16/2/1808 Egton John Harrison & Margaret Child

to increase in numbers, away from their settled haunts. (Philip, the son of Richard the Egton tailor x delete). The 1826 list also gives Thomas, Ann, and Mary at Westonby. They could be children of D2’s first marriage, D.21 Mary being ten then. Philip, the son of the Egton tailor, also took to wandering marrying Elizabeth Elwick at Whitby on November 24 1832, when he was 28. He lived at first, it seems, at the home of the Elwicks on Eskdaleside where his brother-in-law Thomas was a railway labourer living at Sleights Gatehouse. Soon he was a railway employee himself moving to Incline Bottom Beckhole in 1847, after a period in Egton Bridge. Margaret his first child was b on July 2 1840, Hannah Lyth being the only godparent. Jane was b on November 6th 1842, Godparents Joseph, and Ann Cringe Ann b November 22 1846, Godparents Philip Hoggarth and Rose Lyth (Harrison John b April 18 1850, Godparents William Pearson, and Ann Hodgson Thomas b May 8 1853, Godparents John, and Susannah Sleightholme (Lyth) He returned to Egton Bridge at a later date, was left a widower on March 4 1881, and died himself on May 5 1887 aged 86, at 2 station Cottages where the old couple used to keep four borders. Almost as a postscript, UPR give Elizabeth Lyth Westonby baptised May 9 1789, perhaps the last child of Thomas and Mary above. Long-lived Lyths seem to be the pattern, Shorefoot and Egton Bridge 86 years, Westonby with 90 years and Howe House 92 years, persecution in adversity breeds rugged endurance.

THE LYTHS OF HOW HOUSE IN THE PARISH OF EGTON

Barely four fields distance due east of Westonby lied Hose House a farm overlooking Egton Flats the heath across on the other side of Mally Harland’s Slack. Into this house came Ambrose and Elizabeth Lyth from Cockwoodnuke where their son William was b. Their new abode saw the Birth of their next child Mary on January 13 1737. In 1745 he was reported for his recusancy and in 1753 the special Egton list describe his as with a wife and four children, one of whom was Ambrose the younger b in 1743. His mother died a widow on March 13 1785 by which time he had married Mary Welford at Egton on February 4 1783. Strangely enough, no trace of any children 6f this marriage has been found. His sister Mary above, died on July 3 1750, his wife on January 20 1825. Alone, except for William and Hannah Welford who made their Easter Communions with him in 1826 from Hose House, he remained there until his death on June 4 1835. The Welfords most likely his brother-in-law and wife were tenants of the farm when Egton Estate was put of for sale in 1853. The mystery of his late marriage remains.

THE LYTHS OF WHITBY