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INTRODUCTION George Walker Milburn was a world famous sculptor, George Milburn was still working in 1932 (well into known as the best Gothic sculptor of his time. his 90s), that year he executed The Stations of the Cross for the English Martyrs Church, York. While most of his work was carried out in Yorkshire and the North East of England, his work can be found Comparing Milburn's Ledgers and Daybooks against in almost twenty counties throughout the UK and also the cemetery's records suggests there are about 32 in America. Milburn Monuments in the cemetery. This is an approximation owing to the following: He worked with many famous architects of the time including Sir George Gilbert Scott, Charles Clement 1. The Cemetery once had its own Stonemason and Hodges, Charles Hodgson Fowler, Walter H Brierley any Private mason who was commissioned to provide and many others. a monument was required to pay an Import Fee. Whilst the Cemetery Records show that a particular His work can be found in the Cathedrals of Chester, Mason paid the Import Fee, the monument for which Lincoln, Durham, Rochester and as well it was paid is not always recorded. as the churches of Northallerton, Bishopthorpe, Norton, Lincoln and others. 2. Some monuments have been signed by Milburn, but many were not and have only been identified His work in York Minster includes life size statues of because the cemetery records match Milburn's Import Edwin King of Northumbria and King Edward VII on Fee to the name of the deceased. Here, we have to either side of the Choir transit and murals of HRH thank David Poole and Hugh Murray for their Albert Victor and William Dalla – a Lord Mayor, Justice excellent work in matching records. of the Peace and Surgeon of the city. 3. Typically, the Mason placed his name near the base In York he sculpted the William Etty statue outside of a monument, and over the years this may have the Art Gallery, the George Leeman Statue near the sunk below the present ground level and is no longer Rail Station and the Queen Victoria statue in Acomb visible. Again, we have to thank David Poole who has Park, having originally been in the Guildhall. (It was 'spaded' many of the monuments in search of a moved to the entrance of the Art Gallery in 1912 and signature. then to Acomb in 1955). The inspiration for this Trail has come from Tony He also carved the beautiful pulpit in St Barnabas Power. Tony is a relative of Milburn and has access to Church, Leeman Road and the oak bosses in Holy his Daybooks and Ledgers. Tony is undertaking the Trinity Church, . mammoth task of locating and photographing all of His work in Private houses includes Hawskstone Hall Milburn's surviving works with the intention of in Shropshire, Carlton Towers, Castle Howard, and publishing a book on the extant works of Milburn. Goddards in York. He also plans to publish a booklet on the Monuments One of his sons, Wilfred Joseph Milburn (1882-1949) in York Cemetery. worked with his father from about 1901 and the firm became known as Milburn and Son. THE TRAIL !! FOR YOU OWN SAFETY PLEASE KEEP TO THE PATHS AT ALL TIMES !! From the Cemetery entrance follow the road toward having completed his wood- the Chapel. A few paces before the Chapel turn right carving apprenticeship, he went onto a grass path. Ahead to the bench and turn left. to to study stone-carving Just beyond the bench at the top of the slope is the with the the Sculptor, Samuel monument to George Walker Milburn. Ruddock . !! DO NOT LEAVE THE PATH !! On his return to York around 1872, aged 28 he set up his own 1. George Walker Milburn Stone-yard in St Leonard's Place, George was born in , York in 1844, the adjacent to Bar. This son of Lionel Milburn, a tailor and a clothes dealer. He yard had previously been had 7 brothers and 2 sisters. occupied by Weatherley Builders. In his early teens he was apprenticed as a woodcarver to Messrs Waddington, Piano George married Ellen Ward, a Manufacturer of , York. In 1865 (aged 21), Milliner, of Stonegate in 1878. Continued overleaf

York Cemetery - Some Clients of GW Milburn - Sculptor.docx 1 George Walker Milburn continued admitted as a Solicitor in 1835, and became a senior He was 34 and she was 22. They had 3 children (Mary, Partner in Leeman & Wilkinson of York & Beverley. Wilfrid and Norah). He was Clerk of the Peace for the East Riding of Just 7 years into their marriage, Ellen, aged 29, died Yorkshire from 1845 (and a member of the Society of of TB. Ellen is not buried here but in a grave Clerks of the Peace from 1849) and Deputy (Position ) we will visit later. Their youngest daughter Lieutenant for the North Riding. Norah, aged 1, died the following year and is buried His prominence in railway affairs flourished with the with her mother. demise of the 'Railway King', George Hudson, in Two years later, George married Isabella Fletcher (8 which he played no small part by helping to uncover years his junior). Their only daughter, also named Hudson's illegal share dealing. Isabella, died aged 16 months and is buried with her He was deputy Chairman of the successor company, half-sister North Eastern Railways 1855 - 1874 and Chairman Isabella, his second wife, died in 1924 when George 1874 - 1880 having encouraged its formation through was 80 years old. mergers in 1854. He enjoyed a yearly salary of £1000, which continued after his retirement. He was George died in 1941, aged 97, leaving just £390 3s Chairman of the Railway Association of Great Britain. 1d. He was a member of the Reform Club and the George is buried here with two of his three children Yorkshire Philosophical Society from 1844, Director from his first marriage to Ellen Ward and one of his of the Yorkshire Herald and Chairman of the Yorkshire granddaughters. Banking Company 1867 - 1880. 1. Mary Agnes (died 1918, aged 38) - Mary was a He was joint owner of the Rosedale and Ferryhill Iron Member of 3rd Order of St Francis Co. 1860-77. He resigned as Chairman of the NER in This is a secular Franciscan Order of Catholic men 1880 after the failure of the mining company reduced and women who seek to pattern their lives after his wealth and harmed his health. Jesus in the spirit of St Francis of Assisi. They He died on 26 February 1882, in failing health, aged permanently commit themselves to live the Gospel as 72, in Scarborough leaving a Personal Estate of St Francis did, striving to grow in the love of God and £39,450 19s 4d. in peace with each other. In this way they aspire to be faithful disciples of Christ In his roles as Lord Mayor and MP he was a staunch defender of York's antiquities and pushed through the 2. Wilfred Joseph (died 1949, aged 67) was also his restoration of much of the City walls. business partner After his death in 1883 a committee under the Wilfred worked on many statues and had strong Chairmanship of Thomas Varey (then Lord Mayor) associations with St Wilfrid's Church, York carving was formed to decide on a suitable monument to many pieces here and in other Catholic churches in Leeman. The result was a standing effigy of him, paid York. for by public subscription and carved by Milburn. Wilfred married Phyllis Mary Newnham and had two The statue was erected in 1882 outside the City walls daughters - on Station Rise and opposite the arch leading to the a. Winifred Mary who died in 1994 in Lancashire former Railway Offices. Originally, it was surrounded b. 3. Hilda Frances who died in 2006 in York, aged by railings including among other things what 83. Hilda lived in Dodsworth Avenue and was a purported to be the Leeman coat of arms. In fact it regular worshipper at St Wilfrid's RC Church in was borrowed from the extinct Hertfordshire Duncombe Place. baronetcy of Leman who were in no position to object. At the same time Station Road was renamed Leeman On the other side of the path to the right of the chest Road in honour of the man. tomb to Rev James Parsons is the monument to George Leeman with its arched pediment on top. On The statue was moved to its present position in 1947. the other side there is an elegant carving of a George is buried here with his first wife, Jane kneeling woman grieving over a funeral urn. J ohnson , died in 1861, aged 52. Between 1832 and 1854 (21 years) George and Jane had 12 children, !! DO NOT LEAVE THE PATH !! none of whom are buried or memorialised here. 2. George Leeman (1809-1882) George's second wife, Eliza Hooke Thistleton left York George was a dominant figure in after his death and died in Italy in 1894. York public life and politics in the The other person in the grave is George's mother, 19th Century. He was a Liberal Mary Thomas, who died in 1868, aged 82. Councillor ( Ward) Return to the front of the Chapel. Go down the slope 1836 and (Guildhall Ward) 1839, in front of the Chapel to the cross-path with the an Alderman 1850 - 1878, compass at your feet. Turn right. Just beyond the Liberal MP for York 1865 - 1868, holly and yew trees turn right onto a grass path. 1871 - 1880 and Lord Mayor of Follow this curving path to the first headstone on York 1853, 1860, 1870. your left. Behind this is the monument to Isabella George, born in York in 1809, Sanderson. the son of a Greengrocer, was articled to Robert Henry Anderson's legal practice,

York Cemetery - Some Clients of GW Milburn - Sculptor.docx 2 3. Isabella Sanderson nee Macfarlane (1855-1878) The following year, 1893, and 15 years after the Behind the simple Inscription to death of his first wife Isabella, George married Mary Isabella the beloved wife of G Olivia Perry, the daughter of his former landlord in Sanderson and the three Grove Terrace. children who died in infancy lie George was 46 years old and Mary was 29 when they tales of sadness. married and within 8 years they had 7 children; twins George & William (1894); Beatrice (1895); twins Isabella was born in 1855, the Gladys and Thomas (1898), John (1900) and Thomas daughter of Alexander (1902). MacFarlane, an Engine fitter from Glasgow, and York born But all was not well in the Sanderson household. In Mary Ann Spink. The couple had 1895 they lost their third child, Beatrice Mary, to two more daughters, Elizabeth diarrhoea, aged just 1 month. She is the third person and Ada. in this grave. Sadly, Alexander died in 1860, aged just 27, leaving Sometime after this, George, who was a fully Mary to bring up Isabella (then aged 5), Elizabeth (3) certificated teacher had to resign his job as an and Ada (1) on her own. The 1861 Census records assistant Master at Leeman Road School owing to the family living in York with Mary's Great Grandfather, drunkenness. John Tempest, a stonemason from Halifax. And, In 1906 he and his second wife, Mary, were brought before York Magistrates by the NSPCC for the Three years later, in 1864 Mary married James Elliott, neglect of their 6 surviving children. It was alleged a Joiner. They lived in Bishophill and had a further 5 that the children were badly neglected, poorly children together. nourished and in a filthy condition. The case against After an unsteady start to her life, things began to Mary was dropped and George was sentenced to 1 look up for Isabella when, in 1875, aged 20, she month imprisonment at HMP Wakefield Prison. married the 28 year old School Teacher, George Fortune did not improve for the Sanderson family. Sanderson, from Market Weighton. The 1911 Census records; They set up home in Sandringham Street and had a) George as an inmate in the Workhouse. three children - Minnie Isabel (1876), George Lindsey Interestingly, giving his profession as 'Schoolteacher'. (1877) and Robert (1878). None of the children b) Mary as a Charwoman lodging in Portland Place, survived for more than a few weeks. Layerthorpe. Eight days after Robert died on 22 August 1878, c) Twins George & William, now aged 17, are Isabella succumbed to Phthisis (TB). In her short life Hersdmen in Stamford Bridge and Carmarthen she had lost her father and three small babies. Now, respectively. at the age of 23, she also was dead. d) Gladys, aged 13, is in the Girl's Training Home in George commissioned the cross for Isabella some and four years after her death. Whilst he records his wife, e) the remaining three boys are in the Scattered there is no mention of his children by name. They are Home in East Mount Road. buried in Children's graves elsewhere in the cemetery. George & Robert are together. George, now living apart from Mary in Leeman Road, died of Senile Decay in 1916, aged 69 and is buried The space at the foot of the monument would here with his first wife. indicate that George wished for his own name to be inscribed at some later date. Mary died in March 1926. Return to the gravel path and turn right. At the 'T' This sad story moves on. junction turn left and left again beyond the Craven George Sanderson (1847-1916) monument. Ahead to the high boundary wall and turn right. Ahead to pass three dominant fir trees on your George was born in Market Weighton in March 1847. left. After a few paces right. The dominant monument By 1871 he is recorded as a Schoolmaster lodging in to James Melrose is on your left. Dringhouses. 4. James Melrose In 1875, aged 28, he married the much younger Isabella. As mentioned above, they had three James "Jimmy" Melrose, known children and three years later, all of his children and as 'The Grand Old Man of York' his young wife are dead. was born on 5 August 1828 into a family of Fell-mongers Six years later, in 1881, he was lodging at 6 Grove (dealers in hides and skins) who Terrace with the family of John & Fanny Maria Perry had migrated to York from together with their 17 year old daughter, Mary Olivia. Traquair in Peebleshire in the George and the Perry family clearly had a close middle of the 17th Century. relationship for, when Fanny Perry died of Cancer in Eschewing the noisome family 1892, George allowed her to be buried with his first trade he became a Land Agent wife, Isabella and she became the second person in in York. this grave. Continued overleaf

York Cemetery - Some Clients of GW Milburn - Sculptor.docx 3 James Melrose continued The couple's seventh and last child, Frederick James, One of his Projects being the draining of the was born in 1879, while living at Chestnut House, Knavesmire to make it suitable for horse racing. Heworth. Shortly after his marriage to Elizabeth Stephenson in It was at Chestnut House that their eldest child, 1858 he joined his father-in-law in his brewing Edward Hakewell, aged 10, died of Lockjaw (Tetanus) business in Beverley. However, he returned to York in in 1880 and is buried here. 1861 to become a Partner with John Roper who had Within a few years, Captain Browell's career took the been in business since the 1820's and had breweries family away from York and the site of their eldest in St Sampson's Square and . son's grave. He eventually retired to Merrow in Surrey, having risen to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonial. On Roper's death in 1875 not only did Jimmy inherit Catherine died there in 1911 and Edward Thomas the breweries but the bachelor Roper also died there in 1915, aged 73. bequeathed him a large house in Clifton, Clifton Croft, where he was to live for upwards of 50 years until his Of Edward Hakewell's siblings; all lived to their death. The Grade II Listed house, built for Roper in 70/80’s. The 3rd child, Henry Firth became a Major the 1830’s still survives. However, the grounds were and the 6th child, Catherine Margaret became a Lady. sold pre-war for the housing estate of Greencliffe Edward lies alone in this grave. Drive. Ahead. Ahead at cross-paths and turn right before a Jimmy was elected Conservative Councillor for Monk bench on your right. After a few paces note the triple Ward in 1869. He was an Alderman from 1875 until monuments to the Gutch family behind a bench to 1886 when he retired from the Council at the age of the Turners. 58 years, little realising that he had a further 42 years to live. He was been Lord Mayor of York 1876-7 6. Gutch and a Justice of the Peace. There are three He was a Director and shareholder of numerous monuments on this triple companies, and sat on the Boards of several plot: the broken central voluntary institutions included Treasurer of York cross for John James County Hospital and Yorkshire School for the Blind. Gutch, a headstone for He was a Freemason for over 75 years. On his 100th his son, Clement, and a birthday he had a ceremony of thanksgiving at St similar headstone for Lawrence's which was the church he was baptised in. John's wife, Eliza. He died on 4 February 1929, leaving Effects of Only the central cross is £168,154 6s, and was accorded a funeral in the a certain Milburn work. It Minster where he had been a regular worshipper for has been damaged over many years. the years with a 2ft section of the shaft His name is still perpetuated in the long road of missing. Melrosegate and the Melrose Stand at the racecourse, opened in 1989 to commemorate his 50 years service John James Gutch as Chairman of the York Race Committee (1875-1925) just three years before his death. John was born in 1815 in Seagrave, Leicester, the second son of the Rev Robert Gutch, rector of Ahead. Ahead at cross paths and pass the bench to Seagrave, and grandson of the Rev John Gutch, Stephen Magson on your left. After 15 paces note the Chaplain of All Souls, and registrar of the University monument to Edward Browell on your right. of Oxford.

5. Edward Hakewell Browell He was articled to Wilson & Faber, Solicitors, of Stockton on Tees, and for some time worked in Edward Hakewell Browell was London. He came to York in 1842, aged 27, to join the eldest son of Captain the firm of Blanchard and Richardson. Edward Thomas Browell and Catherine Mary Amelia Helen At that time Richardson's was one of the solicitors to Thrupp. the York and North Midland and Newcastle and Darlington Railway Companies, which, along with Captain Browell's career was other companies, amalgamated to form the North typical of an officer in Colonial Eastern Railway Company in 1854. times. Born in 1856, he married Catherine Thrupp in Feltham, It is claimed that Gutch exerted himself so Middlesex in 1869. The couple unsparingly during the amalgamation process that it were posted to Kamptee, Bengal induce the poor health which he suffered for several shortly after where they had 2 sons: Edward years. Hakewell (1870) and Langton William (1871). He was Director of the York City and County Bank and They returned to Feltham for the births of their next adviser to the trustees of Archbishop Holgate's School. four children in 1872, 1874, 1875 and 1876. In 1864 he bought Holgate Lodge together with approximately 13 acres of land which abutted Holgate Captain Browell was then posted to the Military HQ, Mill. Fulford Road,York. Continued overleaf

York Cemetery - Some Clients of GW Milburn - Sculptor.docx 4 John James Gutch continued In the meantime, Wilfrid, a successful barrister in In 1868, aged 53, he married Eliza Hutchinson of London, and his brother, John, a doctor in Ipswich Manthorpe Lodge, Grantham, some 15 years his planned the housing estate that was to surround the junior, by whom he had three sons and a daughter. mill. Wilfrid was obsessed with his family history and the road names on the estate reflect this passion. As In his later years he continued to buy various plots of well as the obviously named Windmill Rise other land both adjacent to his home and also in the streets reflect family birthplaces,etc. such as Whitby area. helwood Walk, Tisbury Road, Grantham Drive and St On his death, due to Dropsy, on 23 July 1881, aged Swithin's Walk after his mother's birthdate. 65, the Minster bells were tolled. His funeral service The 1939 conveyance document between the Gutch was held at All Saints, . He left an estate family and York Council stated that 'the said piece of in excess of £100,000. land and the Windmill thereon shall be preserved .... Clement Gutch as a place of local historic and artistic interest'. Clement was the youngest son of John & Eliza and The Holgate Windmill Preservation Society was was born in 1875. He was educated at Harrow School formed in 2001 and in 2013 Holgate Mill, once again, and studied Greek & Roman Architecture at King's became a working windmill. All thanks to the Gutch College, Cambridge. Family. He died in 1908 at Whitstead, Cambridge, aged 33. Return to cross-path and turn right. Ahead to cross- At the time he was Classical Lecturer at St John's path. Ahead 15 paces to the monument to William College, Cambridge and is buried in Huntingdon Road Wilkinson on your left.

Cemetery, Cambridge. 7. William Wilkinson He left an estate of £32,000 William was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, in Eliza Gutch 1841 the son of Hunter Wilkinson a Coach-smith/Coach Eliza Hutchinson was born on 15 July 1840 (St Spring Maker. Swithin's Day), at Manthorpe Lodge, Lincolnshire, the daughter of Simon Hutchinson, a land agent in Little He began his career as a Coach Gonerby. Maker. However, around 1880, aged 50, he joined the She married York solicitor John James Gutch in 1868 . Relieving Officers of the York They had four children: Bertha (b. 1869), John (b. Union at their Offices at 1 1870), Wilfrid (b. 1871), and Clement (1875-1908). . She was widowed in 1881. He worked there for nearly 26 Eliza had considerable literary gifts, and was keenly years serving as one of the interested in archaeology as a member of the York Relieving Officers until ill health caused him to resign Archaeology Society. She was a founder member of the position in May 1905. He died of Heart Failure, the English Dialect Society in 1873 and had been a aged 65, in November of that year. prolific contributor to the journal 'Notes and Queries' under the pseudonym "St Swithin", a reference to her Prior to 1834 the administration and finance of poor birth date. She had an abiding interest in the history relief and workhouses was, for the most part, and folklore of the region and was a founder member organised at Parish level - a situation which had been of the Folklore Society, formed in 1878. laid out by the Statute of 1601. She was a keen Churchwoman, was actively The 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act introduced a new associated with the York College for Girls, York national system of poor relief covering the whole of Charity Organisation Society and the Shakespeare England and Wales. The system was based on a new Reading Club being a founder member in 1884. Administrative Area called the Poor Law Union, each of which was required to operate a Union Workhouse It is highly likely that it was her interest in preserving as the principal channel for providing relief. It was, and documenting the old ways that led her to basically, a 3 tier system. The upper, National, tier purchasing Holgate Windmill which was adjacent to put parliamentary Acts into operation, formulated her property. regulations, collected statistics, and reported back to Following her purchase of the mill, tenant Millers parliament. The second tier, comprised a Board of operated the mill until January 1930 when severe Governors and Officers who oversaw the operation storms rendered the mill sails unsafe, the brake was and business of the Union at a local level. applied for the last time and the sails removed. One of these Officers was the Relieving Officer who Eliza died the following year leaving an estate of was responsible for evaluating the cases of all £33,000 and a will that stated that all of her real persons applying for medical or poor relief, and would estate should be sold and the money divided between authorise emergency relief or entry to the workhouse. her three surviving children. The will made no The lower tier was the Workhouse, with its Master reference to the mill consequently, the mill was to and attendant staff. remain in the ownership of the Gutch family until it Continued overleaf was sold to York Council for £100 in 1939.

York Cemetery - Some Clients of GW Milburn - Sculptor.docx 5 William Wilkinson continued Steam Packet Captain was one of the few pioneers of William never married. His younger sister, Sarah Jane, steam shipping. lived with him as housekeeper for more than 20 years. Henry deciding not to follow his father, initially trained In later years another sister, Susanna, also joined in a Solicitor's Office before becoming a Clerk with them at their home in Claremont Terrace. Both were the York City & County Bank. unmarried and both were dressmakers. Upon his He married Mary Bridge in 1856 in Chorlton, death he left his estate of £968 to his sisters and a Lancashire and went on to have 5 sons and 3 Henry Rowland, Grocer. He is buried here with his daughters. By 1861, at the age of 27, he was a sister Sarah Jane. Miller/Corn Merchant employing men in a business His parents are buried with two other sisters in a that was to become larger than any other private firm vault with a modest headstone near James Melrose in the County. On the front of the cross, above the plinth, is a small Described as one of the foremost commercial citizens carving of the West End of York Minster. This is an of York, he also had a great interest in public life; unusual feature and, to date, we have been unable to identified with the York Liberal Association, Wesleyan find any records that form a significant connection Methodist, prominent member of the York between William and the Minster. Temperance Society, Councillor for Monk Ward in Return to the cross path and turn left. At next cross 1878, and Justice of the Peace in 1892. He was path turn right. Turn left at next cross path. Follow elected City Sheriff in 1893 but did not qualify for this the path as it curves right. Where it curves left note Office because of a contract between the City and his the dominant monument to the Leetham Family on Mill. your right. He had a seizure due to a ruptured blood vessel on 8. Leetham the brain and died on 16 February 1896, aged 62 years. He left £93,000. The Leetham family plot occupies eight grave Henry is buried with his wife, Mary Bridge, who died plots and seven burials. in 1919, aged 84 years. Leetham and Sons are Mary was the daughter of Thomas Bridge of best known for the flour Rusholme in Manchester. He was, for some years mill that once towered Chairman of the Manchester Board of Health and laid over the slum district of the foundation stone to the first tramway system in and was Manchester. believed to be one of the largest flour mills in She was associated with many philanthropic objects Europe at that time. The in the City. Her sympathies were with the poor; company was one of the setting up a system of mother's meetings in the slum most influential firms at districts of the City, a 40 years supporter of the the heart of a national Charity Organisation Society and its varied transformation of the developments and Vice-president of the District British flour-milling industry during the second half of Nursing Fund. the 19th Century when steam power replaced wind In later life she worked from home supporting the power for driving the millstones for grinding corn. Girl's Training Home and other worthy local In 1861, John Leetham purchased a small mill, institutions. comprising four millstones, an engine house and a Her cause of death is recorded as Senile Decay. boiler in Hungate. Over the course of 70 years the However, she had, until a few weeks before her death, firm developed the Hungate works from a small enjoyed 'vigorous health'. operation using steam-powered millstones to a much larger enterprise that replaced older milling Plot 2 - Henry Ernest Leetham, Mary Hannah techniques with innovative grinding machinery in the Coning & Gordon Philip Leetham form of automatic steel rollers. Henry Ernest Leetham was Henry Leetham's third By 1900 Leetham & Sons had expanded both within son born in 1861 around the time his father became and beyond Hungate, with operations in Hull, owner of the Hungate Mill. Eventually, along with his Newcastle and Cardiff and by 1911 more than 600 father and three of his brothers he would become a people, mostly unskilled, worked on the Hungate site. Director of the Company. Two mills were in operation until the 1930s. The only In 1885, aged 24 years, he married Mary Hannah surviving mill building is the grain warehouse, now Coning and, in 1895, moved into Aldersyde House, known as Rowntree Wharf, which was once attached Dringhouses. Mary was the daughter of a prominent to the Hungate complex by a four-level bridge. Grocer and Tea Dealer. Spillers took over the mill in 1930 before moving to Hull following a fire in 1931 and Rowntree bought the Henry & Mary had four children. The youngest property in 1937 for cocoa bean storage. The building daughter Kathleen married Noel Terry. is now apartments. Continued overleaf Plot No 1 - Henry Leetham and Mary Bridge

Henry was born in Barlby in December 1833 to John Leetham and Elizabeth Bromley. His father, John, a

York Cemetery - Some Clients of GW Milburn - Sculptor.docx 6 Henry Ernest Leetham continued Alfred died in a London Nursing Home in 1939, aged From the beginning Leetham was opposed to Noel's 74 years leaving an Estate of £81,351 advances on his daughter and they resorted to James Johnston - James was married to Henry's communicating by hundreds of letters exchanged in sixth child, Gertrude Leetham, secret via brothers, sisters and family friends. He was born in Blackburn Lancashire and was largely However, he eventually agreed for them to marry identified with the Volunteer & Territorial Military which they did in 1915. Services in Lancashire. In the early 1900s Joseph Terry & Sons was a Aged 16 years (1878), he was in Constantinople struggling company and Leetham chose to invest in during the Russo-Turkish War between the Ottoman them, becoming it's Chairman in 1915, the year Empire and the Eastern Orthodox Coalition. Kathleen married Noel. Aged 20 years (1882), he was in Suez and witnessed Leetham played a prominent part in the life of the the conflict between the British and Egyptian Army City; he was a magistrate for the North Riding, vice- near Tell-El Kabir. chairman of the Art Gallery, president of the local During the second Boer War (1899-1902) he was in YMCA, late Governor of the Merchant Adventurers command of the North Lancashire Regiment Depot at Company and Church Warden at Dringhouses. Preston and commanded the 4th East Lancashire Leetham and his father, Henry, are unique in that Territorial Regiment from 1906 to 1912. they are the only father and son to hold the Office of In 1912, aged 50 years, he retired as Lieutenant Sheriff of York. Colonial and Honorary Colonial of that Regiment and Mary died in December 1920. Subsequently, Leetham made his home in Mount Vale, York. suffered from insomnia and severe depression. He was a prominent member of the Masonic fraternity, On Sunday 22 July 1923, following lunch at home a member of the Lancashire Territorial Association with his daughter, he went upstairs presumably to and Deputy Lieutenant for Lancashire. rest. A little while later he was found outside the front He died in York in 1925, aged 63 years, after a long door of the house with a sporting rifle across his body. and painful illness leaving effects of £1,400. It would appear that he had gone to a room on an Ahead on this curving path, passing two sets of steps upper floor, with a slanting roof below the window, on your left, to reach the Chapel. Find your way to laid on the roof, rested his feet on the gutter, the rear of the chapel and turn right (you were on removed his dentures, placed the muzzle of the rifle this path near the start of the walk). 20 paces beyond in his mouth, pulled the trigger and fallen to the the GW Milburn's monument on your right is the ground below. chest tomb to Edward Danson Dawson.

He was 60 years old and left an Estate worth 9. Charles Edward Danson Dawson (1845-1920) £569,247. Charles was born Mary Hannah Conning in 1845 at Ebworth in Mary was born in Goodramgate in 1862. She was the Lincolnshire into eldest child of Thomas Coning, a Grocer & Tea dealer a well to do from Stockton on Tees. family. His father, Richard, was a In 1892 her father took over the Grocer & Tea Solicitor and, business of Joseph Rowntree & Sons in . together with his George had been an apprentice to Rowntree. brothers Rev In 1896 the business became Coning & Sons until it Edward Witham, was sold in 1943. Percival William and Richard Henry, he owned Freehold land in Hatfield, Doncaster. He had shares in Other people buried in this Family plot: the Great Western Railway Co. When he died at the Gordon Philip Leetham - the 2 month old grandson Convent of Mercy, Whitby in 1920, at the age of 74, of Henry Leetham who died of Convulsions in 1908. he left an Estate of almost £23,000. Alfred Leetham - Henry Leetham's fifth child born Educated at St Cuthbert's Catholic College, Ushaw, he in 1865. His commercial career began as a Bank served as a Catholic Priest in Sheffield, Clerk in Norton, Malton before returning to York as a Middlesborough and York. At Middlesbrough he was Partner in the Milling Company. appointed Cathedral Administrator, Provost and Vicar General. In 1897, aged 32 years, he married Katherine Beatrice Copperthwaite and had six children. He returned in 1887, aged 41, to St Wilfrid's Church, Katherine was the daughter of Henry Copperthwaite, York where he was to serve as Priest-in-Charge for Chief Civil Engineer of the former North Eastern the rest of his clerical life (nearly 33 years). Railway Company. At that time, the clergy of St Wilfrid's represented the As well as being a successful businessman, he was a Catholic Church in York, and were prominent in civic Freeman of the City of York and a Member of the York life. merchant Adventurers Company Continued overleaf

York Cemetery - Some Clients of GW Milburn - Sculptor.docx 7 Charles Edward Danson Dawson continued The mass was attended by the Lord Mayor, but not by In spite of the numerical superiority of the Irish his second wife, Annie. Catholics within the English Church, this was not William's obituary appeared in the Catholic reflected in important clerical positions. St Wilfrid's publication, The Tablet (of which his son, James did not have an Irish Priest-in-charge until 1967. Booth Milburn would become editor in 1920). It was Between 1847 and 1920 (73 years) there were only 3 said of him that he was: 'of genial disposition and incumbents at St Wilfrid's, all of whom died in office. held in high esteem by a large circle of friends'. Joseph Render, who we will meet later, and Charles His second wife died in 1913 and is buried elsewhere Dawson both ran the Parish for over 30 years. in the cemetery. Dawson was a well known and respected figure in The third person buried in this grave is William's Yorkshire Catholic circles and proved himself a fourth surviving son, Benedict Charles Milburn. zealous worker locally in the cause of education. He Benedict was born in 1870 and did not marry. He was described as: 'a man of simplicity, of humility, of found employment, initially as a telegraphist in York Christian piety and great faith'. When he died, Post Office, rising to Superintendent of Telegraphs at hundreds of mourners were unable to gain admission the time of his death in February 1927, aged 56. He to the church, for what was described as 'one of the was well known in Roman Catholic circles. He left most solemn and impressive scenes witnessed in York £2,540. for some time past' Ahead to the large tree on your left. Forward a few Ahead for 2 rows. To the right of the distinctive paces on the right side of the path is the chest tomb Knowlson monument is the monument to Annie to William Canon Fisher. Milburn. 11. Very Reverend William Canon Fisher 10. William Clapham Milburn (1834-1909) (1812-1886) William was the elder Born & baptised brother of George Walker in Blackburn, and was born and Lancashire in baptised in . The 1812, William was family returned to York educated at soon after his birth. Ushaw College, Durham. He came He became a successful to York in 1836/7 Tailor and Woollen (aged 24) as Draper at 51 curate at the Goodramgate which was Catholic Chapel of also his home at the time. St Mary, in Duncombe Place. He was an active York He was appointed senior priest at the newly erected City Councillor for St George's Church off Walmgate in 1850. After several years, and a several years of successful labour there he moved to member of the Ancient Society of York Florists. St Mary's Mission in Sheffield where he erected a new church and schools, and established new missions He married Anne Booth in 1859 in Selby and they and convents. had 5 sons, one dying in infancy. Anne was the daughter of a Bailiff living at Carlton Hall, Selby. The workload caused deterioration in his health and he was compelled to leave the dioceses for a time to Anne died of heart disease in 1877, aged 40, and was recover. Whilst at Sheffield, he was created Canon of the first person to be buried here. Their four surviving Beverley Diocese, and when that diocese was split sons were aged between 7 and 17 at the time of her into the present Diocese of Leeds and Middlesbrough, death. he was made Canon of Middlesbrough Diocese. This monument was not signed by Milburn. However, By 1871, aged 59, he was priest at St William's we do know that Milburn paid an Import Fee for it Chapel, Bridlington. However, with advancing age and and, it is likely that it was carved as a gift to his increasingly poor health he withdrew from duty after brother. 13 years service. He died in Bridlington in 1886, aged 74, leaving the sum of £510. A newspaper report at In May 1879, William married Annie Theresa he time stated 'Happily he was afflicted with no Worrall at St Wilfrid's Church, York. Annie was the organic disease, but succumbed to the wear and tear sister of his brother John's wife. They had one child, of an active life, which he had devoted to the Julia, who was born the following year. However, the promoting of the best interest of those under his marriage was not a success, the couple soon became charge' estranged and separated permanently. A Requiem Mass was held at St. Wilfrid's Church, York. William made his home in Heworth Green and died of The church was crowded with many of the Canons apoplexy (stroke) in February 1909, aged 74, leaving and Clergy in the district being present. The service an estate valued at £4,850. He was buried here with was describes as 'of a very impressive character' his first wife. His funeral mass was held at St Wilfrid's, Continued overleaf where he had been one of the oldest parishioners.

York Cemetery - Some Clients of GW Milburn - Sculptor.docx 8 Very Reverend William Canon Fisher continued He spent 4 years at Stockton on Tees before His mourners included his sister, Sophia, who was a transferring to St Charles', Hull where the mission nun at St Margaret's Convent, Edinburgh and Mrs Ann had been closed because the previous occupant of Utley who had been his housekeeper for over 25 the post had been removed by the Bishop for years. 'disagreeing with the congregation' . He reopened the mission and it was soon flourishing. Next to Fisher is the ornate chest tomb to Thomas Billington. In November 1847, aged 45 and after 17 years at Hull, he was transferred to St Wilfrid's, York to 12. Reverend Thomas Billington (1796-1847) replace the Very Rev Thomas Billington whom we Little is known about shall meet shortly. His transfer was despite a petition Thomas Billington. He to the Bishop from the Hull congregation who clearly was born around 1796 did not want him to go. and is recorded as being It is opportune at this time to give a brief history of a Priest in York in 1829 St Wilfrid's R C Church: and later. The first church to St Wilfrid was built around 1750 He preceded Joseph and was located on the other side of the road to the Render (13. below) as present church in what was then known as Little the senior priest at St . Wilfrid's in Little Blake Street and his Parish In 1802 a new church was built set back from the included what is now St present site and, due to anti-Catholic sentiment in George's Parish, off the City at the time, it was hidden behind the Walmgate, prior to the presbytery. This was Render's Parish Church when he opening of that church in arrived in late 1847. 1850. In 1860 Little Blake Street was widened and re- York's population rose by 25% in the 1840's, largely named Duncombe Place. as a result of immigration in the wake of poverty, Largely due to Render's efforts, the foundation stone eviction and famine in Ireland. Immigrants settled in for the present was laid by Bishop Cornthwaite and the poor areas of the city, such as Walmgate, and the the church was consecrated in 1864. area became notorious as a place of teeming squalor and poverty. In addition to the erection of St Wilfrid's, he was also responsible for building St Wilfrid's School in Many died of typhus fever, including the Rev. Thomas and St George's Church and School in Peel Billington who 'died a martyr to charity in the year of Street, Walmgate. pestilence, 1 October 1847, aged 53' whilst administering to his parishioners. His charity for the poor was proverbial, and was only limited by the availability of funds. He cared for very Some 35 years later, in 1882, his tomb was taken little himself, and was generous to a fault for all. down and refixed having suffered considerably from the weather. The quality of Milburn's repair is An obituary at the time of his death said: 'In his early demonstrated by the excellent condition of the career he was a strongly controversial in his views, stonework some 140 years after the repair was but he was a man who attracted troops of friends, executed. and who made no enemies. He won the respect and esteem of all who came in contact with him, for he Three graves behind Fisher, and behind the did not allow theological differences to intercept the monument with the cast iron cross is the monument flow of genial kindness and the reciprocal regard' to Joseph Render. So, in his 80th year this man who was well known, !! DO NOT LEAVE THE PATH !! very popular and deservedly admired for his many 13. Provost Joseph Render (1802-1881) estimable qualities died, and the poor of the City had lost a truly generous friend. Like Charles was a prominent and His funeral was attended by a large number of respected figure Protestants, the Minster bells were tolled and many in Civic as well shops closed for the occasion. as Catholic In addition to this Memorial there is a tablet in St circles. Wilfrid's Church also undertaken by Milburn. He was baptised Ahead three rows from Render and next to Mary at St Joseph's Kenny is a monument to the Hansom Family. Catholic Church, Bishop Thornton, 14. Joseph Hansom & Family educated at Joseph Hansom was born in Toft Green in 1816 and Ushaw College, Durham from 1817-1826 and baptised at St Wilfrid's Church. ordained Priest in December 1826, aged 24. He Continued overleaf remained at Ushaw for a further year as General

Prefect of Studies (Senior master in a Jesuit College).

York Cemetery - Some Clients of GW Milburn - Sculptor.docx 9 Joseph Hansom & Family continued Military Academy, revolted. They were soon joined by He was born into a large segments of societies of Lithuania, Belarus, Roman Catholic recusant and Ukraine. Despite local successes, the uprising family and a long line of was eventually crushed by a numerically superior Builders, Joiners and Imperial Russian Army. Cabinet Makers, many of Bielecki, also tells us that Constantine was a 'Russian whom were Freemen of spy in the Great Emigration', who fled to France in the City of York. He was 1832. the only son of 4 February 1834 finds Constantine, aged 20, as part of children. the 'Savoy Expedition' when a small band of Polish Of historical interest, refugee 'adventurers' attempt to enter Geneva from Joseph was 1st Cousin to France in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Joseph Aloysius Hansom Government. A party of 20-30 men supplied with (1803-82) who, as an arms and ammunition forcibly seized a Bark in Nyon Architect, designed and and crossed the lake to Geneva where the 'invasion' built St George's Church is intercepted. The main body of men, numbering and founded 'The Builder' magazine. He is, perhaps, about 140, then march into Geneva. best known for patenting his design for the Hansom Constantine was captured and imprisoned in Geneva Cab in 1834. Hansom sold the design for £10,000 but and, despite many failed attempts to escape, he was the company got into financial difficulties and he expelled to England, initially living in St Helier, Jersey. received only £300. He appears on a list published by the Polish Joseph was apprenticed Cabinet Maker and Joiner to government in 1836, of Polish citizen's whose estate his father Richard Joseph and married Mary Sturdy in was scheduled to be confiscated. September 1849 when he was 33 years old. Joseph He arrived in Southampton on 10 November 1837 and Elizabeth had 4 children two of whom are buried aboard the 'Lady du Saunvary' which had travelled here with their mother, Mary, aged 49, ; from Jersey. The Alien Arrivals Certificate states that George Joseph, died 1864, aged of 11, he is Polish and arrived without a foreign passport. He is aged 24. Joseph Henry, died 1857, at 11 months On 22 April 1840 a Petition was placed before Their third son, Richard, born 1854, followed the Parliament complaining of the removal of his, and family tradition and became a Builder, Joiner, Cabinet another, name from the list of Polish Refugee Maker and undertaker. He died in 1909, aged 55 and pensioners. We do not know the outcome of that is buried elsewhere in the cemetery. Petition. Their only daughter, Mary Elizabeth married George After that time, little is know about Constantine, or Thomas Linfoot, a Butcher of Kings Square. Two of how he came to York. their children, George, aged 5 months and Frank, He is next found in the 1881 Census. He is unmarried aged 2 days are buried in this grave. living in a room adjacent to St Wilfrid's Church and claiming 'Deafness from Wounds'. Ahead to within 10 - 15 paces of the 'T' junction and on your right is the monument to Constantine He died on 24th April 1884 at the age of 67. The Kumpikiewiez. Cemetery Records describe him as a 'Gentleman'. His probate, leaving an estate of £68 10s, describes him 15. Constantine Kumpikiewiez (1813-1884) as being Sacristan at St Wilfrid's Church, Duncombe The 1881 Census records Street. Constantine's birth place His grave was purchased by the Very Reverend as 'Lithuania, Poland', William Browne, Rector of St Wilfrid's who, and his age as 67. He presumably, commissioned the memorial. The describes himself as a Reverend Brown carried out the Committal 'Polish Refugee, A Proceedings. Nobleman'. The Go back one row from Kumpikiewiez and note the Cemetery records give ornate monument to the Milburn Family. him the title of 'Count' 16. A Milburn Family Grave The historian and journalist, Robert The grave was purchased for Bielecki, tells us that multiple burials and the Constantine was monument was carved in 1877. involved in the Family members buried here are; November Uprising of 1830-31. This Uprising, also known as the Polish- Sarah Brown, George's older Russian War or the Cadet Revolution, was an armed sister, born 1832, became a rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland dressmaker and never married. against the Russian Empire. The uprising began on 29 She died in July 1877, aged 45 November 1830 in Warsaw when the young Polish years, of phthisis (TB). Officers from the local Army of Congress, Poland's Continued overleaf

York Cemetery - Some Clients of GW Milburn - Sculptor.docx 10 A Milburn Family Grave continued 17. John Charles Milburn & Family February 1880, Milburn's first born child, Lionel John Charles, born 1851, was Wilfrid, joined his aunt. He was one day short of his one of George's brothers who, first birthday when he succumbed to Scarlet Fever. at the age of 20 was unmarried March 1880, George's father, Lionel Altimont, aged and living in the family home at 72, followed his grandson. Born in York in 1807, he 7 Little Shambles with his Tailor married Elizabeth Clapham in 1830. They had 10 father Lionel Altamont Walker. children, 3 of whom died in infancy. He was a Tailor He was employed as a Railway and Clothes Merchant with premises in Goodramgate Booking Clerk. and Little Shambles. He died of Senile Decay. In 1872, at St Wilfrid's Church, 1885, George's wife, Ellen, aged 28, was in the late he married Mary Elizabeth stage of her fourth pregnancy. Her daughter, Norah, Worrall of Holgate, daughter of was born in May of that year. Ellen died a month later an Engine Driver. The ceremony is conducted by of phthisis pulmonalis (pulmonary TB). Joseph Render. They had 7 children. September 1886, aged 16 months, the infant Norah Interestingly, seven years later, in 1879, John's succumbed to diarrhoea and joined her mother. brother, William Clapham Milburn married Mary's sister, Anne Theresa Worrall. The causes of death gives an indication of how infectious diseases came to occupy the top ten causes By 1881, aged 30, John has put his Railway training of death in Victorian times. to good use and is now a Collier Agent living in Richardson Street with his young family and a House Three years after the death of his first wife, George Servant. married Isabella Fletcher in 1888. In May 1889, Isabella gave birth to a daughter, Isabella Theresa, By 1891 he has moved to Bishopthorpe Road and is but less than 1 month later the infant died of employed as a Traveller for a Colliery and in 1901 he convulsions. She would be their only child together. is living in Micklegate as a Collier Agent, Coal, Coke and Lime Merchant. January 1892, George's brother, Joseph Walker, aged 44 years, was interred. After an initial period as He died in March 1903, aged 52, of Locomotor a Coach Trimmer's Apprentice, he became a Ataraxy Cancer in the Liver leaving an Estate of £480. Bookkeeper, and was employed by the York Herald for He is buried with; 15 years. His wife Mary Elizabeth who died in April 1927 of December 1892, George's mother, Elizabeth, was Bronchitis. laid to rest. She was 87 years old and the cause of death is recorded as 'Senile Decay' or, more politely, Their 4th child, Francis Worrall, who's career 'Old Age' started as an Ironmonger's Clerk before he became a Coal Agent. He died in the Purey Cust Hospital in Ahead to 'T' junction. In front of you is the grey December 1959, aged 79. monument to Father Stephen (and others). Two rows behind and one row to the right is the monument to Francis's wife, Amy Elizabeth, formerly Lamb, who John Charles Milburn. died in 1953, aged 72.

!! DO NOT LEAVE THE PATH !! Their 6th child, Mary Elizabeth, who died in 1946, aged 59. She did not marry.

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