Bishop Burton News July 2011
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BISHOP BURTON NEWS JULY 2011 Two Hundred And Fortieth Edition This attractive drawing of a garden pink has been given to us by Elaine Hoyes. We are most grateful for the lovely sketches she does for us for the front cover. Dianthus (their botanical name) like a sunny position and can cope with drought conditions. They range from the mat-forming old fashioned pink (which has just one flush of usually strongly scented flowers) to the repeat flowering, more vigorous modern pinks and border carnations. Joan Pillmoor – Assistant Editor Welcome to another Newsletter and this gives us the chance to update you with our re-organisation. Adam Guttridge, who lives on Bryan Mere, has very kindly offered to do our printing for us for which we are very grateful. Liz Swann volunteered to help and so she has taken over the financial side. Liz, with her banking background, will have no difficulties in taking over as Treasurer. Please send all donations to Liz , The Old Shop, School Green – tel: no: 550962, from now on and your donations will be gratefully received. We do have a grant from the Parish Council and we could not publish without it but costs are creeping up, ink and paper being our major expenditure. Many thanks to all those who have donated recently Joan Pillmoor has decided that she would like to be Assistant Editor and not Co-editor. Joan will be organising the front cover pictures as usual so please contact Joan if you have a picture you would like to see on the cover. Joan will also try to keep the editor on the right track! This leaves me, Susan Leeding, as Editor. The collators, staplers, folders, deliverers and those who post the newsletter, remain stalwartly available and we thank them for their help and endurance. [2] The Wind Farm proposal looks as if it is the biggest subject, in more ways than one, to be discussed in the near future and we are including the letters from Infinis Wind Holdings Ltd in this edition as there is a belief that not all residents received them when they were sent out in May 2011. We would like to thank all our contributors for their articles which make the Newsletter what it is – village news! If you have news and views that you would like to be included in the newsletter then please do contact the editor – email: [email protected] - phone 551277 – letterbox, Chainbridge, Finkle Street. Can we please have your articles for the September Edition before 25th August. Thank you very much. Editor BISHOP BURTON INNKEEPERS This article relates the history of the innkeepers at the Altisidora Inn in the village of Bishop Burton. The inn was also known as the Horse and Jockey and as the Evander at various times in its history. So far I have only used the parish registers and sources available on the Internet. A fuller version of this article will be available on the village web site. The original coaching inn was believed to be built in the late 15th and early 16th century. The earliest reference I have so far found to a named innkeeper in Bishop Burton is 1721 and his name was John Nixon. From license records, it appears that during the mid 19th century there were usually two and sometimes three persons granted licenses to run inns in Bishop Burton. Whether there were two inns or just the one I have not been able to establish yet. I have been able to piece together the story of the main families who were in the inn from the mid 18th century until the 1st world war. These families were: Stephenson, Senior (including Ellerker), Quest and Richmond. Stephenson The Stephenson‘s were innkeepers between 1759 and 1793 and possibly beyond. Christopher was the innkeeper from 1759 to his death in 1775. His [3] widow Elizabeth then briefly held the license and their son Thomas then took it over from 1777 to at least 1793. Senior The Seniors were inn keepers at the Horse and Jockey from the early 1800‘s until 1863. Jane Coulson married James Senior in 1803 in Bishop Burton. James died in 1818 aged 42 and Jane, his widow, became the inn keeper of Evander, then renamed the Horse and Jockey. Jane married William Senior of Middlesex sometime after 1823. I am not sure what the relation was between William and James Senior (if any). William is recorded as the innkeeper in the 1841 and 1851 census returns. Sarah Ellerker became William Senior‘s house-keeper in the late 1840‘s as Jane Senior had died in 1837. Sarah did not marry him but appears to have borne him several children. William Senior died in 1860 and in the 1861 census, Sarah is the head of the household living at the Horse and Jockey where she is now the victualler (another name for an innkeeper). Sarah gave up the license in the early 1860‘s but continued to live in the village until her death in 1889. She was a cow keeper and had a smallholding of about 11 acres. Quest Thomas Quest, father and son, were innkeepers at the Altisidora from about 1863 to 1905. Thomas and Sophie Quest came to Bishop Burton in about 1863. In the 1861 census, Thomas Quest‘s occupation is given as Gamekeeper; this was probably on the Riby Hall estate. By the time of 1871 census, Thomas Quest is the inn keeper at Bishop Burton and he remained so until his death on 10th June 1895. Sophia had died some two years earlier aged 51 years. Both are buried in the churchyard of All Saints Church. After the death of his father in 1895, Thomas Quest (born 1867) became the inn keeper. He had married Blanche Alphosine Day in the same year in All Saints Church. Blanche was a British subject born in Vaudreuil, France in 1865. She worked as a lady‘s maid in the Durham house of Sir Theodore Fry MP. Theodore was married to Sophia Pease and H R Pease was the land agent for the Bishop Burton estate in the 1890‘s so there may have been [4] some family connection that brought the Fry‘s to the village and Blanche to the inn. Blanche Quest died in 1905 and we know from the school log that in early March 1905, their two children, Clifford and Constance were taken out of school and went to Beverley to live. This may have been connected to the sudden death of Blanche at the age of 37. It appears also that in 1904/1905 Tom Quest was experiencing financial difficulties so this may also have been a reason for their leaving the village. He was officially made bankrupt in October 1904. We believe that at some point Clifford and Constance went to live with their uncle Arthur Charles who lived in West Yorkshire and became in November 1918 the Acting Chief Constable of the West Riding Police. Clifford enlisted as a private in the 10th Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment in 1914 in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. He died on 6th April 1916 of wounds received in France and he is commemorated at the Bailleul Cemetery in Northern France. Richmond James Richmond took over as landlord of the Altisidora when the Quests left. He was born in Ripon in 1869. James worked first in the village as a domestic coachman, presumably for the estate. James was married to Emily until his death on 24th September 1913 in Brough. They had two children, Claude born in 1900 and Eric born in 1906. Emily was Ernest Ellerington‘s sister and she subsequently married John Ouston in 1926 and lived at Low Balk farm until her death in 1943. Claude Richmond farmed at Low Balk Farm until his death in 1972. Bryn Jones LETTERS FROM INFINIS TO BISHOP BURTON VILLAGERS The Cold Harbour Met Mast Planning Application Infinis sent a letter dated 12th May, outlining our plans for the submission of a met mast application at Cold Harbour Farm. Unfortunately, it seems that a number of local residents failed to receive our letter. We used a public electoral register address database and people sometimes opt out of this so it would appear our list was not complete. We are further led to [5] believe that a number of residents received multiple copies, which was clearly a clerical error. As we move forward with the project, we hope to be able to update our records for any further mail outs. If you were missed off the list, and would like to receive information updates about the proposed project, please let us know your address and we will ensure that you receive all the information we give out going forwards. Please find below a copy of the letter that we sent for your reference. If you would like to update us with your contact details or if you are interested in a wind farm visit please email us at [email protected]. Alternatively phone contact details are in the letter below. We look forward to keeping you up to date with the results of our studies as we go forward and are keen to hear your comments about the proposals as and when we gather further information about the site. Tim Mockridge 12th May 2011 Planning application for anemometer mast, Cold Harbour Farm I am writing to you to let you know that Infinis is currently in the early stages of investigating the potential for a new wind farm on land at Cold Harbour farm, situated about 1.5km away from Bishop Burton village.