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Newhouses 1911 Newhouses 1911 Two families in the 1911 census were all that remained in the UK of the Kiplings who had lived at Newhouses, a farm in Baldersdale, since at least 1500. Their earlier history can be found in ‘The Kiplings of Newhouses’ (http://genealogy.kipling.me.uk/The%20Kiplings%20of%20Newhouses.pdf) but this narrative begins in the early 1800s. Charles ,---------------------- -----|----- ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------------------------------¬ John William Charles |-------- -------¬ |-------- ------,------ ------,------ ------,------ ------,-------------¬ |-------- ------,-------------¬ Mary Henry Mary Isabella William John Elizabeth Hannah Charles Frances Margaret = John S dsp? = Joshua = Jonathan | Nicholson = Samuel | Ada Edith Helmer Lace Waistell | = Jane Rowlandson Charles | | | Helmer dsp Charles Charles William |-------- ------,------ ------,------ ------,------ ------,------ ------,------ ------,-------------¬ Kipling Waistell | Mary Isabella John William Thomas Jane Ada Helen Lace | | = Robert = Thomas Helmer dsp Charles #130 Kate Elizabeth Arthur William Huggison Helmer USA dsp #130 #130 Kipling #119 | Waistell RN |-------- ------,------ -------¬ |-------- ------,------ -------¬ William Mary Margaret John Adelina Florence dsp? Garrett Hannah dsp Charles Kipling of Newhouses had sons John (1775), William (1779) and Charles (1788). Newhouses. November 2017 A. John John married Ann (Nancy) Bell of Gill House in 1820 and had children Mary (1820) and Henry (1822). It is not known what happened to Henry but it is likely that he died young. On display in St Romald’s church are brass pew markers, including John’s. New box pews were auctioned in 1829 and it is likely that these markers date from then.1 John paid £6 10s for it. 1 DICKINSON, K. S. (1936) History of the Church & Parish of Romaldkirk. Snushall In 1841, the family can be seen to be one of five living at Newhouses and its neighbouring properties (East and West Newhouses and the School House on the road up the dale). 1841 John was of independent means and the tithe apportionment of 1839 shows that he owned the freehold of the main Newhouses Farm and let the land and some of the buildings to John Dent. A carthouse at Newhouses has a keystone with the name “I. Kipling” and the date “1836”. This refers to John (J was often written as I). According to William Barnes Helmer, a pump was also attributable to John. It was no longer present at Newhouses in 2017, although a well-shaft still is. Photos courtesy of Carolyn Bailey (2017) Daughter Mary received a legacy from John Kipling of Overstone (see “Newhouses Kiplings in London”) which, in 1842, after she had passed age 21, she by indenture amended its terms. 2 2 Other Kiplings of Romaldkirk also received legacies from John, although a copy of the trust deed naming them (referred to in his will and in Mary’s indenture) has not yet been found. In the same year, Helmer notes that John Kipling bought “Hury Estate”, presumably using his legacy from John of Overstone. Mary married John Sherlock Helmer in 1845, and in 1851 only John and Nancy were living at Newhouses. 1851 1851 John Kipling died in 1855 and was buried at St Romald’s. Daughter Mary died in 1860. The Helmer family married twice more into the Kiplings. Key relationships are shown below. Thomas HELMER ,---------------------- -----|----- ------------ -------¬ John Jane Thomas Sherlock =John |---------------¬ = Mary Nicholson Thomas William Kipling Kipling = Isabella Barnes Kipling |---------------¬ John Roy Kipling Helmerow (Capt. MC) Widow Nancy was still living at Newhouses in 1861. 1861 Shields Daily Gazette - Friday 18 March 1864 Nancy continued to live at Newhouses until her death in 1866. In her will she names four nieces: Hannah Dent of Streatlam House, Mary Bell (aka Dent), Elizabeth Walker and Jane Nelson (deceased) to whom she leaves her various possessions. Newhouses appears then to have passed to William Kipling of Carrowcroft House (see below). B. William William was a schoolmaster at Wodencroft School, run by Edward Simpson (see ‘Royal Huntsmen’). He married Mary Isabella Nicholson of Brough in 1806. It is unusually recorded by an affidavit attached to the Romaldkirk parish register (dated 1866) stating that William Kipling of Hunderthwaite and Mary Nicholson his wife and Elizabeth their daughter (born at Dowgill Head and baptised at Brough, Westmorland) came to live at Birk Hat(t), another hamlet of three farms higher up the dale. Their other children, born between 1810 and 1819 were all baptised at Romaldkirk and noted as being of Birk Hat. As his brother had done, William also acquired one of the new pews at St Romald in 1829 (for the same price). However, the first occupier is noted as being Robert Bainbridge. Pews 22 and 23 Daughter Isabella married Jonathan Waistell in 1831 (see Appendix). In the same year, William was a quarter-session grand juror, noted being of Hunderthwaite. … … Yorkshire Gazette - Saturday 22 October 1831 This may well refer to the township of Hunderthwaite, in which Birk Hatt lay, rather than just the village, although by 1839 William had moved to a farm in the village. In 1835, daughter Hannah married Samuel Rowlandson, deputy treasurer to the Dean and Chapter of Durham. Newcastle Journal - Saturday 06 June 1835 (name in error) 1883 Feb. 27 Samuel Rowlandson; The College; 77 years; Appointed Deputy- Treasurer to the Dean and Chapter April 1837 at the death of Mr. John Leybourne. The son (by Sarah his wife, whose burial see 17 Dec. 1864) of Christopher Rowlandson, of West Shows, near Barnard Castle. He was born 27 Nov. 1805 ; died 22 Feb. 1883. 1884 Sep. 25 Hannah Rowlandson; The College; 74 years; Widow of Samuel Rowlandson, whose burial see 27 Feb. 1883 (formerly Miss Hannah Kipling). Burial Register of Durham Cathedral In 1840, daughter Mary married Liverpool merchant Jonathan Fletcher Lace. They had children Charles Kipling Lace and Eleanor Stanley Lace (later Pim) but Mary died in 1843. In 1841, an indenture had been entered into in relation to a legacy Mary had, like her namesake cousin, received from John Kipling of Overstone, placing the money and interest into trust. This resulted in a court case in 1867, in which the trustees claimed money from the now-adult children in relation to expenditure on their upbringing during a time when their father was bankrupt (and later insane). They counterclaimed for support for their father. I haven’t discovered the outcome of the case. In the 1839 Tithe apportionment, William’s property consisted Low Birk Hatt farm which was let out and a farm in Hunderthwaite village which he occupied himself. His son William owned the adjacent property and garden. The 1841 census also shows the two Williams, as does 1851’s. 1841 Hunderthwaite 1851 Hunderthwaite In the 1858 enclosure awards, William is awarded former common moorland adjacent to Low Birk Hatt. Son William had moved away by 1861 (see later). 1861 Hunderthwaite William senior died later in 1861. Mary probably died in 1864. Both were buried at St Romald’s. B1. William William had gone up to Trinity College, Cambridge in Michaelmas term of 1832. He graduated BA in 1836 and was awarded his MA in 1839. In 1836, he wrote to his brother, John Nicholson: William married Hannah Robson in Barcheston in Warwickshire in 1859. Hannah was born in Romaldkirk in 1820 and in the 1851 census was a dressmaker living with her widowed mother, Mary. It is unclear why William and Hannah married in Warwickshire. In the 1858 enclosure, he is awarded land around Hunderthwaite hamlet, manly adjacent to his existing holdings (most of which he had taken over from his father since 1837) He declares his Cambridge degree in the 1861 census. Romaldkirk 1861 Romaldkirk 1871 (son William was at school in Carlisle with his cousin John Helmer Kipling, see later) Romaldkirk 1881 Son William married in Edinburgh in 1885. Carrowcroft House, Romaldkirk is given as his address. William senior died in 1890 and is buried in the churchyard. In his will, he includes express instruction that Newhouses should not be sold. Hannah, son William and his wife Rachel were living near Harrogate the following year. Bilton with Harrogate 1891 Widow Hannah died in 1899, by when they were back at Carrowcroft house. Son William’s wife Rachel had died in 1897 and he married Margaret Bowser Garrett in 1901, Romaldkirk 1901 William and Margaret had two daughters and a son, William Carrowcroft Kipling (1906). They lived at Carrowcroft House in Romaldkirk. I have a copy of Rudyard Kipling’s “Stalky & Co” from William’s library. In it, he has pasted a number of cuttings about the author from 1900-1910. The 1910 National Land Valuation showed that he owned Newhouses, which was rented to Isaac Bayles. William was still at Carrowcroft in 1911 (#119) Page of a scrapbook compiled by William (photo by Luke Perrynan) William died in 1916 and his widow married Earnest Hawthorne the following year. William Carrowcroft Kipling married Doris Bousfield in 1929. In 1939, William and Doris were living at Sunny Bank, adjacent to Carrowcroft, when Margaret Hawthorne remained. There is no record of them having any children. Sister Mary Garrett Kipling trained as a nurse in London, marrying Alan Merriman in 1941. Electoral register, Lambeth 1929 The Eston Hospital, Eston, Yorkshire. 1939 UK & Ireland Nursing registers, 1943. Mary Garrett Merriman died in 1985. Margaret Hannah Kipling died unmarried in 1933. In 1938, her mother donated panelling to the reredos (the screen at the back of the altar) at St Romald’s in her memory. Reredos. Given by relatives & friends to the glory of God & in memory of Canon Samuel Gilbert BEAL MA rector 1890 - 1930. South panelling is in memory of Annie & William B.MILLS otp - the gift of their children. North panelling in memory of Margaret H.KIPLING of Carrowcroft - the gift of her mother erected 1938 B2. John Nicholson Kipling John married Jane Helmer, sister of John Sherlock Helmer, in 1845.
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