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5. War in Yorkshire: 1642-1643
In Chester, the Wandesfords found a welcome and were treated with kindness and friendship by the gentry families. Within the strong walls of a city well-stocked with muskets, garrisoned by Royalist...
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6. Chester: smallpox, siege and travelling home: 1643
Meanwhile, there was smallpox in Chester and three of Mrs Wandesford's household took the terrifying disease. First to fall ill was seven-year-old John, who caught it from their cousin William...
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7. The Siege of York & Battle of Marston Moor: 1644
Mrs Wandesford could now turn her mind to her sons' education. She need have no worries for her eldest, George. He was happy and safe in France completing his education with Mr George Anderson, an...
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8. Mrs Wandesford moves to Hipswell: 1644-1645
In Kirklington, George feared he was a wanted man and he lay low for a while. His sympathies were with the King, but he reckoned the King's cause was lost, and what would be achieved by involving...
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9. Royalist disaster & private grief: 1645-7
On 14 June 1645, the New Model Army – Parliament's new national army – inflicted a decisive defeat on the Royalists at the Battle of Naseby in Northamptonshire. It was a disaster for the King. His...
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10. The Man of Blood & the English Republic: 1648-1650
In the early days of 1648 news would come to Hipswell of rebellions and fighting. The Christmas riots were turning into rebellions, Royalists in Wales had risen, Royalist commanders had taken Berwick...
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11. The wars come to an end: 1651
By this time, Alice's brother George, now aged 28, was reaching success in his endeavours to recover his sequestered estates and find a wife. Their uncle William Wandesford had been working for some...
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12. From Alice Wandesford's marriage to the return of the King: 1651-1660
At Hipswell, 23 year old Christopher Wandesford was now head of the family. He followed the custom of the time – there was a contract of marriage to fulfil and he took his brother's place. So, on 30...
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13. Mrs Alice Thornton of East Newton: 1660-1707
East Newton Hall today [By Roger Smith CC BY-SA 2.0]Alice made her home among her husband's people and remained at East Newton for the rest of her days. Her marriage had been one of convenience born...
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14. Epilogue: 1688
Alice had lived through many changes in her long life – and the restoration of King Charles II in 1661 wasn't the last of the political convulsions that she saw. Charles II had no legitimate children,...
View ArticleThe Eland family of Hutton Rudby
I've just made a correction and added extra information to the entry on the Elands in People of Hutton Rudby in the C18/19: Easby to Emerson (my blogpost of 22 March 2013).I particularly like the...
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Henry Savile Clarke of Guisborough & Lewis Carroll's Alice
A few years ago I wrote about Henry Savile Clarke of Guisborough (1841-93), who produced the first stage musical of Lewis Carroll's Alice.Phoebe Carlo 1887Over a series of blogposts, I told the story...
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The unfortunate Edwin Orphan: 1832
In January 1832, a young man called Edwin Orphan came before the magistrates. He had smashed windows in Guisborough parish church because, he explained, he needed a shelter. He had no money and...
View ArticleLong hours at the Stokesley drapers' shops: 1856
In the shopping season, a story with echoes of our time? In the middle of the 19th century, Stokesley had up to half a dozen drapers' shops. The 1854 Directory listed four; the 1867 Directory listed...
View ArticleMore on Guisborough's link to Lewis Carroll's Alice
In September, I picked up once more the story of Henry Savile Clarke of Guisborough & Lewis Carroll's Alice.I mentioned in the piece Clare Imholtz' fascinating article on the child actress Phoebe...
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Who were they? A guide to the memorials & stained glass of Hutton Rudby church
I'm revisiting The People behind the Plaques: memorials in All Saints', Hutton Rudby to add my most recent research. This is a slightly shorter version, it's got more illustrations – I hope it's...
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The Atkinsons of Scaling Dam in the 17th & 18th centuries
This is the sort of thing that one always hopes for – in 2013 I posted the Whaling Journal 1774 of Thomas Atkinson of Kirkleatham and articles about the Atkinson family of Scaling Dam. And recently I...
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Thomas Atkinson (1722-92), Master of Sir William Turner's Hospital, Kirkleatham
This follows on from the preceding post, The Atkinsons of Scaling Dam in the 17th & 18th centuriesThomas Atkinson was born on Friday 13 April 1722, between 9 and 10 o'clock at Night.We don't know...
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The Revd William Atkinson of Kirkleatham & Cambridge (1755-1830)
This account of a quiet life is thanks to information from Stella Sterry, and to letters that were found years ago in a house clearance in Leeds. They seem to have survived by chance, possibly because...
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Thomas Atkinson, surgeon (b1753) of Kirkleatham, Canada & Honduras Bay
This replaces a piece about Thomas Atkinson posted in November 2012. As it belongs with the preceding posts about the Atkinsons of Scaling Dam & Kirkleatham, I thought I'd publish it here too....
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