Hill, Richard (b. , d. ?)

Reference: 117

Reference: 118

Reference: 119

Note: Innkeeper - Widowed
Note re 1851 census - recorded as Ann Spivey aged 17 living in Catton born in Felixkirk[Broderbund Family Archive #272, Ed. 1, Census Records: United Kingdom, 1851, Date of Import: 22 Jan 2005, Internal Ref. #1.272.1.14258.50]

Individual: Ann Spivey
County: Yorkshire
Relationship: Servant
Place of Birth: Yorkshire, England, Feliskirk
Gender: F
Age: 17
Marital Status: Unmarried
Occupation: House Servant
Enum District: Catton
Address At Census: Bs
Family Number: 990

Source: (Birth)
Title: 1871 England Census
Media: Ancestry.com

Note: www.ancestry.com

Source: Title: Family Archive #272, Census Records: United Kingdom, 1851
Author: The Learning Company, Inc.
Publication: Release date: Sept, 30 1999
Media: Family Archive CD

Note: Indexed records.

Page: Internal Ref. #1.272.1.14258.50
Data:
Text: Date of Import: 22 Jan 2005

Source: (Individual)
Title: UK Census 1851 CD

Note: ABBR 1851 UK Census

Source: (Individual)
Title: 1861 UK census

Source: (Individual)
Title: UK Census 1891

Note: ABBR 1891 UK Census

Source: (Individual)
Title: Family Archive #272, Census Records: United Kingdom, 1851
Author: The Learning Company, Inc.
Publication: Release date: Sept, 30 1999
Media: Family Archive CD

Note: Indexed records.

Christening: --Not Shown--

Event: Type: Relationship in census
Date: 1851
Place: Relation to Head of House: Servant

Occupation: Date: 1851
Place: Occupation: House Servant

Occupation: Date: 1861
Place: Innkeeper's daughter

Occupation: Date: 1871
Place: Innkeeper

Reference: 12

Census: Date: 1881
Place: Kings Head Inn, Millgate, Thirsk, Yorkshire

Census: Date: 1841
Place: Feliskirk

Census: Date: 1851
Place: Catton

Census: Date: 1851
Place: Catton, Yorkshire

Census: Date: 1861
Place: Carpenter's Arms Feliskirk

Census: Date: 1871
Place: Millgate, Thirsk

Census: Date: 1891
Place: Thirsk, Yorkshire

Reference: 120

Reference: 121

Reference: 122

Reference: 123

Reference: 124

Reference: 125

Reference: 126

Reference: 127

Reference: 128

Note: Railway clerk
scholar

Source: (Birth)
Title: British Vital Records Index
Media: Book

Note: genealogy links

Source: (Death)
Title: 1837 Online
Media: Electronic

Page: Blackburn Sept 1954 Vol 10b Page 305

Source: (Death)
Title: Death Certificate
Media: Book

Source: (Individual)
Title: UK Census 1881

Note: ABBR 1881 UK Census

Source: (Individual)
Title: UK Census 1891

Note: ABBR 1891 UK Census

Source: (Individual)
Title: UK Census 1901

Note: ABBR 1901 UK Census

Source: (Individual)
Title: Marriage certificate
Media: Book

Note: ABBR Marriage certificate

Christening: 5 JUL 1874 Newchurch in Rossendale

Occupation: Date: BET 1901 AND 1945
Place: Railway clerk

Occupation: Date: 1891
Place: Railway clerk

Occupation: Date: 20 MAR 1941
Place: Retired Railway Clerk

Death: 17 SEP 1954 107 Lambeth Street, Blackburn

Burial: 1954 Ashes scattered at Carlton Cemetery, Blackpool

Reference: 129

Cause: Chronic myocarditis and senility

Census: Date: 1901
Place: Living at Swan Hotel, 96 Market Street, BACUP, Lancashire

Census: Date: 1881
Place: Swan Hotel, Newchurch, Lancashire

Census: Date: 1891
Place: Swan Hotel, Newchurch

Cremation: Date: 1954
Place: Carlton Crematorium, Blackpool

Note: Labourer in shipyard
Farmers son

KIRBY KNOWLE:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1890.
Wapentake and Petty Sessional Division of Birdforth - Electoral Division of South Otterington - Poor Law Union, County Court District, and Rural Deanery of Thirsk - Archdeaconry of Cleveland - Diocese of York.

This parish is situated in the Vale of Mowbray, at the base of the Hambleton Hills, and is bounded on the other sides by the parishes of Cowesby, South Kilvington, and Felixkirk. It includes, in addition to the township of its own name, those of Bagby-with-Islebeck, and Balk, having an aggregate area of 4,328 acres, and had in 1881 a population of 462. The total extent of the township of Kirby Knowle is 1,556 acres, of which about one-third is arable land, one-third meadow and pasture, and the remainder woodland arid common. The rateable value is £1,090, and the population 114.

The village of Kirby Knowle is situated about five miles N.E. of Thirsk. It nestles in a low warm valley, begirt by an amphitheatre of hills, or knolls, which hide it from the view of the approaching traveller until he is close upon it. This position among hills, or knolls, has been appended to the name, Kirby-under-Knoll, to distinguish this Kirby from the many other places bearing that name in Yorkshire. It is mentioned in the Domesday Book, and appears to have been at that time (1086 A.D.) the berewic, or manor-village to Bagby. It was then the property of Hugh, the son of Baldric, and tenanted by one Orm. Shortly afterwards the whole district was granted to Robert de Mowbray, of whom it was held by subinfeudation by Baldwin le Wake, afterwards by Hugh de Upsall, and then by the family of Lascelles, by one of whom, Sir Roger de Lascelles, who died A.D. 1297, a castle was erected here, called Kirby Knowle Castle. This Roger left four daughters, co-heiresses, one of whom married Sir Robert le Constable, and received one-fourth of the manor of Kirby Knowle for her share. She survived her husband, and subsequently became possessed of the whole estate, which she conveyed to her son, Sir John Constable, from whom was descended another Sir John, who married, first, Margaret, daughter of John, Lord Scrope, of Bolton Castle, and secondly, a daughter of Henry Neville, fifth earl of Westmoreland. About the year 1568 the castle was accidentally destroyed by fire, only one of the four towers of which it had previously consisted remaining entire. Sir John, now far advanced in years, commenced the work of restoration, but did not live to complete it.

The Constables remained firmly attached to the old religion, and for their recusancy, as the crime of professing the Catholic faith was called, and loyalty to the Crown, their estates were sequestrated by the Cromwellian parliament. In 1653 the manor was purchased by Mr. James Danby, of York, who repaired the old parts of the mansion, then in a ruinous condition, and built the south front and western wing, giving it the name of Newbuilding, which it has ever since retained. Mr. Danby left two daughters, co-heiresses, Ursula and Milcah, who married two brothers, Sir Thomas Rokeby and Joseph Rokeby, Esq. The first couple leaving no issue the whole estate devolved upon Milcah and her husband. This Milcah was a very learned lady, the mistress of many languages, and read the Scriptures in the original tongues, She was a writer too, and handled abstruse and metaphysical subjects with the greatest ease. Her son and heir, Mr. Joseph Rokeby, repaired and modernised the mansion. Dying unmarried he was succeeded by his nephew, Joseph Buxton, Esq., who made some addition to the mansion. He was never married, and on his decease the estate was inherited by Francis Smyth, Esq., son of his sister, Phœbe. Mr. Smyth was an industrious antiquary, and an F.A.S. He died in 1809, leaving a widow, in whom the whole estate was vested, and family. After the death of Mrs. Smyth the estate was sold, with the consent of the Rev. Joseph Smyth, the eldest son, to Colonel Gregory Elsley, of Mount St. John, from whom it has descended to the present owner, Charles Elsley, Esq., J.P. and Recorder of York.

The mansion occupies an elevated situation on the southern side of a green knoll, sheltered with woodlands, and commanding extensive and beautiful views of the surrounding country. One of the towers of the old castle was retained in the erection of the present mansion, and also the spacious arched vaults, "sufficient," says Mr. Grainge, "to contain the winter's stores of a large garrison." From one of these vaults is a subterranean passage, which, according to tradition, leads to Upsall Castle, but the entrance is now walled up. In the old part of the building is a secret chamber, three feet six inches square by six feet high, to which access is gained by narrow winding passages in the thickness of the wall. The only place for the admission of light is a small aperture nine inches by four inches. This could not be seen from without, and a stone, which exactly fitted it, could be inserted at pleasure, and then all was darkness. This chamber was doubtless used in the days of religious persecution as a hiding place for the Catholic priest when hunted by pursuivants.

The Church was rebuilt in 1873, on the site of the old one, and consists of nave, chancel, square tower, and south porch. It contains several memorial tablets and brasses to members of the Danby, Rokeby, Burton, Serjeantson, Walker, Bean, Millar, and Smyth families. The edifice, which was taken down for the erection of the present one, was built on the foundations of a still earlier church some time last century. In this structure the Early English chancel arch had been retained, and this has been rebuilt into the north wall of the present chancel, for an organ chamber. The ancient piscina, holy-water stoup, and some old gravestones, with cross and shears, were discovered during the work of rebuilding in 1873, and have been placed in positions where they will be preserved for future generations. A stone, carved on both sides with Runic characters, was also unearthed, which, with the dedication to St. Wilfrid, goes far to prove that one of the primitive Northumbrian churches stood here, In the churchyard are the shafts of two ancient crosses, and an old baptismal font. The living is a rectory, valued in the Liber Regis of Henry VIII. at £8 2s. 1d., and now worth £372, including 66 acres of glebe. The patronage has been vested in the Franklands, of Thirkleby, since 1673. The present rector is the Rev. Francis Payne-Gallwey, B.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge.

The tithes of the parish were commuted in 1839 for rent-charges; those of Kirby Knowle amounting to £189; of Bagby to £205; and of a small detached portion of the parish which lies in Carlton Miniott to £16.

The school was erected in 1862 by the late Charles Heneage Elsley, Esq., of Newbuilding, and is endowed with £5 a year by the present owner of Newbuilding for five scholars, who are taught free. The rector and T. W. Lloyd, Esq., of Cowesby Hall, also subscribe liberally towards its suppor

In the elevated moorlands, which rise a short distance to the east of the village, there occurred in 1799 an extensive landslip, and the naked scar defining its extent is still visible. At one part of the ascent is a small lake covering about three roods, and shaded with trees, which impart to the water a dark and dismal appearance, reminding the spectator of

"That lake whose gloomy shore
Skylark never warbles o'er."
In our local nomenclature the terminals by and thorpe point out, with few exceptions, the districts colonised by the Danes; and from the goodly array of both bys and thorpes in Yorkshire, it is evident that the Norsemen must have settled in very considerable numbers in this county. Another relic of their occupation of this district has come down to us in the name of Woolmoor farm in this township. In an ancient document of A.D. 1279, it occurs as Ulnesmote, which has undergone a gradual transformation into the present name. Its Scandinavian origin is apparent in its older form. Ulnes, from Ulloh, has been replaced by its modern equivalent wool; and moor is a corruption of mote, a meeting; the whole word signifying the wool meeting, or wool mart. As in later times the Woolsack has been the seat of the presiding genius of the law, so probably this may have been the spot where the Scandinavian law-man dispensed justice, and executed judgments on the criminals within his district.

Source: (Birth)
Title: Ancestry.co.uk
Media: Book

Page: Thirsk Jun 1861 Vol 9d p361

Source: (Individual)
Title: 1871 UK Census
Media: Census

Source: (Individual)
Title: UK Census 1891

Note: ABBR 1891 UK Census

Source: (Christening)
Title: IGI Individual Record
Media: Electronic

Source: (Individual)
Title: Marriage certificate
Media: Book

Note: ABBR Marriage certificate

Christening: 12 MAY 1861 Kirby Knowle, Yorkshire

Occupation: Date: 1915
Place: Pork Butcher

Occupation: Date: 1891
Place: Farmer & Innkeeper

Death: 1938

Reference: 13

Census: Date: 1901
Place: 11 Devon Street, West Hartlepool, Hartlepool, Durham

Census: Date: 1871
Place: Carpenters Arms, Feliskirk, York

Census: Date: 1881
Place: Carpenters Arms, Feliskirk, York, Yorkshire

Census: Date: 1891
Place: Carpenters Arms, Felixkirk

Note: scholar

Source: (Birth)
Title: UK Census 1901

Note: ABBR 1901 UK Census

Source: (Death)
Title: 1837 Online
Media: Electronic

Page: Blackburn Dec 1964 Vol 10b Page 356

Source: (Death)
Title: Death Certificate
Media: Book

Source: (Individual)
Title: UK Census 1891

Note: ABBR 1891 UK Census

Occupation: Date: 1901
Place: Woollen weaver

Occupation: Date: 1891
Place: Woollen weaver

Death: 12 OCT 1964 Queens Park Hospital, Blackburn, Lancashire

Burial: 1964 Ashes scattered at Pleasington Cemetery, Blackburn

Reference: 130

Cause: Congestive cardiac failure, Coronary Thrombosis

Census: Date: 1881
Place: 99 Halifax Road, Rochdale, Lancashire

Census: Date: 1891
Place: 99 Halifax Road, Rochdale, Lancashire

Census: Date: 1901
Place: 99 Halifax Road, Rochdale, Lancashire

Cremation: Date: 1964
Place: Pleasington Cemetery, Blackburn

Source: (Name)
Title: England and Wales Civil Registration Death Index: 1993-2002
Media: Ancestry.com

Note: www.ancestry.com

Event: Type: Vital
Date: AUG 1993
Place: Cheshire

Death: 30 JUL 1993 Cheshire

Burial: 1993

Reference: 131

Note: believed to be 20th September

Source: (Name)
Title: England and Wales Civil Registration Death Index: 1993-2002
Media: Ancestry.com

Note: www.ancestry.com

Event: Type: Vital
Date: SEP 1993
Place: Lancashire

Death: 1993 Blackburn, Lancashire

Reference: 132

Reference: 133

Reference: 134