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9. A Boroughbridge Boyhood in the 1850s: Boroughbridge
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...
View Article10. A Boroughbridge Boyhood in the 1850s: "Very ill not likely to get better"
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...
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11. A Boroughbridge Boyhood in the 1850s: Aunts, sisters, cousins: “a jolly...
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 1856Went to Office...
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12. A Boroughbridge Boyhood in the 1850s: “Helped to arrange about the...
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 1857Father & Mother...
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13. A Boroughbridge Boyhood in the 1850s: "Mulled ale at Starbeck"
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...
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A Boroughbridge Boyhood: Epilogue
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...
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Queen Victoria is proclaimed in Boroughbridge, 1837
This seems to be the draft of an account of the proclamation of the young Queen Victoria, written for the Intelligencer:“Boro’BridgeOn Friday the 30th Ult at 2 o’clock P.M. the Queen was proclaimed in...
View ArticleA spinster lady in 19th century Boroughbridge
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...
View ArticleA large family in 19th century Harrogate
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...
View ArticleJohn Stubbs' diaries (1853-60): people A to B
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...
View ArticleJohn Stubbs' diaries (1853-60): Capes & Clarks
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...
View ArticleJohn Stubbs' diaries (1853-60): names beginning with C
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...
View ArticleJohn Stubbs' diaries (1853-60): people E to F
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...
View ArticleJohn Stubbs' diaries (1853-60): names beginning G
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...
View ArticleJohn Stubbs' diaries (1853-60): Henlock and 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...
View ArticleJohn Stubbs' diaries (1853-60): names beginning H
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...
View ArticleJohn Stubbs' diaries (1853-60): people I to K
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...
View ArticleJohn Stubbs' diaries (1853-60): people L to M
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...
View ArticleJohn Stubbs' diaries (1853-60): people N to P
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...
View ArticleJohn Stubbs' diaries (1853-60): names beginning R
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...
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