Descendants of William Hustler
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Descendants of William Hustler Charles E. G. Pease Pennyghael Isle of Mull Descendants of William Hustler 1-William Hustler William married Eleanor Simpson, daughter of William Simpson. They had one son: William. 2-William Hustler William married Elizabeth Saville, daughter of Sir John Saville. They had seven children: John, Sir William, James, Richard, Charles, George, and Robert. 3-John Hustler John married someone. He had four children: William, John, James, and Jeremiah. 4-William Hustler,1 son of John Hustler, died on 11 May 1759. General Notes: Here descend the Hustlers of Bradford & Undercliffe William married Jane Jowitt, daughter of William Jowett, on 5 Nov 1714 in FMH Bradford. Jane was born about 1685 and died on 29 Oct 1745 about age 60. They had two children: John and Jane. 5-John Hustler1,2,3 was born on 5 Oct 1715 in Apple Tree Farm, Low Fold, Calverley, Leeds, Yorkshire, died on 7 Nov 1790 in Undercliffe House, Bradford, Yorkshire at age 75, and was buried in FBG Bradford. General Notes: Hustler, John (1715– 1790), wool stapler and canal promoter, was born on 5 October 1715 at the family farm, Apple Tree Farm, Low Fold, Bolton, near Bradford, Yorkshire, the eldest son of William Hustler of Steeton (d. 11 May 1759), wool stapler and merchant, and his wife, Jane (1685– 1745), née Jowett, whose family were farmers in Bradford. His parents were members of the Society of Friends (Quakers), and John received an education at the Friends' school in Goodmanend, Bradford. On completing his apprenticeship as a sorter and stapler of wool, he joined his father and uncle, John, in their wool merchanting business at the family farm. For almost a century the Hustlers were the leading wool staplers of the town, profiting from their resale of raw wool purchased from farms and wool fairs all over England. At the age of forty-eight John Hustler married Christiana Hird (1732– 1811), a minister in the Quaker faith and the daughter of Leeds landowner William Hird. They had six children, two sons, William (b. 1766) and John (b. 1768), and four daughters, Sarah (b. 1765), Anne (b. 1772), Patience (b. 1775), and Christiana. Shortly after his marriage Hustler bought an estate of 90 acres at Eccleshill and built Undercliffe House, living there for the rest of his life, and playing host to itinerant Quaker ministers. By 1780 Bradford's outdated market facilities were forcing local tradesmen and farmers to take their business elsewhere. Hustler and others therefore built a new market hall, shops, and a shambles in a newly laid-out street (now Market Street). Before 1773 Bradford's clothmakers sold their rolls of finished cloth from the upper rooms of local public houses, but in that year Hustler initiated the funding for a proper retail outlet for finished worsted pieces. The 100 stalls of the first Bradford piece hall were in such demand that Hustler and his committee were soon forced to extend the premises. Perhaps the single most important project launched by Hustler for the benefit of the Bradford region in the eighteenth century was that linking the town to the national network of canals. Bradford was badly located for transport to either coast. Although not the original author of the scheme, Hustler was the prime mover in the formation of the Leeds to Liverpool Canal Company. He was an original subscriber and publicist for the idea of a trans-Pennine canal, and following the death of another Bradford colliery owner he took responsibility for its promotion nationwide, writing a prospectus, A Summary View of the Proposed Canal from Leeds to Liverpool (1770) in favour of the parliamentary legislation establishing the company. Hustler was chairman and treasurer of the Yorkshire committee which invited subscriptions, placed newspaper advertisements, and enlisted the financial support of Quakers across the nation. Despite a late secession by the Lancashire committee Hustler went ahead, and by May 1770 his parliamentary lobbying paid off when his canal bill became law (10 Geo. III c. 114). Four years later he locked Bradford into the canal system with the opening of the small Bradford Canal, and until his death he worked assiduously to raise sufficient funds to complete the Leeds to Liverpool Canal, travelling to the continent to raise the necessary capital. Hustler's colliery interests in Bradford and Wigan had motivated his commitment to the canal scheme, but his primary business as a wool merchant made him a spokesman for that industry for most of his life. As early as 1752 he gave evidence before a parliamentary committee dealing with the false practices of wool growers, and in 1764 he was largely instrumental in pressing parliament for legislation against the closed- shop activities of domestic textile workers, particularly wool combers. In 1777 two acts of parliament (17 Geo. III c. 11 and c. 56) established the formation of the worsted committee to act as a policing agency on behalf of worsted manufacturers. At its first meeting at The Talbot inn, Halifax, on 9 June 1777 Hustler was elected chairman, an office he held for many years. In 1782 and 1787 Hustler wrote several pamphlets against the exportation of English long wool resulting in successful legislation in 1788. Hustler took little part in politics, although as a protestant dissenter he was firmly against the Jacobite rising of 1745, heading the Bradford subscription towards the defence of the Hanoverian succession. Also in 1767 he wrote an important pamphlet on the issue of the corn bounty entitled The Occasion of the Dearness of Provisions, considering reasons for and against the imposition of such a bounty. Apart from his active work as a Quaker minister Hustler helped to found Ackworth School, and, having amassed great wealth from his successful wool business, promoted numerous commercial schemes which benefited the industrial and economic transformation of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and of Bradford in particular. He died on 6 November 1790 at Undercliffe House, leaving two sons and a widow who survived him by twenty-one years. He was interred at the Quaker burial-ground in Bradford. Gary Firth Sources J. James, Continuation and additions to the history of Bradford, and its parish (1866), 90– 92 · W. Hustwick, 'An eighteenth-century woolstapler', Bradford Textile Society Journal (1956– 7), 117– 25 · J. Maffey, 'On some decayed families of Bradford', Bradford Antiquary, 1 (1881– 8), 26– 32 · A. Robinson, 'The Hustlers, a great Quaker family', Bradford and Halifax Chamber of Commerce Journal, 2/2 (1975) · A. Raistrick, Quakers in science and industry (1950); repr. (1968), 78– 80 · GM, 1st ser., 60 (1790), 1055 · J. Smith, ed., A descriptive catalogue of Friends' books, 1 (1867), 1024– 5 · DNB · G. Field, 'Incidents in the history of Bradford Quakerism over 250 years', lecture transcript, Bradford Central Library, B 289.6 FIE Produced by: Charles E. G. Pease, Pennyghael, Isle of Mull, [email protected] : 5 Feb 2021 1 Produced by Legacy Descendants of William Hustler Archives University of Bradford, J. B. Priestley Library, worsted committee MSS · York Minster, Hailstone MSS © Oxford University Press 2004– 14 All rights reserved: see legal noticeOxford University Press Gary Firth, 'Hustler, John (1715– 1790)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14272 Noted events in his life were: • He was educated at Goodmanend, Bradford. • He worked as a Woolstapler in Bradford, Yorkshire. • He worked as an A principal promoter of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal in 1766. • He worked as a Treasurer for the construction of the L&L canal. • He was Quaker. John married Sutcliffe. They had two children: Jane and Hannah. 6-Jane Hustler Jane married William Fisher. They had two children: Hannah Maria and Thomas. 7-Hannah Maria Fisher4 was born on 14 Dec 1778 in Leeds, Yorkshire and died on 22 May 1866 in Kendal, Cumbria at age 87. Hannah married Isaac Whitwell,4 son of John Whitwell1,3,4,5,6,7 and Dorothy Wilson,1,4,5,7 on 19 May 1806 in Bradford, Yorkshire. Isaac was born on 2 Dec 1765 in Kendal, Cumbria and died on 25 Jun 1835 in Kendal, Cumbria at age 69. They had eight children: Jane, William, Hannah Maria, John, Thomas, Isaac, Edward, and Henry. 8-Jane Whitwell4 was born on 5 Jul 1807 in Kendal, Cumbria and died on 5 Dec 1858 in Rastrick, Brighouse, Yorkshire at age 51. Jane married Joseph Travis Clay,4,8,9 son of William Clay and Mary Travis, on 16 Jan 1834 in Kendal, Cumbria. Joseph was born on 8 Mar 1804 in London, died on 31 Jan 1892 in Cannes, France at age 87, and was buried in Cannes, France. They had six children: Hannah Maria, John William, Mary Elizabeth, Alfred, Arthur Travis, and Jane Katharine. Noted events in his life were: • He was educated at Joseph Tatham's Academy in 1816 in Leeds, Yorkshire. 9-Hannah Maria Clay was born on 12 Sep 1835 in Rastrick, Brighouse, Yorkshire and died on 3 Feb 1905 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent at age 69. 9-John William Clay4,10 was born on 13 Feb 1838 in Rastrick, Brighouse, Yorkshire8 and died on 2 Oct 1918 in Rastrick, Brighouse, Yorkshire at age 80. Noted events in his life were: • He was awarded with FSA. • He worked as a JP for the West Riding of Yorkshire. • He had a residence in Rastrick House, Rastrick, Brighouse, Yorkshire. • He had a residence in 4 Portman Mansions, Marylebone Road, London. John married Alice Caroline Pilleau,4 daughter of Henry Pilleau and Louisa Ann Perigal, on 4 Apr 1878 in London. Alice was born on 11 May 1847 in Tipperary, Ireland and died on 15 May 1935 in Rastrick, Brighouse, Yorkshire at age 88.