tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80306214369770198942024-03-14T03:19:34.608-04:00Harrison Family HistoryA history of the Harrison family of the Town of Whitby, Newton Mulgrave Township and Egton Township, North Yorkshire and Toronto Gore Township, Peel County, Ontario, Canada.Michael Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15408473849110286556noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030621436977019894.post-63265114106800607382022-01-04T11:23:00.006-05:002024-02-09T15:02:32.704-05:00Harrison Family History<p> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-large;">Welcome to the Harrison Family History blog.</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The origins of my Harrison family are in a corner of North Yorkshire near the North Sea. So far, research has confirmed my oldest ancestor as Joseph Harrison (1707-1780), originally a mariner, ship's carpenter and innkeeper who lived in <a href="https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Whitby,+UK/@54.491039,-0.6151945,830m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x487f1779f21902d7:0xa0fd139f12932a0!8m2!3d54.486335!4d-0.613347" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Whitby, North Yorkshire</span></a> on the North Sea coast in the 1730s. He later took up farming in Newton Mulgrave Township to the west of Whitby when he purchased Pearson's Farm located in the Tranmire area in 1738. His parents are currently unknown. However on the 1717 Recusant list there is a John Harrison and William Harrison listed as living in the Parish of Egton. Is one of these his father? There are no Harrisons listed for Whitby which only has one listed name. Or did he convert to Catholicism when he married Jane Hodgson?</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /><span>This is the story of my Harrison family down to my grandparents. </span><br /><span><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Joseph HARRISON (1707-1780) married Jane HODGSON (?</span>-1743) about</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> 1733. Jane was the daughter of William Hodgson, who died in 1730, and his wife Elizabeth Spedlin of Ugthorpe Township. Returns of Roman Catholics made for Anglican Archbishop Blackburn and dated 21 September 1735, list Joseph and Jane HARRISON in the parish of Whitby. Joseph is described as a mariner. This is confirmed by an indenture in the North Yorkshire Deeds Registry from 1737 which lists him as a ship's carpenter. A James Harrison, mariner, witnessed the document as well (a relative? - however there is no James Harrison on the 1735 recusant list). On May 3, 1738 Joseph Harrison, using the proxy of John Peirson of Egton, purchased present day Low Whins Farm (then called <a href="https://harrisonfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/2021/11/pearsons-farm.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Pearson's Farm</span></a>) in Newton Mulgrave township for </span><span style="font-size: large;">£</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">225. Did Joseph Harrison use a proxy because he was Catholic and afraid that the land could be taken by the government given his illegal faith? On May 16, 1738 the will of John Hodgson of Biggin House in the parish of Lythe, who died in 1738 was registered in the North Yorkshire Deeds Registry. Joseph Harrison was a witness to the will and when it was registered the additional information that Joseph was living in Whitby and was an Innholder was included. On August 31, 1741 the burial of his daughter Dorothy was recorded in the parish register for St. Mary's (Anglican) church in Whitby </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">as follows: Dorothy daughter of Joseph HARRISON of Tranmire dying at Whitby</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">. In 1745 Joseph and his family were still living in Newton Mulgrave township, parish of Lythe as they are included there on the recusant list from that year. Joseph HARRISON next appears on the recusant list of 1767 aged 60 years (this suggests a birth year of 1707). The list also states that he has lived in the township of Newton Mulgrave, parish of Lythe, for 12 years but we know this is a mistake as he purchased the land in 1738. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Jane HODGSON died in April 1743 as recorded in the Whitby Anglican Parish Register as the wife of Joseph HARRISON, husbandman, Whitby. Now, the description of Joseph HARRISON as a husbandman is interesting. This essentially describes a tenant farmer but we know that he had purchased his farm in Tranmire in 1738 and so should have been described as a yeoman. Even though this was in secret, given his Roman Catholic faith, it was not in Whitby township. So, was he actually a tenant farmer on a farm in Whitby township at the same time he also owned - and was presumably renting out - the farm in Tranmire? What makes this even more mysterious is that he was clearly living in Tranmire in 1741 when his daughter Dorothy died as stated in the same Whitby Anglican parish register. If he was indeed renting a farm in Whitby Township it might explain the listing in the 1767 recusant list where it stated that he was living in Newton Mulgrave Township for 12 years (that is since 1755). This however raises another question. If he already owned a farm why was he not farming it and instead renting a farm in another location? </span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Joseph HARRISON of Low<a href="http://maps.nls.uk/view/102344251#zoom=5&lat=6711&lon=4299&layers=BT" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;"> </span><span style="color: orange;">Whins</span></a> (the one on the right) died and was buried at Egton on April 18, 1780. His will dated February 18, 1780, and passed almost exactly one year later on April 7, 1781 lists his three children; as well as stating that his son Henry had "four children"; his son Joseph had "seven children" and his daughter Elizabeth's married name was GARBUT; as well as stating that he had a brother John HARRISON. The following bequests were granted by his will: Both Henry and Joseph are given the farms they currently occupied in <span>Tranmire</span><span style="color: orange;"> </span>in the township of Newton Mulgrave (Joseph Harrison Jr at High Whins and Henry Harrison at Low Whins). Their living children were to be given £5 each when they "attain the ages" of 21 years. Henry was further granted £15 owed to his father Joseph by his brother John. Elizabeth GARBUT, his daughter, is granted £1. Joseph Jr.'s daughter Mary is specifically mentioned and left a bed. </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Joseph and Jane had four known children:</span><br /><br /><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Henry (1734-1812) He was baptized by Father Monox Hervey, Roman Catholic priest at Ugthorpe, on November 19, 1734. Mary HODGSON was Godmother and was identified as the child's aunt. Joseph and Jane Harrison are described as being of "Ugthorpe". Henry would later marry Hannah DALE. Banns for the marriage were read on December 20, 1764 at Lythe. Both were listed as living in Danby Parish.</span></li></ul><div><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Elizabeth (c1735- ?). married to William (?) GARBUT. Elizabeth GARBUT was mentioned in her father's will of 1780. However no corresponding marriage can be found in Yorkshire. This suggests that it was a Catholic marriage only.</span></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Joseph (c1737-1816) married Mary DALE (sister of Hannah DALE)</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Dorothy (?-1741) Dorothy died and was buried in the cemetery at St. Mary's Anglican Church in Whitby on August 31, 1741.</span></li></ul></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: center;">2. Joseph HARRISON (c1737-1816) married Mary DALE (1740-1816) at Lythe on May 26, 1761. Witnesses were Thomas MILBURN, George DALE and William GARBUTT. Mary is believed to be the daughter of John DALE and Ann HILL who were married by Father Monox Hervey on July 26, 1736. Their marriage required a dispensation as they were third cousins with great great grandparents in common. They first appear on the recusant list of 1767. Though this list is just initials for North Yorkshire it is clear that it is them. Joseph Harrison and Mary Dale are both listed as 25 years old (which would give them a birth year of 1742 if correct). Joseph is listed as a farmer resident in the township for 25 years (so essentially lived in the township for his entire life). They next appear on the recusant list of 1780 for the Parish of Lythe as follows: Joseph and Mary Harrison with sons John, George, Joseph and William; and daughters Mary, Alice, Dorothy and Jane. (This is one more than the "seven" noted in Joseph Harrison's will of 1780 so one additional child was born between February 18, 1780 when the will was written and September 1780 when the recusant list was dated). </span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: center;">In his manuscript "Hearts of Oak", Leslie O'Connor noted that: </span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: center;">"It appears that at some time after their fathers death, Henry and Joseph may have separated the former remaining in the Tranmire area occupying the farms at Redmires and Whinns, whilst the latter with his wife Mary, moved to Mickleby, two or three miles nearer the coast (were they living with their daughter Mary Porritt in Mickleby?). This is evident from a careful analysis of the Ugthorpe Easter Communion records over the period 1795-1827, in the first of which a Joseph and Mary are shown and continue to be shown till 1804 when a move to Barnby is noticed."</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: center;">Joseph HARRISON of Barnby died on January 16, 1816 at the age of 78 and was buried at Lythe on January 19th. His death date was recorded in the Roman Catholic Parish records from Ugthorpe, and his burial on January 19, 1816 was recorded in the burial register for St Oswald Anglican Church in Lythe. Since his death was at the very beginning of 1816 he most likely turned 78 years old in 1815 giving a probable birth year of 1737. H</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: center;">is wife Mary DALE died a few months later in June 1816 and was buried with him on June 26. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: center;">Joseph HARRISON died without a will (or no will survived) and with the gap in Roman Catholic Parish records for the late 1700s I only have the 1780 recusant list, as well as the Easter Communion lists from the Catholic Church at Ugthorpe, to work from to try and reconstruct his family (the list from 1788 lists a Hannah Harrison Jr - who's daughter is this? Or is this the daughter of Henry Harrison, Joseph's brother who's family is also apparently indicated to live at "Winns" on the list?). Using these sources Joseph Harrison and Mary Dale are believed to have had the following children:</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Mary - (1764 - Feb 1831) would be the eldest daughter if the 1780 recusant list has the children in order of age. This looks to be correct as her grandfather specifically mentioned her in his will and left her a bed - a valuable piece of furniture in the 18th century. Was she about to get married and so needed one for her own household? This appears to be correct as Mary Harrison married Matthew Porritt, a shoemaker at Mickelby at St. Oswald's Anglican Church in Lythe on July 8, 1783. Joseph Harrison, Mary's father, was a witness. In 1789 Matthew Porritt would be a witness at the wedding of Mary's younger sister Alice to Solomon Harker at Lythe. Matthew Porritt converted to Catholicism on January 6, 1796 and was "taken in" to the church at St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church in Ugthorpe. He then appears in a number of Easter Communion lists in the same location and at the Roman Catholic Chapel in Egton Bridge. It is clear from these that he lived in Mickelby. A baptism of one of their children appears in the register for St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church in Ugthorpe. In March 1799 Mary Porritt was baptized with sponsors Michael Snowden and Jane Harrison. This would fit well as Jane Harrison was Mary's sister. Mary Porritt died at Mickleby in February 1831 and was buried at St. Oswald's Anglican Church in Lythe. Matthew Porritt died at Mickleby in 1832 and was buried at St. Oswald's Anglican Church in Lythe. No will has been found.</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Alice (c 1768-1826) - "Ellice" Harrison appears on the 1788 Easter Communion list for the Catholic Church in Ugthorpe. She later married Solomon HARKER on August 29, 1789 at the Anglican Church in Lythe. Though the vicar listed her as Alice on the register she signed it as "Ellice". Her brother in law Matthew Porritt, married to her sister Mary, was a witness. She died in 1826 and is buried at Lythe. Only one child is known from this marriage - Jane Harker born in 1791 who married George Marsay on February 3, 1811 at Lythe and had a large family. Baptisms for three of their nine known children have been found in the parish records for St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church in Ugthorpe. These include William in 1811, John in 1820 and Thomas in 1824. An additional two children were baptized at St. Hilda's Roman Catholic Church in Whitby including George in 1822 and George Harrison in 1827 (the younger George must have died). They had the following children: William (baptized on Nov 19, 1811 with sponsors George and Ellis Harker), Joseph (1817), Mary (1818), John (baptized May 5, 1820 with sponsors Mary Porritt nee Harrison, his aunt or first cousin and John Porritt), George (baptized August 17, 1822 with sponsors John and Mary Porritt - his aunt or 1st cousin?), Thomas (baptized December 31, 1824 with sponsor Joseph Harrison (his uncle?), George (baptized October 6, 1827 with sponsors Francis Fishburn and Mary Harker) and Alice (c. 1829).</span></li></ul><ul></ul><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">John - (1772-1831) - the 1780 recusant list has a son John near the beginning which suggests he is one of the older sons. However he does not appear on the 1788 Easter Communion list at Ugthorpe. There is a John Harrison listed on the 1788 Easter Communion list at Ugthorpe as being of Whitby. Why come all the way from Whitby for Easter mass when there was a Catholic Chapel in Whitby? Unless he was coming back home to attend Easter mass with his family? He is the only attendee from Whitby on the list. It is believed that John Harrison married Ann Hutchinson (1784-1832) (sister of Mary Hutchinson who married his brother William) at Egton on January 28, 1805. The witnesses were Margaret Hutchinson (her sister) and John Peckett (bailiff of the Egton Estate). I can only find one child born in Egton. A daughter Mary was baptized in the Roman Catholic Chapel at Egton Bridge on September 24, 1814, one of the sponsors was Margaret Leadley (her aunt), the other was her uncle William Hutchinson. She died a few years later and was buried at Egton on February 3, 1817, aged 2 years, designated "RC" in the Egton Anglican Register. John Harrison of Egton Bridge died on February 14, 1831 and was buried at Egton on February 17, 1831, designated "R. Catholic" in the Egton Anglican Register, aged 59. His wife Ann Harrison, nee Hutchinson of Egton Village was buried in Egton on February 16, 1832, aged 47, also designated "R. Catholic" in the Egton Anglican Register. I am certain that this Ann Harrison was Ann Hutchinson. The administration documents for John Harrison's probate from 1831 include a William Leidler (Leadley). Various Leadley family members were sponsors at the baptisms of various Hutchinson and Harrison family members. It is believed (though I continue to look for more evidence) that this John Harrison was the son of Joseph Harrison and Mary Dale. </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">George (?-?) - appears on the 1788 Easter Communion list for the Catholic Church at Ugthorpe after which there is no information on him.</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Joseph - (1775-1825). Joseph appears on the 1788 Easter Communion list for the Catholic Church in Ugthorpe. There is a burial for a Joseph HARRISON of Barnby in the Lythe Parish Register in February 1825 which is believed to be the son of Joseph Harrison and Mary Dale.</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Dorothy - Two Dorothy Harrisons appear on the 1788 Easter Communion list for Catholic Church in Ugthorpe living at "Winns". Two Dorothy Harrisons appear on the 1806 (or is it 1815?) confirmation list at St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church in Ugthorpe.</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Jane (1778-1815) - married George DALE on January 14, 1815 at Lythe. The witnesses were Johane (Jane?) HARKER and William ELAND. This looks to be her niece and namesake Jane Harker daughter of her sister Alice who was born in 1791. The signature looks strikingly similar to the one of Jane Harker's marriage to George Marsay in 1811 at Lythe including the last name in lower case. Did Jane Harker sign with her maiden name? Jane Dale's death is recorded in the Hinderwell Parish records occurring in Barnby. She was buried on May 10, 1815 in Hinderwell, aged 37 years. Her death in Barnby on May 8, 1815 is also recorded in the parish register for St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church but mysteriously her age is given as 48. I am going with the 1778 birth year based on her age at death in the Hinderwell Anglican Parish Register as it is consistent with the 1780 Recusant List which has her as the youngest daughter.</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">William - (c. 1780 - May 2, 1836) married Mary HUTCHINSON in Egton on January 24, 1804. Later lived in Egton township at Murkside and then immigrated to Canada in April 1831 (see below).</span></li></ul><div></div><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Hannah (c 1782- 1849) - I believe that Hannah was the sister of William Harrison 1780-1836 as both he and Joseph READMAN were witnesses at her marriage to Isaac LINTON at Egton on April 21, 1829. She was born circa 1785 and so was born after the 1780 recusant list was made.</span></li></ul><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;">3. William Harrison (c 1780 - May 2, 1836) married Mary Hutchinson (May 13, 1782 - August 17, 1856) at Egton Anglican Church on January 24, 1804. The witnesses were Joseph Readman and William Hutchinson. Under the </span><i style="text-align: center;">Marriage Act</i><span style="text-align: center;"> of 1753 only marriages performed by the Church of England were considered legal. They were no doubt married the same day by the priest at the </span><a href="https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=egton+bridge,+yorkshire&hl=en&ll=54.436995,-0.761082&spn=0.001256,0.002411&sll=54.447087,-0.759559&sspn=0.017068,0.054417&hnear=Egton+Bridge,+North+Yorkshire,+United+Kingdom&t=h&layer=c&cbll=54.437013,-0.761229&panoid=am2fgffrd5n1LbrnPCUUHA&cbp=12,233.39,,1,-2.06&hq=yorkshire&z=19" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Roman Catholic Chapel</span></a><span style="text-align: center;"> in </span><a href="https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=egton+bridge,+yorkshire&hl=en&ll=54.436443,-0.760766&spn=0.002512,0.004823&sll=54.447087,-0.759559&sspn=0.017068,0.054417&hnear=Egton+Bridge,+North+Yorkshire,+United+Kingdom&t=h&hq=yorkshire&fll=54.43687,-0.761125&fspn=0.002512,0.004823&z=18" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Egton Bridge</span></a><span style="text-align: center;">. Mary was the daughter of John and Margaret Hutchinson of Egton Township. John Hutchinson was a tailor. Her birth date of May 13, 1782 was registered with the Anglican Church in Egton. William Hutchinson who was a witness at the wedding was her brother. </span></span><br /><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">When he married Mary Hutchinson in 1804 in Egton both were listed as being of that parish. William and his family lived at <a href="http://maps.nls.uk/view/102344299#zoom=5&lat=4619&lon=11166&layers=BT" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Murkside</span></a> in Egton township. Various clues suggest it was Murkside Farm (as opposed to Murkside House which appears to have been the long time farm of the Hodgson family). The area gets its name from the Murkside Esk that flows northerly into the Esk River. William and Mary raised their family at Murkside attending the nearby Roman Catholic Chapel in Egton Bridge. The <a href="https://www.google.ca/maps/@54.4369031,-0.7611176,3a,22.8y,270.68h,96.27t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sabICfRagUp3_wFJcAou2mw!2e0!5s20110801T000000!7i13312!8i6656" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">original chapel</span></a> was built in 1798 and is now a school (a new church was built beside it in 1867 long after William Harrison and his family had left). William Harrison was listed here in 1824 in tax assessment records for Egton township (assessed with an annual value of over £49); and was still in this location in 1826 as they are listed in the Easter Communion List for the Roman Catholic Chapel at Egton Bridge. I would also note that the family of John Readman 1742-1826 and Sarah Dowson 1740-1824 also lived in Murkside. Their son Joseph Readman 1781-1843 was the best man at William Harrison's wedding to Mary Hutchinson in 1804; and along with William Harrison witnessed the marriage of William's sister Hannah Harrison to Isaac Linton at Egton in 1829. Joseph Readman (and his brother William) also immigrated to Canada and settled on the lot just south of William Harrison in Toronto Gore Township before dying there in 1843 intestate. William Harrison was a witness to the will of Joseph's father John Readman who died in Egton Township in 1826.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></div></div></div><span style="font-size: large;">The family immigrated to Canada on board the 380 ton <i>King William</i> which left Whitby on April 11, 1831 with about 300 passengers for Quebec. This is confirmed by my research in the 1831 editions of the <i>Quebec Mercury</i> newspaper which lists the <i>King William</i> leaving Whitby on April 11, 1831 and arriving in Quebec City with 271 settlers on May 22, 1831; and Richard Weatherill's <i>The Ancient Port of Whitby and its Shipping</i>, published in 1908 that confirms the information in the <i>Quebec Mercury</i>. Upon their arrival in Canada they would have taken another ship to Montreal and then from there to the Town of York (Toronto). The <i>King William</i> was a new ship which was launched on March 7, 1831 at Whitby built for Mr N Campion and Mr R Campion of Whitby. The journey to Quebec was its maiden voyage.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br />The family then settled in Toronto Gore Township, Peel County, Upper Canada (present day City of Brampton) north west of present day Toronto. William purchased Lot 8, Concession 9, Toronto Gore Township, 100 acres, from John Beikie, first clerk of the Executive Council in the city of Toronto and the original Crown patent holder, on June 5, 1835 for £75. Though the purchase of the property was not made until 1835 the Harrison family had settled on this property in 1831, as proven by the fact that they were noted in this location by John Dixon in his letter of 1832. I believe that the location of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic church, established in 1830 a short distance to the north, was a critical factor in the selection of this lot by William Harrison. </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Interestingly William Porter in his mss <i>History of Claireville</i>, written in 1910, stated that "a half mile north" of John Dark's tavern in Claireville where "one Joseph Champlin kept his hostelry in good old Yorkshire Style" the settlement was named Egton. Egton would be located at the corner of present day Clarkway Drive and Highway 50 in the present day City of Brampton. This is the only reference that I have come across for the Egton name outside of North Yorkshire suggesting that a number of families from Egton settled in the area. <a href="https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=Clairville,+Toronto,+Ontario&hl=en&sll=54.487442,-0.623302&sspn=0.034102,0.108833&geocode=FSh1mwIdBxBB-w&hnear=Claireville,+Toronto,+Toronto+Division,+Ontario&t=h&z=17" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Claireville</span> </a>was located at the intersection of Toronto Gore Township, Peel County and Etobicoke Township, York County. Remnants of the old hamlet of Claireville still exist close to present day Steeles Avenue West and Highway 50 centered on Codlin Crescent in the City of Toronto. </span><br /><span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><span><span style="font-size: large;">The surviving baptismal records for the Roman Catholic Chapel in Egton Bridge (built in 1798) only begin in 1813 and Catholic families were generally no longer baptizing or registering their children in the Anglican Church in Egton at that time. A note in the Egton Anglican Church records states that the Catholics had not been baptizing their children there since 1781 (though a few families did register their children). The names of children born before 1813 are noted below and are taken from the 1826 Easter Communion list for the Roman Catholic Chapel at Egton Bridge. In addition to the parents the following were named: Alicia (Alice), John, George, William and Joseph.</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">William Harrison and Mary Hutchinson had the following known children: </span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Joseph - ? The only mention I can find of this child is in the 1826 Easter Communion list for the Roman Catholic Chapel in Egton Bridge. He was listed as unmarried. </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">John - ? The only mention I can find of this child is in the 1826 Easter Communion list for the Roman Catholic Chapel in Egton Bridge. The list indicates that he was married. Did he marry Mary Barker in Danby in 1824? John Harrison is listed as of Egton Parish on the marriage record. Mary Barker is listed as of Danby Parish. The baptisms of two children are found at the Catholic Chapel at Egton Bridge: April 17, 1825 - Ann Harrison, dau of John and Mary Barker, sponsors Matthew Hutchinson (this must be the Matthew Hutchinson who came to Canada and was living with my gggrandfather Matthew Harrison in the 1861 census) and Cath. Knaggs; and June 1, 1836 - Mary Harrison, dau of John and Mary Barker, sponsors: John and Anna Harrison. The baptismal records from1828-1834 are missing from the Catholic Chapel records. </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">Alicia (Alice) - ? The only mention I can find of this child is in the 1826 Easter Communion list for the Roman Catholic Chapel in Egton Bridge. She was listed as unmarried.</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;">George (1809-1855) married Faith –later Mary- LINTON (bap June 17, 1804, Goathland, North Yorkshire, England - January 1884) on December 15, 1829, in Goathland (Parish of Pickering) (Church of England), North Yorkshire, England. Esther Linton, Faith's sister was the witnesses. Faith changed her name to Mary when she made her "profession of faith" and converted to Catholicism on June 17, 1837. Faith was the daughter of Thomas LINTON and Mary LOWNSBROUGH. Her brothers Brian and Moses also immigrated to Canada. Faith's brother Isaac married William Harrison's sister Hannah (Ann) at Egton in April 1829. George and his family originally lived in Toronto Gore township but later moved to King Township in York County. He was included in the 1826 Easter Communion list for the Catholic Chapel in Egton Bridge. He would have been 17 years old then and was listed as unmarried.</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">William (1812-1849) married Mary O'CONNOR, April 19, 1838 at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Wildfield, Peel County. William Harrison died on March 11, 1849. Mary O'CONNOR remarried Edward GALVIN at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Wildfield on January 27, 1864 though her four sons soon sent Edward on his way. The extant baptismal records of the Catholic Chapel in Egton Bridge only begin in 1813. He was included in the 1826 Easter Communion list for the Catholic Chapel in Egton Bridge. He would have been 14 years old then and was listed as unmarried.</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Ann (1813- 1855) was baptised at the Roman Catholic Chapel at Egton Bridge on January 14, 1813. The sponsors were James Harrison and Dorothy Roe. She married James C. SMYTH on July 20, 1841 at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Wildfield, Peel County. She died and was buried at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic cemetery, Wildfield in January 1855. The age on her tombstone is 27 years which is not believed to be accurate as that would have meant she married James C. SMYTH when she was 14 years old which does not seem realistic. As her mother had married James C SMYTH's widowed father in 1840 her mother became both her mother and mother-in-law.</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Margaret (1814-1891) was baptised at the Roman Catholic Chapel at Egton Bridge on August 19, 1814. Sponsors were William Hutchinson, Mary Hutchinson's brother and Agnes Readman. She married George JACKSON on June 23, 1836 at St. James Cathedral (Church of England) Toronto - and then at St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church, Toronto on January 10, 1837 no doubt at the insistence of her mother. George and Margaret left Canada and immigrated to the United States in 1871 settling in Troy, Missouri, north west of St. Louis. </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Mary (1818 - ?) was baptized at the Roman Catholic Chapel at Egton Bridge on February 8, 1818. The sponsor's were William Harrison and Ann Harrison. I do not have any additional information on Mary or know what happened to her. Did she marry? The marriage records for St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Wildfield are well documented from 1830 but there is no marriage for her. There is however a Mary Harrison about the same age who married John Maw on October 7, 1846 in Etobicoke Township. This marriage was by a Wesleyan Minister and her witness was a William Harrison. Is this her? Or did she die? It is possible as the burial records for St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Wildfield are very poor.</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Jane (1820-1901) married James MIDDLETON on February 27, 1838 at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Wildfield, Peel County (though for some reason her name is recorded as Jean). No baptism has been found in the Roman Catholic Chapel records for Egton Bridge.</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Matthew (1821-1887) was baptised at the Roman Catholic Chapel at Egton Bridge on March 10, 1821. However no first name or sponsors are listed. He was married twice. First to Ann HEWGILL and then after her death to Winnifred BULGER.</span></li></ul><span style="font-size: large;">William HARRISON died in May 1836 and was buried at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church cemetery at Wildfield, Peel County, Ontario. The age of 55 years on his tombstone suggests a birth year of 1780 or 1781. </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">An educated and literate man himself, he made specific mention in his will that his </span>executor<span style="font-family: inherit;"> William Harrison, provide his younger brother Matthew with "reasonable schooling until of age." </span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Four years after his death his widow Mary HUTCHINSON married Thomas SMYTH on April 27, 1840 at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Wildfield, Peel County. </span><br /><span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">4. Matthew HARRISON (1821 - January 6, 1887) married 1. Ann HEWGILL (August 9, 1829 - July 17, 1869) (converted to Catholicism on June 17, 1869) on May 20, 1849 in St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Wildfield, Peel County. They were married a second time by a Wesleyan Minister on July 1, 1849. Ann HEWGILL died of consumption on July 17, 1869 and was buried on the Matthew Harrison farm on Lot 9, Concession 10, Toronto Gore Township along with a child. The cemetery was protected and preserved as part of the residential development of the property. It is a mystery why she was buried here but I speculate that there was a dispute between the Harrison and Hewgill families over her last resting place. Given that she only converted to Catholicism one month before her death I am guessing that Matthew Harrison wanted her buried in St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Cemetery in Wildfield and her father William Hewgill wanted her buried at the Hilltop Gore Methodist Cemetery. Burial on the farm seems to have been a compromise for all concerned. The cemetery can be viewed <a href="http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=r8y6498bswmg&lvl=19.12&dir=356.18&sty=b&form=LMLTCC" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here</span></a>. Ann Hewgill's white marble tombstone lying flat on the ground can be easily seen under the tree in the centre - part of the original apple orchard. When the city of Brampton landscaped the cemetery they cut down the old apple tree being removed (contrary to what I was told me). </span></span><br /><span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><span><span style="font-size: large;">Matthew purchased his first farm - 100 acres on Lot 9, Concession 10, Toronto Gore Township on March 1, 1854. However, there was an existing lease on the property and so he had to wait three years until moving to this lot. In the meantime he was renting a farm further north. This is a bit of a mystery since he already owned 50 acres nearby that he purchased in 1845. Later he acquired another 100 acres of Part Lots 14 and 15, Concession 10, Toronto Gore Township. Part Lots 14 and 15, Concession 10 would be given to his son William Harrison (my great grandfather). Matthew Harrison and Ann Hewgill had the following children: </span></span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Mary Elizabeth (1850-1904) married Martin BRYNE at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Wildfield, Peel County. They had 11 children. </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">unnamed twins - lived 2 days (referred to in a letter by William Hewgill).</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">William (1854-1923) married 1. Julia Ann O'BRIEN, married 2 Mary Jane BRYNE. </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">John Francis (1857-1858) </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Ann Jane (1860-1943) married Thomas O'BRIEN on February 6, 1883 at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Wildfield, Peel County. They lived in Huron County near Clinton, Ontario and had 6 children. </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Unnamed child (1869-1869) buried on Lot 9, Concession 10, Toronto Gore Township with Ann HEWGILL (only one grave shaft was found during the </span>archaeological<span style="font-family: inherit;"> investigation of the cemetery). </span></span></li></ul><span style="font-size: large;">Matthew HARRISON married his second wife, Winnifred BULGER on November 7, 1869 at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Wildfield, Peel County. Winnifred was the daughter of James BULGER and Ann CULLITON. They had the following children: </span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Alice Josephine (1870-1937) married John James KEHOE on February 23, 1892 at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Wildfield. They had 7 children (including 2 priests and 1 nun). </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Theresa (1872-?) She could have been registered as "Eliza" when she was born on March 26, 1872. There is a birth registration of a daughter of Matthew Harrison and Winnifered Bulger for this date with this name. She married William DAVIS on January 31, 1894 in St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Wildfield. In the 1911 Census they had 6 children.</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Agnes Loretto (1873-1963) - never married. </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">John Francis (1875-1954) married Mary ROBINSON on May 6, 1895 at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Wildfield, Peel County. They had 7 children. Upon his father's death John inherited the 100 acres of Lot 9, Concession 10. However, due to legacies owed to his siblings after the death of Winnifred in 1921 he became indebted to his brother-in-law John James Kehoe borrowing $4,500 in September 1921. Unable to pay this debt he signed over the farm to John James Kehoe on March 1, 1932 for $1. John Francis Harrison remained on the farm until he retired in 1943 when he held an auction to sell all this farm produce and equipment. He then moved to Brampton and died there in 1954. Mary Robinson died in Brampton in 1956. The property would remain in the Kehoe family well after the death of John James Kehoe in 1950. His executors held the property until it was sold to George B. Smith in 1958 for $2 and a mortgage of $22,500 which Smith paid off in 1962. Smith held the land until 1974 selling it for $10 and a mortgage of $480,000.</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Charles Augustus (1878-1898) - never married. Charles died of </span>appendicitis when he was 21 years of age.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Emanuel (1879-?) married Mary HORAN at St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church, Albion Township, Peel County on October 6, 1903 and them moved to Rochester, New York where he worked on the railway. In the 1910 US census he is living at 56 Barnum Street in Rochester. By the 1920 US census he is living not too far away at 1 Greenleaf Street in Rochester, New York. They had the following children: Henry (b. 1906, California), Theodore (b. 1908, New York), Mary (b. 1911, New York), Helena (b. 1915, New York) and Alma (b. 1918, New York). He and his family were living at the same location in the 1930 and 1940 census. </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Mary Helena (1882-?) married Bernard CAMPBELL on January 16, 1907 at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Wildfield </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">still born male child - twin of Mary Helena (1882-1882) </span></li></ul><span style="font-size: large;">Matthew Harrison died on January 6, 1887 and is buried in St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Cemetery in Wildfield. I have not been able to locate a death registration for him which is a real mystery since his nephew Nicholas Harrison was the local registrar. I suspect that Nicholas did indeed file the required documents but they were subsequently lost. According to her death registration, Winnifred Bulger died on February 19, 1921 of old age. She is buried in St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Wildfield. </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">5. William HARRISON (February 28, 1852- June 22, 1923) married 1. Julia Ann O'BRIEN (1855 - February 24, 1882) on March 12, 1881 at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Dixie, Peel County. Julia was the daughter of Christopher O'Brien of Etobicoke Township, York County. According to her death registration Julia died of septicemia 10 days after the birth of her daughter Mary Clare. When Julia died she was buried in the Fifth Line Cemetery (also known as </span><a href="http://www.archtoronto.org/elmbank/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Elmbank Cemetery</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">). The cemetery later became landlocked within the grounds of the Malton Airport (now Pearson International Airport). Though many opposed it (including me), the cemetery was "closed" in 2005 to allow for further expansion of the airport and the 634 remains were excavated and </span>re interred<span style="font-family: inherit;"> at Assumption Catholic Cemetery on Tomken Road just south of Derry Road East in Mississauga. The remains were placed in a </span><a href="http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=r89zy48bt136&lvl=19.25&dir=356.52&sty=b&form=LMLTCC" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">dedicated section</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> at the east end of the cemetery with a ceremonial plaque listing all the names of those buried there. From the excavations it was possible to identify a number of the remains but unfortunately Julia Ann O'Brien was not one of them. William had 100 acres of land on the west side of present day Clarkway Drive south of Mayfield Road. He sold this circa 1906 and moved to the north east corner of Dixie Road and Dundas Street in Toronto Township (present day City of Mississauga) where he operated a market garden. They had one child: </span></span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mary Clare (</span>February<span style="font-family: inherit;"> 14, 1882 - April 23, 1932) m. Thomas COLLINS on May 5, 1908 at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church. They had no children. </span></span></li></ul><span style="font-size: large;">William Harrison married his second wife, Mary Jane BRYNE (1857 - August 31, 1932) at <a href="https://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=+Arthur,+Ontario&aq=&sll=43.653218,-80.129471&sspn=0.198475,0.308647&vpsrc=6&t=h&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Arthur,+Wellington+County,+Ontario&ll=43.832793,-80.535718&spn=0.006215,0.009645&z=17&layer=c&cbll=43.832587,-80.535434&panoid=ZeXuJI1ae-xaG8hLTaLJmw&cbp=12,252.4,,0,-8.51" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church</span></a>, Arthur, Ontario on June 11, 1883. Mary Jane Bryne was the daughter of James and Ann Bryne. William Davis and Lizzie Bryne were the witnesses. The marriage registration writes "Bryne" as "Burns". Mary Jane Byrne was a cousin of William's. Her family was originally from Toronto Gore Township. According to his death registration, William Harrison died on June 22, 1923 of cystitis. It indicates that he was buried in Port Credit. According to her death registration, Mary Jane Bryne died on August 31, 1932. </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">They had the following children:</span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Matthew Joseph (August 2, 1884 - 1946) married Anne Loretto KELLY on November 22, 1916 at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Port Credit, Peel County Annie was born in Streetsville and was the daughter of William KELLY and Anna MCKEOWN. Witnesses to the marriage were James Francis Harrison (my grandfather) of New Toronto and Nellie Madigan of 321 Brock Avenue. The Kelly family was originally from Oxford County. They had 5 children together. Matthew worked as a Stationary Engineer for Dominion Bridge Company making sure that the machinery in the facility was running properly. Matthew lived with his family first on Brad Street, then Dundas Street West, and later at <a href="https://www.google.ca/maps/place/318+Pacific+Ave/@43.662541,-79.467319,3a,30.8y,258.06h,93.01t/data=%213m4%211e1%213m2%211sbRt0_ZsqNVDQMTqXpd1sVw%212e0%214m2%213m1%211s0x882b342127e55aaf:0x822463ffad12039" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">318 Pacific Avenue</span></a> across the street from <a href="https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=arthur,+ontario&hl=en&ll=43.663309,-79.467458&spn=0.005899,0.009645&sll=49.303974,-84.738438&sspn=21.707357,39.506836&t=h&hnear=Arthur,+Wellington+County,+Ontario&z=17&layer=c&cbll=43.663309,-79.467458&panoid=3i9_EzLAc8czAqeGYx7nnA&cbp=12,163.71,,0,-30.33" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">St. Cecelia's Roman Catholic Church</span></a>. Originally in the Town of West Toronto, it was a short streetcar ride down Dundas Street West to the Dominion Bridge Company located on Sorauren Avenue just south of Dundas Street West. </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Anne Esther (March 24, 1886 - April 7, 1905). According to her death registration Anne died of consumption after an illness of 2 years. She never married. </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">James Francis (April 8, 1888 - 1948) married Helen Teresa SANDFORD (1889-1975) </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">William Joseph (October 3, 1890 - April 19, 1931) According to the 1911 census Bill was a linesman employed by the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario. According to his death registration record, William was listed as a Market Gardener. He died in St. Michael's Hospital on April 19, 1931 of tuberculosis meningitis, an inflammation of the brain. His sister told me that this was a result of an infection that developed after he had a number of teeth extracted. He never married. He is buried in Mount Peace Cemetery in Mississauga. </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Bridget (1892-?) </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">John (Jack) Joseph (September 6, 1893 - May 26, 1922) According to his death registration he was an auto mechanic and died of a stroke. He never married. </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Martin Ambrose (October 28, 1895 - 1980) married Madeline BOYCE (1895-?) at St. Cecilia's Roman Catholic Church on January 2, 1918. They were both 22 years of age. Madeline was the daughter of Alex BOYCE and Mary FARLEY. Witnesses were William J. Harrison, Ambrose's brother and Evelyn Boyce. At the time Ambrose was living at 195 Perth Avenue and Madeline at 136 Edwin Avenue, Toronto. Madeline was born in New Westminster, British Columbia. They had 15 children. Ambrose worked for the Toronto Transit Commission as a streetcar driver. For a while Ambrose and his family were in the running for the big prize in the <a href="https://torontoist.com/2016/10/historicist-the-stork-derby/" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Great Stork Derby</span></a> - an interesting tale of Charles Vance Miller who left the majority of this estate to the mother who had the most children within ten years of his death. The contest ran from 1926 to 1936. The Harrison family did not win but were featured in an advertising campaign for Carnation milk products due to the publicity.</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Mary Margaret Rita (September 10, 1901 - 1993) entered St. Joseph's Convent, Toronto in 1921 and became Sister Mary Caroline. Sister Mary Caroline was educated at the Toronto Normal School and taught in Catholic schools in Winnipeg, Manitoba and Ontario. She died on February 22, 1993 and is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Vaughan.</span> </li></ul><span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">6. James Francis (Frank) HARRISON (April 8, 1888 - January 31, 1948) married Helen Teresa SANDFORD (November 14, 1889 - June 8, 1975) on June 15, 1926 at St. Theresa's Roman Catholic Church, New Toronto, York County. Frank was 36 years old and a railroad conductor. Helen was 35 years of age. Witnesses were William Harrison, Frank's brother and Madeline Sandford, Helen's sister. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">Frank worked for the Grand Truck Railway (which became the Canadian National Railway in 1923) where he eventually became a conductor. At the time his parents were living at the north east corner of Dixie Road and Dundas Street in Toronto Township (present day City of Mississauga) and he was working out of the Mimico Yards in the Town of New Toronto. This was too far to commute on a daily basis so he boarded at homes in New Toronto. In the 1911 census he is boarding at the home of James O'Neill on Sixth Street. In that year he listed his occupation as "trainman" with an annual salary of $720. He had $250 worth of life insurance for which his annual dues were $7.30. By 1918 he was boarding at the home of Edward Sandford and Mary Coady on the north west corner of Seventh Street (present day Islington Avenue) and the Lake Shore Road (present day Lake Shore Blvd West). He is also listed as living there in the 1921 census. Today it is the <a href="https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.600748,-79.505391,3a,41.7y,322.11h,92.24t/data=%213m4%211e1%213m2%211sMfBJWocw-hJkxln3ywOaYg%212e0" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">TNT store</span></a>. It was here that he met their daughter Helen and fell in love. They were married in 1926 and the new couple moved to a new home that they had built in the adjacent community of Mimico.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">They had two children: </span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Francis Edward (Ed) Harrison (July 27, 1927 - February 10, 2012) Ed attended St. Michael's College School in Toronto, playing both hockey and football before beginning his <a href="http://www.legendsofhockey.net/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayer.jsp?player=12868" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">professional</span></a> hockey career with the Boston Bruins in 1947. He later played for other teams both in the NHL and other leagues before retiring from professional hockey in 1962. He then moved to Brantford, Ontario to raise his family. </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">living </span></li></ul>Michael Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15408473849110286556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030621436977019894.post-91467719101596356942022-01-04T11:22:00.010-05:002022-03-28T06:08:40.054-04:00Red Mires Farm<p style="text-align: left;"></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifPPElJLtTUh4_UHpYeVNpej0AdS3mkK5g1-NkhoIAjbEZKwONEc9bYq_n1W1s5Q5f5k-TnxNKOtlaBhuOhQZCt_TOLHM-W6u7m8PUJ4XNEo8cS52ojUuBpN1huKtXiRWoOTsDPhCE1mxvOrY9ENbpvSslex6hmfed5YVTsIpKFMX-X0WC44Nb2u86fA=s774" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="774" height="544" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifPPElJLtTUh4_UHpYeVNpej0AdS3mkK5g1-NkhoIAjbEZKwONEc9bYq_n1W1s5Q5f5k-TnxNKOtlaBhuOhQZCt_TOLHM-W6u7m8PUJ4XNEo8cS52ojUuBpN1huKtXiRWoOTsDPhCE1mxvOrY9ENbpvSslex6hmfed5YVTsIpKFMX-X0WC44Nb2u86fA=w640-h544" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;"><a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/102344251#zoom=7&lat=6467&lon=4092&layers=BT" target="_blank">Redmires Farm</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Red Mires Farm was purchased by Henry Harrison (1734-1812) of Tranmire from Henry Harrison and his wife Francis Cornforth of Greenhouses in 1782. </span><span> Henry Harrison of Greenhouses was the son of John Harrison and Helen Lyth and grandson of Henry Harrison and Dorothy Rudd. John Harrison inherited the Greenhouses Farm from his father Henry Harrison in 1727 and when John Harrison died in 1780 he left the farm to his son Henry Harrison. This Harrison line is not related to mine as proven by Y DNA testing. </span></span></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">When John Harrison died in March of 1780 his will left legacies of £185 to be paid 12 months after his death. It appears that in order to pay these legacies plus some other expenses his son Henry Harrison mortgaged his newly inherited lands (100 acres) to Richard Watkins for £400. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">On May 10th and 11th 1782, Henry Harrison of Tranmire entered into an agreement to purchase part of these lands. Henry Harrison of Tranmire acquired 24 acres, consisting of a farmhouse [present day <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@54.4854503,-0.8137599,98m/data=!3m1!1e3" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Red Mires Farm</span></a>] and six closes [Far Red Mires, Hither Red Mires, 2 Close Brows, Red Mire Wood and the Low Haver Field], for £307.10s of which £241 was paid to Henry Harrison of Greenhouses and £66.10s went to Richard Watkins who held the mortgage on the property.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Following this acquisition Henry Harrison had a farm with a total of 62 acres (38 acres at Low Whins Farm in Tranmire, Newton Mulgrave township that he inherited from his father Joseph Harrison Sr in 1780 and 24 acres at Red Mires in Glaisdale township).</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In 1787 Henry Harrison mortgaged the farm to Joseph Cockerill of Glaizedale, Farmer for £80 and then in 1805 took out a second mortgage with Joseph Cockerill for an additional £120 for a total of £200.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Henry Harrison died at Red Mires Farm in February 1812 and in his will proved on June 29, 1812 devised the farm to his son Joseph Harrison with an annuity of </span><span style="font-size: large;">£5 per year to his wife.</span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In 1817 the mortgage due to Joseph Cockerill of £200 was paid by John Hodgson of Ugthorpe, Cabinet Maker who then held the mortgage on the farm.<br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>In 1824 Joseph Harrison approached Father John Woodcock, Catholic Priest at Egton Bridge and remortgaged his farm for </span>£400 in order to pay off his debt to John Hodgson. And in 1830 he borrowed an additional </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span>£150 from Father Woodcock for a grand total of </span><span>£550.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Father Woodcock died in 1835 leaving his entire estate to his sister Mary Woodcock. She died 10 years later in 1845 and made Father Henry Gradwell, Catholic Priest her sole executor.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 1852 Joseph Harrison of Red Mires Farm died and in his will left his entire estate to his wife Elizabeth Harrison (nee Welford). In 1854 she arranged to borrow </span><span style="font-size: large;">£600 from Levi Preston Mead of Whitby, Gentleman in order to pay off the mortgage to Mary Woodcock's estate.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In 1862 Levi Preston Mead transferred the mortgage to Thomas Welford (Was Thomas Welford related to Elizabeth?).</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Finally in 1866 Elizabeth Harrison and her son John Harrison sold the Red Mires Farm to Richard Micklethwait for £1,100 which allowed her to pay off the mortgage to Thomas Welford and pocket the remainder. It is the small sketch on the original deed of sale which provides the dimensions of the 24 acre Red Mire Farm since the tithe map for Glaisdale township is missing. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">At the same time Elizabeth Harrison signed a lease with Richard Micklethwait to rent the Red Mires Farm for £35 per year. </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span>The Harrison family remained at Red Mires Farm for some years. Following Elizabeth Harrison's death in 1873 the farm was run by her son John Harrison. In the 1881 census John Harrison is living at Red Mire Farm with his nephew Joseph Harrison and a servant Ruth Welford (listed as a cousin in the 1871 census). John Harrison died in 1882 and being unmarried he left his estate, and the tenancy of the farm, to his nephew Joseph Harrison, son of his brother Joseph Harrison. No doubt flush with some cash from the inheritance from his uncle, Joseph Harrison married Ruth Welford in early 1883. He seems to have remained at Red Mires Farm until late in 1888 or early 1889 thus ending over 100 years of Harrison family occupancy of Red Mires Farm. On November 23, 1888 an advertisement appeared in the Whitby Gazette that the farm was available for rent (along with some other farms owned by Richard Micklethwait). </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgW_LEYNLv6BUAziHsJakH_owZ9H_CCvRVC3h1zlQ7mbHj57wQtc-oLczRvsOlwPvos5yxN0fBDHKcjr3ZXlvijz1UccA_mi183Y-lzQ7cAl5jFv2jhtnOTmQZ1gYuACbspBR6s4WyFijG508WYP4WgRxR0rYWX0QGlQsUokKWitwqRpkJm0OACaLvHcg=s646" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="646" data-original-width="556" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgW_LEYNLv6BUAziHsJakH_owZ9H_CCvRVC3h1zlQ7mbHj57wQtc-oLczRvsOlwPvos5yxN0fBDHKcjr3ZXlvijz1UccA_mi183Y-lzQ7cAl5jFv2jhtnOTmQZ1gYuACbspBR6s4WyFijG508WYP4WgRxR0rYWX0QGlQsUokKWitwqRpkJm0OACaLvHcg=w550-h640" width="550" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>In the 1891 census Joseph Harrison was living in Ugthorpe township at <a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/102344251#zoom=7&lat=9711&lon=7131&layers=BT" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Long Stone House Farm</span></a> with Ruth Welford and their children Mary, Wilfred and John. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span>The following deeds and wills trace the land transactions of the farm from the 1782 purchase by Henry Harrison until the Micklethwait family bought them (and other lands) in 1866. They held the property until 1</span>977.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><u><span><br /></span></u></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span><u><span>Ref: BT, 366, 597</span><br /></u></span><span>Indenture of Lease and Release<br /></span><span>Dated 10th and 11th of May 1782<br /></span><span>Registered 14 May 1782<br /></span><span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Between:</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1 Henry HARRISON of Greenhouses, Yeoman and Frances [Cornforth] his wife</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">2 Helen HARRISON [nee LYTH], widow and relict of the said John HARRISON</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">3 Richard WATKINS of the township of Ruswarp, Master and Mariner</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">4 Henry HARRISON of Tranmire, Yeoman</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">5 Joseph COCK of Ugthorpe, Yeoman</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">6 Joseph HARRISON of Tranmire, Yeoman</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Concerning: All those several closes or parcels of arable meadow or pasture ground commonly called or known by the several names hereinafter mentioned (that is to say) the Far Redmires, the Hither Redmires, the Red Mire Wood, the two Close Brows, and the Low Haver Field.. containing together by estimation twenty four acres or thereabouts…being within the Manor Castle or Lordship of Danby, Lealholm and Glaisdale … and now in the occupation of the said Henry HARRISON of Tranmire.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Witness: Francis WARDALE of Whitby, Gentleman and John FEWSTER the younger his clerk</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><div><u>Ref: CC, 200, 343</u></div><div>Indenture of Demise (Mortgage)</div><div>Dated 14 May 1787</div><div>Registered 6 June 1787</div><div><br /></div><div>Between:</div><div><br /></div><div>1 Henry HARRISON of Tranmire and Joseph HARRISON of Tranmire, Yeoman</div><div><br /></div><div>2 John COCKERILL of Glaizedale, Farmer</div><div><br /></div><div>Concerning: All those several closes or parcels of arable meadow or pasture ground commonly called or known by the several names hereinafter mentioned (that is to say) the Far Redmires, the Hither Redmires, the Red Mire Wood, the two Close Brows, and the Low Haver Field.. containing together by estimation twenty four acres or thereabouts…being within the Manor Castle or Lordship of Danby, Lealholm and Glaisdale … and now in the occupation of the said Henry HARRISON of Tranmire.</div><div><br /></div><div>Witness: John FEWSTER the younger and Thomas ROUNDWAITHE, servants to Francis WARDALE of Whitby, Gentleman</div></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></p><div><u><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Ref: DD, 50, 53</span></u></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Indenture of Second Mortgage</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Dated 11 May 1805</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Registered 14 August 1805</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Between:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1 Henry HARRISON of Tranmire, Yeoman</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">2 John COCKERILL of Glaizedale, Farmer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Reciting therein a mortgage date of the 14th of May 1787.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Concerning: All those several closes or parcels of arable meadow or pasture ground commonly called or known by the several names hereinafter mentioned (that is to say) the Far Redmires, the Hither Redmires, the Red Mire Wood, the two Close Brows, and the Low Haver Field.. containing together by estimation twenty four acres or thereabouts…being within the Manor Castle or Lordship of Danby, Lealholm and Glaisdale … and now in the occupation of the said Henry HARRISON of Tranmire.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">That the same shall be void of the payment of the sum of £80 and interest...and reciting that the said Henry HARRISON having occasion for a further sum of £120 had applied to the said John COCKERILL to advance and lend him the same on the security of the said premises making together the sum of £200</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Witness: Thomas SAWDON of Whitby, Attorney at Law and James MEAD of Lyth, Farmer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div><u><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1812 - Will of Henry Harrison of Red Mires</span></u></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Dated 13 November 1805</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Died February 1812</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Proved 29 June 1812</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Red Mires Farm left to his son Joseph HARRISON with annuity of £5 per year to his wife Hannah DALE for the rest of her life</span></div><div><u><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></u></div><div><u><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Ref: EB, 425, 416</span></u></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Indenture </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Dated 7 April 1817</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Registered 15 April 1817</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Between:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1 John COCKERILL of Glaizedale, Farmer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">2 Joseph HARRISON of Parish of Danby, Yeoman (son and sole executor named in and appointed by the last will and testament of Henry HARRISON his late father deceased)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">3 John HODGSON of Ugthorpe, Cabinet Maker</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Concerning: All those several closes or parcels of arable meadow or pasture ground commonly called or known by the several names hereinafter mentioned (that is to say) the Far Redmires, the Hither Redmires, the Red Mire Wood, the two Close Brows, and the Low Haver Field.. containing together by estimation twenty four acres or thereabouts…being within the Manor Castle or Lordship of Danby, Lealholm and Glaisdale … and now in the occupation of the said Henry HARRISON and his assigns.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Witness: John WARDELL the younger of Whitby, Gentleman and Henry WARDELL his clerk.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><u>Ref: EW, 199, 106</u></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Indenture </div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Dated 30 December 1823</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Registered 12 January 1824</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Between:</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">1 Joseph HARRISON of Redmires, Parish of Danby, Farmer</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">2 The Reverend John WOODCOCK of Egton Bridge, </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Whereas the said Joseph HARRISON being seized of or well entitled to the dwelling house or tenement closes parcels of ground ... hereinafter particularly mentioned and intended to be hereby demised and having occasion for the sum of £400. Now this indenture witnesseth that in pursuance of the said agreement and in consideration for the sum of £400 of lawful English money by the said John WOODCOCK in hand well and truly paid to the said Joseph HARRISON... </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Concerning: All those several closes or parcels of arable meadow or pasture ground commonly called or known by the several names hereinafter mentioned (that is to say) the Far Redmires, the Hither Redmires, the Red Mire Wood, the two Close Brows, and the Low Haver Field.. containing together by estimation twenty four acres or thereabouts…being within the Manor Castle or Lordship of Danby, Lealholm and Glaisdale … late in the occupation of the said Henry HARRISON and his assigns and now of the said Joseph HARRISON and Elizabeth HUTTON.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">To be paid to and unto the said John WOODCOCK...the said £400 with interest ..the rate of £4.10s for £100 for a year upon the 30th day of June now next. </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Witness: Thomas STEVENSON and TF SAWDON.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div><u>Ref: FS, 388, 332</u></div><div>Indenture of Lease and Release</div><div>Dated 29th and 30th of December 1830</div><div>Registered 1 March 1831</div><div><br /></div><div>Between:</div><div><br /></div><div>1 Joseph HARRISON of Redmire, Farmer</div><div><br /></div><div>2 Reverend John WOODCOCK, late of Egton Bridge but now of Wycliffe</div></div><div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><u><br /></u></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Concerning: All that messuage or dwellinghouse with the barns, stables and other out buildings ... and also those several closes or parcels of arable meadow or pasture ground commonly called or known by the several names hereinafter mentioned (that is to say) the Far Redmires, the Hither Redmires, the Red Mire Wood, the two Close Brows, and the Low Haver Field.. late in the occupation of Henry HARRISON and now the said Joseph HARRISON and Elizabeth HUTTON</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><u><br /></u></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">By this indenture Joseph HARRISON borrows an additional £150 from Reverend John WOODCOCK for a total of £550.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Witness: Appleton STEVENSON of Whitby, Attorney at Law and Thomas SNAITH, his clerk</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><u><br /></u></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><u>1835 - Will of Rev. John WOODCOCK</u></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Dated 5 October 1835</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Proved 2 March 1837</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Estate left to sister Mary WOODCOCK</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><u><br /></u></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><u>1845 - Will and Codicil of Mary WOODCOCK</u></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Will - dated 23 March 1842</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Codicil - dated 10 April 1845</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Proved 15 June 1848</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Appointed Reverend Henry GRADWELL of the County of Lancaster, Catholic Priest as executor</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><u>Ref: JB?, 284, 422</u></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">1852 - Will of Joseph HARRISON of Red Mires</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Dated 3 July 1852</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Died 5 July 1852</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Proved 17 November 1852</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Registered 5 December 1853</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Lands bequeathed to his wife Elizabeth</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div><div><u>Ref: JB?, 286, 426</u></div><div>Indenture </div><div>Dated 26 November 1853</div><div>Registered 5 December 1854</div><div><br /></div><div>Between:</div><div><br /></div><div>1 Henry GRADWELL</div><div><br /></div><div>2 Elizabeth HARRISON</div><div><br /></div><div>3 Levi Preston MEAD of Whitby, Gentleman</div><div><br /></div><div>Stating that the said several principal sums of £400 and £150 (making together £550) still remained owing to the said Henry GRADWELL as the sole executor of the said Mary WOODCOCK, deceased, AND that the said Levi Preston MEAD had at the request of the said Elizabeth HARRISON agreed to lend her the sum of £600 on having the repayment.... that the said sum of £550 so owning to the said Henry GRADWELL ...that he be paid off and discharged.</div><div><br /></div><div>Concerning: All that messuage or dwellinghouse with the barns, stables and other out buildings ... and also those several closes or parcels of arable meadow or pasture ground commonly called or known by the several names hereinafter mentioned (that is to say) the Far Redmires, the Hither Redmires, the Red Mire Wood, the two Close Brows, and the Low Haver Field.. formerly in the occupation of Henry HARRISON afterwards of the said Joseph HARRISON, deceased and of Elizabeth HUTTON and then of the said Elizabeth HARRISON and Joseph HARRISON.</div></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div><u>Ref: JH?, 228, 357</u></div><div>Indenture </div><div>Dated 24 May 1862</div><div>Registered 27 May 1862</div><div><br /></div><div>Between:</div><div><br /></div><div>1 Levi Preston MEAD of Whitby, Gentleman</div><div><br /></div><div>2 Elizabeth HARRISON</div><div><br /></div><div>3 Thomas WELFORD of Glaizedale, Farmer</div></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><u><br /></u></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas WELFORD of Glaizedale advanced £600 to Levi Preston MEAD of Whitby and assumed the mortgage<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div><div><br /></div><div>Concerning: All that messuage or dwellinghouse with the barns, stables and other out buildings ... and also those several closes or parcels of arable meadow or pasture ground commonly called or known by the several names hereinafter mentioned (that is to say) the Far Redmires, the Hither Redmires, the Red Mire Wood, the two Close Brows, and the Low Haver Field.. formerly in the occupation of Henry HARRISON afterwards of the said Joseph HARRISON, deceased and of Elizabeth HUTTON and then of the said Elizabeth HARRISON and Joseph HARRISON.</div><div><br /></div><div>Levi Preston MEAD transfers the mortgage on the Red Mires Farm to Thomas WELFORD.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><u><br /></u></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><u>Ref: KG, 503, 795</u></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Indenture </div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Dated 24 March 1866</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Registered 9 May 1866</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Between:</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">1 Elizabeth HARRISON of Glaizedale, widow</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">2 Thomas WELFORD of Glaizedale, Farmer</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">3 Richard MICKLETHWAIT of Ardsley House in the West Riding of York, Esquire </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Concerning: All that messuage or dwellinghouse with the barns, stables and other out buildings ... and also those several closes or parcels of arable meadow or pasture ground commonly called or known by the several names hereinafter mentioned (that is to say) the Far Redmires, the Hither Redmires, the Red Mire Wood, the two Close Brows, and the Low Haver Field.. containing together by estimation twenty four acres or thereabouts…and also all that cottage or tenement with the garden unto ... formerly in the occupation of Henry HARRISON afterwards of Joseph HARRISON deceased and Elizabeth HUTTON but then the said Elizabeth HARRISON and Joseph HARRISON.</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Farm sold for £1,100 allowing Elizabeth HARRISON to pay off mortgage to Thomas WELFORD with residual left over. </div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Witness: Charles WILKINSON of the City of York, Gentleman and Matthew GRAY of Whitby, Attorney at Law and as to the due execution of the said Richard MICKLETHWAIT is witnessed by Benjamin Blaydes THOMPSON of Tadcastes, Attorney at Law and Charles WILKINSON</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><u>Lease </u></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Dated 23 March 1866</div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Elizabeth Harrison rents property from Micklethwait family for £35 per year</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div>Concerning: All that messuage or dwellinghouse with the barns, stables and other out buildings ... and also those several closes or parcels of arable meadow or pasture ground commonly called or known by the several names hereinafter mentioned (that is to say) the Far Redmires, the Hither Redmires, the Red Mire Wood, the two Close Brows, and the Low Haver Field.. containing together by estimation twenty four acres or thereabouts</div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Micklethwait family held lands until 1977.</div></div></span></div></div><div style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></div>Michael Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15408473849110286556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030621436977019894.post-2915928356322442312022-01-02T08:08:00.033-05:002022-01-13T20:26:00.406-05:00Red Mire Lands<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnp4ZEb_2VQEJcVrOIjeOOUZthW_vCh-LxHBdXq-lNfLSWEWeHnXj6XeXwnPyyz_kj-QviQ7g81wOzw2FDj5qbjhQ3M4fd_WsTomF7KPTsZ1KSyFfOoN6VJLu1CCCc82f_6rDZyHtFI99WmvN5-d7t9jc3JVbdup0PlrT62cfKPNM5C09Wxhfrpzn3fQ=s1119" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="695" data-original-width="1119" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjnp4ZEb_2VQEJcVrOIjeOOUZthW_vCh-LxHBdXq-lNfLSWEWeHnXj6XeXwnPyyz_kj-QviQ7g81wOzw2FDj5qbjhQ3M4fd_WsTomF7KPTsZ1KSyFfOoN6VJLu1CCCc82f_6rDZyHtFI99WmvN5-d7t9jc3JVbdup0PlrT62cfKPNM5C09Wxhfrpzn3fQ=w640-h398" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h2><a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/102344251#zoom=7&lat=6642&lon=3608&layers=BT" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Red Mire Lands</span></a></h2></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div><div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In 1782 Joseph Harrison Jr acquired 31 acres of land (consisting of 4 closes) from Henry Harrison and his wife Francis Cornforth of Greenhouses. Henry Harrison of Greenhouses was the son of John Harrison and Helen Lyth and grandson of Henry Harrison and Dorothy Rudd. John Harrison inherited the Greenhouses Farm from his father Henry Harrison in 1727 and when John Harrison died in 1780 he left the farm to his son Henry Harrison. This Harrison line is not related to mine as proven by Y DNA testing. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">When John Harrison died in March of 1780 his will left legacies of £185 to be paid 12 months after his death. It appears that in order to pay these legacies plus some other expenses his son Henry Harrison mortgaged his newly inherited lands (100 acres) to Richard Watkins for £400. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">On May 10th and 11th 1782, Joseph Harrison of Tranmire entered into an agreement to purchase part of these lands. By this time Henry Harrison of Greenhouses owed £642 to Richard Watkins. In exchange for £306, paid to Richard Watkins, Joseph Harrison of Tranmire purchased 31 acres of land, consisting of 4 closes [High Intack, Low Intack, Far Low Bottoms and Hither Low Bottoms].</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Following this acquisition Joseph Harrison of High Whins had a farm with a total of 78 acres (47 acres at Tranmire in Newton Mulgrave township and 31 acres at Red Mires in Glaisdale township).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Just a few days later on May 13, 1782 Joseph Harrison mortgaged the Red Mire lands he had just acquired from Henry Harrison along with seven acres of land in Tranmire to Robert Porritt of Runswick, fisherman for £240. And at a later date he borrowed an additional £30 for a total of £270, not including interest.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">By 1786 Joseph Harrison’s debts on the Red Mire and other lands at Tranmire in Newton Mulgrave Township totaled £578.14s.0d in mortgages. On October 21, 1786 Joseph Harrison borrowed a total of £700 from Benjamin Harrison of Ruswarp, gentleman (no known relation) in order to pay off the mortgages on these and other lands. The £121.6s.0d left over after paying the mortgages was paid to Joseph Harrison by Benjamin Harrison, in exchange for a mortgage on the property. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Finally in 1788 his mounting debts were deliberated in the High Court of Chancery and in a ruling implemented on November 1, 1788 all the lands were sold to Edward Corner of Dunsley, Gentleman. Benjamin Harrison received £763 from Edward Corner to pay off the mortgage owed to him, plus interest, and Joseph Harrison received an additional £147 for the sale of High Whins Farm in Tranmire and the Red Mire lands and thus they went out from my Harrison family ownership. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The exact dimensions of the lands at Red Mire in Glaisdale township owned by Joseph Harrison of Tranmire are uncertain as the tithe map for Glaisdale township is missing. So while the apportionment document exists and lists these lands the map that shows the exact locations of them is missing. However a later deed from 1866 does note that the lands were bounded on the north by the unenclosed moor or waste of the Lordship of Danby, on the south by lands then late severally belonging to Elizabeth Harrison [nee Welford, widow of Joseph Harrison son of Henry Harrison and Hannah Dale of Red Mires Farm] and John Barry Campion but then of Richard Micklethwait on the east [Low Whins Farm and High Whins Farm] and by the lands of the Marquis of Normanby on the west [Moorlands]. This places the lands north of the Redmire Farm which was owned by Elizabeth Harrison in 1866 and corresponds with the present day location of <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@54.48648,-0.8177079,243m/data=!3m1!1e3" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Hardale Stray Farm</span></a>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The following deeds, wills and tax records trace the land transactions of the farm from the 1782 purchase by Joseph Harrison until the Micklethwait family bought them (and other lands) in 1866. They held the property until 1977.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u>Ref: BT, 366, 596</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Indenture of Lease and Release</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Dated 10th and 11th of May 1782</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Registered 14 May 1782</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Between:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1 Henry HARRISON of Greenhouses, Yeoman and Frances [Cornforth] his wife</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">2 Helen HARRISON [nee LYTH], widow and relict of the said John HARRISON</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">3 Richard WATKINS of the township of Ruswarp, Master and Mariner</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">4 Joseph HARRISON of Tranmire and Henry HARRISON of Tranmire, Yeoman</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">5 Joseph COCK of Ugthorpe, Yeoman</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span>Concerning: </span>All those several closes or parcels of arable meadow or pasture ground commonly called or known by the several names hereinafter mentioned (that is to say) the High Intack, the Low Intack, the Far Low Bottoms and the Hither Low Bottoms.. containing together by estimation thirty one acres or thereabouts…being within the Manor Castle or Lordship of Danby, Lealholm and Glaisdale … and now in the occupation of the said Joseph HARRISON.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Witness: Francis WARDALE of Whitby, Gentleman and John FEWSTER the younger his clerk</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u>Ref: BT, 504, 803</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Indenture of Demise</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Dated 13 May 1782</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Registered 7 Nov 1782</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Between:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1 Joseph HARRISON and Henry HARRISON of Tranmire </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">2 <span style="font-family: inherit;"> Robert PORRIT of Runswick, Parish of Hinderwell, Fisherman</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span>Concerning: </span><span>All </span>those<span> closes or parcels of arable meadow or pasture ground commonly called or known by the several names hereinafter mentioned … (that is to say) The High Intack, the Low Intack, The Far Low Bottoms and the Hither Low Bottoms, containing by estimation thirty one (31) acres or thereabouts situate and lying and being at Greenhouses within the Manor Castle or Lordship of Danby Lealholm and Glazedale now in the occupation of the said Joseph HARRISON and by him lately bought and purchased of and from one Henry HARRISON of Greenhouses, Yeoman AND also those two several closes or parcels of arable meadow pasture ground commonly called or known by the several names of the Hob Close and the Beck Field adjoining each other containing together by estimation seven (7) acres or thereabouts and situate lying or being at Tranmire [High Whins Farm] now in the occupation of said Joseph HARRISON. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Witness: Francis WARDALE of Whitby, Gentleman and John FEWSTER the younger his cler</span>k</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u>Ref: CA 1, 1</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Indenture in five parts dated 21 Oct 1786</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Between:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1 Charles NODDINGS of Whitby, master mariner</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">2 Robert PORRITT of Runswick, Hinderwell, fisherman</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">3 Daniel CHILTON of Whitby, master mariner</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">4 Joseph & Henry HARRISON of Tranmire, Lythe, yeomen</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">5 Benjamin HARRISON of Ruswarp, gentleman.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Concerning: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Part 1 [High Whins]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Newly erected messuage or dwelling house and 5 named closes of land, all at Tranmire, mortgaged to Charles NODDINGS by Joseph HARRISON, youngest son of the late Joseph HARRISON, for £50, by deed dated 1 Jan 1783 [reciting deed dated 27 May 1780 - BO, 491, 797] - Long Close, Hobb Close, Beck Close, two closes called Wheat Closes and the High Close - occupied by Joseph Harrison. Also further sums of money - £70 + £40 - advanced by Charles NODDINGS to Joseph HARRISON, with interest and the premises at Tranmire as security. The total sum now owed by Joseph HARRISON was £167.14s.0d at the date of this indenture. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Part 2 [Red Mire lands + High Whins]</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><u><span style="font-family: inherit;">Several named closes of arable land </span>totaling</u><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u> 31 acres - High Intack, Low Intact, Far Low Bottom and Hither Low Bottom - at Greenhouses, Manor, Castle and Lordship of Danby, Lealhom and Glaisdale, then in the occupation of Joseph HARRISON of Tranmire or his assigns, he having lately purchased the land from Henry HARRISON of Greenhouses, yeoman. </u>Also two named closes of land - Hobb Close and Beckfield adjoining each other - totaling 7 acres then in the occupation of Joseph HARRISON or his assigns, being part of the estate devised to him by his late father Joseph HARRISON, deceased. Yearly rent of a peppercorn. All of which land was ‘mortgaged’ as security for a loan of £240 in an indenture dated 13 May 1782 between Joseph HARRISON of Tranmire, yeoman and his trustee Henry HARRISON of Tranmire, yeoman, and Robert PORRITT of Runswick, fisherman. Also a further advance of £30 by Robert PORRITT to Joseph HARRISON with interest and the premises as security. The total sum now owed by Joseph HARRISON was £284.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Part 3 [High Whins] </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Messuage, farmhouse or tenement with barn, stables, farm, farmhold and appurtenances and several closes of land belonging to it, totaling 40 acres (except two named, adjoining closes containing 7 acres - Hobb Close and Beck Field adjoining each other) all at Tranmire, which were mortgaged as security for a loan of £120, in an indenture dated 24 Sep 1785 [BQ 221, 29] between Joseph HARRISON and his trustee Henry HARRISON and Daniel CHILTON of Whitby, master mariner. The total sum now owed, with interest, by Joseph HARRISON was £127. Rent of one peppercorn at the Feast of the Pentecost.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">[in total Joseph HARRISON owed £578.14s.0d in mortgages]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Part 4 </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Joseph HARRISON being unable to pay off any of these loans had requested Benjamin HARRISON of Ruswarp, gentleman to advance him £700 and to pay off these loans on his behalf – which Benjamin had agreed to do. Having paid off the loans there was a remainder of £121.6s.0d which Benjamin HARRISON paid to Joseph HARRISON.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Part5</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Having received their due amounts the three creditors “ratified and confirmed” that all of the property and land mentioned in their individual indentures was demised to Benjamin HARRISON, his heirs, administrators and assigns. Joseph HARRISON also “granted, bargained and sold” his whole ‘estate’ to Benjamin HARRISON. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Witness: John MATTHEWS, a Justice of the Peace for the North Riding of Yorkshire.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u>Nov 1, 1788</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">High Court of Chancery</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“This is the final agreement under & in the Court of our Sovereign the King… on the morrow of all souls in the Twenty eight years of the Reign of George the Third [November, 1, 1788]...before Alexander Lord Loughborough, Henry Gould, John Leath & John Wilson, Justices of our Lord the king.. Between Edward Corner and Joseph Harrison, Mary his wife, Henry Harrison and Frances his wife.. of one messuage twenty acres of land thirty acres of wood and thirty acres of pasture ten acres of Fen, Heath… of pasture for all manner of cattle.. in Tranmire <u>Danby Lealholme & Glazedale </u>& the parishes of Danby & Lythe … Acknowledge, Demise Quitclaim …and Agreement between the said Edward hath given to the aforesaid Joseph Mary, Henry & Frances one hundred pounds Sterling.”</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The deed below implements the ruling of the High Court of Chancery</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u>Ref: CE 113, 174</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Indenture of Bargain & Sale in four parts dated 1 Nov 1788</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Between: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1 Joseph HARRISON of Tranmire, yeoman, and Mary his wife, and Henry HARRISON of Tranmire, yeoman (trustee for Joseph HARRISON.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">2 Benjamin HARRISON of Ruswarp, gentleman</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">3 Henry HARRISON of Greenhouses, Danby, yeoman and Frances his wife.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">4 Edward CORNER of Dunsley, gentleman</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Concerning: Lately erected dwelling house at Tranmire [High Whins] with several named closes of land totaling 38 acres, now in the tenure or occupation of said Joseph HARRISON or his assigns. Also four named closes of land in total 31 acres at Greenhouses, Danby also in the tenure or occupation of said Joseph HARRISON or his assigns. [Red Mire lands]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">As part of the transaction Benjamin Harrison received £763 from Edward Corner to pay off the mortgage owed to him and Joseph Harrison received an additional £147 for the sale of the farm and lands</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Witnesses: John STEAD of Whitby, master mariner, Francis WARDALE of Whitby, gentleman & Henry FEWSTER the younger or his clerk.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Witnesses for Henry HARRISON as trustee: William HARRISON, his son & the said John FEWSTER </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The indenture was enrolled in his Majesty’s High Court of Chancery on January 3, 1789 in order to satisfy the settlement agreement.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u>Ref: FQ? 328, 308</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Dated 9 June 1800, Proved 11 December 1806</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Registered - 9 March 1830</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Will of Edward CORNER “to my son George Bainbridge CORNER and his heirs …my messuages or lands tenements and hereditaments whatsoever within the township of Newton Mulgrave in the Parish of Lyth and in Glazedale in the Parish of Danby”. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u>Ref: HC, 246, 280</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Indenture of conveyance of freehold estates as a lease and release dated 29 April 1843</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Between:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1 Martha Coates HARRISON of the township of Ruswarp, parish of Whitby, Spinster</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">2 George Brodrick CORNER, late of Dunsley in the parish of Whitby but then of Tranmire in the parish of Lyth</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">3 Robert MIDDLETON of the township of Ruswarp, Esquire</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Concerning: all that messuage or dwelling house at Tranmire and all closes, parcels of arable meadow or pasture ground, Line Close, Hobb Close, Beck Close, Two Closes called the Wheat Closes, Three Closes called the High Intack Close, the Low Intack Close and the Low Intack Close Bank formerly in one and called the High Intack, two other closes called the Middle Intact Close and the Middle Intack Bank Close (formerly also in one and called the Low Intack) one other close (now in two parts) called the Middle Field, One close formerly called the Hill Garth (then an orchard) one other close called the House Garth, and one other close being the North part of half of a close formerly called the Jolly Hill – 38 acres [High Whins]– formerly in the occupation of Joseph HARRISON as tenant thereof but then in the tenure of occupation of George Broderick CORNER – A<u>ND also the High Intack, the Low Intack, the Far Low Bottoms and the Hither Low Bottoms – 31 acres – being at or near Greenhouses in the Manor Castle and Lordship of Danby Lealholm and Glazedale, formerly in the occupation of Joseph HARRISON as tenant then the said George Brodrick CORNER [Red Mire lands]</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Witnesses: Thomas APPLEBY of Whitby, Attorney at Law and John Holt APPLEBY of the same place, Gentleman, Nathaniel LANGBORNE of Whitby, Attorney at Law and George WEATHERILL of the same place his Clerk</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u>Ref: HF 433, 567</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Dated 10 February 1845 </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Registered 17 February 1845</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Between:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1 George Brodrick CORNER of Tranmire in the parish of Lyth, Farmer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">2 Robert MIDDLETON of the township of Ruswarp, Esquire</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">3 George BAINBRIDGE of Rotherithe in the county of Surrey, Timber Merchant</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Whereas the said principal of £700 yet remains due to the said Robert MIDDLETON, all interest being paid and whereas the said George BAINBRIDGE hath contacted and agreed with the said George Brodrick CORNER for the absolute purchase in fee simple… for the sum of £950.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Concerning: all that messuage or dwelling house at Tranmire and all closes, parcels of arable meadow or pasture ground, Line Close, Hobb Close, Beck Close, Two Closes called the Wheat Closes, Three Closes called the High Intack Close, the Low Intack Close and the Low Intack Close Bank formerly in one and called the High Intack, two other closes called the Middle Intact Close and the Middle Intack Bank Close (formerly also in one and called the Low Intack) one other close (now in two parts) called the Middle Field, One close formerly called the Hill Garth (then an orchard) one other close called the House Garth, and one other close being the North part of half of a close formerly called the Jolly Hill - 38 acres [High Whins]– formerly in the occupation of Joseph HARRISON as tenant thereof and late in the tenure or occupation of George Broderick CORNER – <u>AND also the High Intack, the Low Intack, the Far Low Bottoms and the Hither Low Bottoms – 31 acres – being at or near Greenhouses within the Manor Castle and Lordship of Danby Lealholm and Glazedale, formerly in the occupation of Joseph HARRISON as tenant and then late in the tenure or occupation of the said George Brodrick CORNER [Red Mire lands]</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Witnesses: Henry BELCHER, Robert BRECKON, John Whitten KIRBY and James TORY</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u>1848</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">George Bainbridge died 3 January 1848</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u>Ref: HS? 605, 766</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Last Will and Testament of George BAINBRIDGE</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Registered 15 January 1850</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Dated 9 August 1846</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Will of George BAINBRIDGE - Tranmire farm to Thomas BAINBRIDGE his nephew, son of his brother James BAINBRIDGE for payment of £400 to his estate.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u>Ref: KH 635, 982</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Indenture dated 4 June 1866</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Between:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1 Thomas BAINBRIDGE of Tranmire, township of Newton Mulgrave, Yeoman</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">2 Richard MICKLETHWAIT of Ardsley House in the West Riding of York, Esquire</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Concerning: all that messuage or dwelling house at Tranmire, and the Line Close, the Hobb Close, Beck Close, Two Closes called the Wheat Closes, three closes called the High Intack Close, Low Intact Close, Low Intact Bank Close (formerly in one and called the High Intack), Two other Closes called the Middle Intack Close and the Middle Intack Bank Close (formerly also in one called the Low Intack), Middle Field, Hill Garth then an orchard, House Garth, north part or half of a close formerly called the Jolly Hill (Close) – 38 acres – in Tranmire formerly in the occupation of Joseph HARRISON as tenant thereof then George Brodrick CORNER but then of the said Thomas BAINBRIDGE (1861 census High Tranmire - George Hodgson noted then - Thomas Bainbridge noted at “Whins Farm” - 60 acres - right after George Swales of “Whins” - 37 acres.) <u>AND also all those four several closes etc.. called the High Intack, Low Intack, Far Low Bottoms, Hither Low Bottoms – 31 acres at Greenhouses, formerly in the occupation of Joseph HARRISON as tenant then George Brodrick CORNER but then of the said Thomas BAINBRIDGE</u> [Red Mire lands]– bounded on the north by the unenclosed moor or waste of the Lordship of Danby, on the south by lands then late severally belonging to Elizabeth HARRISON and John Barry CAMPION but then of Richard MICKLETHWAIT on the east and by the lands of the Marquis of Normanby on the west.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Micklethwait family held lands until 1977.</span></div></div></div>Michael Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15408473849110286556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030621436977019894.post-17032331652393144942021-12-30T06:52:00.056-05:002022-01-14T07:44:17.376-05:00High Whins Farm<p></p><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicJRWpTnI9qGqIz3NjqiH1GqGtmwEagbo-H5SO91gYUOcptulmW41UvQn476wEeikzaF1VJIBq2_jDH-ciPk22rGN-_mpOdHo-2QNhnKd3MbWjA9V506YYSllMaJA5dI8qVgdrOb7H85O24ar5U1IRn26OlfVLLYdj9Ue_0VBzGvlSrUyWwWr81sN8cw=s1236" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="709" data-original-width="1236" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEicJRWpTnI9qGqIz3NjqiH1GqGtmwEagbo-H5SO91gYUOcptulmW41UvQn476wEeikzaF1VJIBq2_jDH-ciPk22rGN-_mpOdHo-2QNhnKd3MbWjA9V506YYSllMaJA5dI8qVgdrOb7H85O24ar5U1IRn26OlfVLLYdj9Ue_0VBzGvlSrUyWwWr81sN8cw=w640-h368" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/102344251#zoom=6&lat=7081&lon=3865&layers=BT" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ffa400; font-size: large;">High Whins</span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">High Whins Farm, approximately 47 acres in size, was a gift from Joseph Harrison Sr to Joseph Harrison Jr in 1766. How this farm came into the possession of Joseph Harrison Sr is unknown. A review of all the deeds for this area of North Yorkshire from 1736 to 1766 in the North Yorkshire Deeds Registry did not find any deed for these lands (even if in another name since he bought Pearson's Farm using a proxy and not his real name). This means either Joseph Harrison Sr bought the lands before 1736 when the registry started, bought them after and never registered the deed (which seems unlikely), or he inherited the property. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The original 1766 deed between Joseph Harrison Sr and Joseph Harrison Jr has survived and it refers to "all that newly erected messuage or dwelling house situate being in Tranmire" which means that Joseph Harrison Sr built a new farmhouse at High Whins for his son. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Joseph Harrison Sr died in April 1780 and the following month on May 27, 1780, Joseph Harrison Jr mortgaged some of the lands to Charles Noddings, Master Mariner of Whitby for £120. On September 27, 1785 Joseph Harrison mortgaged additional lands to Daniel Chilton of Whitby, Master Mariner also for £120. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">By 1786 his debts on these and other lands (in Redmire) totaled £578.14s.0d in mortgages. In order to pay off these debts a new indenture was signed on October 21, 1786 in which Joseph Harrison borrowed a total of £700 from Benjamin Harrison of Ruswarp, gentleman (no known relation) in order to pay off the mortgages on these and other lands. The £121.6s.0d left over was paid to Joseph Harrison, in exchange for a mortgage on the property. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Finally in 1788 his mounting debts were deliberated in the High Court of Chancery and in a ruling implemented on November 1, 1788 all the lands were sold to Edward Corner of Dunsley, gentleman. Benjamin Harrison received £763 from Edward Corner to pay off the mortgage owed to him and Joseph Harrison received an additional £147 for the sale of the farm and lands and thus the lands went out from my Harrison family. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The exact dimensions of the farm are uncertain as at the time of the 1845 tithe map the lands were owned by George Bainbridge who also owned Old Castle farm to the north. Though some of the field names are the same as those mentioned in the deeds from the 1700s on the tithe map, the lands are combined on the apportionment list and therefore it is not possible to distinguish the boundary between High Whins Farm and Old Castle Farm. However, a more contemporary map provided by the Micklethwait family does appear to show the boundary between the two farms as shown on the map above. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The following deeds, wills and tax records trace the land transactions of the farm from the 1766 gift to Joseph Harrison Jr until the Micklethwait family bought them (and other lands) in 1866. They held the property until 1977.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u>Ref: AR 93, 144</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Indenture of feoffment (conveyance) dated 29 November 1766</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Between: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1 Joseph HARRISON the Elder of Tranmire, Township of Newton Mulgrave, Parish of Lyth</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">2 Joseph HARRISON the younger, son of the said Joseph HARRISON of Tranmire in the Parish of Lyth,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In consideration of natural love and affection and the sum of five shillings and further consideration of yearly sum of four pounds to be paid to the said Joseph HARRISON the Elder.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Concerning: all that newly erected messuage or dwelling house situate being in Tranmire – and all those closes and parcels of ground following: Lime Close, Hobb Close, Beck Close, two other closes called the Wheat Closes, the High Intack, the Low Intack, the Middle Field, the Well Garth, House Garth, one fourth part (1/2 written on back of deed later) of Tranmire Close, one moiety or half part of the Jolly Hill Close…now in the occupation of Joseph HARRISON the younger. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Witnesses: Robt PETCH and John PETCH </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><u><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Ref: BO, 491, 797</span></u></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Indenture of Mortgage dated 27 May 1780</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Between:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1 Joseph HARRISON of Tranmire, in the township of Newton Mulgrave, parish of Lyth, Yeoman, the youngest son of Joseph HARRISON late of Transmire, deceased </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">2 Charles NODDINGS of Whitby, Master Mariner</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Concerning: all that newly erected messuage or dwelling house situate being in Tranmire and all the closes and parcels of ground commonly called or known by the following: Long Close, Hobb Close. Beck Close, Two Wheat Closes, High Close.. now in the occupation of Joseph HARRISON.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Witnesses: John HANCOCK of Whitby, Gentleman and George NEWBALD his clerk</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u>Ref: BQ, 221, 29</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Indenture dated 24 September 1785</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Between:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1 Joseph HARRISON of Tranmire, in the parish of Lyth and Henry HARRISON of the same place, Yeoman</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">2 Daniel CHILTON of Whitby, Master Mariner</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Whereas the said Joseph HARRISON and Henry HARRISON are and now stand seized of the hereditaments and premises hereinafter described in trust as to the estate and interest of the said Henry HARRISON therein for the only proper benefit of the said Joseph HARRISON his heirs and assigns and he the same Joseph HARRISON having occasion to borrow and take at interest the sum of one hundred and twenty pounds. That in consideration of the sum of one hundred and twenty pounds to the said Joseph Harrison paid by the said Daniel CHILTON the said Joseph Harrison…and in consideration of the sum of five shillings by the same Daniel CHILTON unto the said Henry HARRISON they the said Joseph HARRISON and (at his request) the said Henry HARRISON have each of them demised granted bargained and sell onto the said Daniel CHILTON</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Concerning: that messuage farmhouse or tenement with the barns, stables, outhouses, farm, farmhold and appurtenances …by estimation forty (40) acres (save and except two closes or parcels of ground called the Hobb Close and the Beck Field adjoining each other containing together by estimation seven (7) acres) lying in Tranmire, parish of Lyth , and now are or late in the tenure or occupation of Joseph HARRISON…paying onto the said Joseph HARRISON the rent of a peppercorn upon the feast of Pentecost if the same be demanded…provided that if the said Joseph HARRISON shall well and truly pay unto the said Daniel CHILTON the full and just sum of one hundred and twenty pounds with lawful interest for the same at or upon the twenty fourth day of March next then ..this indenture…shall cease..and also that from and immediately after default shall happen to be made…Daniel CHILTON ..peaceably and quietly to enter unto and upon and to have hold occupy possess and enjoy for the residue of the said term of one thousand years. Six months notice by either Joseph HARRISON to pay off the mortgage or for Daniel CHILTON to demand payment served on the other required.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Witnesses: Francis WARDALE and John FEWSTER Jr.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u>Ref: CA 1, 1</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Indenture in five parts dated 21 Oct 1786</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Between:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1 Charles NODDINGS of Whitby, master mariner</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">2 Robert PORRITT of Runswick, Hinderwell, fisherman</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">3 Daniel CHILTON of Whitby, master mariner</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">4 Joseph & Henry HARRISON of Tranmire, Lythe, yeomen</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">5 Benjamin HARRISON of Ruswarp, gentleman.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Concerning: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Part 1 [High Whins]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Newly erected messuage or dwelling house and 5 named closes of land, all at Tranmire, mortgaged to Charles NODDINGS by Joseph HARRISON, youngest son of the late Joseph HARRISON, for £50, by deed dated 1 Jan 1783 [reciting deed dated 27 May 1780 - BO, 491, 797] - Long Close, Hobb Close, Beck Close, two closes called Wheat Closes and the High Close - occupied by Joseph Harrison. Also further sums of money - £70 + £40 - advanced by Charles NODDINGS to Joseph HARRISON, with interest and the premises at Tranmire as security. The total sum now owed by Joseph HARRISON was £167.14s.0d at the date of this indenture. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Part 2 [Redmire lands]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Several named closes of arable land totaling 31 acres - High Intack, Low Intact, Far Low Bottom and Hither Low Bottom - at Greenhouses, Manor, Castle and Lordship of Danby, Lealhom and Glaisdale, then in the occupation of Joseph HARRISON of Tranmire or his assigns, he having lately purchased the land from Henry HARRISON of Greenhouses, yeoman. Also two named closes of land - Hobb Close and Beckfield adjoining each other - totalling 7 acres then in the occupation of Joseph HARRISON or his assigns, being part of the estate devised to him by his late father Joseph HARRISON, deceased. Yearly rent of a peppercorn. All of which land was ‘mortgaged’ as security for a loan of £240 in an indenture dated 13 May 1782 between Joseph HARRISON of Tranmire, yeoman and his trustee Henry HARRISON of Tranmire, yeoman, and Robert PORRITT of Runswick, fisherman. Also a further advance of £30 by Robert PORRITT to Joseph HARRISON with interest and the premises as security. The total sum now owed by Joseph HARRISON was £284.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Part 3 [High Whins] </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Messuage, farmhouse or tenement with barn, stables, farm, farmhold and appurtenances and several closes of land belonging to it, totaling 40 acres (except two named, adjoining closes containing 7 acres - Hobb Close and Beck Field adjoining each other) all at Tranmire, which were mortgaged as security for a loan of £120, in an indenture dated 24 Sep 1785 [BQ 221, 29] between Joseph HARRISON and his trustee Henry HARRISON and Daniel CHILTON of Whitby, master mariner. The total sum now owed, with interest, by Joseph HARRISON was £127. Rent of one peppercorn at the Feast of the Pentecost.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">[in total Joseph HARRISON owed £578.14s.0d in mortgages]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Part 4 </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Joseph HARRISON being unable to pay off any of these loans had requested Benjamin HARRISON of Ruswarp, gentleman to advance him £700 and to pay off these loans on his behalf – which Benjamin had agreed to do. Having paid off the loans there was a remainder of £121.6s.0d which Benjamin HARRISON paid to Joseph HARRISON.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Part5</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Having received their due amounts the three creditors “ratified and confirmed” that all of the property and land mentioned in their individual indentures was demised to Benjamin HARRISON, his heirs, administrators and assigns. Joseph HARRISON also “granted, bargained and sold” his whole ‘estate’ to Benjamin HARRISON. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Witness: John MATTHEWS, a justice of the peace for the North Riding of Yorkshire.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Essentially Benjamin Harrison paid off all the mortgages on the High Whins Farm with an additional £121.6s.0d left over paid to Joseph Harrison, in exchange for a mortgage on the property. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u>Nov 1, 1788 - </u><u>High Court of Chancery</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">“This is the final agreement under & in the Court of our Sovereign the King… on the morrow of all souls in the Twenty eight years of the Reign of George the Third [November, 1, 1788]...before Alexander Lord Loughborough, Henry Gould, John Leath & John Wilson, Justices of our Lord the king.. Between Edward Corner and Joseph Harrison, Mary his wife, Henry Harrison and Frances his wife.. of one messuage twenty acres of land thirty acres of wood and thirty acres of pasture ten acres of Fen, Heath… of pasture for all manner of cattle.. in Tranmire Danby Lealholme & Glazedale & the parishes of Danby & Lythe … Acknowledge, Demise Quitclaim …and Agreement between the said Edward hath given to the aforesaid Joseph Mary, Henry & Frances one hundred pounds Sterling.”</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The deed below implements the ruling of the High Court of Chancery</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u>Ref: CE 113, 174</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Indenture of Bargain & Sale in four parts dated 1 Nov 1788</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Between: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1 Joseph HARRISON of Tranmire, yeoman, and Mary his wife, and Henry HARRISON of Tranmire, yeoman (trustee for Joseph HARRISON.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">2 Benjamin HARRISON of Ruswarp, gentleman</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">3 Henry HARRISON of Greenhouses, Danby, yeoman and Frances his wife.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">4 Edward CORNER of Dunsley, gentleman</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Concerning: Lately erected dwelling house at Tranmire [High Whins] with several named closes of land totalling 38 acres, now in the tenure or occupation of said Joseph HARRISON or his assigns. Also four named closes of land in total 31 acres at Greenhouses, Danby also in the tenure or occupation of said Joseph HARRISON or his assigns. [Redmire lands]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">As part of the transaction Benjamin Harrison received £763 from Edward Corner to pay off the mortgage owed to him and Joseph Harrison received an additional £147 for the sale of the farm and lands.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Witnesses: John STEAD of Whitby, master mariner, Francis WARDALE of Whitby, gentleman & Henry FEWSTER the younger or his clerk. Witnesses for Henry HARRISON as trustee: William HARRISON, his son & the said John FEWSTER </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The indenture was enrolled in his Majesty’s High Court of Chancery on January 3, 1789 in order to satisfy the settlement agreement.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u>Ref: FQ? 328, 308 - Will of Edward CORNER</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Dated 9 June 1800, Proved 11 December 1806</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Registered - 9 March 1830</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Will of Edward CORNER “to my son George Bainbridge CORNER and his heirs …my messuages or lands tenements and hereditaments whatsoever within the township of Newton Mulgrave in the Parish of Lyth and in Glazedale in the Parish of Danby”. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u>Ref: HC, 246, 280</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Indenture of conveyance of freehold estates as a lease and release dated 29 April 1843</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Between:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1 Martha Coates HARRISON of the township of Ruswarp, parish of Whitby, Spinster</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">2 George Brodrick CORNER, late of Dunsley in the parish of Whitby but then of Tranmire in the parish of Lyth</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">3 Robert MIDDLETON of the township of Ruswarp, Esquire</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Concerning: all that messuage or dwelling house at Tranmire and all closes, parcels of arable meadow or pasture ground, Line Close, Hobb Close, Beck Close, Two Closes called the Wheat Closes, Three Closes called the High Intack Close, the Low Intack Close and the Low Intack Close Bank formerly in one and called the High Intack, two other closes called the Middle Intact Close and the Middle Intack Bank Close (formerly also in one and called the Low Intack) one other close (now in two parts) called the Middle Field, One close formerly called the Hill Garth (then an orchard) one other close called the House Garth, and one other close being the North part of half of a close formerly called the Jolly Hill – 38 acres [High Whins]– formerly in the occupation of Joseph HARRISON as tenant thereof but then in the tenure of occupation of George Broderick CORNER – AND also the High Intack, the Low Intack, the Far Low Bottoms and the Hither Low Bottoms – 31 acres – being at or near Greenhouses in the Manor Castle and Lordship of Danby Lealholm and Glazedale, formerly in the occupation of Joseph HARRISON as tenant then the said George Brodrick CORNER [Redmire lands]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Witnesses: Thomas APPLEBY of Whitby, Attorney at Law and John Holt APPLEBY of the same place, Gentleman, Nathaniel LANGBORNE of Whitby, Attorney at Law and George WEATHERILL of the same place his Clerk</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u>Ref: HF 433, 567</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Dated 10 February 1845 </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Registered 17 February 1845</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Between:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1 George Brodrick CORNER of Tranmire in the parish of Lyth, Farmer</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">2 Robert MIDDLETON of the township of Ruswarp, Esquire</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">3 George BAINBRIDGE of Rotherithe in the county of Surrey, Timber Merchant</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Whereas the said principal of £700 yet remains due to the said Robert MIDDLETON, all interest being paid and whereas the said George BAINBRIDGE hath contacted and agreed with the said George Brodrick CORNER for the absolute purchase in fee simple… for the sum of £950.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Concerning: all that messuage or dwelling house at Tranmire and all closes, parcels of arable meadow or pasture ground, Line Close, Hobb Close, Beck Close, Two Closes called the Wheat Closes, Three Closes called the High Intack Close, the Low Intack Close and the Low Intack Close Bank formerly in one and called the High Intack, two other closes called the Middle Intact Close and the Middle Intack Bank Close (formerly also in one and called the Low Intack) one other close (now in two parts) called the Middle Field, One close formerly called the Hill Garth (then an orchard) one other close called the House Garth, and one other close bing the North part of half of a close formerly called the Jolly Hill - 38 acres [High Whins]– formerly in the occupation of Joseph HARRISON as tenant thereof and late in the tenure or occupation of George Broderick CORNER – AND also the High Intack, the Low Intack, the Far Low Bottoms and the Hither Low Bottoms – 31 acres – being at or near Greenhouses within the Manor Castle and Lordship of Danby Lealholm and Glazedale, formerly in the occupation of Joseph HARRISON as tenant and then late in the tenure or occupation of the said George Brodrick CORNER [Redmire lands]</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Witnesses: Henry BELCHER, Robert BRECKON, John Whitten KIRBY and James TORY?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u>1848</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">George Bainbridge died 3 January 1848</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u>Ref: HS? 605, 766 - Will of George BAINBRIDGE</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Last Will and Testament of George BAINBRIDGE</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Registered 15 January 1850</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Dated 9 August 1846</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Will of George BAINBRIDGE - Tranmire farm to Thomas BAINBRIDGE his nephew, son of his brother James BAINBRIDGE for payment of £400 to his estate.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><u>Ref: KH 635, 982</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Indenture dated 4 June 1866</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Between:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">1 Thomas BAINBRIDGE of Tranmire, township of Newton Mulgrave, Yeoman</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">2 Richard MICKLETHWAIT of Ardsley House in the West Riding of York, Esquire</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Concerning: all that messuage or dwelling house at Tranmire, and the Line Close, the Hobb Close, Beck Close, Two Closes called the Wheat Closes, three closes called the High Intack Close, Low Intact Close, Low Intact Bank Close (formerly in one and called the High Intack), Two other Closes called the Middle Intack Close and the Middle Intack Bank Close (formerly also in one called the Low Intack), Middle Field, Hill Garth then an orchard, House Garth, north part or half of a close formerly called the Jolly Hill (Close) – 38 acres – in Tranmire formerly in the occupation of Joseph HARRISON as tenant thereof then George Brodrick CORNER but then of the said Thomas BAINBRIDGE (1861 census High Tranmire - George Hodgson noted then - Thomas Bainbridge noted at “Whins Farm” - 60 acres - right after George Swales of “Whins” - 37 acres.) AND also all those four several closes etc.. called the High Intack, Low Intack, Far Low Bottoms, Hither Low Bottoms – 31 acres at Greenhouses, formerly in the occupation of Joseph Harrison at tenant then George Brodrick CORNER but then of the said Thomas BAINBRIDGE – bounded on the north by the unenclosed moor or waste of the Lordship of Danby, on the south by lands then late severally belonging to Elizabeth HARRISON and John Barry CAMPION but then of Richard MICKLETHWAIT on the east and by the lands of the Marquis of Normanby on the west.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Micklethwait family held lands until 1977.</span></div>Michael Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15408473849110286556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030621436977019894.post-27007037057544852402021-11-14T14:32:00.036-05:002022-10-06T20:54:22.071-04:00Pearson's Farm/Low Whins Farm<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJZY0Z5ACMnYWU5OaxhhYvJndvsuLCpyadRdOdkFD0I4F2zTd-FEIgurPE9BPXqmiZ44FJtML50EcxdN2CXey9xl03Blon1zE3dP0z9-pVB_mYtTC3v37FQPIzwFTdl1TBIF4gsnEsixew/s1108/Pearson%2527s+Farm+Map+-+1738+-+revised.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="719" data-original-width="1108" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJZY0Z5ACMnYWU5OaxhhYvJndvsuLCpyadRdOdkFD0I4F2zTd-FEIgurPE9BPXqmiZ44FJtML50EcxdN2CXey9xl03Blon1zE3dP0z9-pVB_mYtTC3v37FQPIzwFTdl1TBIF4gsnEsixew/w640-h416/Pearson%2527s+Farm+Map+-+1738+-+revised.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Pearson's Farm/<a href="https://maps.nls.uk/view/102344251#zoom=8&lat=6627&lon=4409&layers=BT" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Low Whins </span></a></span></h2><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">(minus 10 acre holding in Tranmire Close)</span></h2></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><u>Pearson’s Farm</u></b></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Joseph Harrison Sr (1707-1780) would purchase Pearson's Farm from descendants of William Worfolk in 1738. This farm name is from at least the 17th century as William Worfolk referred to it by name in his will passed in 1706. It must be named after Pearson's Rigg, the geological feature to the east in Ugthorpe Township (or vice versa). Today the farm is known as <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Low+Whinns+farm/@54.4860957,-0.812486,1001m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x3b67bef5b1dde895!8m2!3d54.4869308!4d-0.8091171" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ffa400;">Low Whins Farm</span></a>.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The furthest back in time I have been able to trace the farm is to William Worfolk in the 17th century. Worfolk was a prominent Quaker (Society of Friends) who lived in Stainton Dale, near Scarborough down the coast of Yorkshire from Whitby. He died in 1706 and in his will he mentions his lands in Tranmire and refers to Pearson's Farm as well as two other farms. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">In his will he left “all my lands and tenements in at Tranmire” to his wife. </span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">He makes reference to Lewis Farm [noted in 1857 deed as Tranmire Farm or Low Tranmire Farm], now in occupation of Widow Garbutt that “she [his wife Mary] give said lands at her death or by her last will and testament to ___? of our poor relations as shall stand in most for maintenance (unto it) but not to sell it from or out of the family”. </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Later in his will he says “after the death of my wife I dispose of the lands and tenements in Tranmire as follows: that is to say to John Taylor my grandson [son of Mary Taylor, nee Worfolk] or to his heirs for ever the [unnamed] farm now in the possession of Francis Pearson provided he or his heirs three years after his or their entry shall pay unto his three sisters Mary Chapman, Elizabeth Richman & Jane Taylor or their heirs the sum of sixty pounds to be provided equally amongst them and for nonpayment for them to enter upon the sd farm till satisfied and my will is that is should not be sold from sd farm." </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The will continues “then after my wife’s demise I give unto my great grandson Worfolk Postgate and to his heirs forever, all that farm in the occupation of Martin Adamson called Pearson’s Farm with all its appurtenances whatsoever provided he or his heirs three years after his entry he pay to Dorothy Clark or her three daughters each ten pounds apiece.” Therefore h</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">e left Pearson's Farm to his great grandson Worfolk Postgate though this wife had a life interest in it while alive. When </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Mary Worfolk died in 1712 the farm became the property of Worfolk Postgate.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>Worfolk Postgate died in 1719 and he left the farm to his brother John Postgate. </span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">He stated in his will ”I give and devise unto my brother John Postgate”...”all that messuage house or tenement with the barns, stables and other out houses there to belonging situate lying and being near Egton in the said county of York with the several closes or plots of ground thereunto belonging being together comprehended under the name of Pearsons Farm and lying at a place called Tranmire with the rights members and appurtenances whatsoever thereonto belonging which said farm and premises were after the death of my great grandmother Mary Worfolk devised to me and my heirs by the Last Will and Testament of my late great grandfather William Worfolk of Staintondale.” </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">However John Postgate died in 1720 without a will and hence his estate went to his wife and two daughters Alice (who married Richard Sedgefield) and Mary (who married George Kirby). </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 1738 Joseph Harrison purchased Pearson's Farm from Alice Sedgefield (nee Postgate) and Mary Kirby (nee Postgate) for £225 using the proxy of John Pierson of Egton. We know this because when John Pierson died in 1774 Joseph Harrison, then living at Greenhouses interestingly, had Francis Pierson, the nephew and heir at law of John Pierson, sign an indenture of trust declaring that Pearson's Farm was owned by Joseph Harrison. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now why he used John Pierson as a proxy is not fully known. Was it simply because he was Catholic? If so he was being very cautious as others were more open such as Henry Harrison of Greenhouses or in fact the Hodgsons his wife's family. Why the secrecy? I sometimes wonder if he was actually a convert to Catholicism when he married Jane Hodgson and so was being extra cautious. This is part of the mystery surrounding him as I have no record of him before September 1735 when he shows up living in Whitby as a Mariner in the list of Catholics drawn up for the Anglican Archbishop Lancelot Blackburne. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joseph Harrison died in 1780 and in 1782 his two sons Joseph Harrison and Henry Harrison had Francis Pierson execute two indentures declaring that their father Joseph Harrison had actually given the money to John Pierson to buy the farm and that it was actually owned by Joseph Harrison Sr. and therefore could legally be devised to them. Eleven days later Joseph and Henry Harrison enacted an indenture of demise (mortgage) with John Mead of Glaizedale for the lands.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 1785 Joseph and Henry Harrison sold off the 10 acre holding they had in the Tranmire Close to George Hutton of Roxby [who owned present day Old Castle Farm to the north] for £28, subject to John Mead's approval as he held the mortgage on the lands. Finally in 1789 Joseph and Henry Harrison conveyed the farm outright to John Mead of Glaizedale, and the farm lands passed out of the Harrison family. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Interestingly, the 1799 Land Redemption Tax records list John Mead as the owner of these lands (stated as 30 acres) with William Harrison as a tenant. I believe this is my 3x great grandfather who later moved to Murkside in Egton Township. When John Mead died in 1804 he left the farm to his son James and I think that that is when (actually in 1803 I think) James Mead moved to the farm and William Harrison moved to Murkside in Egton Township.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">The following deeds, wills and tax records trace the land transactions of the farm from the purchase by Joseph Harrison (1707-1780) in 1738 until the Micklethwait family bought them (and other lands) in 1866. They held the property until 1977. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">Ref: F, 22, 21 </span></u></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Indenture of Grant and Release Dated 3 May 1738</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Between: </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1 George KIRBY of Scarborough, mariner and Mary his wife, Richard SEDGEFIELD the younger of Scarborough, Master Mariner and Alice his wife; both daughters and coheirs of John Postgate late of Scarborough, Mariner, who was one of the brothers of Worfolk POSTGATE, who was one of the great grandsons [Worfolk and John Postgate were great grandsons of William Worfolk. Mary and Alice Postgate were the great great grandchildren of William Worfolk] of William WORFOLK, late of Stainton Dale of the one part</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">2 John PIERSON of Egton, in the parish of Lyth of the other part [John Pierson was a proxy for Joseph Harrison (1707-1780) see deeds BG, 48, 62 and </span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">BT 502, 800]</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Concerning: all the farm or farmhold commonly called or known by the name of Pearson’s Farm lying being in or near a place commonly called Tranmire within the parish of Lyth, consisting of one messuage or house or tenement with the barns, stables and other outhouses, there into belonging all those several closes, intacks, or parcels of arable lands and meadow or pasture ground to wit: the House Close, the Great Close the Low Close, the Calf Close, the Well Close, the Middle Close, Lime Garth, Hob Close, Far Field, Breckon Intack and one undivided pasture parcel – Tranmire Close </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Witnesses: Christopher Harrison, Christopher Malrby, William Shaw of Scarborough and John Farside of Whitby</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">Ref: BG, 48, 62</span></u></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Indenture made by way of a Declaration of Trust Dated 5 September 1774</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Between: </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1 Francis PIERSON of Egton, Husbandman (Nephew and Heir at Law of John PIERSON of Egton, Yeoman, late deceased)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">2 Joseph HARRISON of Greenhouses in the Parish of Danby </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Concerning: all that farm or farmhold commonly called Pearson’s Farm, Tranmire, consisting of one messuage house or tenement with the barns, stables and other outhouses and all those eleven (11) closes, intacks or parcels of arable land and meadow and pasture ground to wit: The House Close, the Great Close, the Low Close, the Calf Close, the Well Close, Jollyhill Close, Middle Close, Lime Garth, Hob Close, Far Field and Breckon Intact and one undivided part or parcel of ground commonly called Tranmire Close, formerly in the tenure or occupation of John NICHOLSON and now divided into two farms in the several occupations of Henry HARRISON and Joseph HARRISON the younger (sons of the above named Joseph Harrison)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Witnesses: George Pierson of Egton, Butcher and John PETCH of Lealholm Bridge, Gentleman.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>BT 502, 800</u> (two indentures)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Indenture dated May 1, 1782, registered November 7, 1782</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Between</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1 Francis PEIRSON of Egton, Husbandman, Nephew of John PEIRSON, late of Egton, Yeoman, deceased</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">2 Henry HARRISON of Tranmire, Yeoman, son of devisee named in the last will and testament of Joseph HARRISON, deceased</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">3 Joseph HARRISON of Tranmire, Yeoman, son of devisee named in the last will and testament of Joseph HARRISON, deceased</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">In consideration for 5 shillings paid to Francis PEIRSON in hand conveyed to Henry HARRISON and Joseph HARRISON Pearson’s Farm, Tranmire, consisting of one messuage house, or tenements, barns, stables, and other outhouses, consisting of eleven (11) closes, intacks and arable land, meadow or pasture ground. To wit: The House Close, The Great Close, The Low Close, The Calf Close, The Well Close, Jolly Hill Close, Middle Close, Lime Garth, Hob Close, Far Field, Breckon Intack, and one undivided part or parcel of ground Tranmire Close. Farm and premises late in the occupation of John NICHOLSON, which said premises were lately divided into two farms and several of the said closes or parcels, said farms now in the occupation of Henry HARRISON and Joseph HARRISON. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">BT 502, 800</span></u></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Indenture dated May 2, 1782, registered November 7, 1782</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Between</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1 Francis PEIRSON of Egton, Husbandman, Nephew of John PEIRSON, late of Egton, Yeoman, deceased</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">2 Henry HARRISON of Tranmire, Yeoman, son of devisee named in the last will and testament of Joseph HARRISON, deceased</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">3 Joseph HARRISON of Tranmire, Yeoman, son of devisee named in the last will and testament of Joseph HARRISON, deceased</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> By indenture of lease and release bearing dates about the second or third day of May 1738 between George KIRBY of Scarborough, Mariner and Mary his wife and Richard SEDGEFIELD the younger of Scarborough Master and Mariner and Alice his wife with said Mary and Alice were the coheirs of John POSTGATE, late of Scarborough, Mariner, who was one of the brothers of Worfolk POSTGATE who was one of the great grandsons of William WORFOLK, then late of Staintondale, Yeoman, of the one part and the above named John PEIRSON the other part. It is by the same Indenture of Release witnessed that in consideration of the sum of two hundred and twenty five pounds (£225), to them the said George KIRBY and Mary his wife and Richard SEDGEFIELD the younger and Alice his wife, paid by the said John PEIRSON did Grant, Bargain, Sell onto the said John PEIRSON by virtue of the said Indenture, Pearson’s Farm being in Tranmire, within the parish of Lyth, consisting of one Messuage House or Tenement, with Barns, Stables and outhouses, eleven (11) Closes, Parcels or Arable land, meadow or pasture ground. To wit: The House Close, The Great Close, The Low Close, The Calf Close, The Well Close, Jolly Hill Close, Middle Close, Lime Garth, Hob Close, Far Field and Breckon Intack, and one undivided part of parcel of ground commonly called Tranmire Close then in the occupation of John NICHOLSON. Whereas the above mentioned purchase or consideration of money of two hundred and twenty five pounds was all the proper money of Joseph HARRISON deceased and no part thereof the money of the said John PEIRSON whose name was only made use of in the said Indentures in Trust for the same Joseph HARRISON, and his Heirs, as he the said Francis PEIRSON doth hereby declare confess and acknowledge. And whereas the legal estate of and in the same premises is now duly vested in the said Francis PEIRSON as nephew and Heir at Law of the said John PEIRSON, deceased, no conveyance having ever yet being made thereof by them or either of them, to any person of persons whatsoever. And whereas the said Joseph Harrison deceased did by his last will and testament duly executed for passing of Real Estate give and devise (among other things) to his son Henry Harrison all that said messuage tenements, farms and lands situate at Tranmire, in the possession of Henry HARRISON and to his son Joseph HARRISON all that said messuage tenements, farms and lands situate at Tranmire. And the said Henry HARRISON and Joseph HARRISON having requested and prevailed upon the said Francis PEIRSON to convey their respective farms and premises so given to them respectively.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span><span style="font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Ref: BT, 503, 802
</u>Indenture of Demise (mortgage) dated 13 May 1782, Registered 7 Nov 1782
Between:
<br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span><span style="font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">1 Henry HARRISON of Tranmire, parish of Lyth, Yeoman and Joseph HARRISON of Tranmire, parish of Lyth, Yeoman
<br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span><span style="font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">2 John MEAD of Glaizedale, parish of Danby, Farmer
<br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span><span style="font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">Concerning: All the messuage, dwelling house or tenement farm and farmhold with the lands, closes, grounds, intacks, hereditaments, and premises, thereunto belonging or appertenancing, situate at Tranmire aforesaid and now in the tenure of occupation of the said Henry HARRISON or his assigns being all the estate of the said Henry HARRISON at Tranmire aforesaid together with the appurtenances which said indenture is witnessed by: Francis Wardale of Whitby, Gentleman and John Fewster the younger, his clerk. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u><br /></u></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Ref: BQ, 219, 28</u> (10 acres of Tranmire Close)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Indenture in Quadripartite dated 25 June 1785</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Between:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1 Henry HARRISON of Tranmire, parish of Lyth, Yeoman</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">2 Joseph HARRISON of same place, Yeoman</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">3 John MEAD of Glaizedale, parish of Danby, Farmer</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">4 George HUTTON of Roxby Moorside in the parish of Roxby, Yeoman</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Concerning: the undivided moiety of the close or parcel of ground hereinafter described and the fee simple and inheritance thereof is now duly vested in the said Henry HARRISON and Joseph HARRISON, one half part whereof the share of the said Henry HARRISON hath been lately demised in mortgage by term of one thousand years (together with other hereditaments) unto the said John MEAD and the said Henry HARRISON and Joseph HARRISON having lately come to an agreement with the said George HUTTON for the absolute purchase of the same moiety for the sum of twenty eight pounds, and he the said John MEAD being willing at the request of the said Henry HARRISON to join in conveyance thereof and to exonerate the same from such his mortgage.. that in consideration of the said sum of twenty eight pounds by the said George HUTTON unto the said Henry HARRISON and Joseph HARRISON they do acknowledge and in consideration of the sum of five shillings by the same George HUTTON unto the said John MEAD they the said Henry HARRISON, Joseph HARRISON and John MEAD have granted, bargained and sold onto the said George HUTTON that undivided moiety or half part of that part or parcel of ground commonly called by the name Tranmire Close containing by estimation ten acres, now in the occupation of the said Henry HARRISON and Joseph HARRISON, abutting and boundering on the lands severally of John SHIMMON toward the north, William HODGSON towards the south, and William PEARSON towards the west</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Witnesses: Francis WARDALE and John FEWSTER Jr</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">Ref: CE 249, 399</span></u></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Indenture dated 13 May 1789</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Registered 9 August 1789</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Indenture of Demise</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Between: </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1 Henry HARRISON of Tranmire and Joseph HARRISON of the same place, Yeoman (Trustee for Henry HARRISON)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">2 John MEAD of Glaizedale, parish of Egton, Farmer</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Concerning: Messuage or dwelling house, farm or farmhold situated at Tranmire, now in the occupation of the said Henry HARRISON being all the estate of the said Henry HARRISON at Tranmire aforesaid which said indenture as to the execution of the same by said Henry HARRISON is witnessed.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Witnesses: Joseph WARDALE, of Whitby, Gentleman and John FEWSTER his clerk</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><u style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></u></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><u style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">1799 Land Redemption Tax</span></u></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Registered 25 September 1799</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1798 Land Tax Redemption</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Newton Mulgrave Township</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">John MEAD, owner - William HARRISON, tenant [I believe that this is my great great grandfather as the same source does not show him as a tenant of Mr. ELWES in Egton Township]</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">30 acres of land and messuage</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><u><br /></u></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">1804</span></u></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Last Will and Testament of John MEAD</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Dated: 30 May 1803</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Proved: 16 May 1804</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">"Whins Farm" to my son James MEAD, in the occupation of William HARRISON</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>1808</u> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">James MEAD died intestate</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Administration to wife Mary Ann MEAD</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Heirs at law - Mary Ann MEAD (nee MAYMAN), Widow, daughters Mary Ann Mead MAYMAN and Margaret MEAD</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Widow Mary Ann MEAD married George WOODWARK of Glaisdale - at Danby on 1 November 1810</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Margaret MEAD married Harland FRANK of Aislaby April 27, 1830 at Danby</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Mary Ann Mead MAYMAN died 1830 - last will and testament - “to sister Margaret FRANK” all real estate in Newton Mulgrave + other legacies - proved 31 March 1835</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Harland FRANK, aged 26 years, seems to have gotten himself into some financial trouble and in 1835 by order of his assignees the farm was put up for auction for the benefit of his creditors. The advertisement below appeared in the June 13, 1835 edition of the Yorkshire Gazette</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5LXi-I_ewlOk4I46Gqt7o2enocEiGKhhYvAHv-R6m4YARoUVmSDoAMez0pFhDDd8igaPfpdrcnsyAm7z8JSGnfWgExWZymknFbKZJjeFXPfdrsPnG52JDFFJTpX5Zu9kyVpWYPThxcFCT/s873/1835+-+June+13+-+Whins+Farm+for+sale+by+auction++-+Yorkshire+Gazette+-+York%252C+Yorkshire%252C+England.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="873" data-original-width="692" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5LXi-I_ewlOk4I46Gqt7o2enocEiGKhhYvAHv-R6m4YARoUVmSDoAMez0pFhDDd8igaPfpdrcnsyAm7z8JSGnfWgExWZymknFbKZJjeFXPfdrsPnG52JDFFJTpX5Zu9kyVpWYPThxcFCT/w508-h640/1835+-+June+13+-+Whins+Farm+for+sale+by+auction++-+Yorkshire+Gazette+-+York%252C+Yorkshire%252C+England.PNG" width="508" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Ref: GG, 65, 94</u> (10 acres of Tranmire Close back together)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Indenture dated 20 and 21 August 1835</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Registered 19 October 1835</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Between:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1 George FRANK of Kirbymoorside, Grocer and Draper, Francis Breckon of Aislaby in the Parish of Middleton, Farmer,</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">2 Harland FRANK, late of Aislaby but now Glazedale in the Parish of Danby</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">3 George WOODWARK of Glazedale, Yeoman</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Indenture of Lease and Release </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">And the release made between the said George FRANK and Francis BRECKON of the first part the said Harland FRANK of the second part and the said George WOODWARK of the third part</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">...lands in Lastingham… And also the entirety of all farm or farmhold commonly known as Pearson’s Farm... and all those eleven (11) closes… containing together thirty seven (37) acres… called the House Close, the Great Close, the Low Close, the Calf Close, the Well Close, Jolly Hill Close, Middle Close, Lime Garth, Hobb Close, Far Field and Breckon Intack – 37 acres – also one undivided part of parcel of ground commonly called Tranmire Close...were then in the occupation of George HARRISON </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>1845 Tithe Map</u></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The map and apportionment document for Newton Mulgrave Township clearly shows the lands that make up Pearson's Farm and is the basis for the map above showing the hightlighted boundaries of the farm. The only portion missing from the above map is the 10 acre portion of the Tranmire Moor called Tranmire Close.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><u><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></u></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">Ref: HM, 102, 94</span></u></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Last will and testament of George WOODWARK</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Registered 20 March 1847</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">George Woodwark died 5 January 1847</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Will proved 25 February 1847</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">All property willed to wife, Mary Ann WOODWARK</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>1858</u> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Last Will and Testament of Mary Ann WOODWARK</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Dated 29 September 1858</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Mary Ann WOODWARK died 7 November 1858</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Will proved 15 April, 1859</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">All real estate to sons Thomas Harwood WOODWARK, William WOODWARK, Richard Mayman WOODWARK, Ralph WOODWARK and daughter Elizabeth, wife of John BARKER.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">On October 1, 1859 Thomas WOODWARK decided to sell the farm and placed an advertisement in the Whitby Gazette.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha0PmjojRK4VzpQHZEPHMRB9DBh2EW9dCZiu2BVUJUMgxs-04uuOb4RFRHYUYlh2XRFG4woGF7AibxQfuOA2qDjFhwX4-hviOJwimU7uKRiK9Qko5-Hp5NEIXJ4olJYnwSfnCg5ciN6CT0/s861/1859+-+Oct+1+-+Whins+Farm+for+sale+-+Whitby+Gazette+-+Whitby%252C+Yorkshire%252C+England.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="773" data-original-width="861" height="574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha0PmjojRK4VzpQHZEPHMRB9DBh2EW9dCZiu2BVUJUMgxs-04uuOb4RFRHYUYlh2XRFG4woGF7AibxQfuOA2qDjFhwX4-hviOJwimU7uKRiK9Qko5-Hp5NEIXJ4olJYnwSfnCg5ciN6CT0/w640-h574/1859+-+Oct+1+-+Whins+Farm+for+sale+-+Whitby+Gazette+-+Whitby%252C+Yorkshire%252C+England.PNG" width="640" /></a></span></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was not until February 11, 1861 that the farm was sold to John Barry CAMPION.</span></p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">Ref: IU, 158, 219</span></u></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Indenture dated 11 February 1861</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">Registered 16 March 1861</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Between:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1 Thomas Harwood WOODWARK, of Whitby, Grocer, William WOODWARK of Glazedale, Yeoman, Richard Mayman WOODWARK of Whitby, Miller Ralph WOODWARK of Glazedale, Farmer and John BARKER of Witton Gilbert in the County of Durham, Grocer and Elizabeth his wife </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">2 John Mead FRANK of Wilton Place, Belgrave Square in the County of Middlesex</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">3 John Barry CAMPION, of Leek in the county of Stafford, Railway Station Manager</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Concerning all that farm or freehold known as Pearson’s Farm, otherwise Whin’s Farm, lying in or near a place commonly called Tranmire in the Township of Newton Mulgrave...and all those eleven (11) closes… containing together thirty seven (37) acres… called the House Close, the Great Close, the Low Close, the Calf Close, the Well Close, Jolly Hill Close, Middle Close, Lime Garth, Hobb Close, Far Field and Breckon Intack – 37 acres – also one undivided part of parcel of ground commonly called Tranmire Close...formerly in the occupation of George Harrison but now lately of George SWALES (George Swales noted here in 1851 census “Whins” no acreage given - Thomas Bainbridge noted at other “Whins” just before - noted as farmer of 110 acres - 1861 census George Swales noted at “Whins” farm of 37 acres)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Witnesses: George Challinor of Leek, Solicitor, and James RATCLIFFE of Leek, Coachman. And as to the execution of Matthew SNOWDEN and Daniel Robinton WEDGEWOOD is witnessed by Nicholas RIGBY of Ugthorpe. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">Ref: IU, 159, 220</span></u></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Indenture dated 12 March 1861</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Registered 16 March 1861</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Between:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1 John Barry CAMPION, of Leek In the county of Stafford, Railway Station Manager</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">2 Matthew SNOWDEN of Whitby, Timber Merchant and Daniel Robinson WEDGEWOOD of Cockmill near Whitby, Farmer</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Concerning all that farm or freehold known as Pearson’s Farm otherwise Whin’s Farm, lying in or near a place commonly called Tranmire in the Township of Newton Mulgrave...and all those eleven (11) closes… containing together thirty seven (37) acres… called the House Close, the Great Close, the Low Close, the Calf Close, the Well Close, Jolly Hill Close, Middle Close, Lime Garth, Hobb Close, Far Field and Breckon Intack – 37 acres – also one undivided part of parcel of ground commonly called Tranmire Close...formerly in the occupation of George Harrison but now lately of George SWALES</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Witnesses: As to the execution of John Barker and Elizabeth his wife is witnessed by William Marshall of Durham, Solicitor. As to the execution of William Woodwark, Thomas Harwood Woodwark, Richard Mayman Woodwark and Ralph Woodwark are witnessed by Joseph Thompson of Fryup, Farmer. As to the execution of John Mead FRANK is witnessed by Thomas Sammons of the City of London, Attorney’s Clerk. And as to the execution of John Barry CAMPION is witnessed by Joseph Challinor of Leek, Solicitor and James Ratcliffe of Leek. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><u><span style="font-size: large;">Ref: KG, 504, 796</span></u></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Indenture dated 3 April 1866</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Between:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1 Matthew SNOWDEN of Whitby, Timber Merchant and Daniel Robinson WEDGEWOOD of Cockmill near Whitby, Farmer</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">2 John Barry CAMPION, late of Leek In the county of Stafford, but now of the township of Egton, Gentleman</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">3 Richard MICKLETHWAIT of Ardsley House in the West Riding of the County of York Esquire</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Concerning: the entirely of all that from or freehold commonly called or known by the name of Pearson’s Farm in Tranmire, township of Newton Mulgrave, consisting of a messuage house or tenement with the barn stables and other outhouses and also those 11 closes, intacks or parcels of arable land, meadow or pasture called the House Close, the Great Close, the Low Close, the Calf Close, the Well Close, Jolly Hill Close, Middle Close, Lime Garth, Hobb Close, Far Field and Breckon Intack – 37 acres – also one undivided part of parcel of ground commonly called Tranmire Close – formerly in the occupation of George HARRISON since of George SWALES and are now in the occupation of William PEARSON. (1871 Census - William Pearson, farmer of 85 acres - noted at “Low Tranmire House” = Low Whins? - must be - no Low Whins noted in census - just High Whins as Francis Wilkinson, farmer 83 acres)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Witnesses: James GRAY of Whitby, Attorney at Law, Benjamin Blaydes THOMPSON of Tadeaster, Attorney at Law and Charles Wilkinson, city of York, Gentleman</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">Micklethwait family holds lands until 1977.</span></p>Michael Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15408473849110286556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030621436977019894.post-58070730943453673352019-08-13T08:20:00.002-04:002021-12-24T06:41:02.961-05:00Y DNA test proves Henry Harrison (c 1660 - 1727) paternal line - though it is not mine<span style="font-size: large;">After a few years I managed to find a direct male descendant of John Harrison 1720-1780 and Helen Lyth. John Harrison is the anchor for the Henry Harrison line as Henry left his farm at Greenhouses to his son John Harrison when he died in 1727. As such there is no question that John Harrison is his son.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am grateful that this direct male descendant of John Harrison and Helen Lyth agreed to do a Y DNA test for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The results prove that my Joseph Harrison 1707-1780 line is <u>not</u> descended from Henry Harrison.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The direct male descendant of John Harrison and Helen Lyth matches the descendants of William Harrison 1715-1778 of Glaisdaleside in Egton Township.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So who were the parents of my Joseph Harrison then? The earliest records we have from 1735 and 1737 indicate that he was a mariner and ship's carpenter from Whitby. Is his ancestry from Whitby or somewhere nearby on the North Sea coast? There is also the possibility that Joseph Harrison was adopted by Henry Harrison and raised as his son but there is no documentary evidence to prove that. At least nothing has been found so far. More research is needed.</span>Michael Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15408473849110286556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030621436977019894.post-8776217960741388112017-12-21T10:42:00.009-05:002023-05-31T21:00:23.045-04:00Big Y DNA Results<span style="font-size: large;">Curious about my Harrison line I recently went for the Big Y DNA testing. According to Family Tree DNA:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"The Big Y product is a Y-chromosome direct paternal lineage test. We have designed it to explore deep ancestral links on our common paternal tree. Big Y tests thousands of known branch markers as well as millions of places where there may be new branch markers."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It took several months but my results were posted recently and provide some additional insight deep into my paternal line.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My original Y DNA test determined that my Y haplogroup is I-M223. The Big Y test determined what my terminal SNP is. The terminal SNP is the most defined branch that my ancestors belong to on the I-M223 tree and in my case it is I-Y56413. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the Big Y testing database I match two other people. One with paternal ancestors near Bremen, Germany in the late 1600s and another with paternal ancestors in the area of Kiikka, Finland also in the late 1600s. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The test also determined that my branch (I-Y56413) formed around 2,900 to 2,100 years ago and that the time to the most recent common ancestor between my matches and I is estimated at 1,900 to 750 years ago. This is a rather long time frame. I would be nice if it could be refined in the future.</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Update</u></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">I recently upgraded my English cousin's (direct descendant of Henry Harrison 1734-1812 brother of my ancestor Joseph Harrison c1737-1816) Y DNA to the Big 700 and the results provided on October 11, 2022 are interesting and provide some refinement to the information when I did my own test. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">The terminal SNP of my Harrison line is now I-BY70347.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><div>The result is that the common ancestor between the both of us and our other match in Finland is estimated to be a man who lived about year 150 (so 1,892 years ago).</div><div><br /></div><div>The match in Finland is on the parent branch of the Y DNA that my English cousin and I belong to. So our branch diverged from the parent branch through one of the sons of the man who lived about 150.</div><div><br /></div><div>Looking at the comparison to ancient DNA provided, both my English cousin and I match the following finds (top 3):</div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Lakenheath 15 was an old adult man who lived between 400 and 600 CE during the Medieval Age and was found in the region now known as RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk, England. You and Lakenheath 15 share a common paternal line ancestor who lived around 800 CE. He was associated with the Medieval Britain cultural group.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Sedgeford 17 was a man who lived between 700 and 850 CE during the Medieval Age and was found in the region now known as Sedgeford, Norfolk, England. You and Sedgeford 17 share a common paternal line ancestor who lived around 800 CE. He was associated with the Medieval Britain cultural group.</li></ul><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Öland 1016 was a 60+ year old man who lived between 800 and 1100 CE during the Viking Age and was found in the region now known as Hulterstad, Öland, Sweden. You and Öland 1016 share a common paternal line ancestor who lived around 1450 BCE. He was associated with the Viking Sweden cultural group.</li></ul></div></span>
<br /></div>Michael Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15408473849110286556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030621436977019894.post-25097920195266095022017-06-13T08:03:00.000-04:002019-08-13T08:24:42.190-04:00Harrison Y DNA Haplogroups in the Egton/Glaisdale/Lyth area of North Yorkshire<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So far three distinct Y DNA haplogroups have been discovered in the Catholic Harrison lines of the Egton/Glaisdale/Lyth area of North Yorkshire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The William Harrison (d. 1778) and Ann line of Glaisdaleside in Egton is haplogroup R-M269. This is the most common haplogroup in Europe and has more than 100 million people in it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Joseph Harrison (d. 1780) and Jane Hodgson line of Whinns is haplogroup I-M223 (I2b). Haplogroup </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I is found almost exclusively in Europe, where about 20% of men have Y-chromosomes belonging to the haplogroup. It began spreading about 30,000 to 45,000 years ago among some of the first Homo sapiens to inhabit Europe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The haplogroup's two main branches, I1 and I2, divided about 28,000 years ago. My Harrisons are I2b. Archaeological evidence indicates it was a time of rapid change in Europe, as a new culture known as the Gravettian moved westward across the continent. The Grevettian people introduced new stone tool technology, as well as novel art forms typified by the distinctive fertility symbols known as "Venus" figurines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Not long after haplogroup I arrived in Europe, the advancing Ice Age limited most of the continent's inhabitants to its southern fringes. Only Iberia, the Italian peninsula and the Balkans were mild enough to support substantial numbers of humans. As a result, the distribution of the haplogroup's branches today reflects the migrations that took place as the glaciers began retreating about 12,000 to 15,000 years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Having two distinct Y DNA haplogroups in this area raises the question of which line is truly descended from Henry Harrison (d. 1727) and Dorothy Rudd? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Further testing of other lines might give some indication. However the naming of the children of Henry's children may provide some clue. It has not gone unnoticed that there are no children named Henry or Dorothy in the William Harrison line of Glaisdaleside in Egton while the names repeat through the generations of the Joseph Harrison and Jane Hodgson line of Tranmire and in the proper order (The eldest daughter is named Dorothy after the paternal grandmother Dorothy Rudd; and the eldest son is named Henry after the paternal grandfather Henry Harrison). Testing the Y DNA of direct male descendants of Henry Harrison's other three sons - Francis of Shorefoot, John of Greenhouses and Henry of Shorefoot would certainly provide added weight to one line versus the other. Now, if I could only find a living direct male descendant of these lines to test. They are proving elusive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">[Update - see post from August 13, 2019 on the Y DNA results from a direct male descendant of John Harrison - son of Henry Harrison]</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Finally, there is the line of Catholic Henry Harrison and his wife Frances Cornforth who show up in the 1780 recusant list from Skelton a bit to the north. His line is haplogroup J-M172. Descendants of this Henry Harrison later moved to Greenhouses in Glaisdale which of course led to confusion between the family lines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">At long last, after many years of research, I have finally discovered the ancestry of my great great great grandfather William Harrison (1780-1836). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The journey to finding where my ancestor William Harrison (1780-1836) fits into the various Catholic Harrison families of North Yorkshire started over 20 years ago. Based on research from the Harrison brothers Oswald, Basil and Hilary; and that of Leslie O'Connor is his manuscript <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/kitchingancestry/home/hearts-of-oak" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Hearts of Oak</span></a>, I came to the conclusion early on that my ancestor William Harrison 1780-1836 was the son of William Harrison 1742-1825 and Elizabeth Allen of Glaisdaleside in Egton township. In 2012 evidence surfaced that the son of William Harrison 1742-1825 and Elizabeth Allen had actually died in Egton in 1848 and so I undertook further research. Weighing all the evidence I then settled on my William Harrison 1780-1836 as the son of Joseph Harrison (1753-1806) and Mary Readman. In order to confirm this research I had my Y DNA tested and then tested three direct male Harrisons in the William Harrison (1715-1778) line in what I thought would confirm my place in this Harrison line. But there was no match which effectively proved that my William Harrison (1780-1836) was not from this line of Harrisons. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So it was back to the drawing board. I began by trying to determine exactly where my William Harrison (1780-1836) lived in Egton township. He was married there to Mary Hutchinson in 1804 and at the time the Egton parish record indicated that he lived in the parish. Fortunately tax assessment records from 1824 are available. Examining the 1824 lists of "rateable returns" for Egton determined that there were three William Harrisons in Egton township. The assessor helpfully indicated where each one lived so there would not be any confusion between them. One was in Glaisdale(side) which is William Harrison married to Elizabeth Allen. He died in 1825 but his family continued to live on in Glaisdaleside. One was living in Struntry Carr. This was the William Harrison who married Mary Consit, and when she died Christiana Dale. He was still living on this farm in the 1841 census (he was actually the son of Joseph Harrison and Mary Readman born in 1774 based on this age in the 1841 and 1851 census, as well as the death register for Lythe). He retired from farming after 1841 and moved to East Row on the North Sea coast with his second wife Christiana. That left the William Harrison at Murkside. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">As luck would have it, some of the Easter Communion Lists for the Roman Catholic Chapel at Egton Bridge have survived. A review of the 1826 Easter Communion Lists showed that all three William Harrisons of Egton township and their families were Catholic. For the William Harrison at Murkside it shows a wife Mary Harrison and children including George, William, John, Joseph, Mary and importantly an Alice. Only children of age would be listed on the Easter Communion Lists. In the early 19th century children generally did not have their first communion until approximately the age of 10 or 11 years (even sometimes later) so only the older children were listed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Checking the next available Easter Communion list in 1836 the <u>only</u> ones missing are William Harrison and his family from Murkside. My William Harrison and his family immigrated to Canada in 1831.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Looking in the <span style="color: orange;"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/kitchingancestry/home/hearts-of-oak/contents/families/harrison" target="_blank">Harrison Saga</a></span> in Hearts of Oak as well as the <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/blackburnkitchingancestry/home/hearts-of-oak/contents/eccles/returns3" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">1780 recusant list</span></a> for Lythe there is <u>only</u> one family with a child named Alice and that is the family of Joseph Harrison and Mary Dale. The 1780 recusant list for Lythe lists the family as follows: Joseph and Mary Harrison with sons John, George, Joseph and Wm; and daughters Mary, Alice, Dorothy and Jane. If these children were listed in order of birth as expected then William Harrison was the youngest son.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Looking at my own family's seven known lines in Canada the name Alice repeats in four of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My William Harrison (1780-1836) was from Lythe as confirmed in the book <i>A History of the Ancient Parish of Lythe including Sandsend, East Row, Mulgrave Castle, Mulgrave Woods and grounds, The Hermitage, Foss Mill,</i> published in 1888 by John Crowther. In that book Crowther references the following entry in the Lythe parish registers and churchwarden's accounts: "1831 ...In this year many families from Lythe emigrated to America. Among them may be mentioned, Thomas Ward, W. Terry, John Ingledew, Thomas Coverdale, Wm. Harrison, John Bailey, Rt. English, Lennard Watson, John Readman and Thos. Taylor." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Information on the family of Joseph Harrison and Mary Dale is difficult to obtain as there are gaps in the Catholic records for Ugthorpe and Egton Bridge and when Joseph Harrison died in Barnby in the Parish of Lythe in 1815 he did not leave a will.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Without any documentation to prove this connection I needed something else to tip the balance in favour of this family as my ancestors and Y DNA proved to be that evidence. If I could find a direct male descendant of this family and test their Y DNA and compare it against mine I could determine if I had the right family or not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After many months of searching I did find a direct male Harrison descendant of this family from Joseph Harrison's brother Henry Harrison 1734-1812 who generously agreed to be tested. The line of his ancestor Henry Harrison's is well documented (including the fact he also had a son William who remained in England) and Henry left a will when he died in 1812.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">While not a 100% guarantee of an exact pedigree for my ancestor William Harrison 1780-1836, taking into consideration the small pool of Catholic Harrisons in this area of North Yorkshire, including the even smaller pool of William Harrisons born around 1780; plus all the evidence as laid out above, I have concluded that my William Harrison 1780-1836 is the son of Joseph Harrison 1738-1815 and Mary Dale.</span><br />
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Michael Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15408473849110286556noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030621436977019894.post-90190212302673659192017-02-06T19:26:00.001-05:002017-03-30T13:03:39.355-04:00The Search for William Harrison (again) or how DNA Blew Up My Family Tree<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Researching my family over the past 20 years or so I had long believed that my Harrison Catholic ancestors were descended from Henry Harrison and Dorothy Rudd of Green Houses in North Yorkshire. It had appeared that Henry Harrison was the patriarch of all the Catholic Harrisons of this area of North Yorkshire but that does not appear to be the case.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My family research has gone through two phases already. In the first go around it appeared that my William Harrison was the son of William Harrison and Elizabeth Allen of Glaisdaleside in Egton township. But then the prayer book of Elizabeth Underwood, daughter of William Harrison and Elizabeth Allen, came to light clearly showing that her brother William died in Egton in 1848. We now have determined that that William Harrison was actually married to Mary Webster.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That caused me to reexamine the place of my ancestors in the larger Harrison family tree and after considerable research and weighing all the alternatives it appeared that my William Harrison was the son of Joseph Harrison (brother of William Harrison who married Elizabeth Allen) and Mary Readman. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 2015 I had my Y DNA tested and in 2016 tested a direct male descendant of William Harrison and Elizabeth Allen in what I thought would confirm my place in the family tree. However there was no match (and testing of two further UK Harrisons has confirmed this). So barring any undisclosed adoption or other anomaly it looks like there is more than one Catholic Harrison family from this part of Yorkshire and not one as originally thought. (William the son of Joseph Harrison and Mary Readman actually married Mary Consit and later Christiana Dale and lived at Struntry Carr Farm, later moving to East Row on the North Sea coast.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">So the search continues. More research in the communion and confirmation lists of the Roman Catholic churches of Egton Bridge, Ugthorpe and Whitby await, as does the search for direct male descendants of other Catholic Harrison lines to test and compare Y DNA with. If you are descended from a Catholic Harrison family with roots in the Egton/Glaisdale/Lythe area of North Yorkshire I would love to hear from you.</span></div>
Michael Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15408473849110286556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030621436977019894.post-57266747893011486792015-06-17T10:55:00.000-04:002017-02-10T14:23:35.678-05:00Some thoughts on Henry Harrison (circa 1660-1727)<span style="font-size: large;">Henry Harrison is believed to the the patriarch of all the Catholic Harrison families of the Egton/Glaisdale area of North Yorkshire (though recent DNA tests now seem to indicate otherwise). He was born circa 1660 and died at Greenhouses, Glaisdale Township in 1727. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Researching a James Harrison who lived and died at Greenhouses in late 1730 it was discovered that two and possibly three of Henry Harrison's children were involved in the processing of James' estate. Henry's sons John and William were witnesses to James' will and it looks like Henry's son Francis assisted with the valuation of the estate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are fortunate that the deed documenting James' purchase of his farm at Greenhouses in 1704 has survived and is now in the North Yorkshire Country Record Office in Northallerton. This predates the North Yorkshire Register of deeds which only started in 1736. It is clear from this document that James was of <a href="https://www.google.ca/maps/@54.4557329,-0.7990102,80m/data=!3m1!1e3" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Hall Park Farm</span></a>, Lealholm. This was the farm of a John Harrison. John purchased the property when the Danby Estate was sold off in 1655.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">John Harrison died on December 28, 1680, and was buried at Danby according to the Danby Anglican Parish Records. There is no will only an Admon document dated April 15, 1681 which left the administration of the estate to his son James. This document provides very little information as the original file, which might have had more detail and documentation, is now lost and we only have a few lines in the official copybook.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Given that three of Henry Harrison's children were involved in the estate of James Harrison I suspect that Henry and James were brothers and therefore the sons of John Harrison of Hall Park Farm, Lealholm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, it is worth noting that James Harrison seems to have succumbed to the pressure to join the Church of England as he baptized all his children there and he does not appear in the Registration of Papist Estates in 1717 as Henry does.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Strengthening this link is the fact that Joseph Harrison, the son of James Harrison, also appears to be a witness to the will of Henry Harrison.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course to prove this connection more proof is required.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">If I could find a male descendant of James Harrison we could prove it with a DNA test.</span>Michael Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15408473849110286556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030621436977019894.post-85497402610684460712014-01-03T13:37:00.003-05:002017-03-28T06:41:26.267-04:00Finding William Harrison - 2013 attempt - now proved incorrect by Y DNA<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Research done by previous researchers, including the late Harrison brothers (Father Basil, Oswald, Francis and Edwin); and the huge contribution of Hearts of Oak by the late Leslie O'Connor; had pegged the William Harrison who married Mary Hutchinson in Egton in 1804 (my great great great grandparents) as the son of William Harrison and Elizabeth Allen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, in 2012 a transcript of the prayer book of Elizabeth Underwood (nee Harrison), daughter of William Harrison and Elizabeth Allen came to light which listed her brother William Harrison as dying in England in 1848. This provided convincing proof that my William Harrison was not the son of William Harrison and Elizabeth Allen as my William Harrison had died in Toronto Gore Township, Peel County, Upper Canada in May 1836. I thus began the search for my William Harrison in the extended family tree of Catholic Harrisons from the Egton area of North Yorkshire. As it turned out the key was the connection between my William Harrison and the Readman family. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It began with the fact that a Joseph Readman was the best man at William Harrison's wedding to Mary Hutchinson in Egton in 1804 instead of a brother. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Further work on the Readman family determined that this Joseph Readman (there were three around at the same time) was the son of Joseph Readman (1740-? ) and Mary Wedgewood (1744-?). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Reviewing the marriages in the Anglican Parish Records of the area indicated that there was really only one possible marriage - that of Joseph Harrison to Mary Readman in Egton in 1770. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hearts of Oak provided the information on the family of Joseph Harrison and Mary Readman (in the chapter on the Ward Papers), including the fact that William Harrison had no brothers that lived past infancy and only two sisters that survived childhood. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That this was the right family was further confirmed by the marriage of Hannah Harrison and Isaac Linton in Egton in 1829. Both William Harrison and Joseph Readman were witnesses (though I believe this Joseph Readman was the son of John Readman and Sarah Dowson - this Joseph Readman marked his signature with an X - the Joseph Readman who married Elizabeth Smallwood could write.). </span><span style="font-size: large;">This was therefore William's sister Ann (Hannah) as outlined in Hearts of Oak. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mary Readman was, I believe, the daughter of William Readman (1713 - ) and Ann White (1716 - 1777). (William is a descendant of John Readman and Alice Walker married in Whitby in 1630 - an online <a href="http://www.bedfordpark.net/genealogy/readman/" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;"><b>tree</b></span></a> focuses on the Egton branch of the family). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There were other Mary Readmans around at the same time but this Mary Readman is the closest in relationship to the Joseph Readman that was the best man at William Harrison's wedding and she would have been an aunt of Joseph Readman making William Harrison and Joseph Readman first cousins. I see proof of this relationship due to the fact that Joseph Harrison (William's father) was the best man at the wedding of Joseph Readman (1740-? ) and Mary Wedgewood (1744-?) in Egton in 1778 </span><span style="font-size: large;">(8 years after his wedding to Mary Readman). T</span><span style="font-size: large;">he Joseph Readman who would be the best man at William Harrison's wedding in 1804 was their son. The online Readman family tree has this Mary Readman married to Thomas Rhea but having looked at this marriage I don't see any proof of what Mary Readman this is (none of the witnesses are Readmans) and the Rhea family appears to have been Anglican and not Catholic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thus, William Harrison was the son of Joseph Harrison and Mary Readman and the first cousin of the Joseph Readman who was the best man at his wedding (as the son of Mary Readman's brother Joseph Readman and his wife Mary Wedgewood).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As such, Leslie O'Connor was pretty close in his analysis of the parentage of William Harrison in his work Hearts of Oak. William was just the son of Joseph Harrison and not Joseph's brother William. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This was an understandable mistake as with so few siblings (no brothers), and an obviously close relationship with the family of William Harrison and Elizabeth Allen - since he grew up in a cottage on the same farm with them - William's first cousins were often the sponsors at the baptisms of his children at the Roman Catholic Chapel in Egton Bridge. </span><br />
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Michael Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15408473849110286556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030621436977019894.post-14168228560405464262014-01-03T13:36:00.000-05:002020-01-01T07:43:27.519-05:00The Mystery of the Two Matthew Harrisons<span style="font-size: large;">As part of my family history research I have been dealing with the mystery of two Matthew Harrisons buried at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Cemetery in Wildfield for over 20 years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One is my great great grandfather Matthew Harrison born in 1821 in Egton Township, North Yorkshire and baptized at the Roman Catholic Chapel in Egton Bridge. He died on his farm at Castlemore (Lot 9, Concession 10), Toronto Gore Township, Peel County on January 6, 1887 and was buried in St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Cemetery in Wildfield, Peel County. Mysteriously there is no death registration for him even though his nephew Nicholas Harrison was the township clerk and the local registrar. Nor has an obituary been found in any local Brampton papers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There is however another Matthew Harrison, a mysterious fellow who also appears in the spotty burial records for St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church listed as dying in September 1884 at the age of 89 years. Did he sign a petition in Toronto Gore in 1834? The other Matthew Harrison would only have been a teenager of the age of 13. The signature on the 1834 petition is different than the one on the will of Matthew Harrison who died in 1887 but could it be a juvenile signature that he changed in later life? </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">No obituary has been found in any of the local papers for the Matthew Harrison who died in 1884. If he was indeed 89 years old when he died in 1884 he would be born circa 1795. Also of note is that there is no death registration for him either! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Could this Matthew Harrison have been an uncle of the Matthew Harrison who died in 1887, and a younger brother to William Harrison (1780-1836)? Seems unlikely given that Mary Dale William's mother would have been 58 years old in 1795! So they must be cousins? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He likely came to Canada in the early 1830s, possibly with William Harrison and his family in 1831 or a bit later. He was certainly here by 1834 if that is his signature on the petition. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">However, this older Matthew Harrison appears to be the one that </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">purchased a 50 acre lot composed of the SE ¼ of Lot 11, Con 9, Gore of Toronto (at the north west corner of The Gore Road and Castlemore Side Road) on Feb 19, 1845 for £200. One of the witnesses on the indenture was William Harrison (Jr who died in 1849). This </span><span style="font-size: large;">Matthew was listed as living on this lot in the 1850 Directory. However does not appear in the 1852 census records nor in any subsequent census records.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">One of the obvious answers would be to check the tombstones in St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Cemetery for any other details. Unfortunately the cemetery was essentially cleared (vandalized in my opinion) in the late 1960s by the parish priest and while some of the early tombstones were placed in a cairn on the site (including many of my family), many of the later ones were simply moved to the bottom of the hill and covered in soil where they remain today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Any help solving this mystery would be greatly appreciated. You can contact me at kikoamoki [at] yahoo [dot] ca.</span><br />
<br />Michael Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15408473849110286556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030621436977019894.post-73743718881259516892009-03-27T08:31:00.047-04:002017-02-18T15:28:17.989-05:00Dr. Francis Harrison (1842-1925)<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Dr. Francis Harrison (April 5, 1842 - December 28, 1925) married Mary A. Creed </span><span style="font-size: large;">(October 17, 1853 -1935)</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">, daughter of James and Mary Creed of Dixon, Illinois, on January 1, 1875, at Evanston, Wyoming.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">• Mary (1880-April 21, 1927) She attended St. Mary's Academy in South Bend, Indiana. I have a great photo of her class in 1899. She then became a teacher in Evanston. For the 1903 school year beginning in September she was teaching Grade 6. In 1904 she went with her brother Frank to visit the World's Fair in St. Louis. It is mentioned in her father's obituary in December 1925 that she was ill in hospital in San Francisco. She seems to have suffered from a long illness though I do not know what it was. She died at the home of her uncle (Mary Creed's brother - most likely James Warren Creed) in San Francisco, California on April 21, 1927 and is buried in </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Holy+Cross+Cemetery/@37.6720454,-122.442576,1599m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xe2e325523d740e4c" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery</span></a> ,</span><span style="font-size: large;">Colma, </span><span style="font-size: large;">San Mateo County, </span><span style="font-size: large;">California just south of San Francisco.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">• Helena (1884 - 1949) m. Charles Branham. She attended St. Mary's Academy in South Bend, Indiana from 1899 to ? ,and then the University of Utah in Salt Lake City for about a year from the spring of 1906 until sometime in the 1907 without receiving a degree. She played both the piano and violin, performing in many private and public functions in Evanston. Charles was born in Litchfield, </span>Minnesota on December 26, 1884, and was the son of Hiram Branham and Jessie Greenleaf. <span style="font-family: inherit;"> He is living in Salt Lake City as indicated by the 1910 US Census. He must have met Helena there. They were married in Odgen, Utah on June 11, 1911. Given that they were not married in Evanston, Wyoming makes me wonder if they eloped? They lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the 1910s where Charles was the manager of the <a href="http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/4052" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Strand Theatre</span></a>. By 1920 they were living in Detroit where Charles was the manager of the <a href="http://majesticdetroit.com/majestic-theatre-detroit/" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Majestic Theatre</span></a>. (I can't find them in the 1920 US census) Later they were living in Atlanta, Georgia where Charles managed the <a href="http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/3434" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Howard Theatre</span></a>. In 1926 he moved to Sarasota, Florida to manage the 1500 seat <a href="http://www.sarasotahistoryalive.com/markers-and-designations/historical-marker/edwards-theatre/" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Edwards Theatre</span></a>. Charles was a manager in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Pictures" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Publix</span></a> Theatre chain and moved to St. Petersburg Florida in 1930 to be the new district supervisor of the theatres on the west coast of Florida. In 1936 they were living at 1401 Beacon Street, Brookline, Massachusetts, as indicated by the documentation in Helena's mothers probate file. By 1942 Charles was retired and they were living in South Laguna, California. Helena died there in 1949 and was buried in Fairhaven Memorial Park Cemetery. Charles died there on December 22, 1975 and was buried in Fairhaven Memorial Park Cemetery. They do not appear to have had any children. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">• Frederick (Ted) William (1889-1962) m. Ana Toelle (1889-1974) in 1922. They had one daughter Hellen. 1903 was an eventful year for him as a child. On July 4th a firework went off in his face causing severe injury. There was concern that he would loose the use of his eyes though he recovered. The <em>Wyoming Press</em> indicated that "he will carry ugly scars as a result of the unfortunate affair". A few weeks later he had to have his appendix out. Ted seems to have also attended "college" in Salt Lake City. There is an article in the January 6, 1906 edition of the <em>Wyoming Press</em> that mentions him returning to school. I am not sure if this was the University of Utah or some other school. Ted was involved in cattle ranching near Daniel, Wyoming. The 1920 census finds him living in Lincoln County, Wyoming working as a farmer. He was single then. His mother is also listed and must have been visiting him at the time. In 1935 he was living in Evanston according to the probate records for his mother's will. Later he worked for the Union Pacific Railway. In the 1940 census he is living in his father's house on 9th Street, with his wife Ana and his daughter Helena. Sometime later they made their way to Seattle, Washington where Fred worked for Westinghouse. He retired about 1953 and moved to Suquamish, North Kitsap. He died there on October 15, 1962. His obituary from the <em>Bremerton Sun</em> says that he was survived by his wife, daughter Hellen Wright and two grandsons. His wife Ana T. Toelle, lived to be 84, and died at Suquamish in April 1974 in Poulsbo. Ana was born in Wismer, Nebraska on July 30, 1889. She was a former nurse. Her obituary in the April 8,1974 edition of the <em>Bremerton Sun</em> says that she was survived by her daughter Mrs. Hellen Wright of Suquamish, two grandsons, brother Joseph Toelle of San Antonio,Tex, and a sister Miss Hedwig Toelle of New Haven,Conn (a former professor of Public Health Nursing at Yale University from 1937 until 1960). Both Fred and Ana are buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Kitsap. A search for their daughter Hellen came to the conclusion that she died on May 10, 2007 in Suquamish, Washington at the age of 88.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=centre+and+ninth,+evanston,+wyoming&sll=41.269356,-110.969768&sspn=0.02145,0.038495&ie=UTF8&ll=41.266372,-110.965798&spn=0,359.980752&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=41.266463,-110.965929&panoid=hlDA26JL0vDYnnEvV6NNGQ&cbp=12,43.81,,0,5" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Dr. Francis Harrison's House</span></a> in Evanston Wyoming on the corner of Centre and Ninth Street in 1990:</span><span style="font-size: 130%;"></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"></span><span style="font-size: 130%;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgcdMs9Oji6HpPOsXIbQSklwwxE9pXrbKGstbPOZW6gMrSbCjVkL_Uv3sbdCLqEWItzfYiyIha4zaw4rxlpHBe7KtCulImGJaAdcEhFZurO3Fur1FYVreeUOT2Uozyy4D7J96sNNLuW84e/s1600-h/Dr+Francis+Harrison+House,+Centre+and+9th+St,+Evanston+Wyoming,+1990.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328256336297972546" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgcdMs9Oji6HpPOsXIbQSklwwxE9pXrbKGstbPOZW6gMrSbCjVkL_Uv3sbdCLqEWItzfYiyIha4zaw4rxlpHBe7KtCulImGJaAdcEhFZurO3Fur1FYVreeUOT2Uozyy4D7J96sNNLuW84e/s320/Dr+Francis+Harrison+House,+Centre+and+9th+St,+Evanston+Wyoming,+1990.jpg" style="display: block; height: 230px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The son of William Harrison and Mary O'Connor, Dr. Harrison was the subject of a number of biographical entries during his lifetime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The following entry was in the <em><strong>Progressive Men of the State of Wyoming</strong></em>, published in Chicago, Illinois by A.W. Bowen & Company in 1903:</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-size: large;">The life of a country physician is full of toil and hardship, but it has compensation in the reflection that it is also full of benefaction to the community which he services and that no effort in behalf of suffering humanity is thrown away. Among the prominent and highly esteemed physicians of Evanston, Wyoming, Dr. Frank Harrison is in the front rank. He was born in 1842 in Toronto, Canada, the son of William and Mary (O’Connor) Harrison, the former a native of England and the latter of Ireland. Both were brought by parents to the New World in childhood, it being the desire to secure for them better opportunities than were afforded in their native land. The families settled at or near Toronto, where they prospered and reared their offspring. Doctor Harrison received his academic education at the public schools of his native country and began his medical training at the Toronto University. He continued it at St. Michael’s Medical College in Toronto, and fully completed it with another two-years’ course at Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York City, and from which he was duly graduated on March 1, 1866. On March 1, 1865, he had been appointed a medical cadet in the service of the U.S. government, a class of officials which the government had created and to which undergraduates were admitted as assistant surgeons. His first assignment was on board the transport S. R. Spaulding, which conveyed sick and wounded soldiers to New Haven, Conn., where a military hospital was located. He remained at the hospital until November and the experience he had there has been an invaluable service to him in his subsequent practice. After his graduation from Bellevue College he came to Denver, Colorado, at that time a city of not far from 4,000 inhabitants. He passed his first summer in the West in traveling and then came to Cheyenne, following the railroad in his professional work as far as Wasatch. He next went to Sweetwater mines, there he passed two years in the practice of his profession and then removed to Evanston, where he has been in an active medical practice for more than thirty years. At the first election held after this arrival the total poll of voters, men and women, numbered only 300. In politics Doctor Harrison is a Democrat and has been active in the interest of the party. He has been honoured with several places of responsibility in public life, discharging the duties of all with fidelity, intelligence and zeal. In 1871 and 1872 he represented Sweetwater county in the Territorial Legislature, and from 1876 to 1880 was one of its county commissioners. In Unita county he was a probate judge for six years and county treasurer from 1884-1890, being also mayor of Evanston for three years. He is also a valued member of the Grand Army of the Republic, being very much esteemed as a leader in all of its meetings. On January 1, 1875, he was united in holy marriage with Miss Mary A. Creed, a daughter of James Creed, a native of Illinois, and whose father died in 1896 in Clinton, Iowa, and the mother, whose maiden name is Egan, is still living, her residence being Dixon, Ill. Doctor and Mrs. Harrison have four children, James F., Mary, Helen and Fred W. Doctor Harrison ranks high in his profession as a physician and surgeon, as a close student and as an intelligent practitioner.</span></em><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The following entry is in the <em><strong>History of Wyoming</strong></em>, edited by I.S. Bartlett and published in 1918:</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-size: large;">Dr. F. H. Harrison is today the oldest physician in Wyoming in years of continuous connection with the medical profession. He practices at Evanston, where he has remained since 1872. He has not only been identified with the science of medicine and surgery, however, for as a pioneer he has been active in many of these movements which have led to the upbuilding and development of the state. He is familiar with all phases of Indian warfare and with all phases of frontier life and the history of Wyoming is to him an open book, for he has been a most active participant in events which figure most prominently in its annals.<br />
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He was born in Toronto, Canada, April 2, 1842, and is a son of William and Mary (O'Connor) Harrison. The father was a native of England and in his boyhood days made the voyage across the briny deep to Canada, settling near Toronto, where he engaged in farming, there maintaining his residence until his death, which occurred in 1849, when his son. Dr. Harrison, was a little lad of but seven years. The mother was born in Wexford, Ireland, and in childhood became a resident of Canada, where she was married and continued to reside until called to the home beyond in 1904. She had at that time reached the eighty-fourth milestone on life's journey. In the family were five children, of whom one daughter died at the age of sixteen years. The others are: Willam, who is living in Brampton, Canada ; John, also located at Brampton ; and Nicholas, who still lives in Canada. The other member of the family is Dr. F. H. Harrison, of this review, who in his youthful days was a pupil in the public schools of Canada and afterward took up the study of medicine in New York city, matriculating in the Bellevue Hospital Medical College, from which he was graduated with the class of 1866. His collegiate training was comprehensive and thorough, and thus well equipped for professional duties, he made his way westward to Colorado, crossing the plains with team and wagon. He took up his abode at Gilpin, where he remained for a year and a half, and in November, 1867 he removed to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he practiced for a short time. He was afterward with the Union Pacific grading camps in his professional capacity and continued with the road until the line was extended to Evanston. He then went to the South Pass mines, where he followed mining for two and a half years, but in 1872 returned to Evanston, where he has since been in constant practice. Entering upon professional duties in this state in 1867, he is today the oldest physician in Wyoming. Through the intervening period of a half century he has kept in touch with the trend of modem professional thought and progress, acquainting himself with those discoveries which scientific investigation has brought to light. He is a well informed physician and one thoroughly skilled in all departments of medical and surgical practice. In the early days he went through all the experiences that come to the frontier physician. He fought in many of the Indian wars and was with the posse in the Wind River campaign, in which Black Bear the chief of the Arapahoes, was killed. The summer's sun and winter's cold could not deter him from the faithful performance of his duties and at times he would ride for miles and miles over wind swept districts, facing the storms of winter, yet he never hesitated when his professional service was needed. He belongs to the Wyoming State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. Aside from his active connection with the profession he has also extended his efforts into other fields and is now president of the Evanston National Bank, president of the Evanston Drug Company, a director of the Evanston Electric Light Company and president of the Harrison Stock Growing Company of Uinta County. In business affairs he has displayed sound judgment and unfaltering enterprise and his cooperation with any project has constituted an element in its growing success.<br />
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On the 1st of January. 1875, Dr. Harrison was married to Miss Mary Creed, of Evanston, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Creed, formerly of Dixon, Illinois. They have become the parents of three children who are still living and lost one son, James Francis, who died in 1914 at the age of thirty-seven years, while acting as manager of the Evanston Drug Company. Those who survive are: Mary, who was born in Evanston in 1880 and is a graduate of the high school and of the Notre Dame Academy at South Bend, Indiana ; Helena, who was born in Evanston in 1884 and is a graduate of the high school of that city; and Frederick William, who was born in 1889 and is also a graduate of the Evanston high school. He is now in business with his father.<br />
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Dr. Harrison is connected through fraternal relations with the Independent Order of Odd Fellow- and with the Masons. In the latter organization he has taken the degrees of lodge, chapter and commandery. His political endorsement is given to the democratic party and he has several times been called upon to serve in positions of honor and trust. For four years he filled the office of county commissioner and for six years was county treasurer of Uinta county. For one term he served in the second territorial legislature and at all times his aid and influence have been given on the side of right, progress, reform and improvement. He is today one of the most valued and prominent citizens of Wyoming, standing very high in professional circles, and no story could contain more exciting or interesting chapters than could be found in the life record of Dr. Harrison if space would permit this to be written in detail. His memory goes back to the time when this entire region was but sparsely settled, when the Indians were more numerous than the white men, when the land had not been reclaimed for the purposes of civilization but remained in the primitive condition in which it came from the hand of nature. His life activities constitute a connecting link between the primitive past and the progressive present and no history of Wyoming would be complete without his record.</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Upon his death in December 1925 there were a number of obituaries in local papers. The following – perhaps the most complete – was in the <em>Evanston Press</em>:</span><br />
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Hail to the pioneer – another stalwart has been summoned from the ranks to the Great Beyond – may he rest in peace.<br />
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The bugle sounded and one of our best citizens answered the call – having the honor and distinction of being one of the two surviving members of Post No. 53, G.A.R.<br />
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Dr. Frank H. Harrison passed away Monday morning, Dec. 28, 1925, at this home on Ninth and Center Streets, having been ill but fourty eight hours – pneumonia being the cause of this death, which came as a shock to the community, and very unexpected, as he appeared hale and cheery and enjoyed Christmas.<br />
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Dr. Harrison was born at Toronto, Canada, April 20, 1842. He attended medical college at the University of Toronto, and later entered Bellview (sic) Medical school of New York; also attended Yale, graduating with honours from each institution. During the Civil War he enlisted in the Medical Corps and served until the end of the conflict.<br />
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Later he moved to St. Louis, thence to Denver, and finally to Laramie, Wyo., where he established the first doctor’s office in May 1868. He was appointed contract surgeon for the U.P. Ry. Co., and followed the building of the railroad as far west as Wasatch. He left there for the South Pass country during the mining excitement, and finally came to Evanston. In 1872 he opened the first drug store here, which was located on Front street, in the Palace building.<br />
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For years Dr. Harrison was the dependable and beloved physician of our county and town.<br />
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He was a public benefactor and ever interested in the moral uplift of the community. He became a financial success and applied his influence, capital and endeavors for the advancement and upbuilding of a good town – Evanston – which he always avowed would be his home while in life – and he remained true to that promise. No citizen has ever been more loyal to our city; more generous spirited and dependable; or was more highly respected or esteemed; nor has none passed who will be more missed and mourned than this venerable pioneer.<br />
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Some of this public callings were as a member of the first State Legislature and he was at one time Probate Judge, City Mayor, County Commissioner and President of the Evanston National Bank; was also Wyoming’s first physician. He was affiliated with the Masonic and Odd Fellow societies, but had not been an active member for several years.<br />
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Surviving are his widow, two daughters, Miss Mary Harrison, who is ill in a hospital in San Francisco; Mrs. Helen Branham; and one son, Fred Harrison of Daniel Wyo.<br />
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Funeral services were held today noon at the Catholic Church conducted by Father O’Connor and were well attended, the floral offerings being profuse and beautiful.<br />
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Honorary Pallbearers – All physicians of the city. Hon. Mayor Thomas Painter, John W.R. Rennie, Judge Sam’l Dickey, Charles Myers and Donald McAllister.<br />
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Interment was in the Catholic cemetery, he being laid to rest beside his son J. Frank Harrison, who passed away several years ago.<br />
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The family have the sympathy of this community in the loss of one of Evanston’s best men – loyal citizens – true friend, husband and father.<br />
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The world is surely better that he lived; and praise be that he was spared to an advanced age to scatter sunshine and good deeds – which influences will continue to abide in the hearts of all who knew Dr. Harrison.</span></em>Michael Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15408473849110286556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030621436977019894.post-2664438668137485972009-03-06T13:11:00.026-05:002017-02-15T14:21:21.116-05:00North Yorkshire - Esk River Valley<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil8_rzjXk1AtgNbslxz-VpcM2gKcsAyOcRfyRMzaIdXkx1-wGkP-6qSwacapeXgopors8D8nQSR5Sq4KwxuH5ciFYyzUawPgG-mPrYlfh8YODTP9mJX_Ir4o1mE4irwoBKDXch5DDoa77X/s1600-h/north-york-moors-map.jpeg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340108511897738146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil8_rzjXk1AtgNbslxz-VpcM2gKcsAyOcRfyRMzaIdXkx1-wGkP-6qSwacapeXgopors8D8nQSR5Sq4KwxuH5ciFYyzUawPgG-mPrYlfh8YODTP9mJX_Ir4o1mE4irwoBKDXch5DDoa77X/s320/north-york-moors-map.jpeg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 216px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">The family of William Harrison and Mary Hutchinson came from Egton, in the Esk River Valley of North Yorkshire, England (just above the first "o" in "Moors" in the map above).</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">The Esk River has its headwaters in the western edges of the North Yorkshire Moors and flows in an easterly direction, joining the North Sea at Whitby. Today this, and a vast area around it, are located within the popular, North Yorkshire Moors National Park.</span></div>
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Michael Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15408473849110286556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030621436977019894.post-8848645931582054122009-03-05T15:14:00.006-05:002013-09-25T08:21:05.975-04:00John Dixon's Letter From America (Canada)<span style="font-size: 130%;">Mr. John Dixon, who travelled with William Hewgill (Hugill) - one of my great great great grandfathers - from Whitby, North Yorkshire to Quebec, and then from Quebec to the Town of York (Toronto) in 1832, goes off to visit William Harrison of the Gore of Toronto, my great great great grandfather. The following is excerpted from the letter<br /><br /><em>To Mr. George Dixon, Darlington<br /><br />Whit Church, Sept. 30th, 1832.<br /><br />....We arrived at York on June 7th. <strong>William Hugill</strong>, who went from Glazedale, and ourselves took a house to put our goods and to sleep in, until we could get situations; we paid five shillings a week, and a miserable hovel it was. York is about the size of Darlington, the houses are chiefly built of wood, but there are a few handsomely built of brick. A house, such as I last lived in when at Whitby, would be £60 a year here; and fire wood costs about 9s. per week in winter. I never saw so many shoe-makers' shops by one half in any town the size of York; the trade at present is dull, and the following are the prices ...... I soon found that York would not suit me. <strong>William Hugill</strong> has friends in the Gore of Toronto, about eighteen miles from York. One <strong>William Harrison,</strong> a distant relation of ours, lives in the same place. I went with <strong>William Hugill</strong> to see him; he was very kind to me, and wished me to settle there; he said they were in great want of a shoe-maker, and if I would take up my abode among them, he would build me a house on his own ground, and I might keep a cow, which could go in the woods so that I might be at no expense. It being a new settlement , and the road to it very bad I thought it better to look about me before I made any choice. <strong>William Hugill</strong> took up his abode there…..<br /><br />John Dixon</em><br />source: <em>Whitby Repository and Monthly Miscellany, Volume III, February 1833</em> (copy in the Whitby Museum, Whitby North Yorkshire)</span>Michael Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15408473849110286556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030621436977019894.post-71823259402511512192009-03-05T08:28:00.019-05:002017-06-08T07:19:46.670-04:00Family of Ann Harrison (1827-1855) and James C. Smyth (1820-1901)<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Ann HARRISON married James C. SMYTH on July 20, 1841 at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Wildfield, Peel County. (James C. SMYTH was born in Powerstone Parish in County Tipperary and baptized at the Roman Catholic Church there on April 4, 1819) They lived in the nearby community of Claireville, Etobicoke Township, York County. </span><span style="font-size: large;">In the 1852 Census they were living in Claireville with Thomas SMYTH, James’ father. Thomas’ second wife was Mary HUTCHINSON so Ann was living with her mother (who was also her mother-in-law). This is an interesting instance of a father and son marrying a mother and daughter. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Ann HARRISON died and was buried at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic cemetery, Wildfield in 1855. The age on her tombstone suggests she was born in circa 1828.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Upon Ann HARRISON's death on January 12, 1855 James C. SMYTH married his second wife Bridget DOHERTY </span><span style="font-size: large;">at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church on June 5, 1856 and had more children.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Nicholas A. (1867-1879)</span></li>
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• William A. (1849-1888) married Sarah Helen JOHNSON on January 29, 1887 at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Toronto. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>William A. Smyth who passed away at this late residence in Toronto, No. 187 Crawford Street, Feb. 17, 1888</i> (he actually died on Feb 24, 1888 according to his death registration)<i> was born in Ontario, son of James and Anna (Harrison) Smyth, the former a native of Ireland, and the latter of England.</i></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">James Smyth came to Canada when a young man, and soon thereafter settled in Toronto, where he became a commission merchant, continuing in this business until his death. He was twice married, his first wife being the mother of our subject.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">William A. Smyth began business with his father, but later went to the office of the Massey Harris Company, as an accountant, where he continued until his death. He had a large acquaintance in business circles, and wherever known was highly esteemed.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Smyth married Miss Sarah Helen Johnson, born in Toronto, daughter of Samuel and Ann (Fair) Johnson, natives of County Mayo, Ireland. Mrs. Johnson came to Montreal in 1829, and to Toronto in 1833. She was the daughter of Robert and Margaret Fair, natives of County Mayo, Ireland where they died. They had children: John, William, Robert, James, Mary, Elizabeth and Ann, all of whom lived to be eighty-five years old or over. To Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Johnson the following children were born: Samuel, William and Margaret, deceased; Annie, of New York; John, deceased; Lizzie, of Albany, New York; James; and Sarah Helen, Mrs. Smyth. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Mr. and Mrs. Smyth were the parent of children as follows: Leo S. B., born in Toronto, day accountant at the Massey-Harris works; and Basil W. H., also born in Toronto, and an accountant at the same works. Mr. Smyth was a Reformer. In religious faith he was a Roman Catholic.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Upon William's death in 1888 Sarah and his sons continued to live at 187 Crawford Street, backing onto present day Trinity Bellwoods Park - though at the time it was Trinity College.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Leo and Basil continued to live at 187 Crawford Street until their deaths in 1955 and 1957 respectively. Interestingly Basil lived in Paris in the early 1930s. Was he there as representing the Massey Harris Company in France? The brothers never married and no relatives other than their parents and each other are mentioned in their obituaries.</span><br />
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• Eliza J (1850- ?) married Theophilus COSTELLO (1851-1921). She is listed with the family in the 1861 census in Etobicoke and the 1871 census in Toronto. She married Theophilus COSTELLO, a hotelkeeper, son of Michael and Mary COSTELLO in Toronto on April 24, 1876. They had a number of children in Toronto and Hamilton before moving to Chicago in 1890. The known children were: Anna Bertha (b. 1877); Michael (b. 1878); Mary (Mae) (b. 1880) and Louis (b. 1883). The family seems to have remained in Chicago. I have found Louis Costello with his wife Catherine and children in the 1940 US census. <br />
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They then moved to <a href="http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=claremont,+ontario&ll=43.917309,-79.158618&spn=0.01184,0.01929&hnear=Claremont,+Pickering,+Durham+Regional+Municipality,+Ontario&gl=ca&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=43.91722,-79.158574&panoid=7PUanm66-xvxyGLxlP4WTA&cbp=12,5.92,,1,-1.5" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Lot 28, Concession 6</span></a>, Pickering Township, Ontario County (present day 3815 Sideline 28, Pickering). James paid to have a drawing of his farm included in the <i>Illustrated Atlas of Ontario County,</i> published in 1877.</span><br />
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• Mary A.<br />
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Both Rachel and Alice were interviewed for the July 6, 1935 edition of the <i>Toronto Star</i>. The article entitled <i>Twin Sisters Active at 85 - Close Together All Lives,</i> indicated that they believed they were the oldest Ontario born twin girls. The article contains an interesting story of how their parents met:<br />
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Michael Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15408473849110286556noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030621436977019894.post-88037091793749290252009-03-02T12:55:00.019-05:002019-04-28T11:24:13.841-04:00The Harrisons were Catholic Recusants in England<span style="font-size: 130%;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Harrison family were Catholic Recusants which meant that they resisted conversion to the Church of England when it was created by Henry VIII in 1534. They recused themselves from participating in the new Church of England and so were called "recusants". The area of North Yorkshire where they lived was well known for Catholic recusancy and many families were persecuted for continuing to practice the Catholic faith. However it was not because of this that they left and emigrated to Canada. Catholics were able to worship openly from 1790, and the <i>Catholic Relief Act</i> of 1829 repealed the last restrictions. A <a href="http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&source=hp&q=North+Burton+Hall,+Hunmanby+Rd,+Burton+Fleming,+Driffield,+Yorkshire+YO25+3PT,+United+Kingdom&ie=UTF8&cd=2&geocode=FfMOOgMdv8f6_w&split=0&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=16.71875,56.536561&hq=&hnear=North+Burton+Hall,+Hunmanby+Rd,+Burton+Fleming,+Driffield,+Yorkshire+YO25+3PT,+United+Kingdom&ll=54.436905,-0.761136&spn=0.004293,0.013604&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=54.436994,-0.761089&panoid=8BPwAcf9iU_LD4nW0o-UJA&cbp=12,238.71,,0,5" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Catholic Chapel</span></a> was built in Egton Bridge in 1798. So it was not religious persecution that drove the Harrisons to Canada, they emigrated for economic reasons. Looking for a better life for their children in Canada. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Roman Catholic Chapel, Egton Bridge, North Yorkshire, built 1798. Now St. Hedda's Roman Catholic School</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For further information on Catholic recusancy in this area of North Yorkshire and the many families that remained Catholic have a look at Leslie O'Connor's manuscript </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/kitchingancestry/home/hearts-of-oak" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;"><i>Hearts of Oak</i>.</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> Mr. O'Connor researched and wrote the manuscript in the 1950s and 1960s. It was an incredible amount of research that he undertook before the internet made this research much easier. There is a chapter on the Harrison family entitled the </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/kitchingancestry/home/hearts-of-oak/contents/families/harrison" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">Harrison Saga</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">.</span></span>Michael Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15408473849110286556noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030621436977019894.post-34917801566351405252009-03-02T12:38:00.009-05:002014-09-11T08:21:47.048-04:00Family of Margaret Harrison (1814-1891) and George Jackson (1811-1874)<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Margaret (1814-1891) was born on August 18, 1814 and baptised at the Roman Catholic Chapel at Egton Bridge on August 19, 1814. Sponsors were William Hutchinson, Mary Hutchinson's brother and Agnes Readman (nee White), the wife of William Harrison's cousin John Readman, son of John Readman and Sarah Dowson. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">She married George JACKSON on June 28, 1836 at St. James Cathedral (Church of England) Toronto. The timing of the marriage is interesting as it takes place shortly after the death of her father William Harrison on May 2, 1836. More significant is that it was at the Anglican Church in Toronto and not in the Catholic Church. Did they elope? It is difficult to say but the circumstances certainly suggest that. Even though they were married, there must have been pressure in the family for there to be a Catholic wedding. There must have been considerable discussion on this as they were not married in the Catholic Church until January 1837 suggesting that there was resistance on the part of George Jackson. Once the decision was made they were not married in Margaret's home parish at St. Patrick's in Wildfield but in Toronto at St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church which no doubt involved discussions between the family, the local parish priest at St. Patrick's and officials at Toronto's main Catholic Church. The records for St. Paul's indicate that the marriage was "rehabilitated" there on January 10, 1837. It does not appear as if any members of the Harrison or Jackson family went to witness the event as the witnesses were Michael Lavell (who must have worked at the church as he was a frequent witness) and Bridget Lunny. However, it is noteworthy that the entire family - including George - remained Catholic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The family appear in the 1852 Canadian census in Toronto Gore Township living in a log house. A Thomas Jackson, aged 88 (at next birthday) (b.c. 1764/1765) is living with them which suggests he is George's father though this is uncertain given his age. All of the family is listed as Catholic with the exception of Thomas Jackson who is listed as a member of the Church of England. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The family again appears in the 1861 Canadian census in Toronto Gore Township and all are listed as Catholic. Thomas Jackson, however does not appear with them and so he must have died sometime after 1852 though I have not been able to find a record of his burial.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">George Jackson had a large farm in Toronto Gore Township just off The Gore Road at Castlemore. George had 150 acres on the south side of the Castlemore Sideroad on Lot 10, Concession 9 and a further 50 acres on the north side of the Castlemore Sideroad on Lot 11, Concession 9. </span><span style="font-size: large;">George Jackson was well known for the quality of his sheep wool and won a number of prizes at the agricultural fairs in Toronto.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Perkins Bull suggests that George Jackson immigrated to the US in circa 1866. However, the immigration of the family to the United States can be dated by a letter from William Hewgill. Written to his son William, and dated January 5, 1871, William Hewgill wrote that "George Jackson got Daniel to sell him 2 farms each 100 Acres, when the day came very few came to the Sale and he never got One bid. Jackson wants to sell out and go to the States." This is a rather awkward </span><span style="font-size: large;">sentence</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> but it appears that there were no bids at the auction of the property so George Jackson sold the farms to Daniel Hewgill. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">George and Margaret then left Canada and immigrated to the United States settling on a farm near Troy, Missouri, north west of St. Louis. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Mysteriously George and Margaret and most of their family do not appear in the 1871 Canadian census. Perhaps they were in the process of moving, or searching for a new farm in the US, when the census taker arrived in April 1871? The noted exception to this was his son Thomas Jackson who appears in the 1871 census in Toronto Gore Township, Peel County with his family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Searching the 1870 US census in Missouri I did find a George and Mary Jackson in Knot Noster, Washington Township, Johnson County. Both are listed at 53 years of age. Both were born in England. This is at the opposite (west) end of the state where we know they lived. Could it be them? I note that this location is not mentioned in Margaret Jackson's obituary (below). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Most of George and Margaret's family would immigrate to Missouri within a year or two, including Thomas who indicated that he came in 1872 in a later US census. However their daughter Anne, who was married to Philip Eagan in 1866, and her sister Margaret who married Thomas Eagan in 1868 stayed in Canada with their families.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">George Jackson died on October 5, 1874 and is buried in the Roman Catholic <a href="https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Sacred+Heart+Cemetery/@38.9734584,-90.9747184,214m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xb14e7526d2dd2479" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Sacred Heart Cemetery</span></a>, Troy, Missouri. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Margaret Jackson (nee Harrison) died on November 9, 1891 and was buried next to her husband at Sacred Heart Cemetery in Troy, Missouri. Margaret's obituary in the November 13, 1871 edition of <i>The Troy Free Press</i> reads as follows:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><i>JACKSON - At the home of her son-in-law Joseph Schaefer, near Millwood, Nov. 9, 1891, after a long illness of heart disease, Mrs. Margaret Jackson, in the 78th year of her age. Deceased was born in Yorkshire, England, in June 1814, and came to Canada with her father's family when about 14 years old, settling west of Toronto. Here she was married when 18, to George Jackson, to whom she bore ten children, eight of whom are living, as follows: Two daughters in Canada, one in a convent in New Mexico and one, Mrs. Schafer, in this county; four sons, Wm., T.J., Geo. J and John, all living a few miles south of Troy. About 20 years ago, Mr. and Mrs. Jackson came to Missouri from Canada, locating first on the Jones place, near Wright City; afterwards they rented the Sam Bird place and, while living there, the husband died. In 1874, Mrs. Jackson bought the old Sydnor place, which was her home at the time of her death. She was a member of the Catholic church for many years prior to her demise. On Tuesday morning after services by Father Lemkes at the Catholic church in this city, her remains were laid to rest in the cemetery just south of town. The family have our sympathy in their bereavement.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">George Jackson and Margaret Harrison had the following children:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anne (1837-?) Interestingly Ann was baptized at St. Paul's Roman Catholic Church, Toronto on August 30, 1837 and not at St. Patrick's in Wildfield. Anne obviously died later as they had another daughter Anne in 1843. She is most likely buried at St. Patrick's Wildfield but the records for the cemetery are spotty at best.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">William (1841-1901) – Was baptized at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Wildfield on February 24, 1841 aged 2 weeks. William never married. He died in Troy, Missouri, USA in 1901.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anne (1843-1923) - Was baptized at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Wildfield on February 12, 1843, aged 2 weeks. She married Philip EAGAN (1808-1878) in 1866. They had the following c</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">hildren:</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Mary Margaret Teresa (1867-1939) m. John MCDONAGH in 1885;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">William Kearn (1868-1902) m. Heinna Jane MURPHY on June 19, 1894;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">George Augustus (1871-1932) m. Hannah DOHERTY on June 22, 1904 – 3 children;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Francis J. (1873-1909) – never married. He died in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA but was buried at St. Patrick’s Cemetery in Toronto Gore Township, Peel County;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas Philip (1875-1939) m. Madeleine NOONAN on January 27, 1915 at St. Vincent Roman Catholic Church, Bathurst Township – 7 children; and, </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Alice Amanda (1878-1951) - ?</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas (1845-1915) - Was baptized at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Wildfield on May 11, 1845, aged 6 weeks. He married 1. Janet Mary MCVEAN on October 16, 1869 at St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, Toronto Gore Township, Peel County. He indicated in the 1900 US census that he immigrated to the US in 1873. They had the following c</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">hildren:</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Janet Mary (1870-1893) married Robert WILKINSON on December 23, 1890;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Margaret Ellen (1872-?) married Charles ANDERSON;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">George Archibald (1873-1940) married Cora SLEET;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Alice Maude (1875-1948) married William Edward VAN SICKLE on July 31, 1894;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Mary Vida (1877-1907) married Fred MEYER;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"> Thomas Harrison (1880-1956) married Anna MEYER on October 17, 1926 and married Mary Catherine COSGROVE;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">John Gordon (1880-1892); and</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Lulu M. (189?- 1938) married C.A. (Bud) SMITH.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Janet MCVEAN Thomas' first wife died on August 24, 1893.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Thomas married his second wife Sabie Jane REYNOLDS on September 14, 1894 in Moscow Mills, Missouri, USA. They had the following children:</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Joseph Matthew (1898-1975) married Genevieve BOWLES;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Mary Lu (1900-1944) married Joseph O'HANLON</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Reubin Leo (1909-1948); and,</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Paul Francis (1908-1908) - lived one day.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Margaret (1847-1912) - Was baptized on March 14, 1847 at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Wildfield, aged 6 weeks. She married Thomas EAGAN on February 24, 1868 at St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, Toronto Gore Township, Peel County – they lived in Tottenham, Simcoe County. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Children:</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Margaret (1871-1945) m. John DEACON in 1893 – 9 children;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nicholas (1873-1963) m. Catherine MCKENNA in 1883 – one adopted child;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mary (1875-1954) – never married;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anne (1877-1882) – died of diphtheria;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Catherine (1880-1956) m. James RONAN in Adjala Township, Simcoe County in 1909 – 5 children;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Elizabeth Vida (1882-1969) – entered convent in 1908 – Sister Mary Vida;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thomas (1885-1976) m. Margaret Teresa WALSH at St. James Roman Catholic Church in Colgan? – 7 children;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">James (1887-1973) m. Josephine O’CONNEL in 1924 – no children; and, </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Joseph (1889-1942) – never married</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mary Elizabeth (1849-1923) – Was baptized July 8, 1849 at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Wildfield, aged 3 weeks old. Mary entered Loretto Convent Nerinx, Kentucky, USA on August 15, 1873</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">George (1852-1852) - Was baptized April 13, 1852 at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Wildfield, aged 3 months. George died shortly thereafter and is buried St. Patrick's Cemetery, Wildfield, Toronto Gore Township, Peel County</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">George (1853-1930) - Was baptized June 26, 1853 at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Wildfield, aged 6 weeks. George married Mary MURPHY (1857-1929). George indicated in the 1900 US census that he immigrated to the US in 1874. They had the following children:</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Maria Anglea (1889-1959) married William Patrick MCHUGH on February 22, 1916; and,</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Alphonsus Legori (1891-1974) married Leona RUFFCORN on June 16, 1915.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Alice (1855-1917) - Was baptized June 4, 1855 at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Wildfield, aged 1 month. Alice married Joe SHAEFFER – 1 child</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">John Harrison (1859-1924) m. Ella Martha MURPHY (1867-1938) on November 23, 1887 in Troy, Missouri, USA. John indicated in the 1900 US census the he immigrated to the US in 1871. They had the following children:</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mary Elizabeth (1889-1949) married Michael Nicholas MCKINNEY;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ida Cecelia (1891-1918) married Edward George RUPP;</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Guy Victor (1893-1925) married Elsie Agnes Taylor (1899-1937);</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">John Bernard (1895-1958) - not married;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Charlie Claude (1897-1918) - killed in WWI in France; </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">James Francis (1899-1964);</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Ella Viola (1901-?); and,</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Mildred Margaret (1907-?) married to Carl SCHALLER on November 23, 1935.</span></li>
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Michael Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15408473849110286556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030621436977019894.post-27010177786074049532009-02-27T12:12:00.037-05:002016-02-08T11:09:33.996-05:00The Family of William Harrison (1812-1849) and Mary O'Connor (1820-1904)<span style="font-size: large;">William HARRISON (1812-1849)<br />
m. Mary O’CONNOR (1820-1904) – on April 19, 1837 at St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, Wildfield, Toronto Gore Township, Peel County<br />
Upon his death on March 11 1849, William's estate was valued at £1005, 10s with total debts of £181 . The majority of this was in land. The 100 acres on Lot 8, Concession 9, Toronto Gore Township where the Harrisons first settled in 1831 was valued at £600. Mary O'CONNOR, William HARRISON's widow married Edward GALVIN at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Wildfield, Peel County, Canada on January 27, 1864. On February 1, 1864 Edward and his wife Mary signed an indenture where she releases her 1/3 dower interest in all property to her son William for $1. Edward seems to have disappeared sometime later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">• William (1838-1920) m. Minnie DEADY at St. Mary’s Church, Simcoe County on November 28, 1888 – they had one child, a daughter named Frankie in 1890. She married James DERRICK. William attended St. Michael's College, affiliated with the University of Toronto, in the early 1860s. According to his obituary, published in the <i>Brampton Conservator</i> on May 27, 1920, William passed away suddenly on May 19th of heart disease. He was engaged in farming at Derry West for a number of years and then operated the <a href="http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Brampton,+Ontario&sll=43.685271,-79.759924&sspn=0.171804,0.307961&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Brampton,+Peel+Regional+Municipality,+Ontario&ll=43.68658,-79.764905&spn=0,0.004812&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=43.686461,-79.764808&panoid=sQT5aSkGMWU0Vy4nVzjESA&cbp=12,258.58,,0,-4.03" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Arlington Hotel</span></a> in Brampton from about 1895. The hotel was located on the corner of Railroad and Elizabeth Streets directly across from the Grand Truck Railway station. He was buried in St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Cemetery in Brampton.<br />
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• Bridget (1840-1856), buried St. Patrick’s Cemetery – never married. Her obituary in the <span style="font-style: italic;">Toronto Mirror </span>says that she died "<i>after a lingering illness</i>". "<i>Miss Harrison was a native of the Gore of Toronto, and from her sweet charitable, and pious disposition, will be long and deeply mourned by her friends and acquaintances</i>".</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">• Francis H. (1842-1925) m. Mary Ada CREED, April 1, 1876, Evanston, Wyoming USA. Francis attended St. Michael's College in the 1860s and would become a medical doctor, after furthering his education at Bellevue Medical College in New York City, and then at Yale University - including a stint in the US Army as a Medical Cadet during the Civil War (see separate entry).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">• <span style="font-family: inherit;">John (1845-1927) farmed on Lot 8, Concession 10, Toronto Gore Township until 1887 when he sold it to George Robinson and retired to live in a <a href="http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=claireville,+Ontario&sll=43.747425,-79.634892&sspn=0.043155,0.07699&g=claireville,+Ontario&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Claireville,+Toronto+Division,+Ontario&ll=43.759162,-79.627104&spn=0,0.05476&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=43.753036,-79.641471&panoid=-6EDdtz1WDf6VoU91almqA&cbp=12,74.45,,1,2.88" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">large farmhouse</span></a> in Vaughan Township, York County just north of Claireville. The house still exists and is located on the east side of Highway 50 just north of Highway 407.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> It was then, late in life, that he married Margaret LENNON on January 9, 1901 at St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, Toronto Gore Township, Peel County. John and Margaret had apparently already had one child, a daughter named Gertrude, mysteriously born on March 19, 1894, according to census information. There does not appear to be a birth registration nor a baptismal entry in St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Wildfield? Gertrude would later marry John DEANE on August 23, 1922. John DEANE was a recent emigrant to Canada only arriving in Quebec in November 1920. They had four known children – John, James, William and Helen. Originally the Deane family live</span>d in Woodbridge but later they moved to the City of Toronto. John died on May 15, 1936 and is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, </span><span style="font-size: large;">Toronto.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">• Nicholas (1847-1933) m. Mary WILEY on January 24, 1882 at St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, Toronto Gore Township, Peel County. </span><br />
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Nicholas Harrison Farm - Lot 8, Concession 10, Toronto Gore Township, Peel County </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nicholas farmed on Lot 8, Concession 10, Toronto Gore Township for a number of years. Upon his retirement he moved to a <a href="http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=wildfield,+brampton&sll=43.71479,-79.762459&sspn=0.082262,0.152607&gl=ca&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Wildfield,+Brampton,+Peel+Regional+Municipality,+Ontario&ll=43.819213,-79.726866&spn=0,359.993198&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=43.819293,-79.726965&panoid=7MysRsDY-sEQsIl7kBjUsg&cbp=12,190.95,,0,5" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">small cottage </span></a>on the west side of The Gore Road just south of Mayfield Road opposite St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church. According to his obituary in the March 31, 1933 edition of the <i>Bolton Enterprise</i>, Nicholas passed away at his home on March 27th. He was described as “<i>one who had been prominent in the public life of the county for well over half a century</i>”. He had served as the clerk of the Township of Toronto Gore for 50 years, as well as representing the township on the Board of Directors of the Peel Farmers Insurance Company, of which he was president from 1910-1912. He was also a school trustee for several years.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Nicholas and Mary had the following children:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Mary Maria (1882-1962) m. Charles O’HARA on April 26, 1904 at. St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church – had 4 children</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Anne Elizabeth (1884-1964). I think I found her boarding at the McRae home in Winnipeg in the 1911 census. She married George WIGGINS in Kenora, Ontario on October 12, 1911. According to George's obituary, he moved from Toronto to Winnipeg in 1909 to open the Success Business College. Since they both lived in Winnipeg I wonder if they eloped? Why leave Manitoba and get married in remote Kenora, Ontario? George listed his occupation as professor in college. Anne listed herself as a teacher. In 1914 George joined the G. R. Bradley and Co. They are in Winnipeg in the 1921 Canadian census. Anne's sister Mary (Minnie) is living with them as a teacher along with her nephew Vernon Tice. George retired from business In 1942. He died on May 4, 1947. Annie continued to live in Winnipeg until her death on September 12, 1964. They are both buried in <a href="http://www.winnipeg.ca/ppd/cemeteries/Brookside/BrooksideWI_WI.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Brookside Cemetery</span></a>. They had no children.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">William John (1885-1965) William lived on the family farm until about 1903 when he went out west and ended up in the US travelling around to various parts of it including Los Angeles. He came back to Canada, settling in Saskatchewan about 1914. His draft papers from March 1918 have him as single and living in Amulet, Saskatchewan. In 1919 he was in Colville, Washington and came down with influenza. He was nursed back to health in hospital by Della Bernice Hammond. Della was the daughter of Ben Hammond of North Dakota. They had two children William Maurice Harrison in 1921 and Rosalie Edith Harrison in 1924. They moved to the US in November 1924 to settle in Yuma County, Arizona where Della's father had moved. They remained there and can be found in the 1930 and 1940 US Census. Descendants continue to live in Yuma today.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Francis Ewart (1887- September 1961) – Francis remained on the family farm and never married.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Clara Isabel (1889-1924) married Charles TICE in Toronto in 1906. They moved to the United States and were living in Hamilton, Indiana in the 1910 US Census. In 1914 they immigrated to Saskatchewan where Charles took advantage of the land available as a Homesteader. By this time they had three children - all boys: Clifford (b. 1909), Claude (b. 1911) and Vernon (b. 1915). Charles <a href="https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/first-world-war-1914-1918-cef/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=277425" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">enlisted</span></a> in the Canadian Army in 1915 and served overseas in the First Pioneer Battalion, Canadian Engineers. The family was listed in the 1916 Saskatchewan census - Charles was noted to be overseas. Charles married for a second time in England to Rose Whittaker in Ecclesall Bierlow, Yorkshire West Riding, England on May 6, 1917. They had one daughter Rose in England in 1918. In 1921 two of the sons (Clifford and Claude) were living with their grandparents Nicholas and Mary Harrison in Toronto Gore Township, Ontario and the other son (Vernon) was living with his aunt Anne Wiggins (nee Harrison) in Winnipeg. What then happened to Clara Harrison is unclear, she was still alive though I cannot find her in the 1920 US Census or 1921 Canadian Census. What is known is that she died in Toronto on December 15, 1924 and is buried at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Wildfield, Peel County. Charles Tice and Rose did come to US in about 1921 but lived first in Pennsylvania then in Ohio, then in the city of Madison, Indiana before finally settling in Pendleton Indiana (Madison County). That is where they appear in the 1940 US census. He died there in 1945. Rose died in Indianapolis (Marion County) in 1978. It does not appear that the children from his marriage to Clara Isabel Harrison ever lived with him again. Vernon Tice continued to live with his aunt and uncle in Winnipeg. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Artillery in 1940 and took part in D Day operations in France on June 6, 1944. Captain Vernon Tice was killed on June 9, 1944 and is <a href="http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2060378?Vernon%20Everett%20Tice" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">buried</span></a> in the Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery in Calvados, France. His obituary mentions that he was married and his wife's name was Eileen Emily (maiden name unknown) who was living at 179 Renfrew Street in Winnipeg. His uncle George Wiggins is also mentioned in the obituary. Clifford and Claude appear to have remained in Ontario. However Clifford later immigrated to the United States. He died in Orange County, California on October 9, 1990. I have not been able to determine what became of Claude Tice. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Hilda Maria (1891-1980) m. Dr. TIGHE on April 7, 1913. They had 4 known children. Yvonne b. 1915, Frank 1918-1918, Frank b. 1919 and John 1924-1925. They originally lived in Bolton, Ontario but had moved to </span><span style="font-size: large;">Bomanville, Ontario by 1921. Frank Harrison Tighe born in 1918 eventually immigrated to the United States were he married Ann Stevens-Butz in San Bernandino, California on March 24, 1961. Frank died in San Bernandino, California on May 15, 1995.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Alice Louise (1893-1986) m. Martin BYRNE on September 23, 1914. Alice died in 1986.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Edith Alexandra (1897-1917). She was a teacher but died unmarried in 1917.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Mary (Minnie) Margaret (1898-1983) Mary was a teacher teaching at schools near Brampton. In the 1916 census she is living with her sister Anne Elizabeth Wiggins (nee Harrison) in Winnipeg and is listed as "Mary" where she continued to work as a school teacher. She is also listed as living in Winnipeg in both her mother's obituary from 1928 and her father's obituary in 1933. Mary lived in Winnipeg until at least 1935. While on a long bus trip to visit her brother in Yuma Arizona she met US Marine James R. Rutledge. It appears to have been love at first sight as she later married James R. Rutledge of the United States Marine Corps who was born in Arkansas in 1904. As a Marine he had many exotic postings. He was stationed in Pearl Harbour, Hawaii in 1930 and at the US Legation in <a href="http://chinamarine.org/Peking.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Peking</span></a> in 1935. In the 1940 US census they were living on a <a href="https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Quantico,+VA+22134/@38.522086,-77.2905431,498m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x89b6fbf4c992eeb1:0x4740158d9645f6ea" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">US Marine Corps base</span></a> in Virginia. I also believe that he fought in WWII but have no details on his involvement in the war. After the war they appear to have settled in San Diego, California. James died in San Diego on December 26, 1968. Later in life Mary moved to Yuma, Arizona, no doubt to be closer to her brother's family and died there in April 1983.</span></li>
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Michael Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15408473849110286556noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030621436977019894.post-17578722502984007142009-02-20T15:41:00.003-05:002013-11-25T11:09:28.913-05:00Journey of the "King William" to Canada in 1831<span style="font-size: 130%;">The following letter was written by Hannah Young to Mr. Robert Hodghson (though it is addressed to Ann), Ellerby nigh Whitby, Yorkshire England from Toronto Township, (present day City of Mississauga west of Toronto) in January 1832 describing their voyage on board the <em>King William</em> from Whitby to Quebec in April 1831. The letter contains much more information but I have edited it down to the travel details. This is the ship that the Harrison family travelled to Quebec on.<br />
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<em>Dear Ann<br />
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I take this opportunity of writing these few lines to you and i hope they will find you all in good health as it leaves us all at present thank God for it dear friend it is now above 8 months since we parted very possible never to meet again in this world you will remember when i left you in Stradfords gallery i went on in haste to let my Aunt know that you and your Cousin James and Aunt Ann was there and i knew that neither my Uncle nor William was on board i thought she might come on shore and see you all for the last time but when i found her she had just parted with your Aunt Sarah and her heart was full of trouble seeing them left her expecting to find you again and to bid you a final farewell but when i went to the door it was locked and you were all gone but there being a road through the celler i got to the street but were you was gone i never could learn i went into every room but could not find neither friend nor relation nor any that i knew this being done i made when i got below the plank was drawn the ship was moved all was ordered below my Uncle come on board at the bridge as soon as the sailors would allow us we came upon deck and took the last survey i was not more than an hour before i was very sick my Aunt was not sick untill the next morning she was the better saillor but for the first three weeks we were both very sick and i had a violent cough i thought i should have died my Uncle and William was never sick untill the 14 and 15 when the wind blue from the North a perfect gale but after that they had good health all the way over every Sunday we had a prayer meeting on deck morning and afternoon and every evening on the week day below for there was many like myself that was not able to go on deck to the prayer meeting on the 20 it was a fine day we entered the firth and we had scotland on the left hand and the Orkney island on the right at scotland we could clearly discern the buildings the men ploughing the cattle grazing in large herds by the sea side my Aunt was upon deck most part of the day at night we left the North sea and entered the Western Ocean and bade adieu to the british island 21 of may this morning the wind was contrary which was a great disappointment as we intended to see quebeck in the course of the day at 2 oclock P M the ship came to anchor opposite the goose island a narrow piece of land laying the middle of the river a boat was lowered down Mr. Carr Mr. Wilson my Uncle and two or three more rowed of to it the canadiens were busy sowing their wheat in the evening they returned they brought with them a quantity of milk some neat straw hats and a goose William killed it and it was roasted on sunday the 23 </em>[actually May 22nd] <em>we reached quebeck on the 24 </em>[the <i>King William</i><em> </em>actually arrived on May 22nd according to the <em>Quebec Mercury</em>]<em> we left king William and went on board of a steam packet and reached Montreal on the 27 </em>[this date - and others in the letter- are suspect given the other known incorrect dates in the letter. These mostly likely resulted from the fact that Hannah did not write her letter until January 1832 - almost a full year after the journey]<em>.......your affectionate friend Hannah Young....</em><br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">The Young Family's return address on the envelope is: William Young, Inn Keeper in the Township of Toronto, Near the River Credit Dundas Street, York, Upper Canada, North America.<br />
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Amazingly, this letter has survived on both sides of the Atlantic !!<br />
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The original copy sent to England is now in the London School of Economics, British Library of Political and Economic Science, Letters of Emigrants to America, M627.<br />
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The other copy is in the Region of Peel Archives (Toronto Township was in the former Peel County). It is listed as Young Family Letter, dated January 8, 1832, Accession # 1984.058. </span>Michael Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15408473849110286556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030621436977019894.post-49689828014285866842009-02-20T15:40:00.005-05:002017-02-15T14:22:22.626-05:00Tombstone of William Harrison - died 1836<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUlRPAyQEm5oZSXcc6Hw1jF8CJm8VqeOuEuoNuWrIkIDKA90b7cCdl2AuwziakRXkXSaUS3OUJmFcW2ywXmGGu2ZpxIume6VWUzhaZro6_CQ5zZw-Pbhp8VaDNo1kGBDcNzW6kK1KAKh91/s1600-h/Tombstone+of+William+Harrison+1781-1836.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298249725829954418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUlRPAyQEm5oZSXcc6Hw1jF8CJm8VqeOuEuoNuWrIkIDKA90b7cCdl2AuwziakRXkXSaUS3OUJmFcW2ywXmGGu2ZpxIume6VWUzhaZro6_CQ5zZw-Pbhp8VaDNo1kGBDcNzW6kK1KAKh91/s320/Tombstone+of+William+Harrison+1781-1836.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 213px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the tombstone of William Harrison my great great great grandfather. He is buried in the cemetery at </span><a href="http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&cp=r92x5n8bpj0z&scene=28254032&lvl=2&sty=b" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> at present day The Gore Road and Mayfield Road in the City of Brampton. The age of 55 years on his tombstone suggests a birth year of 1780/1. </span>Michael Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15408473849110286556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030621436977019894.post-11060921749817142542009-02-20T15:39:00.015-05:002017-06-08T07:15:12.499-04:00Tombstone of Mary Hutchinson 1783-1856<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSIvt5kn_DJkrTOLhyphenhyphenKsQIBrNnWqh4fCqrldqkEwQ0AVCHAzcKUXQG-zUE2Li3sHf-lPyRseTREWpgKOFxA8N3aC1XmJ0eRjB0K9srbGUy_papKeBMcmbwphvQl1wGfAsO_mFLGzuYRKI5/s1600-h/Tombstone+of+Mary+Hutchinson+-+Harrison+1783-1856.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298250339366348050" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSIvt5kn_DJkrTOLhyphenhyphenKsQIBrNnWqh4fCqrldqkEwQ0AVCHAzcKUXQG-zUE2Li3sHf-lPyRseTREWpgKOFxA8N3aC1XmJ0eRjB0K9srbGUy_papKeBMcmbwphvQl1wGfAsO_mFLGzuYRKI5/s320/Tombstone+of+Mary+Hutchinson+-+Harrison+1783-1856.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; height: 218px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">This the tombstone of Mary Hutchinson, my great great great grandmother and wife of William Harrison (1773-1836). Four years after the death of her first husband she married Thomas Smyth on April 27, 1840. She is buried in the cemetery at St. Patrick's Church, Toronto Gore Township, Peel County (present day The Gore Road and Mayfield Road in the City of Brampton). This is one of the oldest Catholic cemeteries in the Toronto Region.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Mary's obituary appears in the August 22, 1856 edition of the <i>Toronto Mirror</i> and reads</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">: <i>Died - On Sunday the 17th inst., after a lingering illness, which she bore patiently and resignedly, Mrs. Smyth, wife of Mr. Thomas Smyth, Etobicoke, at the good old age of seventy-two years. Mrs. Smyth was one of our early pioneers in the duties of a Christian Mother, and having lived to see her children's children grow up around her, has now departed to the heavenly home of her ancestors in the Faith. May she rest in peace: may her soul find rest.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Thomas Smyth lived near Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland. his marriage to his first wife Mary Lubey, and the baptisms of their children took place at the Roman Catholic Church in Powerstown. Originally he was a farmer but later operated the Claireville Hotel in Claireville. Thomas donated land for the first Catholic School in Etobicoke Township, York County. It was located in Highfield and built in 1840. His son James C. Smyth married Mary Hutchinson's daughter Ann Harrison in St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Wildfield on July 20, 1841.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">According to William Perkins Bull's <em><a href="http://www.pinet.on.ca/peeldiglib/Bib.asp?PubID=30" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">From Macdonell to McGuigan: the History of the Growth of the Roman Catholic Church in Upper Canada</span></a></em>, Thomas Smyth and Mary Hutchinson were the only neighbours to come to the assistance of Colonel Baldwin and his wife at Clogeneagh Lodge in 1847 when typhus broke out at the makeshift hospital the Baldwins had created in their home to administer to the many sick immigrants fleeing the famine in Ireland. Both helped care for the sick and while Thomas helped Colonel Baldwin build the coffins for the many who died, Mary helped Mrs. Baldwin prepare the bodies for burial in the makeshift cemetery that remains undiscovered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">It sounds like Thomas Smyth was a very spiritual man for part of his obituary in <em>The Canadian Freeman</em> of June 16, 1870, reads:<br />
<em><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">In his death the helpless lost a friend, the orphan a father, and the dying, one of the truest benefactors; in fact as the priest who preaches the funeral oration said 'the old parish priest is now no more'; and many, we are sure, have since said the same in their hearts....The large attendance, at his funeral, of his neighbours, both Protestant and Catholic bears ample testimony on his sterling qualities as a neighbor (sic), a friend, and a Christian.</span></em></span></span></span></span>Michael Harrisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15408473849110286556noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8030621436977019894.post-5365590529177409462009-02-20T15:38:00.031-05:002018-10-24T12:06:10.665-04:00Family of George Harrison 1809-1855 and Mary (Faith) Linton<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">For many years there was no evidence of the exact relationship between George Harrison and William Harrison Sr. other than a mention in the Harrison family file in the Perkins Bull Collection that he was the brother of William Harrison Jr, son of William Harrison and Mary Hutchison. The information in the Perkins Bull Collection was obtained through research and interviews in the 1930s. However, recently (2017) I have discovered the Easter Communion Lists for the Roman Catholic Chapel in Egton Bridge, North Yorkshire and in the list for 1826 a son George is clearly listed in the household of William Harrison and Mary Hutchinson in Murkside, Egton township, North Yorkshire. Therefore despite the fact George is not mentioned in William Harrison's will of 1836 I believe that he is his son. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">George HARRISON (1809-1855) married Faith –later Mary- LINTON (bap June 17, 1804, Goathland, North Yorkshire, England - January 1884) on December 15, 1829, in Goathland (Parish of Pickering) (Church of England), North Yorkshire, England. Esther Linton, Faith's sister was the witnesses. Faith changed her name to Mary when she made her "profession of faith" and converted to Catholicism on June 17, 1837. Faith was the daugher of Thomas LINTON and Mary LOWNSBROUGH. Her brothers Brian and Moses also immigrated to Canada. Faith's brother Isaac married William Harrison's sister Hannah (Ann) at Egton in April 1829. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">George appears to have set up his own farm and household in 1835 when he began renting 50 acres (NW ¼) of Lot No 12 in the 10th Concession of the Township of Toronto Gore, Peel County from Patrick Bulger. He purchased these lands by private sale on October 29, 1839 as recorded in the Upper Canada Land Book 1839-1841. On September 5, 1844 he sold the property to John Murphy for £150.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the 1852 Census we find George and his family living on 79 acres of land on Lots 18 and 19, Concession 12, in the Township of King, York County. Living with him were his wife Mary and children Margaret, age 18. William age 16, Alice, age 14, John, age 12, Esther, age 10, George, age 8 and Ann Jane, age 6. The agricultural portion of the census indicates that of the 79 acres, 25 acres were under cultivation (15 with crops and 10 under pasture); with 54 acres still under forest cover. Of the 15 acres under crops 5 acres were planted with wheat, producing 100 bushels; 5 planted with peas producing 75 bushels; and 5 planted with oats producing 100 bushels. For livestock they had 2 milch cows, one calf, 5 sheep and 2 pigs. For produce they had 50 pounds of butter and 3 barrels of pork. George was renting this land as he is not listed as the owner in the land abstract books for this property.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thomas, George’s eldest son is living with the family of Mary Harrison (nee O’Connor) and her sons on Lot 8, Concession 9, Toronto Gore Township, Peel County.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After George’s death in 1855 his eldest son Thomas became the head of the family.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The 1861 Census finds them on Lot 32, 11th Concession in King Township, York County. Again they were renting as they do not appear on the land abstract for this property. Along with Thomas, age 31 was his mother Mary and his brothers and sisters Margaret age 25, William age 23, George, age 15, Esther, age 19 and Ann Jane, age 14. They are living in a log cabin. In addition there is Mark Linton visiting from Pickering. This would be Mark Linton (1833-1882) son of Moses Linton and Jane Robinson. Moses was the son of John Linton of Goathland. Most likely a brother of Thomas Linton, Faith's (Mary) father. As such Mark Linton would have been Mary's (Faith) first cousin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 1871 we find the family living in Etobicoke Township, York County. Mary, age 68 years, is living with her sons Thomas and William. Wilson Linton, possibly her brother and his family live nearby. Her daughter Ann Jane, married to Charles Wiesmore, is living next door.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 1881 we find the family living in Etobicoke Township, York County. Mary, age 81 years, is living with her sons Thomas, George and William. All three sons list their occupation as labourer.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">There is a death registration for a Mary Harrison of Etobicoke Township, York County, registered in January 1884 which is most likely the mother of Thomas, George and William. The registration contains little identifying information and was submitted by her physician as opposed to one of the children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 1891 Thomas is living with the family of George Robinson in Toronto Gore Township, Peel County where he is listed as a farm labourer. Not sure what happened to his brother William. His brother George married Elizabeth Middleton in 1884.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 1901 we find Thomas living with the Wiley Family on Lot 2, Concession 8, Toronto Gore Township, Peel County. Unfortunately he did not respond to the question of when he emigrated to Canada (or it was not recorded) in the census. The census indicates that he was employed for 10 months as a domestic at an annual salary of $129.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">George Harrison and Faith (Mary) Linton had the following children:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">• Thomas (1830 – May 9, 1907) b in North Yorkshire, England. A baptism of Thomas has not been found in either the Anglican or Roman Catholic records in England. According to his death registration, Thomas died on May 9, 1907, aged 77 years, of “old age”. At the time he was living on Humber Lot 15, Concession 9, Etobicoke Township, York County. The St. Patrick’s Death Register records him as living in Claireville and “very poor”. He was buried in St. Patrick’s Cemetery, Toronto Gore Township, Peel County in Wildfield on May 10, 1907.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">• Mary (1832-?) married James ? – Mary was the subject of the first family entry in Father Gordon's register from St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Wildfield, Peel County, when she was baptized on March 17, 1833 at the age of 5 months. The sponsors were Matthew Hutchinson and Mary Harrison. </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Faith Linton did not convert to Catholicism and change her name to Mary until 1837 so the Mary Harrison listed as the sponsor is most likely Mary Hutchinson, wife of William Harrison. </span>I lose track of Mary early and can only find one later entry for her in the St. Patrick's baptismal register when her son George b. 1849 was baptized in January 1850. Unfortunately the name of the father is written into the present binding of the book and not possible to read. Sponsors were George Harrison and Mary Harrison. This seems likely to be her parents. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">• Margaret (1835-?) She last appears in the 1861 census living with her mother and brothers. Is she the "Mary" Harrison, daughter of George and Mary Harrison who married Frederick Trane, son of John and Maria, b. New Orleans, USA (circa 1839) on July 19, 1861 in King Township as recorded in the County Marriage Register? They appear to have lived in King Township for some time after but "Mary" is referred to as Margaret on the census records. Perhaps this is correct and her name in the Marriage Register is wrong? </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">• William (1836-?) He last appears in the 1881 census living with his mother and brothers Thomas and George.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">• Alice (1838 - 1912) In 1857 she married Patrick Burns and had the following children: James (b. 1859), Nicolas (b. 1861), Mary (b. 1863), George (b. 1866), Patrick (b. 1869), John (b. 1870), Ellen (b. 1875), Martha (b. 1876), Thomas (b. 1879) and William (b. 1882). She died of senility in the Insane Asylum in Toronto in 1912.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">• John (1840-1866) In the 1861 census he is living in King Township on the farm of Patrick Burns his brother in law married to his sister Alice. In 1863 he was living in Albion and was married there by a Primitive Methodist Minister to Mary Frossel on August 8, 1863. He died in 1866 and was buried at St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Cemetery, Wildfield, Toronto Gore Township, Peel County. They had the following children:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">John George Harrison b 1865. He married Marjory Cunningham (Conaghan) at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church at Wildfield on November 20, 1890. They had three known children: Ann b. February 19, 1892; Regina Emily b. July 5, 1896 and George John b. October 3, 1897. All baptized at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Wildfield. John George Harrison died on December 24, 1897, aged 33 years. At the time he was living on Lot 17, Con 8 of Toronto Gore Township. It also appears that the births of none of the children were registered (or it was lost). I can't find anything about Regina Emily or George John after John's death in 1897. Ann however was married to William Frank Wideman in Toronto on February 9, 1909. His occupation was listed as a barber. They had two daughters - Margery in 1910 and Violet in 1916. Margery died in 1932 of tuberculosis but Violet married Herbert Bruce Snell and died in 2008.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Charles John Harrison was born on January 13, 1866 and baptized at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church on October 6, 1866. Other than his baptism I cannot find any other record for him.</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">• Esther (1842-1914) married James STUBBS (1840-1931), son of James and Ann Stubbs on March 5, 1863 according to the County Marriage Register</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">They had the following children:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">o Albert m. Ida BOOTH – 7 children – Albert, Mabel, Frank, Ida, Sarah, William and Ethel</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">o John W. (May 23, 1874 - July 20, 1931) m. Elizabeth GRAHAM</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">o Joseph W. m. Alice BIRCH – 8 children – Fred, Mamie, Lily, Gilbert, Donald, John, Grant</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">o Edward – went to Orillia</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">o Sam m. Maud HEELS – 2 children – Margaret and Lloyd</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">o James T. m. Annie Adeline NORRIS (1869-1931) – no children</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">o William (1868- Dec 20, 1917) m. Alvia TAYLOR (d. 1927) – 1 daughter in Alberta</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">o Sarah (Dec 5, 1865 - Oct 9, 1928) m. Albert J. FULLER</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">o Minnie m. Thomas PHILLIPS</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">o Annie m. Alfred EWART</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">o Fred m. Lorne GROZELLE – 1 son - Howard</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">• George (1845-1897) married Ann Elizabeth MIDDLETON, daughter of John MIDDLETON of Pickering. The marriage took place September 18, 1884 at Bolton, Ontario and is recorded in the Palgrave Pastoral Charge (Methodist) marriage register. The groom was living in Claireville. The witnesses were Henry PHILLIPS of Columbia and Harriet WIESMORE of Woodbridge (this would be George's niece most likely) . The register indicates that George's father was John but all other indicators show that he was in fact the son of George. George and Elizabeth immigrated to Bay City, Michigan, USA in 1885. George died there on December 30, 1897. Elizabeth Middleton remarried Frank Westbrook on November 24, 1904 in Traverse City, Leelanau, Michigan. Frank Westbrook was the son of N. Westbrook and Lucy Freeman. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> They lived in Bay City, Michigan with her children.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">They had the following children:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">John born in 1885.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Marie (b. 1893) was first married to John MARRY on July 8, 1907. She divorced him and remarried Peter DUGAY on September 25, 1919 in Bay City, Michigan and died in Bay City, Michigan, USA. In the 1920 US census they are living in Bay City, Michigan. His brother-in-law John Middleton, Frank Westbrook step-father-in-law and Elizabeth Westbook (Middleton) mother-in-law are all living with them. Elizabeth Middleton indicated that she emigrated to the US in 1885. Elizabeth would later divorce him as well.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Ethel married Delbert LEWIS in Essexville, Michigan on March 17, 1909.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Myrtle born in Bay City Michigan in circa 1893. She was married to Norman STANLEY on November 19, 1911 in Bay City, Michigan. He murdered her in 1912 and committed suicide.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">George born in 1901. </span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">• Ann Jane (1847-?) married Charles WIESMORE (1844 - September 24, 1844 - Oct 21, 1899) on August 23, 1869. Charles was born in 1844 in New York. Charles enlisted as a Private on 6 August 1862 at the age of 18 in Company E, 122nd Infantry Regiment New York on August 6, 1862. He deserted on July 26, 1864 while in Washington DC. He moved to Canada and settled in Clairville, Etobicoke Township, York County. On August 23, 1869 he married Ann Jane Harrison. In the 1871 census they are living in Clairville next door to Ann Jane's mother and brothers. Charles' occupation is listed as Painter. In 1881 they are living in Vaughan Township, York County with 4 children (Harriett Ann, James Henry, Carrie May and Thomas Ambrose). Interestingly the 1881 census indicates that Charles was born "at sea". In 1888 they moved to the United States and lived in Buffalo. They had the following children: Harriet Ann (1870-?), James Henry (1873-1950), Carrie Mae (1876-1900), Thomas Ambrose (1880-1938), Charles H (1883-1900) and Nicholas Wilfred (1885-1948). Charles died on October 21, 1899 in Buffalo. Ann Jane remained in Buffalo and died sometime after 1920. </span><br />
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