

Censuses:
1851: cf Thomas

IGI:
Jane, daughter of Thomas R/Jane [Brown] baptised 25 Jul 1834, Giggleswick

Parish Registers:
14 Jan 1858
Leonard William Sedgwick of full age, bachelor, surgeon, of Boroughbridge, (father, Roger Sedgwick, surgeon) marries Jane Redmayne of full age, spinster, of Taitlands, Stainforth (father, Thomas Redmayne, gentleman)
witnesses:  Thomas Sedgwick, William Richardson, Mary Nixon, Mary Redmayne

Henry REDMAYNE of TAITLANDS
1841-1868
Diary references:
1 Jul 1857:  “Henry  Mary R & I rode the Carriage horses & Jessie to Stockdale....Jane R went with us to Settle on the black horse”
20 Aug 1858:  “Hy Redmayne came tonight to stay till Monday”

24 Aug 1859:  “About ½ past one Steele Rd Hirst & I drove to Starbeck & took train to Bradford where we were joined by Hy Redmayne   we all went to St George’s Hall to hear a grand concert it being the biennial festival  ......  Hy set us to the station & we caught a train for Leeds about eleven where we stayed all night at a Lodging House”
24 Sep 1859:  “drove to Settle ... then went on to the Station to meet Henry who came to spend a fortnight at Taitlands”  [spend the time together shooting, visiting &c]
3 Oct 1859:  “Uncle [Redmayne] went to Clapham Fair    Aunt   Henry  Lizzie & I went to Clapham in the large carriage   I drove there  We had dinner & tea at Miss Redmaynes   Called at the vicarage & Miss Ingleby’s & had some good fun in the fair  Hy Marriner was at home”
10 Oct 1859:  “Hy went back to Bradford this morning”

28 Sep 1860:  “... to York  I went to Miss Sutcliffes  Had lunch there   Aunt Redmayne & Mary  Aunt Bell Mrs Stackhouse Miss Cragg & I took a Cab & saw a review by Genl Cathcart of the Yorkshire Volunteers on Knavesmire & a very pretty sight it was   Hy Redmayne & Uncle & Capes were reviewed”
30 Sep 1860:  “Henry Redmayne who came to Uncle Picks to spend Sunday came up in the afternoon   I went & had tea with him at Uncle Picks”

Censuses:
1851: cf Thomas

IGI:
Henry, son of Thomas R/Jane baptised 28 Dec 1841, Giggleswick

Yorkshire Post & Leeds Intelligencer 19 March 1868
Redmayne - March 13, at Taitlands, near Settle, aged 26, Henry Redmayne, Esq

Yorkshire Post & Leeds Intelligencer 21 March 1868
Stainforth - Military Funeral - At Stainforth, on Wednesday, the members of the North Craven Rifles attended the funeral of Ensign Redmayne, who died on the 13th inst., aged 26 years.  The mournful procession, headed by the rifle corps, the band playing the "Dead March," proceeded from the deceased gentleman's residence, at Taitlands, to St Peter's Church, STainforth, where his body was interred in the family vault.  The funeral service was read by the Rev Mr Hearnley, after which the accustomed number of three volleys were fired over the grave by the members of the corps

Memorial Inscriptions:
St Peter, Stainforth:  no38:  Henry Redmayne, d13 Mar 1868 a26 [cf diaries 15-19 Mar]

Mary REDMAYNE of Taitlands, wife of Dr James Sedgwick of Boroughbridge
"Polly""Mary James"
1843-1892
Diary references:
1 Jul 1857:  “Henry  Mary R & I rode the Carriage horses & Jessie to Stockdale....Jane R went with us to Settle on the black horse”

7 Aug 1858:  “Lizzie & Alice & Mary Redmayne went to school.  Uncle Redmayne went with them on his way to Taitlands”  [earlier references are to Miss Adcock’s at Ilkley ie. Ilkley Hall school]

23 Jun 1859:  “[at Bbdge fair time]  Uncle & Aunt Redmayne ... & Mary Redmayne dined with us”
26 Jun 1859:  “to Uncle Wms ... to Ouseburn Church at night  Uncle Redmayne & Mary set me part of the way home”

3 Mar 1860:  “Alice & Mary Redmayne came to stay till Monday at Janes [Mrs Charles]”
28 Apr 1860:  “called at Jane’s & saw Alice & Mary Redmayne”
29 Apr 1860:  “Took Mary Redmayne to Highbury Church in the evg”
30 Apr 1860:  “Went with Alice & Mary Redmayne to the Angel”
28 Sep 1860:  “... to York  I went to Miss Sutcliffes  Had lunch there   Aunt Redmayne & Mary  Aunt Bell Mrs Stackhouse Miss Cragg & I took a Cab & saw a review by Genl Cathcart of the Yorkshire Volunteers on Knavesmire & a very pretty sight it was   Hy Redmayne & Uncle & Capes were reviewed”

Censuses:
1851:  cf Thomas

Parish Registers:
Witnesses her half-sister’s marriage, 14 Jan 1858

TDHS notes:
She was born 24 Mar 1843.  Married James Sedgwick, surgeon of Boroughbridge, 14 Feb 1863, and died 3 Jun 1892.  She had three children:  Ethel Mary, b 5 Feb 1864; Harold James, b 12 Nov 1865, solicitor; and Hubert, b 28 Sep 1869, surgeon.

James and Mary stayed in Boroughbridge where James practised as a doctor.  Mary James, as she was known to distinguish her from her husband’s sister, and her family were naturally a part of the family social circle.  “Alice is at a juvenile party at James’s we had them all last night and a most rackety eveng we had but they were all most good and happy  only the Sedgwicks Capes and little Price”, wrote Mary on 13 Jan 1872.  “Mary James … poor boy goes on nicely but it is pitiable to see him with his arm in a sling”, she wrote in February, and a month later  “Mary James is a very good neighbor [sic] and much interested in you and the baby   little [Hubert?] took a fancy to bringing me a bunch of violets almost every day”. When Alice was due to go to Cambridge for the boat races that May, her mother wrote, “Mary James travels with her to Hichen and the two children on their way to London  that will be very nice for them all”.
James was a busy local doctor:  “James is sadly harassed there is so much sickness around us in severe colds” wrote Mary in 1872.  The letters record their difficulty in getting away on holiday that year.  “Mary James and James are wishing to go up the Rhine if they can get off about the 19th” wrote Mary on 10 August, but a week later she told John, “James and Mary hope to go into Ireland for a fortnight if they can get off next Monday.”  The letters do not reveal whether they managed to get there or not.
Mary seems to have been a sociable woman:  “Mary and James are very well   we see them almost every day”, wrote Mary in October 1872, and some days later, “I was at James’s on Saturday eveng where we had a beautiful Pheasant and Mary came to tea with me yesterday”.  In November she wrote, “Mary James was going to a ball at Kirby Lonsdale next week to chaperone Mrs Fosters party  She is much enjoying the prospect” and “Mary James has got home looking rather flat and dull after all the gaiety of the ball which she thoroughly enjoyed and staid ten days with the Fosters”.  The Fosters seem to have been relations of the Redmaynes.  “We have had rather a gay week.  Monday, Jane Henry and Alice dined at James’s only themselves and Alice Foster … Thursday we were all at Uncles to a meat tea  the Sedgwicks Joes and ourselves  they acted charades, James and Henry were admirable performers”, Mary wrote in January 1874. 
Mary was an amateur singer and not afraid to perform in public.  She was one of the singers at an amateur concert in Knaresborough in 1874.  She may also have been fond of tennis, as in the early 1880s the Jameses had  a lawn tennis court at their house, where Alice went to play.
There are references to Mary being unwell on occasion, but it must have been a terrible shock when this sociable, kind, active neighbour died “of apoplexy” “very suddenly at Victoria Station London” on Whit Sunday night, 4 June 1892 at the age of about 50. 
James was a West Riding JP, and was in partnership with Henry Ingledew Daggett who married Lizzy Stubbs’ daughter Mary Dunhill.  In early January 1900 James and his daughter Ethel, then 36, left Boroughbridge having sold Ladywell House to Dr Daggett  – and moved to London

Mrs Mary REDMAYNE of/in TOWN HEAD, SETTLE
1766-1853.
Sister of John Henlock of Ouseburn, widow of Giles Redmayne of Settle

Diary references:
Wednesday February 9 1853: Went twice to school & went to see Old Aunt Redmayne
Tuesday May 24 1853: Old Aunt Redmaynes sale Town Head

Pigots 1834:       
Settle, [gentry & clergy]  Mrs Mary Redmayne, Settle

Tithe Map c1840
No 85, house & garden in hand

1851:  Settle:  Constitution Hill
Mary Redmayne, widow, 84, house proprietor, b Great Ouseburn
servant:  Margaret Calverley,  U, 46, b Newithhead Hall

Ann “Mrs Robert” REDMAYNE    of SETTLE
Mrs Ann Redmayne was the widow of Robert Redmayne, who had been a Linen & Woollen Draper and kept the Stamp Office.  Mrs Robert and her daughter by a previous marriage Miss Mary Metcalfe lived in Church Street.  Mary Metcalfe visited Ouseburn and Boroughbridge in 1856 in company with Bell Baldwin and her little girl.  Robert Redmayne was probably the brother of Jane Redmayne, who married John Henlock and was Mary Stubbs' mother.

Diary references:
10 Feb 1853:  “...called at Mrs Roberts”
15 Aug 1856:  “..called at the Terrace   had tea at Mrs Roberts”
2 Sep 1856:  “called at Harrisons  Mrs Roberts’ & the Terrace”
4 Sep 1856:  “..called on Harrison  Mrs Roberts & the Terrace”
27 Jun 1858:  “I called at Mrs Roberts & the Terrace”

Pigots 1834:       
Settle [misc]   
Redmayne, Rt, distributor of stamps, Settle

1851 Settle: Church Street
Ann Redmayne, W, 62, stamp distributor, b Lancs, Tunstal
Mary Metcalfe, daughter, U, 39, at home b do.-
                                   
Memorial Inscriptions:
Giggleswick:
273    Sacred to the memory of Robert Redmayne of Settle d 8 Sep 1847 a67 yrs and Ann his wife d 11 Nov 1863 a75 [no mention in diaries]

TDHS notes:
Ann R of Settle died 11 Nov 1863 aged 75

Notes
Ann Redmayne of Church street in 1851 is the widow of Robert Redmayne, who died in 1847.  He was a Linen & Woollen Draper, and Stamp Office [Directory 1837].  He had rented a house and shop in the Market Place near the Town Hall from Margaret Birkbeck, and a barn, croft, garden and plantation from her, just below the Independent Chapel in the north end of Upper Settle, under Low High Hill - Tithe nos. 152, 189-190.

Miss Mary REDMAYNE of Clapham, Yorks
Lived with her niece Mary Marriner
Diary references:
2 Sep 1856:  “..went to Clapham had tea with Miss Marriner  Miss R  Mrs M & Mr Marriner were out”

3 Oct 1859:  “...went to Clapham in the large carriage ... We had dinner & tea at Miss Redmaynes”

Censuses: 1851 Clapham Yks
Mary Redmayne, head,     U, 59, gentlewoman annuitant     b Yks, Ingleton
Mary Marriner, niece, U    , 47, do.-            do.-
2 servants

TDHS notes:
Mary R of Clapham Vicarage d 9 Mar 1872 aged 80

Notes
The vicar of Clapham 1841-1876 was John Marriner

Robert RHEEDER of/in  GREAT OUSEBURN
Diary references:
13 Jun 1858:  “[at Ouseburn]..Aunt Bell  Aunt Henlock & Mr Robt Rheeder came down in the afternoon”

9 Aug 1860:  “Richd Paver & Rt Rheeder came to Uncle Picks to measure some beasts”
10 Dec 1860:  “Uncle Pick & I drove to Hammerton Statn where we met Robson & Rheeder & we went to York   went over the Cattle Show”

Censuses: 1851 Ouseburn:
Rheeder William, 33    farmer of 200a   b Gt Ouseburn        fol 356
Peggy, 67 [his mother]  
elsewhere:
Ouseburn index
Rheeder    Mary        15                b Marton        fol 254

Rev William  RICHARDSON, vicar of STAINFORTH
Diary references:
13 Jan 1858:  “...I went to sleep at Stackhouses   Leonard [the bridegroom] went to Richardsons”

28 Aug 1859:  “Twice to BB Church & once to Kirby Hill  we had Mr Richardson of Stainforth to preach in the evening”
1 Sep 1859:  “At night we had Mr & Mrs LW Sedgwick & Mr Richardson of Stainforth who was staying with them”

Slaters 1849:        “Gentry & clergy:  Rev Wm Richardson, Stainforth”

Census 1851:  Stainforth
William Richardson, 40, Perpetual Curate of Stainforth, b Kirkby Lonsdale Westmorland
servants: housekeeper, her daughter and 11 yr old child

General histories etc:
“The churches of the Deanery of North Craven”:  memorial window to Rev William Richardson, who died 26 Mar 1865, a54 years”

Mrs RICHARDSON of/in    DISHFORTH / THIRSK
sister of Mark Barroby
Diary references:
12Nov 1855:  “[while at Dishforth] Drove Mrs Richardson down to Thirsk  stayed dinner & returned”
20 Jul 1856:  “Cousin Mark & I went to Thirsk   no one at home but Ryott & Mrs Richardson”
5 Dec 1858:  “rode Joes mare to Dishforth to see Miss Barroby & Mrs Richardson [after Mark Barroby’s death]”

26 Jun 1859:  “Poor Mrs Richardson of Dishforth died today”
29 jUN 1859:  “Poor Mrs Richardson of Dishforth was buried at Topcliffe today”

Notes
Mark Barroby had two married sisters [Bp Stubbs] :  Ann, who married Richard Richardson & died 1859, and Mary, who married William Richardson of Leeds

Dr William Hall RYOTT of THIRSK
related to Mark Barroby
Diary references:
10 Feb 1856:  “ Cousin Mark & I went to Thirsk   dined at Ryotts   Met Mrs Wm Richardson”
21 Apr 1856:  “walked to Dishforth....Mary Ellen was there”
20 Jul 1856:  “Cousin Mark & I went to Thirsk  no one at home but Ryott & Mrs Richardson”

15 Feb 1857:  “[at Dishforth]  Ryott dined with us” [also in June & July]
17 Jan 1857:  “...rode..to Dishforth  Ryotts children were all there”
18 Jan 1857:  “..to Topcliffe Church   Willey Ryott & I walked back”

1 May 1859:  “Had tea at Joes   Ryotts Governess & Lizzie Ryott came to BB Church in the evening”

Post Office 1857:   
in private & in commercial: “William Hall Ryott, esq, surgeon, Market Pl”

Notes
Mark Barroby’s sister married William Richardson of Leeds.  Their daughter Anne married Wm Hall Ryott MD of Thirsk [Bp Stubbs p 33].  They had, according to BpS, 13 children:
Mary Ellen 1844, Wm B 1846, Mark B 1850, Margt 1852, Edward C 1853, Thos Beck 1855, Emily Agnes 1857,  Emma Mary 1858, Fredk Archib 186-, Reginald 1861 , Lewis Alfred 1863, Alice 1864, and Elizabeth. [p33]
Mary Ellen Ryott married John Rhodes (d1870); Elizabeth married Wm Huby; Margaret married John Sheepshanks, Bp of Norwick;  Emma Mary married F. Barroby.

Mrs William RICHARDSON of/in THIRSK
Diary references:
10 Feb 1856:  “Cousin Mark & I went to Thirsk    dined at Ryotts   Met Mrs Wm Richardson”

Notes
Sister of Mark Barroby, and mother of Mrs Ryott

William RICHARDSON of/in DISHFORTH area ?
Diary references:
5 Oct 1856:  “[while at Dishforth]  Cousin Mark went to Wm Richardsons Christening   Mr Dutton & I went to Dishforth Church”
26 Jul 1857:  “[while at Dishforth] Went to Dishforth Church in the morning  Mr & Miss Barroby went to Wm Richardsons childs christening”

Parish Registers:
could find no record of the baptisms in Thirsk or Topcliffe; no Dishforth registers seen yet

John RHODES of RIPON
Diary references:
12 Apr 1859:  “Drove Father & Sarah to Ripon on business  Called on John Rhodes with whom I had luncheon”

22 Jul 1859:  “at the Cricket Ground when Mr Rhodes’ 11 played Lawsons 11 but the former had the better of it”

5 Mar 1860:  “in Fleet St I met John Rhodes of Ripon   He walked a good way with me”
2 Aug 1860:  “Joe  Tom & I drove to Ripon   I called on Rhodes”

Notes
Mark Barroby’s great niece, Mary Ellen Ryott, b 1844, married John Rhodes (d1870) [BpS p33]

ROBINSON, George ROBINSON    of/in SETTLE
Diary references:
Giggleswick class lists 1853
18 Aug 1856:  “Fanny told me of her smash with George Robinson”
31 Aug 1856:  “[at Taitlands]  went to Langcliffe church where I saw Jane & Sally Edmondson & Robinson”

Slaters 1849:       
“Miss Susannah Constantine Robinson, Settle
Mr Wm Robinson, Settle
Henry Robinson, attorney, Settle
Thomas Robinson, surgeon, Settle (& registrar of births & deaths)
Robert Robinson, tailor, Settle”
           
1851 Settle  Constitution Hill
Susanna Constantine Robinson, U, 60, proprietor of shares, b Chatburn Lancs
2 servants

1851 Settle
Duke Street
William Robinson, W, 61, Justice of the peace & banker, b Lancs, Chatburn
William, son, 27, shareholder & landed proprietor, b Settle
John, son, 26, B A Clergyman without cure of souls, b Settle
George Robinson, 15, nephew, banker's clerk, b Blackburn
housekeeper, cook, housemaid

1851 Settle
Market Place
Thomas Robinson, 58, Surgeon Apothecary & accoucheur b Clapham
Elizabeth, 62, wife, b Cowen Bridge, Eliza Josine, U, 28, daughter, b Settle
2 servants

1851 Settle Market Place
Henry Robinson, 35, solicitor, b Alford, Lincs
Elspet, 34, wife, b London,
5 children under age of 7
Jane Robinson, U, 25, sister b Alford,
2 servants

General histories etc:
“The churches of the deanery of North Craven”:  Giggleswick: a window was given by William Robinson Esq, banker of Settle, in memory of his wife Jane 1858, and another by his sons William and John in his memory in 1872.

Miles RAINFORTH
Diary references:
25 Oct 1858:  “Mr Chr Barroby  Mr Jas Morley  Uncle Wm  Uncle Pick & Mr Miles Rainforth dined with us - at Noon was in the fair with Uncle Pick”

Post Office 1857:   
[farmers]   
Rainforth, M, Rainton,Topcliffe, Thirsk           
[Rainton]   
Miles Rainforth, farmer, Southfield Cott