Thomas Graham of Ayton Hall & his family
More notes on Thomas Graham. For this information I am very grateful to Trevor Littleton of the Cumbria FHS:-The parents of Monkhouse & Thomas Graham were Thomas Graham and Ann Bell. She was the...
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Probate of Ralph Day, weaver of Great Ayton: 1704
Probate of Ralph Day 1704Ralph Day was a weaver who lived on the High Street in Great Ayton:In the name of God AmenI Ralph Day of Great Ayton in the County of York weaver being weak of body but of...
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Letters Patent of James VI & I
This is a Licence to Alienate. These Letters Patent of King James VI & I gave Ralph Stowpe permission in 1616 to sell to Robert Layton a cottage, toft & croft, 2 oxgangs & 19 ½ acres of...
View ArticleJacques-Emile Blanche
I've just added this update to the post on The 'Skirt Dance' of the two Savile Clarke girls:Update 4 July 2014: for information on Jacques-Emile Blanche, see Artist in Focus (July 2014) on the Public...
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Joseph Beresford Shields 1879-1917
I don't know how these papers came to survive in a Deed Box from Meek, Stubbs & Barnley, solicitors, Middlesbrough.A small envelope contains a letter from Joe Shields to his mother, his birth...
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John Macfarlan Charlton, 21st Northumberland Fusiliers
John Macfarlan Charlton 1891-1916Jack Charlton was the son of the artist John Charlton (1849-1917) and his wife Catherine Jane Macfarlane (known to family and friends as Kate).John Charlton senior was...
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Old picture postcards
More from Ellis Stubbs' postcard album:Guisborough Priory and Lily PondOld OrmesbyRoseberry ToppingTrafalgar Terrace,CoathamLoch KatrineHigh Row, ReethSandsend(Sorry about the sloppy photography - I...
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The War Department requisitions The Manor House at Carlton-in-Cleveland, 1940
The War Department requisitioned many large houses across the country in the Second World War. The paperwork for the requisition of the Manor House at Carlton-in-Cleveland has survived. This is the...
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Boosbeck Steam Saw Mills Co Ltd, 1874
This is rather hard to read! (The triple dots mark the point where I have given up for the moment.) But I can't think that much can have survived from this company, which was wound up a couple of...
View ArticleLedgers of the Stubbs business in Boroughbridge, 1790-1830
The Stubbs family business has already appeared in this blog in the account of the Five Guinea Note from the Boroughbridge Bank.Ledgers of the Stubbs business for the years between 1790 and 1830 are...
View ArticleJohn Richard Stubbs (1838-1916), Boroughbridge-born Middlesbrough solicitor
John Richard Stubbs (1838-1916) came to Middlesbrough in February 1861 as a newly qualified solicitor some eight years after the new town was incorporated as a borough in 1853. An active and...
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A Boroughbridge Boyhood in the 1850s: the diaries of John Stubbs
The next series of posts will be an account of John Richard Stubbs' boyhood in Boroughbridge. John Richard Stubbs was born on 2 October 1838 at five minutes past three o'clock in the morning at the...
View Article1. A Boroughbridge Boyhood in the 1850s: Introducing John Stubbs
Saturday January 1st 1853Stayed at home in the morning & helped to clip the pony & had a ride in the evening on the ponyJohn Richard Stubbs was fourteen years old when he made his first entry...
View Article2. A Boroughbridge Boyhood in the 1850s: "Good sport"
Monday January 21st 1856… Sat up till 4 o’clock in the morning expectg cow calving She calved about an hour after I got to bed … Calved red & white Heifer Calf.The Stubbs family had once been...
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3. A Boroughbridge boyhood in the 1850s: The Yorkshire Volunteers
Some of the young men belonged to the Territorial Army of the day, the Yorkshire Volunteers. John’s father had been a Volunteer himself in his youth. This letter survives, written by Thomas, then...
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4. A Boroughbridge Boyhood in the 1850s: "Went to office"
From 1855 John was a clerk in his uncle Hirst’s office, entering into articles later – he wrote to the legal stationers’ Butterworths in May 1857 with a postal order for fourteen shillings and sixpence...
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5. A Boroughbridge Boyhood in the 1850s: Holidays
If the working day in the 1850s was a great deal less frenetic than today, holidays were fewer. John’s parents would generally go to a seaside resort, often Redcar, for a week or two. They went in a...
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6. A Boroughbridge Boyhood in the 1850s: "Enjoyed ourselves extremely"
Tuesday January 15th 1856Went to the Office Mrs Workman Mr Robert W Mr Henlock & Mrs dined with us at 2 o’clock I left the Office at 2 returned at 4 Went to the Doctors [Sedgwicks’] in...
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7. A Boroughbridge Boyhood in the 1850s: “Got out at the back door & went to...
Tuesday January 29th 1856Went to Office at Noon had a walk with Jane & Lizzy & Joe a mile up Topcliffe road & round by Milby At Night went & read Blackstone at H Carrass’, before...
View Article8. A Boroughbridge Boyhood in the 1850s: "About in the Fair"
Wednesday June 18th 1856Went to Office At Noon Was about in the fair At Night Steele E.C.Clarke Leonard Joe Capes Schofield & I went down to the Swale Nab in the boat it came on wet &...
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