28 Archive 46 B from the parish mag L 6Octoberiv Rector came H Archive 46 125 YEARS AGO: Those THE NEWSLETTER OF BARNINGHAM LOCAL HISTORY GROUP MMXV Teesdale Car Co. G who attend our Church on wet back – and B. A. L. H. 2012 LOCAL HISTORY NEWSLETTER OF THE YEAR Sundays find a strong incentive (BOWMAN BROS) www.barninghamvillage.co.uk MMIX to do all they can to expedite PROSPECT PLACE sat in court INSIDE: MR TOOTLE AND THE TURNPIKE TUSSLE raising money for the Church BARNARD CASTLE A POSTSCRIPT to our stories restoration when they see the Phone 47 about the Rev William Whar- contents rain coming through the roof ALSO AT ton and his salver (see Archive in many places, and in some GRETA BRIDGE 45 and Page 3 of this issue). instances flooding the pew- Phone Whorlton 30 MINUTES OF LAST seats! ~ April 1890 The rector left Barningham MEETING : Page 2 Local Authorised Agents for on his retirement in 1873 to 100 YEARS AGO: Miss MORRIS and STANDARD live in the south of France, RECTOR’S SALVER Coates held in the School- CARS and we’d wondered if he ever RETURNS: Page 3 room a Sale to start a Sick Any Other Make of Car Supplied returned to this area. Fund to contribute towards the The answer is yes, at least HEADMISTRESS expenses of a nurse (travelling, FAMILY: Pages 3-5 Ad from 1935 once: we’ve just found a Tees- board, etc) from the Nursing dale Mercury report of July Association when required in consider the question of refus- THE LODGES OF 28th 1880 that the Rev Whar- EASTWOOD: Page 6 the Parish. There was a fair ing to let the school for dances ton was visiting Teesdale that attendance and the result, £10, at all. ~ April 1935 week, and had been invited to was most satisfactory. Miss ELLIOTTS AT THE 60 YEARS AGO: In Memo- sit in as one of the four mag- Coates wishes to thank Mrs HALL: Page 7 riam: Joseph Charles Clark- istrates hearing cases at Greta Robinson and Mrs Lowes for son of Dyson House. He had Bridge Police Court. LIFE OF THE LEAD undertaking the Tea Room and farmed there for forty years. MINERS: Pages 8-9 all who gave generous contri- His forebears came from Plans for tour butions. ~ May 1915 Scotland and had settled at DOUG’S FAMILY 90 YEARS AGO: The fol- Greta Bridge. He was a quiet, of a lead mine BIBLE: Page 10 lowing is from a letter from friendly man and was liked FOLLOWING our talk about Canon Gough: “I wish I could by all. ~ May 1955 lead mining in the area, there THE COCKLEBURY FINDS: Page 11 put down in words all I and 50 YEARS AGO: The No are plans for members of the history group to tour the old my daughter felt on receiving Small Change discussion VOTES DOWN THE lead mine workings at Slei Gill the very beautiful massive sil- groups have all made a good YEARS: Pages 12-14 ver inkstand the Barningham, start in spite of the snow- in Arkengarthdale. Scargill and Newsham parish- storm on the evening of the We plan a two-hour evening RAILS AND ROKEBY ioners sent us in remembrance first meeting. Many interest- tour, with a provisional date set POLKA: Page 15 of the ‘35 happy years’ the ing points have been raised, for Tuesday June 23rd. More inscription rightly calls them. each of which will provide us details at our next meeting, and SECRETS OF YOUR I am also most grateful for the with material for constructive we’ll be emailing local mem- DNA: Page 16 bers to see who’s interested. very handsome and generous thinking in the future. Wee GRETA BRIDGE cheque. Forty-two pounds is very grateful to Mrs Bayley COURTS: Pages17-21 a large sum; I do thank them and Mrs Cuthbertson for lend- Mill Hill project all so much and want them to ing their private equipment JOHN Hay is researching Mill CLOTHES FOR THE know it.” ~ May 1925 and special knowledge of pro- Hill, the disused farm north of CRIMEA: Page 22 Barningham House. If you’ve At a meet- jectors and record players. This is what the 80 YEARS AGO: got memories of it being oc- ing of the School Managers, ~ April 1965 KIPLINGS AT BOWES: cupied, please get in touch with bright young things attended by Lady Milbank, 25 YEARS AGO: Hearty con- Pages 23-25 him: his email’s john.hay1@ of the 1860s were Sir F Milbank, Mr J Atkinson, gratulations to Mrs Usher of dancing to at The DEATH ON THE MAIL Mr Edward Brown and the Barningham, who celebrated mypostoffice.co.uk or phone him on 01833 621378. Morritt Arms – The COACH: Page 27 Rector, it was proposed and her 80th birthday. We all agree Rokeby Polka. unanimously agreed that if the that she has the looks and Next Archive See Page 15 FROM THE PARISH non-smoking rule in the school vitality of someone 20 years MAG: Page 28 is not strictly kept at all dances, younger! May she continue SHOULD be out in June. the Managers will seriously that way. ~ April 1990 Contributions welcome – let’s make it another 28-pager or NEXT BLHG MEETING : TUESDAY MAY 19th, 6pm bigger! 2 Archive 46 Archive 46 27 Barningham Good turnout to hear Jim cuttings Local History Group talk about the lead mines Stone mason Minutes of the meeting held minutes rewarded for www.barninghamvillage.co.uk on Tuesday March 17th 2015: Covering Barningham and Present: Phil Hunt (Chair- would discuss this at the May perseverence surrounding area: Newsham, man), John Hay (Vice Chair- meeting. From the Yorkshire Gazette, Dalton, Gayles, Kirby Hill, man), Ann Orton (Secretary), Correspondence: Kiplings April 19th 1845: Whashton, Kirby Ravensworth, and DNA; Janet Baker re Mrs June Graham, Janet Wrigley, THE Richmond Agricultur- Hutton Magna, Greta Bridge, England; Caroline Smith re Jane Hackworth-Young, Mar- al Society have awarded to Rokeby, Brignall and Scargill Geoffrey Smith; Barbara Har- garet Stead, Jon Smith, Da- George Scrafton, of Barn- ris re Lodge family; Pat Allison Chairman: Phil Hunt vid and Margaret Taylor and ingham, the sum of one pound. Ivy Cottage, Barningham, guest speaker Jim McTaggart. re Allisons; David Sawyer re court rolls. Scrafton was not strictly eli- Richmond, N/Yks DL11 7DU Visitors: Martin Walker, David gible, being a stone mason, but not avail- Tel: 01833 621253 Raw, Peter Hughes, Tom Hay, Financial report: his extraordinarily meritorious able as Treasurer was away. [email protected] John Blackburn, William Mar- zeal and almost unprecedented Vice-Chairman: John Hay wood, Doug Anderson, Chris Publications: Archive 45 was perseverence caused the com- Fairview, Barningham, and Gordon Thomson, Nicho- out and 46 on its way. mittee to step out of the strict- – The Newcastle Chronicle, April 3rd 1779 Richmond, N/Yks DL11 7DW las Perkins, Angus Forsyth, Transcriptions: Ann reported ness of their rules. Tony Lewis. DIED, at Brignal, on the 18th ult., Mr John Thompson, Tel: 01833 621378 that she was reaching the end Scrafton’s father died some [email protected] Apologies: Sheila Wappat, Ja- of the Reading Room minute mason. He worked on the Brignal and Rokeby estates years ago, leaving a widow upwards of 50 years, and was the builder of that beau- Secretary: Ann Orton net Paterson, Linda Sherwood, book. and six children unprovided tiful bridge over the river Greta, called Greta Bridge. The Old Chapel, Barningham, Cate and Harry Collingwood, WW1 & 11: John Hay’s and for, Scrafton being the eld- Mark Watson, Eric and Kay Jon Smith’s research into the Richmond, N/Yks DL11 7DU est, and at that time scarcely – Durham County Advertiser, February 9th 1822 Tel: 01833 621024 Duggan. men on the memorial has been twenty years of age. [email protected] Minutes of the meeting on passed to the Bowes museum Through his perseverence maker Jane Spooner in 1846, Treasurer: Eric Duggan January 20th 2015 were agreed. and was much appreciated. and uniform good conduct, the had three children, but also Jilted widow Braeside, Barningham, Matters arising: The secretary Next meeting: May 19th at whole family have been reared died young, aged 46, in 1862. Richmond, N/Yks DL11 7DW said that she had been making 6pm. without any parochial relief, Jane lived on until 1878. took her life Tel: 01833 621455 enquiries about a guided tour Guest speaker: Jim McTagg- and are now out at service, The child who ‘paid the debt From the Durham County Ad- [email protected] of the lead mines and also the art, who gave a fascinating talk except one that has paid the of nature’ was Hannah, who vertiser, February 25th 1842: possibility of someone coming about the life of lead miners in Archive editor: Jon Smith debt of nature. died in 1841, aged eleven. AN inquest was held on Mon- from the Richmond museum to the Dales. See this issue. Heath House, Barningham,  George’s father, Cornelius, Most Scraftons died fairly day last at Greta Bridge before talk to us. It was agreed that we Richmond, N/Yks DL11 7DU ANN ORTON had died in 1839 aged 43; his young: George’s sons Cor- W Dinsdale Esq, coroner, and Tel: 01833 621374 mother Isabella died in 1859; nelius and Frederick died in a respectable jury, on view the [email protected] Our biggest issue so far George himself married dress- Stockton in their fifties. body of Mrs Hobson, who had Member of the British Associa- THIS Archive has 28 pages – the most of any of the 46 issues committed suicide by hanging tion for Local History, County since we began in 2009. It’s largely thanks to more contribu- Tragedy on the mail coach herself. Durham History & Heritage tions from members than usual, for which we’re very grateful. From the Sheffield Independent, June 22nd 1822: It appeared from the evi- Forum, Yorkshire Vernacular We hope we can repeat (or even increase) the number of ON Tuesday last, as the Glasgow mail was passing through Hat- dence that the deceased had Buildings Study Group pages in future, but, as with this issue, much depends on your field on its route to London, Mr Ullathorne, one of the outside received a promise of mar- input. Do put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard, even if it’s passengers (from the neighbourhood of Greta Bridge) whilst riage from a person who had just to send us a brief comment on something you’ve read noticing the Leeds mail change horses, was, by a sudden jerk, afterwards deserted her, and here. Every little helps! precipitated between the wheel and splinter bar, and killed on married another woman, which the spot. circumstance had preyed on Quadruple tulip at the pub her mind and induced her to The Archive From the Teesdale Mercury, May 13th 1953: commit the fatal act in an out- Editor: Jon Smith A four-in-one tulip has been raised in the garden of the Milbank building. Verdict: insanity. Heath House, Barningham, Richmond, North Yorks DL11 7DU Arms, Barningham. A unique happening has resulted in four  She was Mrs Ann Hobson, Tel: 01833 621374 email: [email protected] website: www.barninghamvillage.co.uk flowers appearing on one stem. Three of the flowers are at the top 49, of Cross Lanes, mother of Back issues of The Archive are available at £2 each (£1 for members) while the fourth is on a small stem branching out about halfway four children aged between Full index of contents on our website down the main stalk. nine and 20. 26 Archive 46 Archive 46 3 cuttings A 1716 list of convicted recusants From papers held by the His- toric Manuscripts Commis- sion: THESE persons were con- victed as Popish recusants att the general Quarter Sessions of the Peace holden at Thirske the tenth day of April in the second year of the reigne of his Sovereigne Lord King George History group members watch David and Judith handing over the salver to the in pursuance of an Act of Par- village. Picture courtesy of the Teesdale Mercury. liament passed in the first year of his Majestie’s reigne intitled an Act for the further security Rector’s salver returns to village of his Majestie’s Person and THE silver-plated salver presented to the Rev from Buckinghamshire to deliver the salver. It Government and the Succes- William Wharton on his retirement in 1873 is now on display in the hall. “It’s not worth a sion of the Crown in the heirs has come home to Barningham. great deal financially, but a great link with the of the late Princess Sophia It was found at a car boot in Milton Keynes past that we’re delighted to welcome home,” being Protestants and for ex- and its owners, David and Judith Britton, said parish chairman Jon Smith. tinguishing the hopes of the thought it deserved to return to the village. Where the salver vanished to after its pres- pretended Prince of Wales and Grateful residents met at the village hall to entation in 1873 remains a mystery. his open and secrett abettors: Barningham Moor grouse butts, 1910: A shooting greet David and Judith when they travelled up See Archive 45 for more. Newsham: Robert Shaw, Henry party member discusses his options with a game- Thompson, Robert Smith- keeper as a beautifully-millinered young lady looks son, John Thompson, Will- on. One of many evocative photographs from the Janet tracks down iam Appleton, Christopher early 1900s, donated by the Milbank family to the Hamon. Parkin Raine collection in the Fitzhugh Museum. village school link Kirkeby Ravenswood: Thomas WE met Janet Baker when she came to Barning- Wiseman, Anthony Richard- The oxy-hydrogen limelight show ham last month on a mission to find out more son. From the Teesdale Mercury, October 10th 1882: about her family links to the village. Kirkby Hill: Thomas Wilson. ON Tuesday evening, Mr J Raine of Richmond gave a lecture Her grandmother, Mrs Bertha England, was in the Mechanic’s Institution, Barningham, on behalf of the headmistress of the village school between 1930 Barningham: Mr Robert Coll- Wesleyan Sunday School. The subject of the lecture was “From and 1933. ingwood. Richmond to Rome”, and it was illustrated by a series of large Bertha came here from Wakefield with her Hutton: Robert Dale, Robert photographic pictures shown by the oxy-hydrogen limelight. husband Tom and sons Jack and Norman, Atkinson, John Kipling. The chair was taken by James Todd jun Esq, and the attendance and lived at South View (now called Gillbeck Dalton: Gabriel Appleby, Paul was large. A most hearty vote of thanks was given to the lecturer. House). She took over as headmistress from her Maltus, Matthew Pattison,  We presume the ‘Mechanic’s Institute’ was the Reading Room. daughter Nellie, who had been in charge since William Chappelow. 1927 but had left to get married  Recusants – Catholics who Costly cards for the innkeeper (see Archive 13). refused to attend Anglican From the Yorkshire Gazette, October 29th 1844: Janet out- services – were subject to side Gill- Bertha (maiden name Wid- AT Greta Bridge Police Court, Ralph Hind of Newsham, inn- dop, a wonderful West Yorkshire wide-ranging restrictions from keeper, was charged with knowingly permitting card-playing in beck House, surname from an Old English Elizabethan days to emancipa- his house. The arresting officer gave Hind an excellent character her father’s word meaning wide valley) was tion in 1829. We’ve only listed for general good conduct up to this time. He was fined, with home in the 51 when she took over, and not local recusants here: there costs, 12/6d. 1930s were many more elsewhere. in the best of health. She battled 4 Archive 46 Archive 46 25 However Ann and Ambrose kiplings in May 1773 “Died, in the headmistress made things right by marrying Quakers’ Almshouses in this in 1711. the 1780s, to work as a mason town, Thomas Kipling, Wool- on here for three years, but in near Ripon. comber, aged 84, a sober, 1933 had to resign; the parish Thomas died in 1724 and his A descendant of his now industrious, honest man, who magazine at the time said she will was proved at the Manor Court of Bowes. He left most living in South Africa took the left a widow, a few years older . was finding it difficult even to same DNA test and was a close than himself. walk across to the school. of his estate to his “onely match. This family included “They were married near 59 She and Tom, who had been Daughter Alice”, the wife of John Wilson, and small sums 1930s Springbok hooker, Bert years and supposed to be the badly gassed in the first world Kipling. oldest couple here. He lay near war and never fully recovered to his three grandchildren by his daughter Ann, late wife of Third brother William prob- two years a prisoner in Durham (we think he served with the ably also left Bowes, his de- gaol, at the suit of Mr Hall, Royal Warwickshire Regi- Ambrose Dearham. A bond was provided by John Wilson scendents possibly settling then Curate of this place, for ment), returned to Wakefield. later in Long Newton. his marriage fees, though they He died there in 1941, Bertha of Mellwaters and Thomas Kipling of Bowes. were married at the Quakers’ in 1944. John Kipling Meeting.” Son Jack – Janet Barker’s However he also left 10s per QUAKER records show a quarter to “my Daughter Doro- Apart from William and father – was a pupil at Barnard John Kipling of Drygill, Bow- thy Kipling”. Who was Doro- Thomas, I have not been able Castle School. His place there es, marrying an Esther Will- to trace the fate of John and Tom England, pictured about 1899 (possibly on his wedding day) and thy? Her origins are obscure son in 1685 and the births of was in doubt after his parents (possibly she was adopted) Esther and their other children. left the village, but Janet says his wife Bertha 40 years later, four years before she died Mary (1686), Thomas (1688), but she is reported as having George (1691), John (1693) Pews Commission he was able to remain at the who was a tribal chief there in A boy called John England three illegitimate children: and William (1696). IN 1703, a commission which school until 1936 thanks to the the 1950s. was baptised at the village 1703, “Hannah the supposed The Bishop’s transcripts include Jonathan Low, the Rec- generosity of someone “at the Norman became an inventor church in 1946, the son of a daughter of John Langstaffe for Bowes also record a son tor of Barningham, investigate big house” in Barningham who and pioneered microscopy pho- soldier called Sidney England and Dorothy Kipling”; 1714, Anthony in 1699 (“born”) and the rights of occupancy of the helped to pay his way. It may tography at Leeds University, and his wife Vera. And in 1964 “Mary, supposed daughter of the registers in 1701 record pews in Bowes church. well have been Sir Frederick while Nellie founded a very an 86-year-old called Wilson Dorothy Kipling of Mellwaters “James, son of John Kipling, a Charles Kipling and Thomas Milbank, a governor of the successful school in Wakefield England of South View was and Charles Bailey of Bowes”; Quaker, born”. The implication Kipling, tailor, each have two school at the time. which she ran until her retire- buried here. and 1718, a son Thomas, again of ‘born’ is most probably that seats in different parts of the Jack went on to become a ment in the 1960s. Janet had never heard of with Charles. the child was not baptised. Wil- church, William has two to- senior administrator in Kenya, any of them, and we tried to Dorothy’s son Thomas mar- Janet followed in her aunt’s liam is reported in the Quaker gether towards the front and picking up an MBE for his work out what family con- ried Ann Pinkney in 1743. They and grandmother’s footsteps by records as dying in 1719. Thomas of Melwaters and a work and, says Janet, prob- working as a teacher until her nection there was, if any. The had children including John widow Kipling one each to- In 1723, Thomas Raylton of ably coming into contact with retirement in 2009. Now living first clues came from Greta (1744), Joseph (1746; d 1755), wards the back. Barack Obama’s grandfather London, a Quaker formerly of in St Neots, Cambridgeshire, Carter, who remembered Rob- Thomas (1749; d 1749), Wil- Charles cannot be the same she came to Barningham keen ert (Bob) and Mary England liam (1750) and James (1754). Bowes, left in his will “To John Kipling of Bowes, formerly Charles who was recorded to see the house where her fam- in the 1950s. Mary, she said, Dorothy later moved to in the 1605 survey, although living at a place called Drygill ily lived and the village school, was the daughter of John and Cragg Farm in Romaldkirk might be the son of Thomas now, of course, the village hall. Sarah Brown, who had retired parish, most probably to live Bent, £2”. born in 1682. Thomas being We showed her round and told to South View in 1930 from with grandson James. She died I am not sure where Drygill described as a tailor possibly her that we’d found mention Park House farm. there in 1772 and was buried Bent is, although I have found suggests a link to Anthony and of her father on the Teesdale South View, owned by the at Bowes, as was James’s son a further reference to it in docu- Leonard (another brother?). It Mercury website, with stories Todd family, was clearly di- Ralph in 1781. ment of 1753, “a messuage and is also notable that Leonard about him winning local music vided into more than one James’s descendents still live all the lands and tenements no longer has a pew, neither tournaments in 1930 and 1931. dwelling at the time, with in the local area and a male-line called Drygill Bent, forty acres, that much disputed in 1671 or To her surprise, we also told Browns in one part and Eng- DNA test recently carried out abutted and boundered round another! her that there have been more lands in another. The Browns on one of them shows com- with the common of the manor In my next article, I will Englands than she thought are recorded living there until mon ancestry with a number of Bowes.” look in particular at William in the village. History group at least the 1950s, with another of Baileys, supporting the Son Thomas was later a Kipling of Bowfields and his records show that there was a daughter, Ada. link to the father of Dorothy’s woolcomber in Darlington. descendents, who include Dr Robert England at South View From Greta we moved to two later children, Charles He was persecuted for his Thomas Kipling, the contro- Bailey. James’s brother John Barningham schoolmistress in 1939 and he was still there in the Milbank Arms, where beliefs, as the Darlington Mer- versial Dean of Peterborough. left Bowes, most probably in Nellie England 1950, with a wife called Mary. Neil Turner proved to be his cury recorded on his death 24 Archive 46 Archive 46 5 in Goodramgate in 1690 which kiplings two months later. still stands today. A Barbary Kipling, widow, Mr Tootle’s It is also possible that other Kipling, was recorded. of Tuthill, died in 1684. Kiplings who arrived in York In 1697, a Thomas Kipling It is not clear which William battle to around this time also hailed was indicted at the quarter ses- was churchwarden in 1679 from Bowes, including an sions along with other brewers and 1681, which received the close road Anthony Kipling who was of Bowes for “keeping com- legacy from James Kipling of WHEN they dualled the carriage- admitted as a freeman brick- mon tippling houses without Brough and who was the Wil- way east of Smallways a few layer in York 1708. However, the approval of two Justices liam Kipling of Stoney Keld years back, they closed off a road an Anthony Kipling was also of the Peace”. who has a daughter Elizabeth leading from the top of Browson buried at Brignall in 1718. A Thomas Kipling died in in 1678. Bank north to Hutton Lane End. In 1674, James Kipling of 1699, possibly the elder, as a In 1682, widow Mary It was called the New Road, Brough left small legacies to Thomas Kipling was allocated Copeland of Hunday gave her even though it was built almost “his cousin” William Kipling a church pew in 1703 (see daughter Mary £10 “in the 250 years ago after a ferocious of Bowes and also to Leonard below). hands of William Kipling of row between local land agent and Anthony. It’s quite possible Hugh Tootle and people living William Kipling Bowes”. In 1686, a William in Newsham, Barningham and that Anthony (the Quaker) was Kipling acted as executor of a also a brother of Leonard. 1662 saw the death of “old” other nearby villages. William Kipling (possibly of will together with Maria and Christopher Copeland and in Tootle, agent for Wycliffe land- Thomas Kipling the 1605 survey and maybe owner Marmaduke Tun-stall in IN 1673, the Hearth Tax was even the 1588 will). ‘Old’ 1692 as an administrator of 1773, wanted the road to replace paid by Anthony, Charles, implied that a second adult another estate together with the turnpike running directly from Leonard, William and two William was alive at the time, Thomas Laidman and John Lane End to Smallways. Cutting Thomases, each on one hearth most probably a son. Hullock. the corner to the top of Browson only; a “widow Kipling” and Little appears to be recorded Thomas Kipling (2) Bank, he reckoned, would make it a lot easier (and cheaper) for a third Thomas were excused about this second William, THOMAS Kipling of Mellwa- Jack England and schoolmates in 1931, probably photographed on payment. him to get to Ravensworth and although he is probably the ters served on a North Riding Barningham moor. Below, the Swaledale Music Tournament prize beyond. Sorting out the three Thom- William who paid the Hearth quarter session jury sometime certificate awarded to Jack in 1930. ases is tricky. One, Thomas Ki- tax and was churchwarden in between 1657 and 1677. A Hang on, said the villagers. usual mine of information. In That would mean they’d all have pling of Mellwaters, is covered 1673. In 1677 Elizabeth the daughter Alice was baptised 1939, he recalled, three broth- to haul their wagons up the hill below. The first reference to wife of William Kipling senior in 1676 and a second daughter, ers called England – Arthur, every time they wanted to get another Thomas is to the death died. “Old William Kipling of Ann, in 1681. In 1684, he was Robert and Sid – arrived in coal and lime from the Lane End of Ailse (wife of “Thomas Kip- Bows” died in 1698. involved in a legal dispute Barningham from the Wake- quarries – “a grievous oppres- plin of field”) in 1671 (“field” is It was therefore probably a over cattle. field area as part of a workforce sion”, not least because it meant probably a shortening of Bow- third generation William who In 1697, at Newcastle, the cutting timber in the area. It they’d have to pay extra turnpike field, a farm close to where the married Margaret Laidman death of Quaker Elizabeth seems too much of a coinci- tolls on the costlier main road. Stang road crosses the Greta). in 1676. They had children Kipling, daughter of Thomas dence not to guess that they It ended up in front of a jury, Sarah, daughter of Thomas William (1679) and Thomas and Grace Kipling of Bowes, knew of Barningham because who travelled to view the various Kipling, was baptised in 1674. (1680). is noted. She was “buryed in of some family connection roads and then declared they In 1676, she died on 6 Janu- There was probably also an- our burying yard”. Grace died with Tom, Bertha and Nellie. were astonished at Mr Tootle’s ary and another daughter was other William Kipling around in 1704 and a few months later Robert met Mary Brown, claim to have power to close the baptised Sarah just eight days at the time, as a William Ki- daughter Alice married a John married her and stayed in the existing road. later. In 1676, Thomas the son pling “of Tuthil” had a son Wilson. village (the Mercury mentions They warned that if he did of “Thomas Kipling junior” John in 1681 (who most prob- Also in 1705, Thomas was Mary England baking a cake as he’d have to pay two guineas had died. ‘Junior’ would have ably died in 1683). He was mentioned in the will of Henry a raffle prize for a Barningham he was the widowed father of a year to the local surveyor of been the above Thomas, to dis- most probably also the father Wrightson of Bowes, remit- whist drive in 1953). Sid mar- the three brothers who had roads to compensate for extra repair works. tinguish him from Thomas ‘of of Thomas (1682), there being ting his debts, and in 1709, ried the girl called Vera (Neil come here to live with his son field’ or some other Thomas. no record of the death of the he was executor of the will of racked his brains in vain for Robert? Mr Tootle built his new road, Further children followed Thomas born in 1680. In 1691, Thomas Ladyman. The next her maiden name) and they had Janet would love to establish but left the old one alone. We’re still using it today. including James (1678–1682), William Kipling of Tuthill’s year, daughter Ann had an the infant John. We don’t know the family links between all Charles (1682) and Christian wife had a son still-born and illegitimate child (“Elizabeth, what happened to Arthur. Wil- these Englands. Can any of our (1688). In 1686, the burial of she is probably the Mary, wife supposed daughter of Ambrose son England, the 86-year-old, more senior members add any Henry, young child of Thomas of William Kipling, who died Denham and Anne Kipling”). is still a mystery, but perhaps information? 6 Archive 46 Archive 46 23 Looking for Lodges of Eastwood Hall Kipling family who settled in Bowes I FOUND your contact details BOWES parish suffers from kiplings William died in 1676 and was on the internet after searching not having surviving registers buried in Bowes churchyard. East Wood Hall, Barningham. before 1701 for births and MIKE KIPLING continues Anthony was a churchwarden My name is Barbara Harris, marriages and 1670 for deaths. the story of his family, in our in 1689 (presumably his beliefs descendent of Robert Lodge Some bishop’s transcripts area for more than 400 years. did not excuse him from this of East Wood Hall, my great- cover 1615, occasional years civic duty). He died in 1690 great grandfather, who died on between 1660 and 1675 and In 1657 Charles purchased and was also buried in Bowes 14 August 1915 and is buried from 1676 to 1700, but for a “a house and land called churchyard. In 1693, the North in Barningham churchyard. large part of the 17th century Mirekelds” of which he had Riding Quarter Sessions grant- I have recently been given we must rely on other records been tenant. Myre Keld farm ed permission for “the house of marriage and death certificates to find out about the Kiplings may still be found today just Anne Kipling of Bowes” to be confirming that the Lodge fam- who lived there. outside Bowes on the road to used for Quaker worship. The ily of East Wood were farmers The first reference to them Barnard Castle. The follow- Quaker records show daughter and horse trainers. is actually from the previous ing year, Charles passed the Mary dying in 1696. My grandfather was William William Gladstone Lodge and his wife Ethel century when William Kipling property to another Charles Leonard Kipling Kipling, described as “second Gladstone Lodge, who mar- Wood Hall and found your of Bowes is mentioned in the LEONARD featured in a dis- ried Ethel Mary Rickerby and letters & emails son of Charles Kipling of details. I will be visiting Barn- 1588 will of Robert Kipling pute over pew ownership in lived at Church Farm, Girsby, Newhouses in Baldersdale”. two sons and one grandson ing-ham Church before long to of Fryerhouse in Baldersdale. 1671, heard in the Archbish- after leaving East Wood Hall, Charles of Bowes was prob- so we are keeping the Lodge see the graves and delve a bit Next, the survey of the op’s Court in York. Several where my dad grew up. They ably the great uncle of Charles name going. My brother and deeper. I should be grateful if Lordship of Richmond of 1605 witnesses refer to an Anthony left when the landlord wanted of Newhouses. I were brought up as townies in you are able to shed any further reports Charles and William Kipling “ a poore taylor” and the farm back, but I don’t know Darlington. I married Stewart light on my heritage. Kipling as tenants in Bowes The same property formed when this was. I have seen his son Leonard “a poore Harris from Stainton Village BARBARA HARRIS and John or Jenkin Kipling part of the marriage settle- Church Farm but it is nothing distracted taylor” as living and moved to Sedgefield to Sedgefield at Stonikeld or Spittle. The ment of the younger Charles, in a dilapidated house called but a ruin now, quite upsetting farm in 1990. We have one son barbara-harruison@ first mention in the bishop’s by then a hosier in London, to Woodcock Hall. to see. Matthew who is as interested Elizabeth Stevenson in 1681. btinternet.com transcripts is of the death of It is said that Anthony sat in I have sent you images of in tracing my dad’s family tree The property later passed to  We’ve sent Barbara details James Kipling in 1615 and the the disputed pew “both before Willam and Ethel, and also a as I am. Charles’ children Hannah and from our data base which baptism of James, son of An- and in the time of rebellion” press cutting relating to Rob- I haven’t done any research John, who sold it in 1711 to might help. Robert, who mar- thony Kipling, a few months and Leonard “in the late re- ert’s funeral in 1915. really as yet, I was just look- Charles’ brother, John (“of St ried Margaret Alderson in later (possibly named after a bellion and since”, implying I have one brother who has ing at the background of East James, Westminster, gentle- Barn-ingham in 1864, farmed recently deceased brother?) perhaps that Anthony died man”). John was involved in at Eastwood Hall from the around the time of the Restora- Charles Kipling other Bowes property transac- Geoffrey Smith on cricket film 1860s. A son, also Robert, tion (1660). remained there into the early CHARLES, along with wife tions between 1703 and 1708, I HAVE a very short sequence of film, transferred onto DVD, of Grace, acquired a number of Leonard and his wife Ann Barningham Cricket club in action, probably from around 1948. 1920s. He died in 1949. together with barber surgeon pasture gates (cattle grazing had a son Anthony in 1663. I guesstimate this date as my dad appears in it with his brother, Our records list 15 Lodges Leonard Laid-man, originally baptised between 1868 and rights) in the Cow Close and from Bowes. Ann died in 1673 and Leonard and dad looks about 20 years old. married Francis Peacock in 1896 and 14 people called Ox Close at Bowes in 1618. The elder Charles was a My dad was Geoffrey Smith, born at The Laurels, Barningham. 1676. A son John was born Lodge who were interred in He was also party to a dispute churchwarden in 1671 and paid He was the famous gardener/author/broadcaster, very proud to in 1619 in the Exchequer the same year and a third son be born and bred in Barningham, a place he classified as heaven Barningham graveyard be- the Hearth Tax in 1673. tween 1873 and 1949. We’ve Court over enclosure of part William in 1678. Frances died on earth and returned whenever he had a free day to roam the of Bowes Common. Having Anthony Kipling in 1698 and Leonard himself moors, as he had done as a youngster. had four Lodge brides (in 1772, 1810, and a joint wed- contributed £5 to the cost of ANTHONY Kipling’s son Wil- died in 1715. I’ll have to look through the box of pics I have stored from ding in 1912) and three bride- fencing, Charles’s cattle and liam was baptised at Bowes in It is likely that the James my parents (my mum, who was born in Startforth, died just over grooms (in 1785, 1864 and those of others who had car- 1664. However, his subsequent born in 1615 was Leonard’s two years ago) to see if there are any of interest to your group. 1934). ried out the enclosure were children, all daughters, seem brother. A James Kipling, In the meantime I will try to see if it’s possible to copy the DVD There’s also a W H Lodge driven off by “a mob of people only to be recorded in Quaker tailor, was made a freeman of and send it to you. named as a WW1 soldier on the armed with Pitchforks, staves records; Jane in 1665, followed York in 1664 and it is possible CAROLINE SMITH, Nidderdale war memorial in Newsham. A and daggers”, presumably by Ann (1667), Alice (1669) this was the same James. James [email protected] family called Lodge lived there those excluded from access and Mary (1671). Anthony’s prospered as a master builder  We’ve told Caroline we’d love to see the film – Ed. from the 1870s until at least to the land. wife was Ann (nee Peacock). and leased and rebuild a house 1920 – see Archive 28. 22 Archive 46 Archive 46 7 I WAS fascinated to find so Sussex paid for soldiers’ Barningham much information on Barning- On the trail of Elliotts who History Group ham on your website. clothes – and readers’ rent Publications The furthest back I have lived here 200 years ago AUGUSTUS Sussex Mil- inches long, so as to cover been able to trace back on Where Lyeth Ye Bodies* Guide to wars. Typical migration to the bank, founder of Hawsteads the stomach. The order will my own name is to Robert letters & emails Industrial Revolution I guess. Barningham church, graveyard map, Elliott, born 1790 presumably model farm in the 1860s, has be completed within a week. memorial details and list of all known common North-eastern name Interestingly my grand- in Barning-ham but certainly featured in these pages on sev- I have two reasons for asking burials. and he was a mere agricultural mother’s family, Riddles, were an agricultural labourer at eral occasions, and our reports you to give insertion to my Barningham Baptisms* Listed by labourer! Darlington based and I have The Hall. suggest that he was a man with letter – hoping that others may date, name and parents. Robert was my great-great- one of the first drivers on the a strong and generous sense of follow my example, and to Vol 1: 1580-1800; Vol 2: 1800-1950. He married Elizabeth Ap- great-grandfather and my line first railway as an ancestor. public duty. ask you, by what means can pleby circa 1820 and they had Barningham Brides* All marriages comes down through his son Thanking you in advance I insure the delivery of these three or more children in the Two newspaper cuttings 1580-1950, listed by date, groom Thomas to a Thomas Appleby, for any help. have come our way bearing waistcoats at their proper and bride. village. I would be pleased to Elliott, then two Edward Elli- JOHN ELLIOTT this out. destination?’ learn more. otts to myself. Thomas senior Counted* A-Z of census returns 1841- [email protected] We’ve no idea whether 1911, arranged so that families can be I notice one of your Archives was married in Stockton and The first, fromThe Times of (born Whitley Bay 1938, the clothing ever reached the tracked through 70 years. mentions “Elliott family1841” the family was there and November 30th 1855, is of a now in Surrey) Guards. Vol 1: Barningham, Scargill, Hope; – possibly not mine as it’s a Hartlepool until between the letter sent by Sussex from the  Our records don’t show Milbanks’ main residence at Vol 2: Newsham, New Forest. Vol 3: Brignall, Rokeby. Vol 4: Dalton, Gayles Robert being born in Barning- Thorpe Perrow. It was spotted THE second cutting is from ham, but we do have his mar- by Kathleen Horner of Snape the Teesdale Mercury 25 years & Kirby Hill. Jam Letch & Jingle Potts* History riage to Elizabeth in 1820 and local history society, who later, on September 29th 1880. the baptisms of six of their has been trawling Victorian of Barningham farms, fields and It reports a special meeting fieldnames. children between then and newspapers for reference to of the Barningham Reading 1833: Anne, Isabella, Thomas, the Milbank family. A Child of Hope** Journal of Mary Room, held in the Institute Martin, born on a local farm in 1847. Elizabeth, John and Robert. The letter, written at the and chaired by Sussex, its A Fleeting Shadow* The diaries of There’s also a Sarah, who height of the Crimean War, President and founder (see young Newsham schoolmaster James might have been Robert’s reads: Archive 19. Coates, 1784-85. sister; the marriage of Rob- ‘Sir, I see many suggestions The Mercury said the meet- A Farmer’s Boy* Memoirs of life in the ert junior in 1848; and the in your paper from patri- ing was called by Sussex ‘to area in mid-Victorian days. marriage of a Ruth Elliott in otic correspondents relative consider the financial condi- Aback to Yuvvin** 1849 Glossary of 1843 – she seems to be an to our soldiers wintering in tion of the society, which was Teesdale words & customs. eighth child though her bap- the Crimea. not all that could be desired. Barningham Vestry Minutes 1869- tism wasn’t recorded. ‘I think it is better to give ‘Mr Milbank made propos- 1894, Parish Minutes 1894-1931** Our burial records list six expression to one’s patriot- als for a new efficient organi- Transcripts of meetings, with back- Is this our Johnny the farmer – Elliotts buried between 1819 ism in works instead of mere sation for its better manage- ground history, index and lists of and 1882, including Elizabeth words. named parishioners. or the postman on his rounds? 1834, Robert (another one, the ment, and named a chairman, IN my quest to find all photographs postal relating to Teesdale I ‘Acting on this principle, as Rev R Tilbury, and a working The Archive*** Group newsletter. Back father of the Robert we started issues available. came upon a Yeoman print in the Parkin Raine collection. The with?) 1848, Elizabeth 1833 far as I am able, I have ordered party to pay all bills quarterly. print (above) is captioned “Yeoman 5020 FPR 336 a 3 Barning- Barningham Memories 1 & 2* DVDs aged 8 months, Ellen 1819 100 wash-leather waistcoats, ‘Members to pay up their ham looking N West (butcher John Bainbridge)”. with sleeves, to be work over shilling every quarter, and of cine film of Barningham in the aged 40 (Robert and Sarah’s the shirt, as a donation to the 1960/70s. The caption has been further annotated “or is it a Postman?” mother?), and Frances aged Mr Mibank took upon himself Looking closely the figure would appear to be in a postman’s Guards, being a most com- to pay off the debt himself, * £10 each + £1.50 p&p 16 in 1824 (his sister?). fortable clothing during the ** £5 each + £1 p&p uniform with a mail gig. With further research, low-and-behold, The 1841 census lists Robert that the society should start I find “Johnny Bainbridge” posted to your website. winter months. fair, and he engages also to *** £2 each + £1 p&p living in Barningham with ‘A tailor has contracted to Discounts for history group members I should be grateful if you would let me have any more details daughters Isabella aged 12 continue to pay the rent for you may have on this Yeoman print. make them for me, of course its premises.’ We can also supply copies of and Anne, 10. In 1851 Anne DAVE CHARLESWORTH was a servant living with the without profit to himself, at The Reading Room sur- As Time Passed By, a history of the rate of 5s 6d each. They Barningham by Merryne Watson. [email protected] Walton family; all the others vived for another 70 years. will be double across the Contact us for details.  We’ve printed this photo in the Archive before, and assumed had gone. chest, to button down the  The Rev Robert Tilbury was More information on our website the original caption was correct – ie, it’s local farmer Johnny Our correspondent John right breast, and to be 31 rector of Brignall. www.barninghamvillage.co.uk Bainbridge. Now we’re not so sure. Dave Charlesworth is the has joined BLHG and is now Teesdale postal service history expert, and he should know a poring over our births, mar- postman’s hat and gig when he sees it. Anybody got any ideas? riages and burials books. We wish him luck. 8 Archive 46 Archive 46 21 milbankcourts & diariescrimes ans by failing to ring their bi- A short, hard life for men in the lead mines cycle bell, and going poaching In 1845 the Greta Bridge from motor cars. Some ancient Jim McTaggart engrossed our justices were given a detailed crimes were still prosecuted, last meeting with the story of breakdown of cases heard by however: a man was jailed for Teesdale’s Victorian lead min- the court in the prevous year, a fortnight in 1920 for begging ers. ANN ORTON reports a rare analysis that deserves in the area. THE men lived at the mine repeating here. Petty sessions were abol- during the week and only re- A total of 128 offences were ished nationally in 1949 turned home at the weekend. dealt with, including nine of and replaced by magistrates Tools, boots, gunpowder and vagrancy, 35 poaching, 29 courts. Hearings continued candles were all provided by minor misdemeanours, 29 Olive Field JP to be held at Greta Bridge, the company but had to be paid damage to property, 11 illegal a doctor and landowners such but they seem to have been for by the men in instalments. hawking, and one offence by as James Todd of Barningham, few and far between. A trawl The miners would work in Lead miners at Rookhope an innkeeper. Nine people but not a single vicar appears through the Teesdale Mercury groups of about six and every lead mining at a time. were sent for trial; five were on the court lists. pages finds only a handful of three months would have to Some men would bring boots ‘reprimanded and discharged’. It was a long time before cases heard there in the early quarters as well as six to eight bargain with the London Lead back with them to repair, whilst Five of those convicted were a woman magistrate sat in 1950s, the last in 1953 when washer boys. Mining Company over targets others would knit baby coats under 16; one was over 80. judgement at Greta Bridge, a van driver admitted helping for the amount to be mined and They would sleep in their for their families. They also did Only four could read and write but it happened eventually, himself to bottles of wine prices paid. work clothes on mattresses embroidery and made wood- well; 59 could do neither. The and in 1950 the chairman was while making a delivery to the made of canvas or hessian If the men were working en toys and walking sticks. accused included 15 labourers, the formidable and somewhat Morritt Arms. and stuffed with straw and a profitable part of the mine Draughts was played and tour- eight colliers, six blacksmiths, eccentric Mrs Olive Field of Greta Bridge continued to chaff. Cast-iron buckets were they could possibly exceed naments were held between three farmers, three shoemak- Lartington Hall (still, however, operate as a licensing court provided as toilets. One doctor their target and perhaps earn a the best players in each mine. ers, one gamekeeper and 37 referred to in court reports as (it announced proudly in 1954 who came to test air quality in bonus; if they didn’t meet the The strict rules were upheld by travellers without a trade. Mrs Norman Field). that there hadn’t been a single the mines ventured into the target they could end up owing one of the men who they called Things changed slowly as The nature of crime changed prosecution for drunkenness in sleeping quarters of a mine money to the company. “The king”. Swearing earned the 19th century moved on. over the years, too. Poaching five years) but most cases were shop, declared it disgusting, The work was hard and a fine of 1d and a subsequent By 1880 the clergy’s domi- remained popular, but new of- transferred to Barnard Castle and said he would far rather offence 3d. Punching another nance of the justices’ bench fences appeared. People were and we believe the last hearing caused the men to suffer from be down the mine. many different kinds of res- man cost a shilling. They would was beginning to decline. The taken to court in the 1880s for at Greta Bridge was probably There was a fire in the living piratory diseases. Many died have serious debates about such chairman that year was Morley failing to get their offspring in the 1960s – can anyone of- quarters with a large cauldron young, not many living beyond subjects as to why one man Headlam of Gilmonby Hall, vaccinated, in the 1900s for fer a closure date for us? of hot water for the men to their thirties, and it was said could own all the rabbits and and by 1890 the post was held defrauding the railways and We may be able to discover make coffee or cocoa (tea was that Middleton had an unusu- pheasants and each man was al- by Robert Morritt of Rokeby. not sending their children to more when the next batch of too expensive.) A huge frying ally high number of young lowed to have his say: hecklers At the turn of the century it school, and in the 1920s for Mercury archives, covering pan could be used by six men widows. were fined 2d. was in the hands of a Colonel motoring offences including the years 1955 to 2000, goes They lived in a ‘mine shop’ Alcohol was strictly pro- Wilson, and other magistrates riding motorcycles without a online. This is in the pipeline, about half the size of the main hibited and was a sackable included two majors, a captain, licence, endangering pedestri- but don’t hold your breath. room in Barningham village offence with no possibility of hall, with sleeping accommo- reinstatement. dation upstairs. There were The company, owned by ‘Numerous’ JPs never turned up in court no windows in the sleeping Quakers, provided a garden ONE of the problems with magistrates in Vic- were several attempts to introduce laws to quarters, just a trapdoor from for each man at his home and torian days was that many were appointed as remove JPs who neglected their duties. the room below. There would competitions would take place a matter of prestige rather than for their ability The Teesdale Mercury commented upon one usually be seven bunks with with prizes for the best flow- or willingness to fulfill their duties. Some lived such attempt in 1890, saying that while there four men sharing each bunk ers and crops. Schools and far from their appointed area of jurisdiction. were few problems with attendance by mag- – fortunately due to the hard teachers were provided for the The result was that, while a number conscien- istrates on the Durham side of the Tees, those work and meagre rations the children. It cost 1d a week if tiously attended courts on a regular basis, many in the North Riding were frequently absent. your father was a miner but miners were not very fat – but played their part very rarely. Getting rid of them Their chairman – Robert Ambrose Morritt 2d if not. Pupils had to work sometimes this would increase Marl Beck mine shop and was difficult: once appointed, they kept the job at the time – was praised for his attendance hard, and if they misbehaved to six men in a bunk, with mine at Hudshope, Mid- for life regardless of how well they had served, record, but there were, said the Mercury, “nu- 42 men sharing the sleeping dleton in Teesdale their father could lose his job. or whether they had served at all. They also had to attend Sunday merous other magistrates who never attend the school twice on a Sunday and Towards the end of the 19th century there Greta Bridge sessions”. 20 Archive 46 Archive 46 9 needed a certificate to prove The main this if they wanted a job at the mine. Children as young as 10 priority: were employed as washer boys. The company also provid- protecting ed a sick pay and a pension scheme. After some negotia- property tion the age for retirement was which reported the APPEAR- brought down from 75 to 65 ANCE before magistrates was but still not one miner lived the first step in the prosecution long enough to draw a pension! of most crimes. In Middleton a reading room Suspected criminals were was built and filled with books. brought before the justices Brass bands were formed to (who would issue warrants for keep the men out of the pubs the arrest of anyone on the run and improve their lungs. A or thought likely to abscond) Treadmills and the Crank washhouse with boilers and and the facts of the case would MOST prisons had a treadmill or tread wheel installed. Some mangles provided a social provided flour to make money for the jail, from which the life for the wives! Housing be examined in detail, with Moving pictures: a dissolving views show prisoners earned enough to pay for their keep. Most, however, was built for the company’s witnesses called and defence ence. The subjects exhibited arguments aired. had no end product and the treadmill was walked just for best workers and a doctor was punishment. It became loathed by the prisoners. lead mining embraced scenes in Egypt, If the alleged crime was a appointed to look after the Another equally pointless device was the Crank, a large miners and their families. He Turkey, Switzerland, France, serious one – and in the 18th another feast was provided the Arctic regions,etc., which and 19th centuries that could handle that a prisoner would have to turn thousands of times a became very popular when next year for 700 wives who day. It could be tightened by the warders, making it harder to during an outbreak of typhus, the worthy exhibitor accom- mean merely stealing a loaf of enjoyed sandwiches, cakes, panied by short explanatory bread or setting a trap for hares turn – hence their nickname of ‘screws’. These punishments he prescribed wine, which had scones and tea and coffee. were not abolished until 1898. to be supplied by the company. remarks.” – the defendant would be sent As well as dishing out free But it was not all serious to the next quarter sessions or The mines had a very good tea and cakes to the miners milbankcourts & diariescrimes in 1842 escaped with a fine safety record with only 21 fatal and educational. “There was assizes. In 26 of the 177 Greta of £2 10s; a similar assault in in 1861, Octavius Wigram also thrown upon the canvas Bridge cases reported in the accidents in 60 years, nearly also laid on a picture show for accused of being “incorrigible 1845 merited a fine of £3 1s. all the victims teenage boys. a variety of subjects of a more York Herald between 1840 and rogues”, “idle vagabonds” or Assaults on the police seemed their children (they had been ludicrous character; one of 1845, the defendants were sent These were always investi- allowed to watch the feast but simply “idle and disorderly”. to be deemed even less seri- gated thoroughly but invariably which called forth the hearty for trial before a higher court. Magistrates were determined ous, with most offenders being not partake). plaudits of the youngsters; The rest were dealt with on with the same verdict: “his The show what the Teesdale to deter unemployed travellers, merely bound over to behave own fault.” being that of a Frenchman the spot. The bulk of cases were hawkers and other unwanted in future. Mercury called “an exhibition represented as being asleep The directors of the Lon- about violation of property: 44 visitors who might help them- of dissolving views”, using a with his mouth widely opened, Eight shopkeepers were don Lead Company paid an- – almost a third – were pros- selves to local game or end form of magic lantern with two and an uninterrupted ingress fined for using false measures, nual visits to the mines. When ecutions for trespass, poaching, up making claims on parish a handful of people were fined lenses that created what were, afforded to a number of rats, Octavius Wigram, governor damage to fences or removal resources, and those brought for drunkenness (five shillings in those days, amazing scenes after which the man awakes, company, came to Middleton of timber; another half-dozen before them got short shrift. was the usual penalty), and on the display screen. and finding himself sick, raises in August 1861 there was more involved minor thefts (mostly The sentence was usually a the odd innkeeper ended up in One slide could be made to himself up and begins, amid excitement than if the Queen of food – apples, oats, turnips, month or more in jail, with or court for allowing drinking out dissolve into another creating groans of a most pitiable na- was coming. for example). without hard labour; the worst of hours (fined £2). startling effects – day becom- ture, to vomit the little rascals Most of these offenders were offenders were condemned Missing, of course, were the A feast was laid on for 1,225 ing night, for example, or one up again.” men and was served in two fined, with the warning that to three months on the prison kind of crimes that would later person turning into another. By 1890 imports made the sittings. Carpenters made failure to pay meant a month treadmill. became the staple of magis- The novelty of the mines no longer viable and the special long tables and brick or two in jail. We don’t know Only half a dozen cases trates courts: driving offences. peformance mean that quite a London Lead Company folded ovens were built for the local how many this applied to, but involved offences against the But there is at least one report few adults went to see it, too. after 200 years in business. publicans to cook in. some fines were equal to many person – assaults on neigh- as far back as 1844 of someone Attending the show, said the The Dales are littered with There were pigs, deer, mut- months’ wages that it seems bours, brawls outside public being summoned for “furious Mercury, “was a considerable the remains of the lead indus- ton and vegetables but no unlikely the average poacher houses – and these were usually driving” – a coachman who number present of a ‘larger try and remind us of the many alcohol, only fruit juice. Five would be able to raise. regarded more lightly. One man endangered life on the road and growth’ who appeared to be as men who worked so hard to brass bands played. After The next largest category who admitted beating up a girl was fined the then enormous highly interested as the more earn a living in them. – 27 cases – involved people sum of £10. complaints from the women juvenile portion of the audi- 10 Archive 46 Archive 46 19 milbankcourts & diariescrimes division of this area, and in Doug’s family bible from 175 years ago the 18th century courts there prosecution of a schoolmaster covered cases from Bowes in Our guest speaker JIM McTAGGART told and an innkeeper for shooting the west to Newsham in the Northern Echo readers about meeting Doug on land at Bowes without a east, Mickleton to the north Anderson. This is his report certificate (the schoolmaster and Barningham to the south. was fined £20, a huge sum at FARMER Doug Anderson has every reason Later it extended as far as Gill- the time; the innkeeper got ing West and the pit villages of to cherish his family bible – it was presented away with £5). to his great-grandfather John Anderson back south-east Durham. in July 1840. The next mention we can Until the end of the last track down was in the York An inscription shows it was a gift from the century the majority of mag- Herald of February 2nd 1839, istrates were local aristoc- London Lead Company when he left the com- when, again, two men were ac- pany’s school at Forest in Teesdale. He was racy, landowners and clergy. cused of poaching (a man from A report of those attending 18 years old at the time, so it is possible that Eppleby was fined £20 for kill- after being a pupil he stayed on as an assistant North Riding quarter sessions ing game without a certificate; at Northallerton on 1803 lists teacher for a while.This could happen with the a Ravensworth man convicted brightest scholars. two JPs with titles, six ‘Es- merely of trespassing in search quires’ and five clerks in holy It is known that he later became a farmer at Doug shows the bible to history group members Phil Hunt and Jon Smith. of game got away with a £1 orders. A similar list from Widdybank. Others in the family also farmed penalty). 1830 shows the Rev John there as well as being blacksmiths and lead has had no children. He brought the bible to the March meeting of Barningham History Group, After that press reports be- JPs’ chairman: the Headlam as chairman, accom- miners. Family details written in the back of came more frequent, encour- panied by the Earl of Tyrcon- the bible show that John’s wife was Alice. He where it intrigued other members. “My ances- Rev John Headlam tor received it 175 years ago, so it is a valuable aged by the growth of local nel, Lord Dundas, Sir John died in 1869 at the age of 47, but she lived newspapers, the creation of ru- Eight years later the Petty Johnstone, the Hon Thomas into her 80s. piece of family history,” said Doug. It has obviously been well thumbed and ral police forces, and a greater Sessions Act dictated that Dundas, ten ‘Esquires’ and no They had a large family. Mark was born in public interest in how public two or more local magistrates less than thirteen clergymen. 1849, Mary in 1851, Sarah in 1853 (sadly she regularly used over the decades. Senior fam- ily members probably sat reading passages to money was being spent in the must sit in a petty sessional Headlam was rector of died aged five), Jane in 1856, William in 1862, fight against crime. court house, and it is probable Wycliffe from 1793 (taking John in 1864 (he was Doug’s grandfather) and younger ones as they huddled round the fireside on winter nights long ago. A trawl through the British that from then on they met over from the Rev Zouch Thomas in 1866. Another boy, Charles, who Newspaper Archive copies of at Thorpe Grange, site of the mentioned earlier), became was born in 1879, may have been the son of  Doug’s great-uncle Mark farmed at Moor- police house and local lock-up. cock on the moors above Barningham in the the York Herald suggests that archdeacon of Richmond in one of the girls. from the mid-1800s formal Although Durham and York- 1826, and served as a magis- The family moved down to a farm at Mickle- 1880s before moving to Park House farm and based newspapers gave in- later to Newsham Hall. He married a girl sessions were taking place at trate for over half a century. ton for some years before going to Moor House least once a month, and often creasing coverage to our area, He chaired the Greta Bridge called Mary from Hurst and had at least seven Farm at Brignall in 1865. more frequently. There are re- it was the arrival of the Dar- bench for most of the first Doug still farms there, following in the foot- children; the eldest, John, was at Park House ports of petty sessions at Greta lington and Stockton Times in half of the 19th century, often steps of his grandfather John and father Arthur, in the 1920s. Mark died in 1911. Bridge on 14 occasions in 1844 1847 and the Teesdale Mercury sitting alone. who was born in 1903 and died in 1977. Arthur  Jim McTaggart’s Dales Diary appears each and on 18 the year after, and seven years later that intro- His deputy was Rokeby also had two other sons, Wilfred and Albert, Saturday in the Northern Echo’s Memories there were almost certainly duced extensive coverage of estate owner J S Morritt; and three daughters, Minnie, Ettie and Elsie. supplement. Doug Anderson published his others that went unreported. all local courts, and from then other magistrates in the 1840s Doug, whose wife Hazel died in 1999, is evocative memories of farming life, One Field Until 1849 individual mag- on almost every case heard at included Barningham rec- now the last of the line at the age of 78, as he at a Time, in 2007. Copies are still available. istrates could hear petty crimi- Greta Bridge appears to have tor William Wharton (who nal offences almost anywhere, been reported. eventually took over as chair- Start planning that prize-winning project! though it seems likely that The area covered by courts man), Headlam’s son Morley A TROPHY, cash prizes and glory under the age of 18. Winning sub- sessions were held in one of at Greta Bridge seems to have of Gilmonby Hall, Henry await the winners of this year’s missions are printed in the Archive. the local inns. We can only varied over the centuries. The Witham and John Michell of The Archive Award, presented by Barn- The deadline for entries is Friday find one reference to a venue earliest known local admin- Forcett Hall. Mark Milbank Archive ingham Local History Group for the August 28th and winners will be before 1850: on March 30th istrative area was the Gill- of Barningham attended once, Award best local history project. announced at Barningham Show 1841, said the York Herald, ing West wapentake (an Old in 1843. It was well into the 2015 Entries can be in any format and on September 6th. It sounds a long William Cant was ordered at Norse word meaning a meeting 20th century before ‘ordinary’ are judged on originality, research, way away, but it’s never too early the petty sessions held at the place, possibly derived from people began to be appointed local interest and readability, and to start planning your project. More Morritt Arms to pay three ‘weapon take’, where people to the bench. there is a separate prize for entrants details nearer the time. shillings a week for the upkeep entitled to bear arms gathered of a bastard child of Margaret to vote). Greta Bridge appears Bottoms. to have developed as a sub- 18 Archive 46 Archive 46 11

courts & crimes THE Rev Thomas Zouch, JPs divided themselves into one of Greta Bridge’s early Watch the local groups to deal with minor JPs, was a well-known past online matters such as vagrancy and theologian and naturalist THIS is a still from a poor relief, and in 1605 they whose collected works two-minute Pathe News were ordered to hold local were published after his film of Barnard Castle sessions to handle urgent busi- death in 1815 (available cycle meet in 1929 – one ness not requiring a jury: the on Google Books). The of 90,000 news clips from fore-runner of petty sessions accompanying biography the past 100 years and which continued well into the suggest that he was pro- 20th century. foundly deaf most of his more, now available to browse free on line. From 1671 JPs were given life. How this affected his the right to hear cases alone, on ability to sit in judgement Log in to see the parade the report of a single witness. on those appearing before at www.britishpathe.com Not surprisingly, convictions him in court isn’t clear. – watch the lady on the soared. As demands upon the lower left when her baby justices grew, quarter sessions wakes up! dealing with more serious mat- High Constable’s Sessions ters were held more frequently, and towards the end of their held at ‘Greatay Bridge’ Ever wondered why existence were often sitting in cases brought to court. meetings were a regular event. continuous session. THE first reference we can However, magistrates were al- it’s called Cocklebury? The rise of local authorities find to a court at Greta Bridge lowed to deal with minor cases IT’S a farm just south of Cross Lanes, and a long way in the 19th centuries meant that comes from the Yorkshire on their own and a lot of JPs’ from the sea. But they called it Cocklebury because JPs lost some of their admin- Quarter Sessions records of business appears to have been of the shellfish that flourished nearby. istrative responsibilities, and 1605, which report that on done from home. It surprised us, too, when we chanced upon the pro- many municipal corporations April 11th that year Richard In another entry from 1785, ceedings of a group of early 19th century naturalists took over their appointment. Pyburne of Awdburghe (Ald- Coates describes a woman go- calling themselves The Wernerian Society. Among The property qualification was brough) and Geoffrey Hehns- ing to Wycliffe Rectory, home them was Henry Witham of Witham Hall fame, an reduced and then abolished in ley of Marrick were dealt with of the Rev Thomas Zouch, a ardent biologist who delivered a paper to the society’s the early 1900s and the first “for non-appearance at the prominent local magistrate, meeting in November 1826 in which he described woman magistrate was ap- High Constable’s Sessions, to complain about being ill- how he had discovered a thriving colony of cockles pointed in 1919 (today 50 per held at Greatay Bridge”. treated at a local inn, and her in a moss bed near the farm. cent of JPs are women). How often such sessions alleged assailants were sub- They had obviously been there for centuries, he The Justices of the Peace were held is unclear, but they sequently summoned to the said – hence the name Cocklesbury (it’s lost an S since rectory to be given “very great Act of 1949 introduced mag- appear to have taken place with then). He gathered some of the creatures, cooked istrates’ courts, with support reprimands” by the clergyman. them and found they increasing frequency in the Most of the time magistrates staff, legal advisers and train- tasted good, though 18th century. In 1785 Newsh- appear to have chosen one of ing for JPs. Assizes and quarter am schoolmaster James Coates (not surprisingly) less sessions vanished in 1971, two courses of action: if the recorded in his diary that appli- case was serious enough, they salty than the coastal replaced by crown courts. cants for a licence to run an inn variety. Magistrates’ courts and commited defendants on bail “went to Greata-Bridge, where or in custody to quarter ses- It was the first time, magistrates are still with us, the Justices met on Monday”, said the Society, that dealing with 98 per cent of all sions; if the offence was minor, which sounds as though these they dealt with it on the spot. cockles had been Out-numbered by JPs There are few records of found in a freshwater petty sessions proceedings be- environment, and members got so far inland as Cocklebury near Cocklebury today who’s SOME magistrates appear to have had so much time on their fore the 1840s (record keeping got quite excited about it. isn’t clear, but the most popular ever come across cockles in hands (and perhaps enthusiasm for claiming expenses) that wasn’t compulsory until 1880). Since then scientists have theory is that seaside cockles’ the area. they called sessions for the slightest reason, holding court The first press report we can discovered that there are eggs stuck to the legs of water- Modern farming methods when there was only one case to be heard, and that often a find of a case at Greta Bridge more than a dozen species birds, who then flew inland may have wiped them out, very minor one. On January 26th 1845, for example, they had is in the Durham County Ad- of cockles that live happily before dropping them off. but they could still be there. only a single poacher to deal with. vertiser of August 24th 1822, away from the sea. How they We can’t find anyone living Anyone for a cockle hunt? 12 Archive 46 Archive 46 17 Tories, Whigs, Liberals, Crime and punishment at Greta Bridge Justice has been meted out at Labour: we’ve had Greta Bridge for centuries. them all down the years JON SMITH reports ON June 23rd 1903 the Liberal MP Sir Joseph Pease died at the FOR hundreds of years, if you age of 75, having been MP for Barnard Castle since 1885 and were caught breaking the law before that one of the two MPs representing South Durham. in the Barningham area you The by-election in July 1903 brought international attention ended up being hauled before to the town. The Liberals, then a major party alternating govern- magistrates at Greta Bridge. ment with the Tories, were represented by Hubert Beaumont, Courts dispensing justice of who had unsuccessfully fought Kings Lynn in 1895 and Buck- one kind or another were held ingham in 1900. there for as long as records ex- The Tory was William Lyon Vane, standing as a Unionist. ist, and probably a lot longer. He had fought the seat in both 1895 and 1900, each time head The role of magistrates goes to head with Pease. back as far as 1195, when The third candidate, standing for the new Labour Representa- Richard I – the Lionheart – appointed knights to uphold tion Committee was Arthur Henderson, a 39 year-old Glaswegian Early Victorian petty sessions court: the one at iron-worker and trades union- the law and keep the peace in Greta Bridge was probably better run ist, who had been a founding constituencies troubled areas of his realm. delegate of the LRC in 1900. General Election looming, First known as ‘keepers of courts & crimes them with paid (stipendiary) He’d been elected Mayor of PHIL HUNT looks at our the peace’, they were renamed magistrates. Darlington earlier in 1903, and area’s past MPs ‘justices of the peace’ by Ed- their authority went largely On assuming office, JPs ward III in an Act of 1361 that undisputed. swore an oath to enforce all had been Pease’s agent at the the Witham Hall to a crowd of Sir Joseph Pease gave them the power to bind All had to be property own- laws with respect to robbery, 1900 election. about three thousand. On an watched this with interest but over unruly persons to be of ers, “men of substance” who murder, felony, riot and dis- The result was announced electorate of 11,234, with an no direct involvement, because good behaviour. JPs were needed the recommendation turbance of the public peace. from the upper windows of 85 percent turnout, Henderson it was at that time still part of ordered to meet four times a of the county’s lord lieutenant They conducted arraignments beat Vane by 57 votes, with the North Riding of Yorkshire. year to conduct their business before they could be appointed for all criminal cases, tried the Liberal trailing 500 votes The areas north and south – the origin of quarter sessions, by the Crown. They had to be misdemeanours and dealt with behind. of the Tees had very differ- which continued until the able to read and write. Many infractions of local regulations Arthur Henderson became ent histories of parliamentary 1970s. The alternative name were members of the Inns of and by-laws. only the fifth ever Labour MP. representation. of ‘magistrates’ – a term for Court, studying there to equip They attended major trials at He held the seat until 1918 legal officials in Roman times themselves for the prudent county assizes (presided over when he stood in east London The Durham side – dates from the 16th century. administration of their estates, by judges) and administered the but lost. But he returned to UNTIL 1675 County Durham, From the days of Elizabeth I though few had expertise in county, fixing wages, regulat- parliament later, becoming alone among English coun- to the end of the 18th century, criminal law. ing food prices and supplies, Home Secretary, then Foreign ties, had no representation in JPs were a major component The office of JP was vol- licensing premises for the Secretary and winning the Parliament, a consequence of of the squirarchy that formed untary and unpaid. An Act of sale of alcohol, building and Nobel Peace Prize. its status as County Palatine. the backbone of the English 1389 had given them the right controlling roads and bridges, He returned to Parliament The Bishop of Durham pos- governmental system. They to claim four shillings a day running houses of correction for the last time after winning sessed sovereign power over were local aristocrats, gentry, subsistence, but this lapsed, where rogues and vagabonds a by-election at Clay Cross, the county, a power that did clergymen and merchants who presumably because most JPs were detained, and gener- achieving the unique distinc- not exist elsewhere in England. belonged to the same social were so well off they couldn’t ally providing local services tion of being elected a total of Thus, in Parliaments from class and shared the same val- be bothered to claim expenses. thought by the Crown and Par- five times at by-elections in 1430 to 1675, while English ues as Members of Parliament. Becoming a JP confirmed liament to be necessary for the constituencies where he had counties had two MPs Durham They had a vested interest in the office-holder’s position welfare of the country. From not previously been the MP. He had none. upholding the law, particularly and authority in society, and highways to hue and cry, toll holds the record for the great- In 1621 Parliament passed a the rights of property owners most places found enough bridges to the price of turnips, est number of comebacks from law to enfranchise Durham in and the pursuit of poachers, people willing to undertake the JPs were involved. They were losing a previous seat. the same way as other coun- and held social positions and job without pay, though some a powerful lot. Arthur Henderson Barningham, of course, ties, but Charles I refused to economic power so strong that larger towns supplemented As early as the 16th century 16 Archive 46 Archive 46 13 constituencies of 1885 covered the western Mike’s guide to checking your DNA side of Durham from the Tees give Royal Assent, arguing to boundary with the Hex- History group member MIKE that there were too many MPs ham constituency. In 1918 KIPLING has been using his and he wanted reform of the boundaries were redrawn and DNA to check family links. decayed boroughs. it comprised Barnard Castle We wondered how it works. Under Cromwell Durham and Teesdale, Stanhope and FIRST, what is DNA? The full was allowed representation Weardale and Lanchester: a name is deoxyribonucleic acid, to the first and second Com- mix of rural and mining areas. and it’s the hereditary material monwealth Parliaments, but In the ten elections over 65 in humans and almost all other not to that of 1658, which years, Liberals won the first, organisms. Nearly every cell in reverted to the earlier elec- Labour won six and the Con- a person’s body has the same toral arrangements. Durham’s servatives three. DNA, most located in the cell rights were recognised in 1661 In 1950 the Barnard Castle nucleus. under Charles II and were fi- seat disappeared and was split The information in DNA is nally confirmed in a statute of between several adjacent seats. stored as a code made up of 1675. The same Act recognised Barnard Castle and Teesdale four chemical bases: adenine helix can serve as a pattern the laboratory. After a month or Durham City as a parliamen- north of the Tees became part (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), for duplicating the sequence two, a result emerges and the tary borough with its own two of the new Bishop Auckland members. and thymine (T). Human DNA of bases. This is critical when lab tells you if there are any Hugh Dalton seat. In 1974 Teesdale south consists of about three billion cells divide because each new matches. It’s then a matter of As in other county constitu- of the Tees was added; in the encies, the franchise between Vane-Tempest, Bt., but the sec- bases, and more than 99 per cell needs to have an exact luck whether any close rela- ond by Whig Viscount Barnard. 1980s parts of Newton Aycliffe cent of those bases are the same copy of the DNA present in tives are amongst the millions 1430 and 1832 was defined by and Ferryhill were transferred the old cell. already tested. the Forty Shilling Freeholder The 1832 Great Reform Act, to Sedgefield while Spenny- in all people. brought in by the Whig Earl The order, or sequence, Mike tells us there are three “If you’re really keen, you Act, which gave the right to moor was gained from Sedge- vote to every man who pos- Grey, changed some things rad- field. Before 1974 the elec- of these bases determines types of DNA tests for family can then try to recruit others ically and divided the county the information available for history purposes. “The main with the same name to see if sessed freehold property within torate was just under 50,000 the county valued at £2 or more into North and South divisions, before increasing to around building and maintaining an one for tracing common ances- you are related or not, as I have each returning two members. tors with the same surname are been doing for the Kiplings for per year for the purposes of 70,000. In 1910 it was 68,332. organism, similar to the way The South Durham division in which letters of the alpha- ‘Y-chromosome’ tests, which several years. land tax; it was not necessary It now comprises Spenny- traces back up the male line for the freeholder to occupy his voted in Darlington. There moor, Bishop Auckland, West bet appear in a certain order “A test from one of the were no parliamentary bor- to form words and sentences. (ie father’s father’s father, ex-Arkengarthdale Kiplings land, nor even in later years to Auckland, Shildon and all of etc) and is good for as many be resident in the county at all. oughs enclaved in the area the former Teesdale District DNA bases pair up with each reached the lab recently, for of the South division, so no generations as you want. example, so in a couple of He (all parliamentary electors Council area. other, A with T and C with G, were men) had as many votes non-resident 40 shilling free- “Another, ‘autosomal DNA’ months we may know if they It has returned a Labour to form units called base pairs. as he had £2 properties. holders voted in the county Each base is also attached to finds common ancestors any- are related to the Barningham constituency. MP in each of the 17 elec- where in the family tree but Kiplings or to the Baldersdale The Durham electorate was tions from 1950. The first was a sugar molecule and a phos- In the eight elections be- phate molecule. Together, a dilutes in effectiveness by 50 ones (or neither).” quite small; in 1790 5,578 Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of per cent every generation, so votes were cast and in 1820 tween 1832 and 1885, Liberals the Exchequor, who had held base, sugar, and phosphate are The lab Mike uses is www. won 13 seats to the Tories’ called a nucleotide. is only good for about five or familytreedna.com and there’s only 3,741. This contrasts with the Bishop seat from 1929. six generations back. the population in 1832 of about three. Liberal names included He stood down in 1959 to be Nucleotides are arranged a lot more information (and Pease, Vane, Bowes and Lamb- prices) shown on their site. 250,000, suggesting that only followed by Jim Boyden until in two long strands that form “The third, ‘mitochondrial ton. DNA’, traces back up the fe- This one is based in America, about one person in 25 had a 1979, Derek (now Lord) Foster a spiral called a double helix. vote, all of them men. In 1885 the seats were redis- The structure of the double male line (mother’s mother’s and prices start at around £50 until 2005, and lately by Helen mother etc). Generally it’s not a test. The names of the 66 mem- tributed in a major re-organisa- Goodman. helix is somewhat like a lad- tion that also saw an increase der, with the base pairs form- so useful but this was used to “I would be happy to advise bers returned in the 33 elec- identify the body of Richard any member who would like tions between 1654 and 1832 in the male franchise. The four The Yorkshire side ing the ladder’s rungs and the MPs representing North and sugar and phosphate molecules III. to explore things further,” says come from just 16 families, THE whole county of York- Mike, who lives in Horsham, mostly names easily recog- South Durham were replaced shire was a parliamentary forming the vertical sidepieces “Each test starts with buy- by eight county constituen- of the ladder. ing a kit which is mailed to West Sussex. His email address nised now, including Tempest, constituency from 1290, re- Vane, Eden, Lambton, Bowes, cies, including Barnard Castle, An important property of you, then rubbing the inside of is [email protected]. turning two MPs until 1826  Shafto, Milbanke and Barnard. Bishop Auckland and a further when this was doubled. 14 DNA is that it can replicate, your cheek with a spatula and Latest Kipling research: see seven boroughs. sending the spatula tip back to Page 23 In 1768 party labels ap- boroughs were excluded, or make copies of itself. Each The Barnard Castle seat strand of DNA in the double peared: in 1812 the first seat including Richmond, each was held by Tory Sir Henry returning two members of 14 Archive 46 Archive 46 15 constituencies letters extra Polka composer their own. Voting was in public and the candidates’ expenses Allison search included the treating of vot- draws a blank with railway link to ers, often with food and drink; I AM researching the Allison/ landed gentry often agreed the Allinson family of Birkdale. my gt-gt-grandfather representation to avoid a poll I know that John Allison was with its consequent expense. JANE HACKWORTH-YOUNG discovers her ances- buried at Dufton (parish church tor’s favourite dance music William Wilberforce was a for Birkdale) and the inscrip- Tory member from 1807. tion states that he died at West TIMOTHY Hackworth, my great-great-grandfather, The Reform Act of 1832 Hope 1802 age 43. Was there was the first superintendent engineer of the Stockton & divided the county into thee an accident at a mine there Darlington Railway, responsible for the line, engines, division with two members then? wagons and employment of personnel. each. The second member for I’m also looking for evi- On giving a local historian my address when I moved this North Riding from 1865 dence of a birth in Barningham to Rokeby five years ago, he told me that The Rokeby to its abolition in 1885 was parish 28 June 1800 of Henry Polka was Timothy’s favourite piece of music. Frederick Milbank, Liberal. Allison or Allinson, son of I was unconvinced, but was aware that although a In 1885 the North Riding John Allison and Ann. strict Methodist Timothy loved music, encouraged was split into four constituen- PATRICIA SMITH his children to dance and his locomotives for the Stockton cies : Cleveland, Richmond, pat.paddockhaugh daughters played the piano cover story & Darlington Railway (Robert Thirsk & Malton, and Whitby. @btinternet.com and harp. had left his father, George, to Richmond was held by Mil-  We’ve searched in vain for A few weeks ago I asked Sir work in South America). bank, but went Tory in 1886, Leon Brittan any information that might Andrew Morritt of Rokeby if I Timothy became superinten- and apart from 1906-1910 has fifth Richmond MP since 1918 help Patricia. Sorry! – Ed. could have a copy of the score dent Engineer of the S&DR in been Tory ever since. when Lt Col (later Sir) Mur- for the Polka. 1825, forming in 1833 his own In 1974 Ted Heath’s local rough Wilson (Unionist) beat County Durham I was stunned when I re- Soho Works which he put in his government reforms trans- the candidate for Agriculture. History & Heritage ceived the music to find that brother Thomas’ charge. The ferred the areas of Teesdale In the elections of 1922, 1923 it was composed by William first engine for Russia and the south of that river to County and 1924 he was returned Forum M Crawford, station master first three for Nova Scotia were Durham to become part of the unopposed. YESTERDAY BE- of Bishop Auckland Station. built there. Bishop Auckland constituency. In 1929 Thomas Dugdale He is listed in the 1851, Timothy resigned from the William Hague is only the won the seat and held it until LONGS TO YOU 1861 and 1871 censuses as S&DR in 1840 to concen- 1959, being unopposed in Local & Family His- living in the station house with trate on Soho, and Thomas set 1931. Timothy Kitson (later his wife and family. He had up Fossick & Hackworth in knighted) held the seat from tory Fair eight children and in the 1861 Stockton which built locomo- 1959 to 1983. Leon Brittan “Where our census one son, William, is tives and ship engines. listed as a music teacher and (later knighted) held the seat History Comes Timothy became a Meth- from 1983 to 1989, when another a cabinet maker’s sus, another son is listed as odist preacher and on many young William Hague won Home” apprentice. In the 1871 cen- ‘booking clerk’. So perhaps a Sunday would ride from the by-election by a mere Saturday 9 May the connection between Wil- Shildon to Barnard Castle and 2,634 votes, polling just 37 liam Crawford and Timothy surrounding villages to take percent of the vote. It was 2015 Hackworth led to Timothy services. His biography will be the period before the merging New College, Dur- particularly appreciating Wil- published shortly and Timothy of the Social Democrats and liam’s music. It is a strange Hackworth & the Locomotive the Liberals, whose joint vote ham DH1 5ES coincidence that I should move is in its third edition. would have won the seat. Email: yb2u15@gmail. to Rokeby!  A locomotive named Rokeby That election apart and com Timothy (1786–1850) was was built by the Shildon Works excepting the 1997 Labour Website: born at Wylam on the Tyne, Company in 1847. landslide, the Tory vote ranged www.durhamweb.org. became foreman of the Smiths  The score for the polka from 57 to 75 percent of the uk/historyforum and built the Puffing Billies was published: it cost three vote. At 62.8 percent in 2010 and Wylam Dillies. In 1824, he shillings. it became the safest Conserva- went as a ‘borrowed man’ to the  Have we got a piano player Frederick Milbank tive seat in the country. Timothy Hackworth Newcastle Stephenson Works who would like to play the which was constructing the first polka for us? Get in touch!