Fitting Families to Houses & Farms to 1901

Bishop Wilton Local History Group Fitting Families to Village Houses from the 1901 Census & Fitting Families to Outlying Farms from the 1841 to 1901 Censuses

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Introduction

Bishop Wilton and descendants of past residents, it is hoped that it provides a model for others in villages of a similar size.

It is clear that our task has been helped by the availability of old postcards of the village and the publication has been enhanced by being able to draw on photographs supplied by the many people who have shared their treasured mementoes of the past.

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he material in this document was produced initially for an exhibition in Bishop Wilton Village Hall to coincide with a Flower Festival in St Edith’s Church in 2005. It has since been expanded for printing as the Local History Group’s first Special Publication.

As well as being of interest to current residents of

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er aged 63). Forms were issued to each household and the head of the house had to fill in details of all the people who were in his/her house on the night of 31 March 1901. If they could not write then the enumerator helped them to fill it in. These forms were collected by the enumerator and he entered the details in his “enumerator’s book”. The pages of these books are what researchers are able to look at. The original forms were destroyed.

It looked as if it might be an easy task to match each census entry with a house in the village. This was so in some cases. Places like “Belthorpe Top Foreman’s house”, “Garrowby Lodge farmhouse”, “Schoolmaster’s house” and “Callis Wold farmhouse” were fairly obvious places. The families living in these dwellings were relatively easy to locate on a map and on the list. Unfortunately, most of the “addresses” on the census pages were given as “Cottage”, with some as “House”, “Private House”, or even “Farmhouse”.

There were other problems. Where had the enumerator started collecting census forms? What was his route around the village? Did the way he listed them in the enumerator’s book follow the order of the houses in the street, or did he miss some people because they were out and he went back later? Did he put these latter families in the correct street order, or did he add them at the end? For the 1871 census at Bishop Wilton the enumerator put the families in alphabetical order of surname, so there is no relationship to the position of the house in the street!

This was so complex that I had to make some assumptions. The first 16 dwellings on the list are all “outlying” dwellings, farms such as Callis Wold, Greenwick cottage, Low Belthorpe etc. The first one in the village proper seems to be the one called “Gamekeeper’s cottage” (No. 79) followed by 3 cottages (the middle one uninhabited), then the “School-

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n 2004 the Bishop Wilton Local History Group held a Workshop Day and one task was to look at the 1901 census to try to fit each family on that census to a house in the village. In preparation, I printed off images of the enumerators’ books for each of the censuses from 1841 to 1901, from either Internet sources or from CD ROMs that I possessed.

Meanwhile a list had been produced which included spaces for all the houses in the order they appeared around the village plus the outlying farms and houses.

This was based on material from photographs and postcards of almost all the houses in the village from the late 19th century and early 20th century. The aim of the workshop was to try to match the occupants of houses in the census for 1901 with the right dwelling in the village. After this we thought it may be possible to do the same for earlier censuses. One of the problems raised by this exercise showed that at certain times 2 or more dwellings had been combined to make just one house, and newer houses may have been built after the photographs were taken. So there was uncertainty as to where the “next” household on the census would be.

In 1901 the census data included: nature of dwelling or house name, surname, forename, relationship with the head of the household, sex, age, marital status, occupation, the county and parish where the person was born, the type of employment (employed, employer, work on own, at home), certain health problems, and if a dwelling was unoccupied, and how many rooms were in the house. Each dwelling as it is listed has a “schedule number” from 1 to 106.

The enumerator was William Askwith (probably the head of household at Callis Wold farmhouse - a farm

March, 2007 master’s house”. These fit the top end of the village opposite the site of the Archbishop’s Palace. After this there are more cottages and eventually the “Parsonage House”, a “house and shop”, “policeman’s house”, a Cottage, and then “Hall Farm”. This suggests that the enumerator walked down the north side of the main street from the school to the crossroads. After that there are the “House and Blacksmith’s shop”, then the “Cross Keys Inn”. From then on there are lots of “Cottages” and “Houses” and at 72 the “Fleece Inn” , with 73 being the “House and Grocer’s shop and Post Office”. More cottages and houses take us to No. 102, with 103 to 105 being “Back Lane Cottages”.

So making the bold assumption that the houses

listed in the census are in street order, the enumerator walked from the houses above the school, down the north side of the main street to the bottom of the village, then back up the main street on the South side to the top of the village, adding Back Lane at the end. I filled in the families on the list and passed this back to the Local History Group to see if it agreed with the photographic data and local knowledge of where certain families used to live. Although I have family connections with the village from 1786 to about 1860, I have no detailed knowledge of the inhabitants at the turn of the 19th/20th century or later.

The Village Repopulated

used as the main cross-reference with a dwelling on the diagram. This is then associated with the existing house numbers in the lists of householders.

We are sure of some of the allocations of householders to dwellings. We are less sure of others: where there are blocks of cottages under one roof we do not know that the list is in the right sequence; continuity of family occupation up until recent times suggests that a strict sequence round the village may be questionable (e.g. William Sissons at No. 76 rather than at 78; Matthew Ripley at No. 12 rather than at No.49).

With no specific reasons to break the supposed enumerator’s strict sequence around the village we have left it as it is. It is possible that Title Deeds could help to prove or disprove the allocations.

For convenience of display, the repopulation of outlying farms is covered separately in this document.

- With Qualifications!

Mike Pratt

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ith Derek Wileman’s preparatory work as a starting point, there was a concerted attempt to refine the placement of families and locate the unoccupied dwellings around the village. Andrew Sefton, Mike Pratt and David Walker pooled their knowledge and finalised the layout represented in the following four diagrams.

The basis for the layout was the 1910 OS map which allowed Main Street to be split into four sections: the north side of the bottom-end; the south side of the bottom-end; the south side of the top-end; the north side of the top-end. Although this order corresponds to current house numbers, it should be noted that these were not introduced to the village until the 1930s. Therefore, the census entry number has been

Key to the Diagrams • • • •

Not all the shaded rectangles shown on the diagrams as fronting onto the street are actual dwellings, some are outbuildings, work premises and former dwellings.

In the main, the division of dwellings as represented on the 1910 OS map has been accepted as is.

However, in one or two cases one dwelling has been assumed although more than one is shown on the map.

Unoccupied dwellings which are listed in the census return but not allocated entry numbers are shown as unshaded rectangles on the diagrams and listed in sequence with the occupied houses.

An asterisk against a census entry number indicates that there is a high degree of certainty that the location of the corresponding householder and family is correct i.e. there is supporting evidence.

There are fewer of these “reference points” on the south side of the top end of the village.

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Bishop Wilton House Occupancy From the 1901 Census Bottom-end, North House Numbers 1 to 21

35 37

48 49 50

52

Entry No. 34* 35* 36* 37 38 39 40 41 42

Head of Family Thomas Fletcher George Bailey Robert Bailey William B. Cooper George Oxtoby James H. Cook William Garforth Unoccupied Emily Mary Trowsdale Ann Anderson

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41

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46

42

36

38 39

40

43 44

34

51

House No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Entry No. 43 44 45* 46 47 48* 49 50* 51 52

Head of Family Ann Loft Matthew C. Ripley George Brown John B. Richmond Thomas Clint Henry Serginson Jane Gowland Robert Adamson Richard Smith Marmaduke Birks

House No. 11 12 13,14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

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Bishop Wilton House Occupancy From the 1901 Census Bottom-end, South House Numbers 22 to 73

Entry No. 53 54* 55 56 57 58* 59

Head of Family Robert Pickering James Newby Alfred Serginson Ann Cawton Robert Robson Unoccupied x 2 Levi Dales George Slater Unoccupied

Entry No. 60 61 62 63 64 65* 66 67 68 69 70

House No. 22 23 24 25 26,27 28,29 30 31 32

71* 72* 73* 103 104 105

Head of Family George Loft William Ware Thomas Clint William Richmond Catherine Chapman Elizabeth Barker Fred Foster Quarton Wilkinson George Anderson John Jordan Emma Lofthouse Unoccupied Hannah Banks Sophia H. Elsworth William H. Cook Escritt Wilson Thomas Foster Martha Foster

House No. 33 34 35 36 37 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 106 107 108

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Bishop Wilton House Occupancy From the 1901 Census Top-end, South House Numbers 47 to 78

Entry No. 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88

Head of Family Thomas Egglestone Charles Wallis Thomas Foster Snr James White William Morley Christopher Barnes William Wales Thomas Robinson Martha Keep Unoccupied William Foster George Page Jane Ann Banks* Henry Q. Adamson Sara Croft Unoccupied Mark Headley

House No. 47 48 49 50 50 51 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61

Entry No. 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102

Head of Family John Ware Richard Webster George Squires John R. Robinson Robert Cullum Cooper Walkington Thomas Ware Agnes Alice Milvain Unoccupied William Smith David Beale Samuel Hardcastle Mary Askwith William Sissons Unoccupied x 2 Thomas Hardwick

House No. 62 63 64 65,66 67,68 69 70 71 72 72 73 74 75 76 77 78

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Bishop Wilton House Occupancy From the 1901 Census Top-end, North House Numbers 79 to 97

Entry No. 17* 18 19 20* 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

Head of Family William Sygrove Jane Baxter Unoccupied William Slater Harry Bramley Unoccupied James Johnson William Lazenby George W. Slater Jonathan H. Hodgson Elizabeth Craggs James Fuguill Unoccupied George Wilson

House No. 79 80

Entry No.

81 82 83 83 84 84 85 86 86 87 88

29*

28

30* 31* 32* 33

Head of Family Unoccupied George Wilson Jnr Unoccupied x 3 Job Johnson Unoccupied John Adams Eldridge James Robson John F. Harrison Jane Etty

House No. 89 90 91 92 93,94 95 96 97

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House Frontages Mike Pratt

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This is an example of photograph that turned up relatively recently, after those that were used to research this publication. It shows the frontage of No. 75 Main Street (with a lamp post in front). It is possible that the individuals on the doorstep are those included in the 1901 census when Mary Askwith, widower aged 55, was head of household, Mary Surridge, aged 89 was in residence along with a girl of 13 called Frances Tipling.

aking things a stage further, the images of house frontages from old postcards can be used to show where families lived.

Although it would be possible to do this all around the village, just six examples are provided here. The details from postcards that have been used could be a few years either side of 1901 so there can be no certainty that the residents depicted are those listed on the census return. Still, it is fun to speculate!

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Things to Spot • The Policeman’s House at No. 96 is unmistakable with a sign over the door and a noticeboard to the side (page 10). Could that be a wanted poster on it?!

• It looks as though PC Harrison’s son, William Harrison, was a servant of his next door neighbour, James Robson. His occupation was described as “Grand Lad”!

• That could be the butcher, James Robson,

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standing outside his premises (page 10).

Similarly, Rev. John Adams Eldridge had another resident’s son, Fred Sygrove, acting as a Page Boy and living in.

Who is that standing on the doorstep at No. 19 (page 11)? Could it be Robert Adamson - Shopkeeper and Grocer? There is certainly a sign over the door.

Take a close look at the front step at No. 20. You can just see a broom emerging from the doorway. Perhaps this was Sarah Smith doing her housework!

There is a lady on the doorstep of No. 37 that we take to be Elizabeth Barker (page 12).

William Morley was living in a one room dwelling so it is possible that this was the small extension to No. 50 or it could have been an outhouse up the back (page 14).

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occupied

Census E n t r y (House Number) 21 (83)

26 25 24 23 22 21

First Name James Eliza A.

Surname Johnson Johnson

Relation to Head Head Sister

Marital Status S S

Ellen

Johnson

Mother

Widow

Lazenby Lazenby Slater Slater Medd Hodgson

Head Wife Head Wife Nurse child Head

M M M M

73

24 (85)

William Sarah George W. Clara Edith Jonathon H

M

30

Hodgson Hodgson Hodgson Hodgson Craggs

Wife Daughter Daughter Daughter Head

M

25 (85)

Harriet Norah H Ethel Harriet Elizabeth James Ada Alice William

Fuguill Fuguill Fuguill Fuguill

Head Wife Daughter Son

M M

William

Thompson

Grandfather

Widower

22 (84) 23 (84)

26 (86)

Age Male 50

Age Female 36 76

Profession Rabbit Catcher Housekeeper Domestic Farm Labourer

67 26

Farm Labourer 25 5 mths 28 4 2 1 70

Widow 28

24 2

11 mths 85

Ordinary Farm Labourer

Living on own means Farm labourer

Un

occupied

Where Born BW, Yorks BW, Yorks Buckthorpe, Yorks Acklam, Yorks Huggate, Yorks BW, Yorks Millington, Yorks Warter, Yorks Buckthorpe, Yorks BW, Yorks BW, Yorks BW, Yorks BW, Yorks Full Sutton, Yorks BW, Yorks Birdsall, Yorks BW, Yorks BW, Yorks Pocklington, Yorks

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Census Entry (House First Number) Name 30 (94)

31 (95)

32 (96)

33 (97)

32

31

Policeman’s House

Surname

House & Shop

30

Parsonage House

Relation Marital Age Age to Head Status Male Female Profession

Where Born

John Adams Eldridge Sarah Poole

Head Servant

Widower

Oxford, Mary Magdalene Badsworth, Yorks

Fred

Sygrove

Page Boy

S

12

James Mary Mary Isabel Richard William Harry William John F.

Robson Robson Robson Robson Robson Robson Robson Harrison Harrison

Head Wife Daughter Daughter Son Son Son Servant Head

M M S S

39

Fanny Charlotte Reginald Wilfred Harold Dora L. Jane Thomas W

Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Harrison Etty Etty

Wife Daughter Son Son Son Daughter Head Son

M S

86 28

35 13 11 9 7 4 13 42

S M

9 7 5 Widow S

22

10

Clergyman, C of E Housekeeper Domestic Page Boy Domestic Butcher Scholar Scholar Scholar Scholar Scholar Grand Lad Police Constable E.R.C.

40 11 Scholar Scholar Scholar Scholar 2 53 Dressmaker No occupation Imbecile

Millington, Yorks Foxholes, Yorks Widdington, Yorks Langtoft, Yorks Langtoft, Yorks BW, Yorks BW, Yorks BW, Yorks Wilberfoss, Yorks Gransmoor, Yorks Hambleton, Yorks Howden Yorks Howden Yorks Howden Yorks Melbourne Melbourne Belper, Derbyshire Earswick, Yorks

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51 50 49 48 47 46 Census Entry (House Number)

First Name

Surname

Relation to Head

Marital Status

John B Kate

Richmond Richmond

Head Wife

M M

Clara Able Bertie Rose Amy Thomas

Richmond Richmond Richmond Richmond Richmond Clint

Daughter Son Son Daughter Daughter Head

M

Elizabeth Walter

Clint Clint

Wife Son

M S

Lawrence Henry Ellen F Charles

Clint Serginson Serginson Serginson

Son Head Wife Son

M M S

49 (18)

Jane

Gowland

Head

S

50 (19)

Robert

Adamson

Head

S

42

51 (20)

Richard Sarah Harry

Smith Smith Smith

Head Wife Son

M M S

59

46 (15)

47 (16)

48 (17)

Age Male 47

Age Female 35 10

8 6

Profession

Where Born

Carrier Corn

BW, Yorks Great Kelk, Lowthorpe, Driffield BW, Yorks BW, Yorks BW, Yorks BW, Yorks BW, Yorks Leavening, Yorks

Scholar Scholar Scholar

2 1 77 70 39

Retired Farm Labourer Horse Breaker and breeder Attending school Shoe Maker

5 55 52 23 50

Shoe Maker journeyman Laundress & Charwoman Shopkeeper & Grocer Horse Breaker

54 19

11

Railway Porter

Bolton, Yorks BW, Yorks BW, Yorks BW, Yorks Scarborough, Yorks Hexham, Northumberland BW, Yorks Haxby, Yorks Bulmer, Yorks BW, Yorks BW, Yorks

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63 62 61 60 Un

occupied

Census Entry (House Number) 59 (31)

First Name Surname George Slater

Relation to Marital Age Age Head Status Male Female Profession Head Widower 66 Farm Labourer

60 (33)

May Ann George

Robinson Loft

Servant Head

S M

Margaret Albert J Alice Herbert Thomas F William Mary Thomas Margaret William

Loft Loft Loft Loft Loft Ware Ware Clint Clint Richmond

Wife Son Daughter Son Son Head Wife Head Wife Head

M

Ann Alfred Catherine John Elizabeth Hilda

Richmond Rose Chapman Chapman Barker Barker

Wife Grandson Head Son Head Daughter

M

61 (34) 62 (35) 63 (36)

64 (37) 65 (37)

44

12

M M M M M

5 1 mth 74

Farm Labourer 63

31

Waggoner on farm 19

67

Ordinary Agricultural Labourer 57

4 Widow S Widow S

37 Servant Ordinary Agricultural Labourer 42 Scholar 10 Scholar Scholar

48

12

59

Where Born Holme on Spalding Moor, Yorks Howden, Yorks Givendale, Yorks Harwooddale, Yorks BW, Yorks BW, Yorks BW, Yorks BW, Yorks BW, Yorks Strensall, Yorks BW, Yorks Fridaythorpe, Yorks Bolton, York

Pocklington, Yorks BW, Yorks 73 York, Yorks Agricultural Labourer BW, Yorks 57 Charwoman Domestic Pocklington, Yorks 18 General Servant BW, Yorks Domestic

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73

72

House, Grocer’s Shop & Post Office

Fleece Inn

Census Entry (House Number)

First Name

Relation Surname to Head

Marital Status

72 (45)

Sophia H

Elsworth

Head

Widow

59 Innkeeper

Bath, Somerset

Rosena

Grant

Sister

S

52

Bath, Somerset

Elizabeth

Cross

Servant

S

30 General Servant Domestic

Bishop Wilton, Yorks

Tom

Foster

Servant

S

27

Ostler

Minskip, Yorks

William H Cook

Head

M

52

Sub Postmaster & Grocer

Brompton, Derbys

Rebecca

Wife

M

73 (46)

Cook

13

Age Age Male Female Profession

60

Where Born

Studley, Warks

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79 78

Census Entry (House Number) First Name Surname 75 (48)

77 76

- one room!

Relation Marital to Head Status

Age Age Male Female Profession

Charles Ann

Wallis Wallis

Head Wife

M M

71

Thomas Jane

Foster (sen.) Head Foster Wife

M M

66

77 (50)

James Sarah

White White

Head Wife

M M

78 (50)

William

Morley

Head

79 (51)

Christopher Barnes Elizabeth Barnes John Barnes

Head Wife Son

William Margaret James W Robert Lizzie May Fred Florrie

76 (49)

80 (51)

Wales Wales Wales Wales Wales Wales Wales Wales

75 Where Born

Farm Labourer

York, Yorks North Burton, Yorks

Agricultural Labourer

BW, Yorks Hornsea, Yorks

72 62

Cowkeeper

Newton, Yorks Bugthorpe, Yorks

Widower

74

Farm Labourer

Holme on Spalding Moor, Yorks

M M S

75

Farm Labourer

BW, Yorks Wilberfoss, Yorks BW, Yorks

Head M Wife M Son S Son Daughter Daughter Son Daughter

36

64

65

72 30

Roadman Labourer Carrier 36

14 12

Horse Lad on Farm Scholar 10 Scholar 5 Scholar

2 5 mths

14

North Frodingham, Yorks BW, Yorks Woodhouse, Yorks BW, Yorks BW, Yorks BW, Yorks BW, Yorks BW, Yorks

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Outlying Farms

Derek Wileman & Kate Pratt

Beechwood Farmhouse as it would have looked in 1901

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ccupation of farms within the village are dealt with in preceding pages. For outlying farms all census details available have been taken into account - not just those for 1901. A selection of these are represented on the map that follows and the details for those that could not be included on the map are separately listed.

The following notes should be borne in mind when considering the details for the occupation of the outlying farms: 1. The varying ways of referring to the same farm in successive censuses have been listed in the headings e.g. Westfield House or Westfield for what is now known as Grange Farm.

2. There is some confusion over which is Callis Wold and which Low Callis in the censuses for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871 and even 1881. We have tried to spot continuity based on tenants, or acreage, but are baffled. Were there 2 people farming at Callis Wold? When did Low Callis 15

come into being?

3. Where is Cot Nab? It doesn’t even appear on the 1901 census. It might be worth asking a later occupant.

4. Where were the Bankses in 1851? West Field Farm does not seem to be listed in the 1851 census.

5. A Trade Directory has been used in one instance to fill a gap.

6. Land was obviously attached to different farms at different times, and trying to use the given acreage to locate a particular farm is not straightforward. A lot can happen in a 10-year gap which cannot be guessed at! For example, in 1861 Robert Matthews (50) is farming 235 acres at Garrowby Top, while Charles Matthews (40) is farming 413 acres at an unnamed village farm. In 1871 Charles Matthews (now 50) is listed as living at Garrowby Top, but still farming his 413 acres.

Head of Household William Dixon Thomas Lockwood William Lockwood Thomas Lockwood

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Head of H’hold John Banks No Entry John Banks John Banks John Banks Mary Dales John Hesp

415 500 500

Census Entry No 110 B1 6 50 114 12 10

8 23 121 16 14

Date 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901

Head of Household John Tindale John Tindale John Maw Robert Robson, Hind Thomas Dales James Barker James Barker 105

105

Acreage

Acreage 12 296 294 306 B3 3 26 111 10 106

1871 1881 1891 1901

Date

Census Entry No 120 17 80/81 118 1 16

Date 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901

Thomas Foster, Hind Frederick Topham John Topham William Wilstrop

Head of Household

Acreage

Head of Household John Waite John Waite John Topham John Topham James Mason George Davey James Harding

Manna Green Farm

523 524 550 230

Acreage

Bishop Wilton Wold Wilton Wold Wold Farm House

Census Entry No 15 13

Seth Lofthouse Seth Lofthouse Seth Lofthouse Seth Lofthouse William Wilstrop Tom Simpson

Head of Household

Census Entry No

Acreage

1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901

Date

Beechwood Beechwood House

Census Entry No 109 B2 4 94 117 11 8

Head of Household Richard B Wilson Richard B Wilson

Head of Household John Dickinson Silburn Dickinson Thomas Cook Susannah Cook Alfred Eastwood Frederick Lett Frederick Lett

Low Belthorpe

Date 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901

Date 1891 1901

Cautley Farm Belthorpe Lane in 1901 Census

Cowslip Hill or Wilton Lodge

Census Entry No 8

Census Entry No 45 122 17 15

Based on the Parish Footpath Map

John Fawcett John Fawcett John Fawcett John Fawcett William Bielby Henry Fawcett Henry Fawcett

1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901

Acreage

1 24 120 14 12

137 200 22

Head of Household

Census Entry No 9

Date

High Belthorpe Belthorpe Top Belthorpe

Date 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901

320 321

Acreage

Acreage

Acreage

Head of Household John Kirby No Entry John Kirby Emma Burnby Richard Brigham Richard Brigham William I Robinson

Grange Westfield House Westfield

Date 1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901

Garrowby Lodge Garrowby Garrowby Inn

Date 1871 1881 1891 1901

Kitty Hill

From 1841 to 1901

Farm Occupancy

Bishop Wilton Robert Matthews Robert Matthews Robert Matthews Charles Matthews William G Wilson William G Wilson Henry Jenkins

Head of Household

229 235 413 286

Acreage

Census Entry No 53 127 9 1

118

118 118

Acreage

Census Entry No 7 121 9 86 121 2 7

Head of Household Acreage Census Entry No 1841 Thomas Natriss 3 1851 Thomas Nattriss 236 124 1861 Edward Topham 236 13 1871 Frederick Topham 235 7 1881 William Askwith 125 1891 William Askwith 6 1901 William Askwith 4 * prior to 1891 there is no differentiation between High & Low Callis Wold

Date

High Callis Wold Callis Wold*

Census Entry No 2 125 15 113 125 8 2

Date Head of Household Acreage Census Entry No 1841 John Clarkson 5 1851 John Clarkson 563 123 1861 Aaron Boyes 233 14 1871 Aaron Boyes 235 115 1881 No Entry 1891 John Featherstone 7 1901 Robert Triffitt 3 * prior to 1891 there is no differentiation between High & Low Callis Wold

Low Callis Wold Callis Wold*

1841 1851 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901

Date

Garrowby Top Garrowby Hill Top Cot Nab

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Outlying Farms - Not on the Map Mill Lane Cottage Mill House Thistle Mill House Windmill Date Head of Household

Acreage 1841 Joseph Beacastle 1861 William Reynolds (Corn Miller) 1871 Thomas Oxtoby 1881 Joseph Cooling 1891 Unoccupied 1901 Benjamin Rose

Census Entry No 11 Trade Directory 89 113 17A 11

Greenwick Farm Date Head of Household

Acreage 1841 Thomas Askwith 1851 Thomas Askwith 300 1861 Elizabeth Askwith 400 1871 Thomas Askwith 400 1881 Francis Pickering 1891 James R Singleton 1901 Harry Elsworth

Census Entry No 6 122 12 1 123 3 6

Greenwick Cottage (1) Date Head of Household

Acreage 1871 George Oxtoby 1881 William Ellis 1891 William H Kirby 1901 Uninhabited

Greenwick Cottage (2) Date Head of Household

Acreage 1871 George White 1881 George White 1891 No Entry 1901 Uninhabited

Greenwick Gamekeeper’s Cottage Date Head of Household

Acreage 1901 Alfred Fell

Census Entry No 91 116 5 4A Census Entry No 128 119 4B Census Entry No 5

Belthorpe Top – Hind’s or Foreman’s House Date Head of Household

Acreage Census Entry No 1841 John Watkinson * 1891 David Brown 12 1901 David Brown 9 * the 1841 entry is for a house with 5 agricultural labourers in it 17

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The People Concerned Mike Pratt

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he next task was to assemble as many photos of the people covered by the 1901 census as possible, with the one proviso that they do not have to have been taken at that precise time. An example is: James & Selina Cook were living at No. 6 in 1901. His occupation was given as Varmint Killer. In 1939 they were living at No. 10 when they housed evacuees from Sunderland.

Thanks are due to Joan Goy for this image.

So in the following pages there are as many as the archives allow in the approximate order around the village as the entries in the census.

Where possible the source of the image has been identified.

Job Johnson and his wife Harriet in the garden behind No. 91, in the late 1920s. In 1901 he was aged 55 and she was 50, and they were living in this same house. The young lady in the photograph has not been identified.

Job came to the fore in village history in 1927 as the instigator and captain of the veteran cricketers whose exploits were written about and photographed for newspapers of the time.

Thanks are due to Freda Davidson (nee Clint) for this image.

Her Grandmother, Margaret Clint, lived in a neighbouring cottage.

Rev. John Adams Eldridge was a widower of 86 in 1901.

He lived at the old Vicarage, No. 93/94, with a housekeeper and a pageboy of 12 called Fred Sygrove. Fred was the son of William Sygrove who lived up the road at the Gamekeeper’s Cottage, No. 79.

Rev. Eldridge died in 1905, having been the vicar of Bishop Wilton for over 47 years.

This image comes from an article about Eldridge’s life.

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March, 2007 We can’t be sure, but we think this must be PC Frederick Harrison, at the top of the steps up to the Church. He lived not far away at the Police House, No 96.

Look closely and you will see a young girl at the top of the steps, opposite PC Harrison, that could be one of his daughters.

This image is from a postcard.

Harold Bailey, a Joiner, was 24 in 1901 living with his family at No. 3 which is where this photograph shows him. He had a brother, John, who was also a Joiner.

The house has disappeared now. It was called Ivy Dene in later years. At a time when it had been modernised someone in the village used to refer to it as “one of the oldest houses in the village”.

Thanks are due to Ruth Walker for this image.

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Bishop Wilton Local History - Special Publication George Brown, Tailor & Draper, outside No. 13/14 where he was living in 1901 with his second wife, Emily, and their daughter, Doris, age 1.

George appears on at least 3 postcards of the village around this time.

This image comes from an old postcard that was found at a postcard fair. It was only the postmark on the back that linked it to Bishop Wilton.

This is Levi Dales who was a 59 year old retired Grain Merchant on his own at the Chestnuts (No. 30) in 1901 when the census was taken. Miraculously, this photograph is actually dated 21st March 1901. Levi is pictured with one of his sons, Noel.

We are told that Frances Dales, Levi’s wife, was at a boarding house with Levi’s two sons (and one from a previous marriage) on the Isle of Wight at the time of the 1901 census.

At the time of his death at the age of 78 he was at Cawood Castle and after his death a commemorative plaque was placed in the Church by a child of his.

Levi was a founder & treasurer of the first Bishop Wilton Show in 1897. The fact that it had a South African sponsor has mystified us for some time. It turns out that Levi’s daughter, Gertrude Dales, married a South African goldminer, Henry Thomas Glynn, in 1896 in Pocklington.

The image was supplied by Vivian Haevens a descendant of Levi who lives in Canada.

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March, 2007 This is Margaret Clint in later life. In 1901 at the age of 19 she was already married to Thomas, aged 31, and living at No. 35.

It is thought that this photograph was actually taken somewhere other than Bishop Wilton (unless someone can identify the house).

Thanks are due to Freda Davidson (nee Clint, Margaret’s granddaughter) for this image.

Andrew Sefton found this image in a bundle of items relating to the Barker family that he acquired at an auction. We managed to identify the house as No. 37 by matching it with another photograph (see page 12) where the same woman is standing on the same doorstep. After that it wasn’t too big a step to identify the woman as Elizabeth Barker who was 57 at the time of the census and living with her daughter, Hilda, aged 18.

It isn’t only the fronts of old postcards that need to be checked.

This is the back of the postcard of the Fleece Inn reproduced on page 13. It was sent in 1904

by Sophia H. Elsworth who was Innkeeper at the Fleece in 1901.

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This photo of the Banks family outside Walgate House, No 57, cannot be dated precisely, but must be later than 1904 when the outbuilding in the background, outside No 97, was built.

The older lady is Jane Ann Banks, shown in the 1901 census as a widow and a Poultry Farmer. She had 10 children in all, so the line-up probably includes some of her grandchildren as well as the youngest of her children.

Thanks are due to Miss Eastwood for this image.

This is Charlie Cullum with his sister Sarah outside No 90.

Charlie was 23 in 1901, a bootmaker journeyman, living with his family at No. 67/68.

Thanks are due to Barry Trotter for this image.

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hat was the most unexpected profession recorded in the 1901 census? Without doubt that of William R Pennington (from St John’s Wood, Hampstead) living at No. 73, who was an Operatic Vocalist and Poultry Keeper!

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