{"id":677,"date":"2022-08-30T10:59:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T09:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/?page_id=677"},"modified":"2023-06-07T15:37:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T14:37:21","slug":"memorials","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/memorials\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorials around the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul id=\"page-links\">\n<li><a href=\"#Alderson\">The Alderson Family<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Calvert\">George Calvert<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Forster\">The Forster Family<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Lamb\">Eliza Lamb<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Lodge\">Bernard Grime Lodge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#OLodge\">The Lodge Family<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#JMetcalfe\">John Metcalfe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#WMetcalfe\">Wood Metcalfe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#JPratt\">John and Jane Pratt<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Pratt\">The Pratt Brothers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Smith\">The Smith, Thornton, Lightfoot and Lindsey Families<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Storey\">John and Mary Kilburn Storey<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Thompson\">John and Margaret Thompson<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Whaley\">Christopher Whaley<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#Wilson\">John Leonard Wilson<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#AWood\">Anthony Wood and family<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#JWood\">John Rider Wood and Ann Wood<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"AWood\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Anthony Wood and family<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-686 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Picture4-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Picture4-300x189.jpg 300w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Picture4-1024x647.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Picture4-768x485.jpg 768w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Picture4.jpg 1379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Anthony&#8217;s slab memorial on the floor close to the South Door is easy to miss, but lies close to that of his cousin, John Rider Wood\u2019s, wall memorial.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Anthony was the son of Thomas Wood, and grandson of Jeoffrey Wood and Margaret Beazon.\u00a0 He was baptised here in St Oswald\u2019s and as an adult became a spirit merchant.\u00a0 He lived in Askrigg.\u00a0 His eldest sister Margaret (1763-1793) married John Lodge (see their memorial elsewhere in the church); His elder brother, Jeffrey, named, after his grandfather, was a hosier in Askrigg and was the executor of Antony\u2019s will, along with his brother-in-law Clement Scarr of Bainbridge.\u00a0 His other sister, Elizabeth (1763-) had married Richard Thistlethwaite of Bear Park near Aysgarth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Anthony married Anne Scarr in Askrigg on 3 July 1796.\u00a0 Anne was the daughter of John Scarr and Sarah (Lambert) of Bainbridge.\u00a0 The marriage was very happy, and the couple had two daughters in quick succession \u2013 Margaret in 1797 and Sarah in 1798.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Anthony died aged just 35 in 1805 leaving his money and property in the care of his executors to support \u2018his dear wife\u2019 and daughters.\u00a0 Sadly, both Anne and the children died within two years of one another.\u00a0 Margaret died on 22<sup>nd<\/sup> July 1822, and wife Ann died on 19<sup>th<\/sup> April 1824 (not 1822 as it says on the memorial slab) with Sarah dying 7 weeks later.\u00a0 All three are buried in the churchyard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#page-links\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"Lodge\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Bernard<\/strong><strong> Grime Lodge<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-755 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/grimelodge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/grimelodge.jpg 207w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/grimelodge-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bernard Grime Lodge was the only child of solicitor John James Grime Lodge and his wife Sarah Ann Preston.\u00a0 John was born in Hardraw, the eldest son of Thomas Lodge, who was at the time of John\u2019s birth, the Vicar of St Margaret\u2019s in Hawes.\u00a0 Sarah was the youngest child of John Preston and Elizabeth (Graham), who farmed in and around Askrigg.\u00a0 The couple married in Blackburn on 23 April 1893 and Bernard was born the following year on 23 March 1894.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bernard was just 3 when his mother died, and he and his father went to live with Anne and William Balderstone at Yorebridge.\u00a0 Anne was John\u2019s older sister, and she was married to schoolmaster William Balderstone.\u00a0 He attended the Yorebridge Grammar School and then Giggleswick School before beginning a career in banking with Barclays Bank.\u00a0 He was also related to the Reverend Christopher Whaley (vicar at Askrigg), who was married to his aunt Agnes. \u00a0\u00a0In 1914 he enlisted in the 19<sup>th<\/sup> Universities and Public Schools Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers aged 20.\u00a0 He embarked for France with the British Expeditionary Force and returned to England later to join an Officers Cadet Force.\u00a0 He obtained a commission in August 1916.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He returned to France, attached to the 10<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry and he was the Battalion Bombing and Intelligence Officer.\u00a0 Bernard died at Inverness Copse on 24 October 2017, during the battle of Ypres.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-756 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Bernard-Grime-Lodge.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Bernard-Grime-Lodge.jpg 682w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Bernard-Grime-Lodge-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">His commanding officer wrote to Bernard\u2019s father:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>\u2018It is with the deepest sympathy that I write to tell you of the death in action of your charming boy, who was my intelligence officer.\u00a0 A braver, cooler and more reliable officer could not be found.\u00a0 He had done wonderfully gallant work on patrol on numerous occasions and whatever the job he had to do, I could absolutely rely on his doing it thoroughly.\u00a0 I know no other officer in the Battalion I could have spared less than he.\u00a0 He was brave as a lion.\u00a0 We were counter-attacked at 4.30am on 24<sup>th<\/sup> and I turned out all the men at HQ.\u00a0 He, without any orders, dashed off with the leading men right up to the front where danger threatened.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know how I shall replace him as not only was he valuable as an officer, but I was very fond of him, as were we all.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He was mentioned by Sir Douglas Haig in dispatches for his gallant and distinguished service.\u00a0\u00a0Second Lieutenant Bernard Grime Lodge is commemorated both here, and at the Tynecot Memorial in Flanders (panel 28).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bernard\u2019s cousins John and James Preston, sons of Sarah\u2019s brother James, were also both involved in WW1.\u00a0 Whilst John survived and returned to his wife Lizzie (who was also a cousin of Bernard and John through Sarah and James\u2019 sister Margaret!)\u00a0 his younger brother, James, died just over a week after Bernard following wounds sustained in battle aged just 20<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#page-links\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"Whaley\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Christopher Whaley<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Christopher Whaley (1844-1905) was the only surviving child of Oswald Routh Whaley and Mary Burra.\u00a0 Oswald was the third son of John Whaley, a clerk in Holy Orders, and sometime curate at Hawes.\u00a0 Oswald followed more earthly pursuits and was a banker.\u00a0 He married Mary, the daughter of landowner Thomas Burra from Shap.\u00a0 Although born in Clapham, Oswald came to Hawes as a child and stayed.\u00a0 He ran the bank in Hawes and lived above the premises in the market Place.\u00a0 He was also a Justice of the Peace.\u00a0 Christopher had at least two brothers, John (1836-1836) and John William (1848-1849) but was the only child to survive to adulthood.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-759 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Whaley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Whaley.jpg 898w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Whaley-260x300.jpg 260w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Whaley-888x1024.jpg 888w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Whaley-768x885.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/>After school, Christopher went to Christ\u2019s College, Cambridge, achieving first a BA and then an MA.\u00a0 He was appointed curate of Askrigg and an Honorary Canon of Ripon Cathedral.\u00a0 He was vicar at Askrigg from 1869 until his death in summer of 1905.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Christopher married Mary Constantia Georgina Matthews, the daughter of Rev William Matthews, vicar of Hawes, in 1866.\u00a0 Mary gave birth to two sons, Oswald (1868-1943) and Christopher (1870-1888), but she died shortly after giving birth in April 1870.\u00a0 Christopher was living in Bainbridge and his widowed mother-in-law, Constantia Matthews, lived with him and the two young boys to help.\u00a0 Eight years\u2019 later, Christopher married Agnes Elizabeth Lodge, another Vicar\u2019s daughter and the couple had a daughter, Ruth Agnes in 1880.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Whilst vicar at Askrigg, Christopher wrote \u2018<em>The History of the Parish of Askrigg, including Low Abbotside and Bainbridge<\/em>\u2019 in 1891, which remains an important source of information on the village and its inhabitants.\u00a0 At that time, he was living in the Manor House, next to the King\u2019s Arms, as there was, as yet no vicarage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Eldest son, Oswald William, was born on 13<sup>th<\/sup> March whilst Christopher and Mary were living in Cambridge and was baptised there.\u00a0 He attended the Yorebridge Grammar School and from there was admitted to Cambridge University.\u00a0 He worked afterwards as an assistant Master at Aysgarth School and then as a lecturer in Classics at Durham University.\u00a0 He married Frances in 1907, but the couple had no children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Second son, Christopher Matthews, was born in Askrigg and baptised here on 15 May, which will have been a sombre occasion following the death of his mother.\u00a0 He died aged 17 years and 11 months on 12<sup>th<\/sup> March 1888.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ruth Agnes, the daughter of Christopher and Agnes Lodge, was born in 1880 in Askrigg.\u00a0 She was the cousin of Bernard Grime Lodge, whose memorial plaque adorns the church wall near the tower and who was killed during World War I.\u00a0 After the death of her parents in the early years of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century, Ruth\u2019s story is lost \u2013 it is likely that she married and moved away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The current church organ was installed in the church as a memorial to Revd Whaley by his parishioners and friends following his death \u2018<em>to mark their high appreciation of his long and faithful service\u2019<\/em>.\u00a0 Christopher was not the only vicar in his family \u2013 at least 6 of his paternal cousins were vicars too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#page-links\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"Calvert\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>George Calvert<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-764 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Calvert-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Calvert-scaled.jpg 2219w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Calvert-260x300.jpg 260w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Calvert-888x1024.jpg 888w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Calvert-768x886.jpg 768w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Calvert-1332x1536.jpg 1332w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Calvert-1776x2048.jpg 1776w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">George Calvert was born in Askrigg in 1702 and his father was probably called George too.\u00a0 We don\u2019t know much about George, other than he amassed great wealth during his lifetime, whether inherited or earned we don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It would appear that he never married or had children of his own, as in his will all his wealth is passed on to various nephews and contacts.\u00a0 Much of his wealth went to his sister Mary\u2019s children, but only on the proviso that they take the surname Calvert!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">George\u2019s elder sister, Mary, born in 1701 and baptised in St Oswald\u2019s on 19<sup>th<\/sup> October that same year.\u00a0 In 1721 she married Reverend Anthony Clapham, who was at Winskill, near Settle and had been baptised in Giggleswick in 1697.\u00a0 Anthony\u2019s uncle Thomas had been the vicar of Bradford and left money for Anthony\u2019s education in his will.\u00a0 Anthony went to Christ\u2019s college, Cambridge in 1716 and received his BA 3 years later.\u00a0 He was headmaster of Yorebridge Grammar School from 1720 until just before his death in 1752 and also a vicar at Stalling Busk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Margaret and Anthony lived at Yorescott and had at least 10 children:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Richard (b 1722) had five children<\/li>\n<li>Thomas (b 1724) and died as an infant<\/li>\n<li>Jane (b 1725)<\/li>\n<li>Anne (b 1726-1740)<\/li>\n<li>Francis (b 1729-1779) &#8211; we know from George\u2019s will that Francis inherited some of George\u2019s estate and was an executor. Apart from that little is known about him other than he lived in Sunderland.\u00a0 It is possible that following George\u2019s instructions he changed his surname to Calvert, but if he did there is no evidence as he is buried as a Clapham.<\/li>\n<li>Calvert Clapham (1730-1809) &#8211; became chancellor to the Bishop of London. He was unmarried but had inherited the Thwaitebridge estate and other lands near Hawes.\u00a0 He had amassed his own fortune by the time of his death in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1809.\u00a0 In his will he left money to his (late) brother Richard\u2019s children, but the bulk to his younger brother, Anthony.<\/li>\n<li>Anthony (1732-1732) and Thomas (1739-1753)<\/li>\n<li>Dorothy (1734) married Rev John Ewbank at the relatively late age of 50.<\/li>\n<li>Anthony (1744-1811). Anthony became a Quaker and married Elizabeth Holme.\u00a0 Under his influence, his brother, Francis, also became a quaker.\u00a0 Anthony was a manufacturing chemist and wealthy one too.\u00a0 His descendants were numerous and nearly all in the chemical industry, but with vicars, doctors and accountants too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">George had another sister, Mary, whom he also provides for under his will.\u00a0 Mary had been married to John Ogden and the family lived in Darlington.\u00a0 They had at least one son, called John.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We also know that George had a brother, but that he and his son, James, had died before George made his will.\u00a0 However, James had left a young daughter, Elizabeth, for whom George made provision.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">George made other bequests; to Martha Cullingworth, widow of William and to his former apprentice, William Calvert, a Coal Merchant of St Brides in London.\u00a0 It is impossible to say whether William is a relation, but he appears not to be \u2013 is it a co-incidence that William bears George\u2019s surname or is this another of George\u2019s requests for someone to bear his name?\u00a0 We cannot be sure whether this is the William Calvert who is named on George\u2019s memorial, who lists himself as a nephew.\u00a0 Certainly, no nephew called William is mentioned in George\u2019s will.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#page-links\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"Wilson\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>John Leonard Wilson<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">John Leonard Wilson (known as Leonard) was born on 23 September 1897 in Gateshead, Co Durham.\u00a0 His father, John Wilson was a church of England vicar and had married Mary Adelaide Halliday in 1894.\u00a0 The couple had six children, four of whom survived to adulthood.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Leonard was the oldest son and was educated at the Royal Grammar School in Newcastle.\u00a0 He completed his education with a degree in theology from Balliol College and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.\u00a0 Both his surviving brothers, Bernard and Leslie also became vicars, and his sister, Edith Adelaide married Rev Frank Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-769 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Wilson1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"878\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Wilson1.jpg 1379w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Wilson1-300x115.jpg 300w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Wilson1-1024x392.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Wilson1-768x294.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Leonard worked as a vicar near Gateshead and married Doris Phillips (known as Mary) in Oxford in 1930.\u00a0 Their eldest child, Christopher was born in June 1931, but sadly died in 1934.\u00a0 Susan was born in 1934, after which the family moved to Hong Kong, where Leonard had been appointed Dean.\u00a0 Whilst in Hong Kong, the couple had two further sons, Timothy, and Martin.\u00a0 They later moved to Singapore when Leonard was appointed Bishop.\u00a0 When the Japanese invaded in 1942, Mary and the children escaped by boat to Australia, where their youngest son, James, was born.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Leonard remained behind in Singapore and along with two fellow ministers was able to continue to work for nearly a year, thanks to a Christian Japanese officer.\u00a0 However eventually the Japanese became concerned about the popularity of the cathedral and considered it a threat.\u00a0 In addition, they believed that the bishop may have been implicated in an attack on Japanese ships in Singapore harbour, by passing information on to the Allies.\u00a0 All three were arrested, tortured, and eventually sent to the notorious Changi jail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The arrest took place in October 1943, and initially he was taken to Outram Road jail, where he was systematic tortured, as the Japanese tried to get him to admit to being a spy.\u00a0 He was beaten so much that he fainted; only to be revived and then beaten again.\u00a0 He was often returned to his cell in a semi-conscious state and on occasions feared he would not survive.\u00a0 Conditions in jail were terrible.\u00a0 No bedding was provided, and the lights were left on all night.\u00a0 No soap, toiletries or towels were allowed, and they had to manage with only the clothes that they arrived in.\u00a0 Food consisted mainly of rice, occasionally with vegetables and weak tea (without milk or sugar) and Leonard lost 4 stone in weight during his stay.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-770 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Wilson2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Wilson2.jpg 1489w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Wilson2-300x207.jpg 300w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Wilson2-1024x708.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Wilson2-768x531.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After the war, Leonard remained as Bishop of Singapore until 1949, when he returned to the United Kingdom as Dean of Manchester, serving there until he was appointed Bishop of Birmingham in 1953.\u00a0 When he resigned in 1969, he retired to Yorkshire and joined the congregation here in Askrigg.\u00a0 Sadly, his retirement was short.\u00a0 On his way home from participating in a service at St Paul\u2019s Cathedral, he suffered a minor stroke on the train.\u00a0 A second major stroke at home not long after proved to be fatal on 18<sup>th<\/sup> August 1970.\u00a0 A funeral service took place here 3 days later and Leonard\u2019s ashes were interred at church close to where he was born.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Leonard\u2019s eldest daughter, Susan (1934-2001) became a doctor but in the 1980s she enrolled in a Theological Seminary in the USA in the Episcopal Church as they accepted women.\u00a0 Her father was a very strong advocate for women priests, and she was one of the first women priests in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#page-links\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"JWood\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>John Rider Wood<\/strong> <strong>&amp; Ann Wood<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">John was the oldest son of Askrigg resident, Richard Wood and his wife, Elizabeth.\u00a0 Richard had married Elizabeth Rider, the daughter of Ottiwell Rider, who lived in Bolton Castle and following their marriage, the young couple also lived in Bolton Castle.\u00a0 John and his brothers Jeffrey and Ottiwell were baptised at Bolton Castle by the vicar of Wensley and they grew up in the castle.\u00a0 As Bolton Castle has not left the ownership of the Powlett family for many generations, it has to be assumed that the family rented the Castle, or at least part of it.\u00a0 Ottiwell, John\u2019s younger brother, died aged 20 in 1781 and was buried in Wensley Church, as were his parents<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Richard Wood was a very wealthy man. \u00a0His family had lived in Askrigg for many generations including his father Jeoffrey (1694-1779) and his grandfather Richard (died 1721).\u00a0 \u00a0In his will Richard left many properties in Askrigg, Thornton Rust, Nappa Scar, Newbiggin and Thoralby to his remaining two sons.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-776 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/John-Rider-Wood1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/John-Rider-Wood1.jpg 2448w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/John-Rider-Wood1-300x260.jpg 300w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/John-Rider-Wood1-1024x888.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/John-Rider-Wood1-768x666.jpg 768w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/John-Rider-Wood1-1536x1332.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/John-Rider-Wood1-2048x1776.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0John married <strong>Ann Cautley<\/strong>, whose father was vicar at Ouseburn, in 1782, when the couple were in their mid-20s.\u00a0 The Cautleys were an old and respectable family and as well as her father, two of her brothers and her grandfather were vicars.\u00a0 John and Ann remained living at Bolton Castle for some time, before John bought a row of cottages on land just outside Nappa Scar and built Wood Hall, which remained in the family long after John\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">John and Ann had two sons, <strong>Ottiwell<\/strong>, born in 1758, who qualified as a solicitor and married Jane Hodgson of Grinton in 1810.\u00a0 The couple had 6 children, John (1811-1851) also a solicitor who lived with his wife Jane in one of the family properties in Thornton Rust; Ottiwell (1812-1827) who joined the Royal Navy and was lost as sea as a 15 year old Midshipman when HMS Redwing went missing, presumed sunk; Thomas (1814-1871) who also joined the Navy; Ann (1815-) who married surgeon Robert Cartwright and emigrated to Australia shortly after their marriage.\u00a0 There were two further children, Jane (1817-) and Richard (1818-1830) who died young.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Richard and Ann\u2019s second son was <strong>James Suttell <\/strong>(1786-1856) and he trained for the ministry and was curate at Askrigg for a while.\u00a0 He is better known as \u2018JS Wood\u2019.\u00a0 In the 1841 census, he was living at Wood Hall with his family, but in the late 1840s he moved to France to work in a church near Caen in Normandy.\u00a0 He died there in 1856.\u00a0 James married Mary Darvell in 1805 and the couple had 5 children: George (1806-1864) became a doctor; Catherine (1808-1882) married barrister Charles Waterfield; James (1812-1889) followed his father and became a vicar, working mainly in Somerset; Eliza (1823-1905) married Marmaduke Dixon and youngest daughter Emelie (1824-1867) married physician John Harrison and died in Simla, India.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-778 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Ann-Wood-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"353\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Ann-Wood-1-scaled.jpg 2398w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Ann-Wood-1-281x300.jpg 281w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Ann-Wood-1-959x1024.jpg 959w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Ann-Wood-1-768x820.jpg 768w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Ann-Wood-1-1439x1536.jpg 1439w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Ann-Wood-1-1919x2048.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The descendants of Ottiwell and James are numerous and successful.\u00a0 Many went into the Indian Civil Service, part of the foreign office and more than one was knighted for his work.\u00a0 There are many that served their country in war and peace and some who died doing so.\u00a0 There were of course those whose lives were not lauded &#8211; John\u2019s grandson, named John Rider after him, died aged just 40 of \u2018general debility and softening of the brain\u2019 &#8211; this term is usually an indication that he had syphillis.\u00a0 He left a wife and two young children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">John\u2019s remaining brother<strong>, Jeoffrey<\/strong> (1759-1822) studied at Magdalen College Cambridge and was the curate at Aysgarth &amp; West Witton.\u00a0 He married Elizabeth Burton here at Askrigg Church on 29 December 1792 and we know that they had at least 9 children.\u00a0 Unlike the success of John\u2019s children, Jeoffrey\u2019s had more mixed and modest results.\u00a0 James (1796-1846) became a maltster and Brewer in Askrigg; his son John (1797-) became a slate merchant in Lancashire; Richard (1799-1868) became a vicar and sent all four of his boys to Marlborough School \u2013 2 became vicars, 1 a barrister and the youngest, another Ottiwell, became a soldier in the 14<sup>th<\/sup> regiment of foot, but died in Ireland aged just 20 in 1858.\u00a0 Jeoffrey\u2019s youngest son, Anthony joined the Royal Navy, but died aged 38 when he had an epileptic fit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#page-links\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"Storey\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Mary &amp; John Kilburn Storey<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">John Kilburn was born in Askrigg and went on to become a teacher and then Headmaster.\u00a0\u00a0His grandparents were John Kilburn, a cattle dealer and Ann Dinsdale, who married in St Andrew\u2019s Church in Aysgarth in 1853.\u00a0 The couple had 5 daughters \u2013 Faith, Joanna, Elizabeth Ann, Mary Alice and another Joanna.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-784 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/storey1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"713\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/storey1.jpg 1379w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/storey1-300x193.jpg 300w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/storey1-1024x657.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/storey1-768x493.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 713px) 100vw, 713px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Their first three daughters were baptised together on 30<sup>th<\/sup> August 1857 at St Oswalds\u2019. \u00a0<strong>Faith<\/strong> (1853-1927) married church sexton John Sarginson in 1876, when she was 23 and John, a farmer\u2019s son from Carperby, was 40. \u00a0\u00a0They moved out of the Dale to Croft on Tees. The couple had 7 children: Elizabeth (b1877) who married prison warder William Dibb; John (1879-1949) who was in the Royal Navy, signing up for 12 years in 1902, but was dismissed in 1907.\u00a0 Back on land he married Jessie Laidlaw and became a chauffeur. Alice (1880-1884), James (1882-1892) and Edith (1887-1888) died young. Thomas (1885-1934) was a groom and married Rose Ward.\u00a0 Youngest son George (1884-1918) also became a groom and at the outbreak of war married his sweetheart Mary Turnball.\u00a0 He enlisted in the army, joining the 7<sup>th<\/sup> Battalion, Prince of Wales Own (West Yorkshire) Regiment and was killed in action on 31<sup>st<\/sup> March 1918 in Flanders.\u00a0 The couple had a daughter, named Faith, who was born and died in the autumn of 1919.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Joanna<\/strong> (1855-1865) died at the age of 10 and was buried in St Oswald\u2019s Churchyard on 3<sup>rd<\/sup> April.\u00a0 <strong>Elizabeth<\/strong> (1856-) married William Preston, a smallholder and cattle dealer in St Oswald\u2019s in March 1879. \u00a0\u00a0Through this marriage, the family were related to the Grime Lodge family and the Prestons, all who appear on other memorials within the church. \u00a0The couple moved their family to Manningham, an industrial area of Bradford.\u00a0 They had five children: Tom (1886-1930) a mason who emigrated to the USA in 1911 and fought in WW1 with the Canadians; Jane (1879-1953) who also emigrated to America with her husband, Isaac Bancroft in 1910, having been a silk weaver in Bradford. John (1888-1975) was also a weaver and worked in the textile industry his entire working life.\u00a0 William (1890-) worked as a silk packer and then as a labourer in the building industry.\u00a0 Youngest son, Fred (1893-1973) was also a weaver and in 1920 married mill worker Edith.\u00a0 The couple emigrated to the USA to join elder brother Tom and both worked in a woollen mill.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Mary Alice<\/strong> (1863-1944) was Ann and John\u2019s fourth daughter and John\u2019s mother.\u00a0 On 6<sup>th<\/sup> March 1886, Mary gave birth to a son named John after his grandfather.\u00a0 Mary continued to live with her mother, now in Main Street in Askrigg, with Ann working as a monthly nurse and Mary as a dressmaker.\u00a0 The Kilburn\u2019s lived a few doors down from Alexander Thwaite Storey, the registrar of births and deaths, who lived with his mother, Christiana.\u00a0 On 4<sup>th<\/sup> October 1905, Mary and Alexander were married at St Oswald\u2019s church aged 42 and 44 respectively.\u00a0 Alexander became the clerk to the District Council and the Union Workshouse.\u00a0 John had trained as a teacher and by 1911 was working in Durham at an elementary school.\u00a0 In 1914, he married farmer\u2019s daughter Mary Elizabeth Bell, who lived at Nappa Scar.\u00a0 The marriage took place in St Oswald\u2019s on 26<sup>th<\/sup> September.\u00a0 It is not certain when John changed his name to John Kilburn <em>Storey, <\/em>certainly in 1914 he was just Kilburn but by the 1939 census both he and his wife had added Storey.\u00a0 It is certainly a tribute to his stepfather.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">John continued to work in education and became a headmaster of an elementary school in the Durham area.\u00a0 He and Mary had no children, and he was devastated when she died in 1946.\u00a0 John himself died in Coniscliffe Nursing Home in Darlington on 20 April 1949.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ann and John\u2019s youngest child, <strong>Joanna,<\/strong> John Kilburn Storey\u2019s aunt, was born in 1871 and married tailor Ambler Leach in on 9<sup>th<\/sup> July 1893 at St Oswald\u2019s.\u00a0 The couple made their home in Hawes and had 8 children \u2013 the eldest of whom \u2013 Albert, died in France whilst serving with the Royal Fusiliers on 12<sup>th<\/sup> July 1916 aged 22 and who\u2019s life is commemorated on the Hawes war memorial.\u00a0 Another child, Harold, was the executor of John Kilburn Storey\u2019s will.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The graves of John and Mary, together with his mother, Mary Alice and her husband, Alexander are in the graveyard.\u00a0 Their memorial still stands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#page-links\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"Lamb\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Eliza Lamb<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On one of the central pillars is the memorial to Eliza Lamb.\u00a0 It is a small plaque, but the back story is an interesting one.\u00a0 Eliza was the daughter of Walter &amp; Elizabeth Buchanan who lived in Penrith.\u00a0 She married Edward Lamb in London in 1789.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-787 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/lamb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/lamb.jpg 920w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/lamb-300x236.jpg 300w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/lamb-768x604.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 408px) 100vw, 408px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Edward was one of the younger sons of John Lamb and his wife, Ann (nee Harker).\u00a0 John is recorded as living in Kirkby Stephen, with addresses such as Smardale Hall, and Hartley Castle, and also Clifton Hall near Penrith.\u00a0 Undoubted the family was a wealthy one, but from trade, rather than from nobility and is it likely that the Lambs were tenants not owners.\u00a0 John &amp; his wife Ann had 6 sons and 3 daughters; the children were all baptised in Kirkby Stephen, but the marriages take place primarily in Edenhall and Clifton, suggesting that the family had moved to Clifton by the 1770s.\u00a0 One of Edward\u2019s sisters, Jane, married James Burton of Askrigg and one of his brothers, James, attended Oxford University and became a vicar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Edward joined the Royal Navy and gradually rose through the ranks but left to join the Merchant Navy, working mainly for the East India Company.\u00a0 He was the first mate on the Britannia, a merchant ship, on the Jamaica to London route in 1787, when William Bligh was captain and Fletcher Christian was acting second mate.\u00a0 When Bligh returned to the Navy and took command of the Bounty, taking Christian with him, Edward assumed command of the Britannia.\u00a0 This coincided with his marriage to Eliza and the couple lived sometimes in Cumberland and sometimes in London, depending on Edward\u2019s voyages.\u00a0 After the Britannia, Edward became commander of The Adventurer, and it was from there that he wrote to William Bligh in support of his treatment of Christian.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>ST GEORGE\u2019S PLACE, ST GEORGE\u2019S IN THE EAST, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 OCT.28, 1794<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Dear Sir,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Upon my arrival from Jamaica, I saw a pamphlet, published by Mr Edward Christian, who, in order to lessen the guilt of his brother, Mr Fletcher Christian, wishes to make the public believe that the Mutiny on board His Majesty\u2019s ship the Bounty, proceeded from his treatment of his brother, and the other mutineers. \u00a0I was much surprised at what Mr Edward Christian has introduced in page 78 in the Appendix, as he insinuated that your bad behaviour to Mr Fletcher Christian commenced during his last voyage with you to Jamaica, in the ship Britannia, when I was chief mate, and eye witness to everything that passed. \u00a0Mr Edward Christian must have been misinformed, and known very little\u00a0either of his brother\u2019s<\/em> <em>situation, abilities or the manner in which he conducted himself during that voyage, he mentions his being second mate with you, when, in fact, he was no officer. \u00a0I recollect your putting him upon the articles as gunner, telling me, at the same time, you wished him to be thought an officer, and desired I would endeavour to make the people look upon him as such.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>When we got to sea and I saw your partiality for the young man, I gave him every advice and information in my power, though he went about every point of duty with a degree of indifference that to me was truly unpleasant, but you were blind to his faults, and had him to dine and sup every day in the cabin, and treated him like a brother, giving him every information. \u00a0In the Appendix it is said that Mr Fletcher Christian had no attachment to the women at Otaheite; if that was the case, he must have been much altered since he was with you in the Britannia; he was then one of the most foolish young men I ever knew in regard to the sex. \u00a0You will excuse the liberty I have taken in addressing you on so unpleasant a subject; but I could not pass over so many assertions in the Appendix, without feeling for a man, whose kind and uniform behaviour to me, through the whole voyage to Jamaica, was such as to lay me under an everlasting obligation; and I shall still think \u00a0myself fortunate in having engaged with such an attentive officer, and able navigator as yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>I have no pique at Mr Fletcher Christian; but finding Captain Bligh\u2019s character suffering in the opinion of the public, I think it my duty to offer my services in the vindication of it, so far as comes within my knowledge; therefore, can I render him any service, he may command me.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I remain, Sir,<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The couple had five sons, all of whom went to sea.\u00a0 Eliza and Edward lived at Yorescott, near Breconbar.\u00a0 After Eliza\u2019s death in 1812, Edward married Sarah Harrison in 1815 and had a daughter, Sarah before his death 3 years later.\u00a0 Edward was buried in the churchyard at Askrigg, although his gravestone has been lost.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Eliza and Edward\u2019s eldest son was <strong>John<\/strong> (1791-1862) who entered the Royal Navy aged 10 as a \u2018first class volunteer\u2019 on the sloop, Port Mahon.\u00a0 The same year he was made a midshipman on the 74-gun Northumberland (see picture).\u00a0 Gradually he made his way up the Naval command.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-789 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/northumberland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He had seen action in the Napoleonic wars including the boarding of the French ship Le Thetis.\u00a0 Other ships on which he served include the Leviathon, the Fantome and the Hibernia.\u00a0 In 1823 he married Emma Trant Robinson in London.\u00a0 Their first child was born in India but in 1829, John left active naval service and travelled with his family to start a new life in Australia, maintaining contact with the navy as part of the naval reserve.\u00a0 The couple had 14 children, most of whom survived into adulthood and the family did well in the New World, being involved in shipping, ranching and brokering.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Second son, <strong>Edward<\/strong> (1793-1817) joined the merchant navy and made progress through the ranks.\u00a0 He was captain of the Hadlow, a convict ship travelling from London Docks to Australia via India.\u00a0 He died at sea, just south of Calcutta on the Hadlow\u2019s return journey to England on 31<sup>st<\/sup> December 1817.\u00a0 He was not married.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>James Thomas<\/strong> (1794-1857) entered the Royal Navy in 1808 as a 13-year-old on board the Amethyst and was almost immediately involved in the capture of a French frigate after a battle in which the Amethyst lost a number of crewmen.\u00a0 It will have been a baptism of fire literally!\u00a0 He became a midshipman on the Hannibal and then a lieutenant on the Grecian and then the Fairy in 1815.\u00a0 Once the war with France was over, James worked on Merchant Ships and for the Coast Guard Service, leaving the reserve list in the 1830s.\u00a0 He married Jessie Morrison and the couple had two children, Agnes and Edward.\u00a0 The family emigrated to Australia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>William Buchanan<\/strong> (1796-1827) entered the Royal Navy, but after the end of hostilities with the French left active service as a Lieutenant to join the Merchant Navy.\u00a0 He commanded the convict ship the Batavia from 1817 and then a cargo ship\/convict ship, the Prince Regent in the early 1820s.\u00a0 After one voyage on the Batavia, William married Charlotte Gore, the daughter of William Gore, the Provost Marshal of New South Wales. \u00a0\u00a0He died at sea on 13<sup>th<\/sup> September 1827.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>George<\/strong> (1799-?1828) was the youngest of the seafaring brothers and less is known about him.\u00a0 He is said to have died in a shipwreck in 1828.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Sarah Ann<\/strong>, Edward\u2019s daughter with his second wife, was born in Askrigg and baptised at St Oswald\u2019s on 5<sup>th<\/sup> March 1816.\u00a0 By 1841, she and her widowed mother were living in Kirkby Lonsdale, where she died, unmarried in 1845.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Edward\u2019s will gives an interesting insight into his life.\u00a0 He disposes of his goods amongst his wife and living children as expected, but the final paragraph says:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>\u2018..and to son John Lamb \u00a3100 to be applied to bring up the child I had by Betty Thompson but only on condition that Betty Thompson will deliver up the child into his custody..\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It is likely that this child was a boy, John, born to Betty in 1814 and baptised at St Oswald\u2019s on 31<sup>st<\/sup> October of that year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#page-links\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"JPratt\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>John &amp; Jane Pratt<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">John was the son of Simon Pratt and his wife, Elizabeth Smith.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Simon and his brother had left Askrigg as young men to seek their fortunes in the turn of 17<sup>th<\/sup>\/18<sup>th<\/sup> century London.\u00a0 Good judges of horseflesh, the pair purchased a horse and hackney coach and with a mix of hard work, and a pinch of luck, the business expanded to provide a good living.\u00a0 They returned to Askrigg as wealthy men, albeit approaching middle age.\u00a0 Simon married Elizabeth Smith in Askrigg in 1727 and their only child, John was born the following year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-794 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/pratt1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/pratt1.jpg 699w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/pratt1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-795\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/pratt2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/pratt2.jpg 709w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/pratt2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0John attended Yorebridge Grammar School and from there went up to Cambridge.\u00a0 Like his father, John was interested in horses and developed a passion for horse racing at nearby Newmarket.\u00a0\u00a0 Already wealthy from money inherited from his father, his marriage in 1765 to Jane Hammond of Naburn near York, brought him considerably more. \u00a0John was the nephew of Thomas Pratt, who had married Mary Smith of Cams Houses, and as such he had also inherited some of the Smith estates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Shortly after the marriage, the couple began the construction of a new house, of which the Kings Arms and the next door Manor House are remaining parts.\u00a0 \u00a0John kept a large stable close to the house, and the Holiday Property Bond\u2019s Lodge Yard contains some of the buildings.\u00a0 John kept his hunters and a pack of hounds at the Yard; John himself was the Master of the local hunt.\u00a0 The couple shared their time between Askrigg and the racecourses of Newmarket, York and Doncaster.\u00a0 His racehorses were kept at a yard in Middleham.\u00a0\u00a0 His most well-known filly was Imperatrix, with whom he won the St Leger in 1782.\u00a0 The Crown Public House at the top of the village was once called \u2018the Mare Phoenix\u2019 after another of John\u2019s horses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Jane died in 1777, and John died in Newmarket in 1785; they had no children.\u00a0 John\u2019s later years had had ups and downs.\u00a0 When his estate was sold, including his stud and leases on various lead mines, it was discovered many were mortgaged.\u00a0 His heir, nephew Thomas Pratt instead of inheriting a tidy sum, found himself in debt having borrowed on the strength of his expectations.\u00a0 He died in York Castle, then a debtors\u2019 prison.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#page-links\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"Alderson\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Alderson Family<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Alderson family have two memorials on the wall in the North Aisle, close to the door, although this is likely not their original position.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-804 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Alderson-2-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Alderson-2-300x286.jpg 300w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Alderson-2-1024x977.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Alderson-2-768x733.jpg 768w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Alderson-2-1536x1465.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Alderson-2-2048x1953.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Not a great deal is known about Christopher Alderson, other than he was baptised in St Oswald\u2019s Church on 14<sup>th<\/sup> December 1728, the son of John Alderson.\u00a0 From his will it is unlikely that he married or if he did, they had no children.\u00a0 The Almshouses at Dale Grange between Askrigg and Breconbar were built and endowed in 1807 by Christopher,\u00a0whose family lived in Askrigg for a number of years, but he had moved to London to further his business interests.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The almshouses were originally six one roomed cottages and were intended for \u2018<em>the use of six poor women, spinsters or widows, of whom two were to be natives of, or residents of three years\u2019 standing in, Low Abbotside and four were to be similarly qualified from Askrigg.\u2019<\/em>\u00a0 Christopher appointed a board of trustees to oversee the almhouses, the income from the endowments and those living in the almshouses.\u00a0 In the 1880 the cottages were remodelled, reducing the number to four, with each cottage having two rooms.\u00a0 They have been subsequently altered to now consist just two dwellings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Most of what we know about Christopher comes from his will \u2013 a lengthy document of 19 pages, including two codicils, due to his extensive business and land holdings.\u00a0 When Christopher died in December 1810, he was buried in the churchyard at St John\u2019s Church in Hackney.\u00a0 St John\u2019s had been built in 1792 and was a church popular with the well to do classes that abounded in that area in the early 19<sup>th<\/sup> century.\u00a0 Christopher had three sisters, Margaret, Sarah and Mary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Sarah <\/strong>was born in 1724 and in 1748 married Edward Nelson at the church in Garsdale.\u00a0 Sarah and Edward had three children \u2013 Anne (b 1751), Jane (b 1753) and John (b1769).\u00a0 Jane married David Harker in 1783, also at the little church in Garsdale.\u00a0 Their eldest child was named Christopher Alderson Harker at his baptism in Garsdale on 19<sup>th<\/sup> March 1786, at which point he was 4 months old.\u00a0 This is the Christopher who appears on both memorials, the first as the one who arranged the memorial to his great-uncle, and the second is his own.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-803 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Alderson-1-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Alderson-1-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Alderson-1-1024x511.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Alderson-1-768x384.jpg 768w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Alderson-1-1536x767.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Alderson-1-2048x1023.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Christopher changed his surname from Harker to Alderson in order to inherit from his great uncle and with the proceeds he bought Woodhall Park from the Beazon family, who had fallen on hard times.\u00a0 It was Christopher who is thought to have added the large lake on the property.\u00a0 Not that he lived there for long, as the property was tenanted by Rev Richard Wood for many years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Shortly after inheriting, Christopher married Mary Metcalfe, the daughter of Henry Metcalfe of Nappa Hall.\u00a0 The couple had at least 6 children.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>The eldest, also called Christopher (1813-1874) is listed on the censuses as being \u2018deaf and dumb\u2019. Buried in St Oswald\u2019s Churchyard<\/li>\n<li>Jane Metcalfe Alderson (1814-) married William Humble and had one daughter, Mary Jane in 1851.<\/li>\n<li>Mary (1820-1895) is listed on the censuses as being an \u2018imbecile from birth\u2019. She was made a \u2018ward of chancery\u2019 following her father\u2019s death when she was 17 and she lived the rest of her long life with the three unmarried Whaley sisters \u2013 Elizabeth, Anne and Mary, who for near 30 years ran a school at Cotescue Park in Coversham.\u00a0 In retirement, the household lived in Leyburn and Middleham.<\/li>\n<li>Sarah (1821- ) married John Robert Johnson in London on 11 January 1849<\/li>\n<li>Henry (1823)<\/li>\n<li>John (1824)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Christopher\u2019s wife Mary died in 1825 and was buried with her Metcalfe relatives in St Oswald\u2019s Churchyard.\u00a0 In 1830, he married again, marrying Jane, the widow of Ottiwell Wood in 1830 at St Andrew\u2019s Church in Aysgarth.\u00a0 The marriage seems to have been a happy one as he refers to Jane as \u2018my dear wife\u2019 on a number of occasions in his will.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The family had holdings not only in Yorkshire but in London and Middlesex too and in 1831, Christopher appeared at the Old Bailey when he accused his farm bailiff of his estate in Hendon of embezzlement.\u00a0 Much to Christopher\u2019s displeasure, John Brown was found not guilty, but he was dismissed by Christopher from his post.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Christopher died at his estate at Highwood Hill in 1837, which was and remains a very expensive and exclusive neighbourhood at the northern edge of Mill Hill in London.\u00a0 It was home to many well-known people including slavery abolitionist Sir William Wilberforce.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-805 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Alderson-case-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Alderson-case-300x265.jpg 300w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Alderson-case-768x678.jpg 768w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Alderson-case.jpg 992w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He, like his uncle, left an extensive will, ensuring the children, most of whom had not reached their majority by then and his wife were well provided.\u00a0 Jane lived in Askrigg until her death in 1859 and was buried in St Oswald\u2019s Churchyard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Christopher was not the only member of the extended family to change his name to meet the conditions of his great uncle\u2019s will.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Margaret<\/strong> Alderson (1721-), one of\u00a0 Christopher senior\u2019s other sisters,\u00a0married Thomas Lever and had one daughter, Kitty Alderson Lever (1765-1824).\u00a0 Kitty married William Lloyd and their children all had Alderson as a middle name.\u00a0 However, after her great uncle\u2019s will was proved, they took the Alderson name too.\u00a0 The main player in this line of the family was also confusingly Christopher Alderson Alderson (1790-1845), although they lived in London and the south of England.\u00a0 The cousins were well aware of one another, and even went to court over the settlement of the will, when Sarah Alderson (sister of the Askrigg Christopher) married William Barnard without asking permission and her cousins sought (successfully) to have her cut out of the money as a result!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#page-links\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"Forster\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Forster family of Shaw Cote<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Shaw Cote is a farmstead in Low Abbotside, between Askrigg and Sedbusk.\u00a0 In historical documents, its name is spelt variously Shaw Coat, Shawcote and Shaw Cote.\u00a0 Cote is an old word used for cottage or barn used for sheep.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-811 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/forster1-221x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/forster1-221x300.jpg 221w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/forster1-756x1024.jpg 756w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/forster1-768x1041.jpg 768w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/forster1.jpg 944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Jeffery Forster was the son of Thomas Forster and was born in 1729.\u00a0 He was baptised in St Oswald\u2019s on 9<sup>th<\/sup> May 1732 and married Sarah Harrison here in 1754.\u00a0 The couple had a number of children \u2013 Christopher (1755-1816), Jane (1757-1759) Jane (1759-1859), Dorothy (1762-), Thomas (1729-); Bellate (1766-), John (1769-) and George (1774-1780).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We do not know much about these children, other than Dorothy, who married Thomas Gibson in 1794, and Jane, who married Henry Metcalfe of Nappa Hall at St Oswald\u2019s on 22 February 1786.\u00a0 Jane and Henry had six children we know about before Henry\u2019s premature death in 1799:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Sarah<\/strong> (1787-1853) who is the granddaughter mentioned on the tablet, did not marry but lived in Glasgow with her sister<strong> Dorothy<\/strong> (1794-1847), who was also unmarried. Both are buried in Sighthill Cemetery in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Mary<\/strong> (1789-1825) married Christopher Alderson Alderson of Woodhall Park in 1811 \u2013 see his memorial for information on their family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Elizabeth<\/strong> (b&amp;d 1797) died as an infant<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>William<\/strong> (1791) was of independent means and lived with his mother until her death in 1859 at the grand age of 99. In the 1861 census, he was living in Stobar Hall in Kirkby Stephen, lived in at other times by Askrigg residents.\u00a0 <strong>Bella<\/strong> (1799-1873) never married. She lived with her mother and brother in Askrigg initially and continued to live in the house on her own after their deaths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There is a memorial to Henry and Jane Metcalfe and some of their children in the churchyard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#page-links\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"Pratt\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Pratt Brothers<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thomas Pratt was born around 1740 in Askrigg and married Rose Lambert here at St Oswald\u2019s church on 7<sup>th<\/sup> August 1769.\u00a0 The couple had at least three children that we know about and the memorial tablets for the family are dedicated their sons.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-817 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Pratt-bros-4-180x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Pratt-bros-4-180x300.jpg 180w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Pratt-bros-4-615x1024.jpg 615w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Pratt-bros-4-768x1280.jpg 768w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Pratt-bros-4-922x1536.jpg 922w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Pratt-bros-4.jpg 1039w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The main memorial is dedicated to their son <strong>Thomas,<\/strong> who was born in late 1772 and baptised in St Oswald\u2019s in January 1773.\u00a0 Thomas left the dales and became a master mariner.\u00a0 It is unlikely that he served in the Royal Navy as his family are likely to have added \u2018RN\u2019 after his name, and if the Hibernia had been a navy ship it is likely to have been prefixed with an \u2018HMS\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In 1804 Thomas married Margaret Jump whilst on leave in Liverpool.\u00a0 The couple had one daughter, Margaret Rose, born on 11<sup>th<\/sup> May 1809 and baptised on 7<sup>th<\/sup> June that year.\u00a0 No doubt she was given Rose as a middle name for her grandmother.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thomas sailed on the Hibernia, a 204 ton wooden sailing ship in 1803, before taking command of the Courier, a smaller ship but which had 12 guns in 1805.\u00a0 Later that year he sailed on the Cruizer and in 1807 he sailed on the Duke of Kent which was newly returned from being leased to the Royal Navy.\u00a0 Later he returned to Captain the Hibernia again.\u00a0 On some of his ships he carried letters of Marque which meant the Government had given permission to attack foreign shipping where appropriate as hostilities existed with the French, Spanish and Dutch and he had already seen action having been part of the capture of the French ship Angelique in 1805.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He returned to his home in Duncan Street, Toxteth, a short walk from the Liverpool docks in the early spring of 1811 but suffered a stroke and died in hospital on 22<sup>nd<\/sup> March and was buried in St James\u2019 churchyard 3 days later.\u00a0 His wife Margaret died just two years later, leaving their daughter an orphan at just 4 years of age.\u00a0 Thomas had left his family well provided for in his will and Margaret Rose saw a lot of her Pratt relations, as is evidence in some of the census returns.\u00a0 She married twice and outlived both her husbands, dying at the age of 87.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Middle son, <strong>John <\/strong>was born in late 1777 or early 1778 and baptised on 29<sup>th<\/sup> January 1778.\u00a0 John\u2019s memorial is below that of his brother Thomas\u2019 and records that John died on his journey home from his first sea voyage to Jamaica.\u00a0 It is likely that he was on the slave ship Will, which sailed from Liverpool on 6<sup>th<\/sup> November 1800 and called at the Bight of Bonny, modern day Nigeria, to collect 294 slaves bound for Jamaica. \u00a0\u00a0The Will docked in Kingston, Jamaica on 20<sup>th<\/sup> April 1801 and disembarked their cargo and 293 slaves.\u00a0 Once the crew had taken on their cargo for the return journey, the Will left Kingston on 20<sup>th<\/sup> June.\u00a0 Records note that two crew members died on the return journey and if John was on the Will, he would have been one of them just 5 days into the voyage home.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The Will docked in Liverpool on 19<sup>th<\/sup> July.\u00a0 John was buried at sea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>James Pratt<\/strong> \u2018<em>their youngest brother\u2019<\/em> has a memorial beneath the main one.\u00a0 He was baptised in St Oswald\u2019s on 19<sup>th<\/sup> November 1784 and was buried in the churchyard in June 1806.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-814 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Pratt-brother-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Pratt-brother-300x191.jpg 300w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Pratt-brother-768x489.jpg 768w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Pratt-brother.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">These three brothers were not Thomas and Rose\u2019s only children as their eldest son\u2019s will makes clear.\u00a0 He left money to his 4 brothers and sisters if anything happened to his wife and daughter, meaning there must have been at least four children alive in 1811, but it is difficult to determine which Pratt children born in Askrigg belong to this family.\u00a0 It does seem likely that twins William and Charles, born in 1775 are from this family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It is interesting to look at the chronology of these memorials.\u00a0 First to die is John, whose memorial is tacked to the bottom of his elder brother, who died last.\u00a0 Youngest brother who died between them has his own small memorial \u2013 which refers to the other memorial.\u00a0 It seems odd, if the largest memorial was created first, that all the commemorations are not on one memorial.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rose died in 1818 and Thomas in 1822 and both were buried in the churchyard.\u00a0 No headstone survives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#page-links\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"Smith\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Smith, Thornton, Lightfoot &amp; Lindsey families<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Smith family<\/strong>, headed by patriarch Bernard Smith and his wife, Grace Thwaites, was one of several new families who moved to the Dale in the 17<sup>th<\/sup> century and whose children married into the Dales families of similar rank.\u00a0 The family was based at Camshouse, which at the time was a collection of farms around 2 miles out of Askrigg towards Sedbusk and Simonstone and had been a grange for Jervaulx Abbey.\u00a0 Their descendants include some of the most prominent inhabitants of the Upper Dale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bernard had bought the property from Sir Robert Bindloss in 1652 for the sum of \u00a31,125.\u00a0 For this, he got two houses and 333 acres of land.\u00a0 Bernard and Grace had two sons and three daughters: Thomas and Alexander; Margaret, Isabel and Elizabeth.\u00a0 A third son John was the youngest, but it is unclear whether he was Grace\u2019s child, or born of Bernard\u2019s second marriage to Elizabeth, which was unhappy and from which he extricated himself using the courts.\u00a0 He also fathered an illegitimate daughter for which he was called in front of the churchwardens in Askrigg for failure to pay maintenance.\u00a0 He was for some time the Chief Constable of Hang West, an area which included Askrigg and such an incident must have caused some embarrassment.\u00a0 Bernard died in 1872, but before his death he oversaw the completion of a new house on the estate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Elder son <strong>Thomas<\/strong> (1633-1691) married Elizabeth Thornton and had 10 children, including a son called Bernard in 1672, the year his own father died.\u00a0 Thomas and his growing family moved into the new house.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Middle son <strong>Alexander<\/strong> (1653-1725) married Sarah Haward in 1677 and the following year used some of his inheritance to buy John Coleby\u2019s share of the Manor of Wensleydale and took his wife and growing family to live in Coleby Hall.\u00a0 They remained there for 7 years, until John Coleby\u2019s son challenged the purchase of the hall.\u00a0 The Smiths lost the case and Alexander moved his family to Bainbridge, where he had purchased two properties, Bainbridge Hall and Gill Edge Farm where they remained until the early 1690s.\u00a0 After that, they moved back to Low Camshouse, one of the two original houses purchased by Bernard Smith.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Alexander\u2019s eldest child, Grace (1675-1746) was baptised in St Oswald\u2019s on 12<sup>th<\/sup> July 1678.\u00a0 She married William Thornton of Old Hall, Askrigg. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-821 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Oldhall-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Oldhall-201x300.jpg 201w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Oldhall.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Thorntons were an old Askrigg family and William senior and his wife Bridget had raised their family of two sons and a daughter in the Hall.\u00a0 Their daughter, Ellinor had married local curate Cuthbert Allen, and their other son, Simon had died as a teenager.\u00a0 Grace and William continued to live at the Hall and after inheriting it in 1698 set about modernising it.\u00a0 They added a balcony facing the Main Street, so they watch the bull baiting that took place in the Market Square outside.\u00a0 Grace died on 26<sup>th<\/sup> November 1746, leaving just a daughter Sarah, born in 1695.\u00a0 For nearly four centuries the Thorntons had been the leading family in Askrigg and now the main branch of the Thornton family had died out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-822 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/killinghall-263x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/killinghall-263x300.jpg 263w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/killinghall-897x1024.jpg 897w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/killinghall-768x876.jpg 768w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/killinghall.jpg 1007w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sarah married John Maynard at St Oswald\u2019s in 1719 and after his death married widower Robert Killinghall of Middleton St George in 1740.\u00a0 Grace had no children of her own, as can be seen on her memorial.\u00a0 Her father also has a memorial in the church which is easy to overlook as it is on one of the central pillars in the North aisle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Alexander\u2019s second child was daughter Annie, born in 1678.\u00a0 She married her cousin, Bernard Smith.\u00a0 Third daughter, Hannah, born in 1682, married John Whaley of Burtersett.\u00a0 From this family descend a number of clergy who were active in Wensleydale, including Hannah\u2019s son, John and grandson John, the child of her eldest son Alexander.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Fourth daughter Sarah (1683-1729) married Edward Waterson, a gentleman from Middleham in November 1704 at St Oswald\u2019s Church, but he died just a few years later in 1711, leaving Sarah with a young daughter, also called Sarah.\u00a0 Her second husband was James Lindsey, also from Middleham, and she married him in Middleham in January 1713.\u00a0 James died in 1725 and this time Sarah was left a widow again, albeit a wealthy one, with 5 surviving children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sarah had had at least four children who had pre-deceased her \u2013 Mary (1715-1723), Charles (1717-1717), Alexander (1718-1718) and James (1724-1726).\u00a0 Her daughter from her first marriage died unmarried aged 25 in 1736.\u00a0 Of her surviving children we know little about Ann, other than her birth in 1720.\u00a0 Prudence (1714-1779) married dealer, hosier and chapman Peter Brougham in 1743.\u00a0 The couple had three children and survived the financial ups and downs of Peter\u2019s business dealings.\u00a0 He was declared bankrupt in 1755 but was assisted by his and his wife\u2019s family to get back on his feet.\u00a0 Their son James (b 1749) became a surgeon and married his cousin, Mary Lindsey.\u00a0 This couple lived in Askrigg where James plied his trade.\u00a0 They had two sons, James an apothecary in London, and Samuel who became a curate.\u00a0 After Mary\u2019s death, Dr James moved to Stobar Hall in Kirby Stephen, where he continued to work as a surgeon.\u00a0 He was joined by various children and grandchildren from time to time \u2013 his granddaughter Grace and her husband Captain Martin Irving, the Deputy Lord Lieutenant of Westmoreland, continued to live there after his death.\u00a0 Stobar Hall still stands today, but it now a care home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sarah and James Lindsey\u2019s other surviving child, Samuel (1719-1782) became an attorney and remained in Askrigg, living in Camshouse.\u00a0 He was well thought of by the Smith family and was left all the Camshouse properties by his aunts. \u00a0\u00a0He married Sarah Lightfoot, a Smith cousin.\u00a0 The couple had 8 children, Mary (1750-1801) who married her cousin James Brougham; Anne (1749-1837) who married George Jackson of Richmond; and lived to 88 before being buried in St Oswald\u2019s churchyard; James (1752-1811), Bernard (1754-1820), Sarah (1757-1827) who married Rev William Richardson when she was 40; Margaret 1756, who never married and Samuel (1763-) about whom we know little.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Fifth daughter Elizabeth (1685- ) married George Lightfoot of Redmire in 1714.\u00a0 The couple had two children, Bernard, who moved to Liverpool to make his fortune and a daughter Sarah, who died in 1750.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sixth daughter, Mary (1691- ) married Thomas Pratt in 1729 and the couple lived at Camshouses.\u00a0 Seventh daughter, Isabel (1693-1746) never married is buried in St Oswald\u2019s churchyard.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-824 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/MargaretLightfoot-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"371\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/MargaretLightfoot-300x257.jpg 300w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/MargaretLightfoot-1024x876.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/MargaretLightfoot-768x657.jpg 768w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/MargaretLightfoot.jpg 1235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Eighth daughter, Margaret (1694-1771) married James Lightfoot of Redmire in St Oswald\u2019s Church on 1<sup>st<\/sup> August 1718.\u00a0 It is likely James was related to her sister Elizabeth\u2019s husband George Lightfoot, probably cousins rather than brothers.\u00a0 The couple initially lived in Yarm, where their eldest child, James, was born before moving back to Askrigg where daughter Sarah was born.\u00a0 We have previously seen that Sarah (1721-1818) married her cousin Samuel Lindsey, the attorney.\u00a0 James (1719-1807) never married but became a popular apothecary in Askrigg.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-823 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/JamesLightfoot-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/JamesLightfoot-188x300.jpg 188w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/JamesLightfoot.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/>At the time he was working, it was a profession that was approaching the scope of a general practitioner.\u00a0 He had a shop in the house he built in 1756 in Main Street, which was no doubt filled with colourful bottles and jars.\u00a0 He visited his patients by horse and carriage accompanied by his servant.\u00a0 He was an honourable and well liked man, who was a trustee for many of his relatives and promoted the union of parishes to build a workhouse for the poor.\u00a0 He was known as Dr James Lightfoot and a prayer exists, written by James which he wrote at the start of his business endeavours which is reproduced below.\u00a0 When he died, he left his estate to all of Sarah\u2019s surviving children. Both siblings lived to a good age \u2013 James was 87 and Sarah 97 when they died and both have memorial tablets in the church.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Most gracious God who alone has the power to give success to my undertakings,\u00a0<\/em><em>I thy most unworthy servant, whom Thou has appointed to administer Physick, to <\/em><em>be a help and comfort to all those who are afflicted with sickness, and in e<\/em><em>xtremity of pain; do with all humility prostrate myself before thee, beseeching <\/em><em>Thee to grant me Thy divine assistance in these my performances, have mercy <\/em><em>upon and bless me, guide me and govern me in all my actions, prosper all my <\/em><em>undertakings; and grant that I may be as careful of the poor, as of the rich, that <\/em><em>I may do good and not harm, save life and not destroy it: Help my infirmities\u00a0<\/em><em>and imperfections O Lord! And grant that I may be neither too rash nor too\u00a0<\/em><em>timorous in the performances of my duty, but grant me Art and Judgement in\u00a0<\/em><em>the happy finishing of all my operations, work in me a tender heart and whatever else is necessary for me to Thy glory and my own credit and whensoever my duty calls me either by night or by day I may be always prepared.\u00a0 Preserve and defend me from the infection of all contagious diseases and grant me a prosperous success, that whatsoever I do or undertake may add to Thy glory and comfort and help all those committed to my charge, and my own credit, through Jesus Christ my blessed Saviour and Redeemer.\u00a0 Amen \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><strong>P<\/strong><strong>rayer, James Lightfoot &#8211; 18<sup>th<\/sup> C<\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Alexander and Sarah Smith had two further children \u2013 <strong>William<\/strong> (1696-1697) and <strong>Jane<\/strong> (1696-1726).\u00a0 Both died young and both are buried in the churchyard of St Oswald&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#page-links\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"Thompson\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>John &amp; Margaret Thompson<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This memorial has a beautiful simplicity.\u00a0 The memorial to John Thompson and his wife Margaret is in the South Wall of the church, but sadly we do not know much about the couple.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-826 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Thompson-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Thompson-300x211.jpg 300w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Thompson-1024x720.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Thompson-768x540.jpg 768w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Thompson-1536x1080.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Thompson-2048x1439.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">John was born in Askrigg in 1761 and baptised at St Oswald\u2019s.\u00a0 Thompson was a common name in the area, with the largest family being joiners in the area.\u00a0 It is difficult to be certain whether John was born into the family of Stephen Thompson, or Matthew Thompson. \u00a0\u00a0The latter were a family of carpenters and joiners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He married Margaret in 1804, when both he and Margaret were in their early 40s, so it is unlikely that they had any children.\u00a0 John was one of the \u2018Four men of Askrigg\u2019 from 1821 until 1839.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The \u2018Four Men\u2019 were appointed every October \u2018<em>according to the custom\u2019<\/em>.\u00a0 The holders of the office declared themselves willing to stand or nominate their successor.\u00a0 For carrying out their duties they received 2 shillings a year and their responsibilities included the annual letting of the tolls by public auction, advertising and crying of fairs, organising the sports, maintaining the toll booth, stalls, streets, cross and the three village pumps.\u00a0 They settled the \u2019King\u2019s Rent\u2019 that had originated from the original market charter which were due on Lady Day and at Michaelmas, discharged the land tax quarterly and paid the church, constable, poor and highway rates.\u00a0 The system of the \u2018Four Men\u2019 continued through the 18<sup>th<\/sup> and 19<sup>th<\/sup> centuries until the formation of the Parish Council.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Both John and Margaret are buried in the churchyard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#page-links\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"WMetcalfe\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Wood Metcalfe<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">James &amp; Phyllis Metcalfe had three sons, John (1750-1812), James (1753-1825) and Thomas (1759-1786) all born at The Ashes in Hawes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-829 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Wood-Metcalfe1-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Wood-Metcalfe1-300x210.jpg 300w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Wood-Metcalfe1-1024x716.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Wood-Metcalfe1-768x537.jpg 768w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/Wood-Metcalfe1.jpg 1337w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">John attended Sedbergh School and then went up to Christ\u2019s College, Cambridge.\u00a0 He entered the priesthood and was a deacon in Carlisle, then Rector at Fen Drayton in Cambridgeshire (1786-90) and then Clipston in Northamptonshire (1791-1812).\u00a0 He never married and died at The Ashes in July 1812.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Thomas died relatively young at the age of 27.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">James also attended Sedbergh and went on to become a surgeon and lived with his family in Askrigg.\u00a0 He married Alice Wood in 1782 and the couple had 4 sons, including Wood, named after his mother.\u00a0 James died a wealthy man and left a large amount of property in his will.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">James Wood (1783-1860) was James\u2019 eldest son.\u00a0 He attended Appleby School and then St John\u2019s College, Cambridge in 1801.\u00a0 Following his ordination, he worked as a deacon in Exeter and the curate at Boxworth in Cambridgeshire from 1811.\u00a0 After inheriting land and property from both his grandfather, and uncle (John), he returned to live at The Ashes in Hawes.\u00a0 He inherited a large number of properties in Askrigg, as well as Blue Bridge Farm in Hawes.\u00a0 He never married.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Second son, John (1784-1873) followed his elder brother into the priesthood, although he never had a parish of his own.\u00a0 In 1831 he married Eleanor Garth at Grinton Church and the couple lived in Ings House in Hawes.\u00a0\u00a0 John was nearly 50 and Eleanor was 21.\u00a0 He had inherited a lot of property in High Abbotside and also Fossdale, Grisedale, Worton and Bainbridge from his father.\u00a0 John and Eleanor had a large family \u2013 their first child, Hannah, was born in 1833 and died just 10 days later.\u00a0 Son John (1834-1885) became a surgeon like his grandfather.\u00a0 He was also a Justice of the Peace and the Captain of the local militia.\u00a0 In 1881, he married Emily Chaytor, who lived at Spennithorne Hall, who was 20 years younger than he was.\u00a0 They had two children before John\u2019s death in 1885.\u00a0 Their son, John, was a major in the 13<sup>th<\/sup> Cheshire Regiment and died in WW1 in France.\u00a0 Their daughter, Millicent never married.\u00a0 The family lived at West Huntington Hall near York.\u00a0 John &amp; Eleanor also had two daughters, Sarah Garth (1837-1884) and Filia Tertia (1841-1930) who both married vicars.\u00a0 Sarah married John Hey and Filia married Irishman James Dunne Parker; but whilst Sarah and John remained in Yorkshire, Filia and James moved south to Hertfordshire.\u00a0 John and Eleanor\u2019s two youngest children were boys.\u00a0 The eldest, Thomas Theophilus was born in 1844, but died in 1848.\u00a0 In 1850 their youngest child was born and was called Thomas Theophilus Secondus.\u00a0 His occupation is listed as a landowner and magistrate, and he lived in Wiltshire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Third son, <strong>Thomas<\/strong> (1787-1828) did not marry and lived at home with his parents.\u00a0 He is not given any property under his father\u2019s will, but given an income of \u00a3100 per year, which was to increase if he married. This amount equates to around \u00a310,000 a year now (2021).\u00a0 \u00a0This suggests that he may not have been in good health.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Wood<\/strong> was their youngest son.\u00a0 Under the terms of his father\u2019s will, Wood received property and land at Kidstones in Bishopdale.\u00a0 He never married, but lived most of his life in Askrigg, his income deriving from his properties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Metcalfe family have a large memorial in the churchyard in Hawes, which notes most of the extended family.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#page-links\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"OLodge\">\n<h3><strong>The Lodge Family<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">John Lodge was an attorney and gentleman who live in Askrigg.\u00a0 He was born around 1764 and on 2 July 1791, he married Margaret Wood here at St Oswald\u2019s.\u00a0 Margaret was the daughter of Thomas Wood, who in turn was the brother of Richard Wood, father of John Rider Wood, whose memorial is on the wall by the main church door.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-936 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/09\/Lodge1-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/09\/Lodge1-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/09\/Lodge1-1024x772.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/09\/Lodge1-768x579.jpg 768w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/09\/Lodge1-1536x1158.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/09\/Lodge1-2048x1544.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The couple lived in Askrigg and had two children before Margaret\u2019s untimely death in May 1793, just two years after her marriage.\u00a0 Their eldest child is Agnes, who died shortly after her birth in 1792.\u00a0 Their second child, a boy named John after his father was born the following year and it is possible that Margaret died following childbirth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">John remarried after Margaret\u2019s death.\u00a0 His wife was called Sarah, but as yet we do not have any evidence of Sarah\u2019s surname or the date of the marriage.\u00a0 John died intestate, meaning he had not made a will.\u00a0 His son, John, petitioned the courts to be made the beneficiary of the \u00a38000 in his father\u2019s estate.\u00a0 Sarah renounced any interest in the estate and it is possible that the marriage had not been a long one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-935 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/09\/JohnLodgeJnr-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/09\/JohnLodgeJnr-243x300.jpg 243w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/09\/JohnLodgeJnr.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After his schooling, John junior went up to Cambridge and studied for a BA at Trinity College, graduating in 1814 and then took an MA in 1817.\u00a0 From there, he was appointed a deacon at Norwich in 1818 and a priest in 1819.\u00a0 He became a fellow at Magdalen College in Cambridge in 1819 and the College librarian (1822-1845) and was a senior proctor from 1833.\u00a0 Proctors were there to maintain law and order within the college and look after student welfare.\u00a0 John was appointed as rector at Anderby in Lincolnshire and was there from 1835 to 1850.\u00a0 \u00a0His portrait was painted by artist Frederick Walmisley, RA in 1839 and it hung in Cambridge University.\u00a0 It is now held in the National Portrait Gallery in London.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Shortly after his appointment as librarian at Magdalene College, John bought an estate in Hawkshead in Lancashire called Keen Ground for which he paid \u00a34250.\u00a0 It was here that he died on 27<sup>th<\/sup> August 1850 and three days later he was buried in the churchyard at St Oswald\u2019s in Askrigg.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"#page-links\">Back to top<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"JMetcalfe\">\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>John Metcalfe<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">John has a very fine memorial with some lovely words.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-831 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/metcalfe-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"295\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/metcalfe-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/metcalfe-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/metcalfe-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/metcalfe-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/08\/metcalfe-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The inscription says:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>In memory of John Metcalfe of Leeds, a native of this parish who died Sept 20th 1848 aged 53 years and was buried at Burmantofts cemetery, where it was recorded:\u00a0 He was a kind husband, an indulgent parent, a warm hearted friend.\u00a0 He faithfully discharged the duties of many important offices to the great benefit of his fellow townsmen.\u00a0 In the midst of life of public usefulness he was called to his eternal reward.\u00a0 This memorial was placed here by his son George in 1914.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As the memorial says, it was erected in the church in 1914 by John\u2019s son, George and it has taken us some time to find out John\u2019s (and indeed George&#8217;s) history.\u00a0 We have been greatly assisted in this detective work by the members of the Wensleydale Past &amp; Present Facebook Group, who have pointed us in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As the memorial says that John was a \u2018native of this parish\u2019, we have to assume that he was born and lived here as a child, but there are no records that confirm this.\u00a0 We know that John\u2019s father was James Metcalfe, a farmer, because this is listed on his wedding certificate to Charlotte Wells on 17<sup>th<\/sup> July 1839 at St Marylebone Church in London.\u00a0 At the time John was a widower, aged around 45 and Charlotte, the daughter of John and Mary Wells, was 21.\u00a0 John was working as a Maltster and was living in Trafalgar Street in Leeds.\u00a0 Charlotte was a licenced victualler\u2019s daughter, which is perhaps how they met.\u00a0 At the current time, we know nothing about John\u2019s first marriage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The couple had 5 children, in the 9 years of marriage before John\u2019s death. \u00a0Charlotte, his widow, moved back to London and there married solicitor John Henry Austin on 13 August 1859, and she had another daughter, \u00a0Edith, with William.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">John had wide ranging interests outside of being a maltster, as the tribute to him on his memorial alludes to and as the newspaper article, reproduced here, spells out.\u00a0 There cannot be many people in public life, then or now, who could be described as &#8216;truly well beloved.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1063 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/03\/johnmetcalfe-165x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"529\" srcset=\"http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/03\/johnmetcalfe-165x300.jpg 165w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/03\/johnmetcalfe-564x1024.jpg 564w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/03\/johnmetcalfe-768x1394.jpg 768w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/03\/johnmetcalfe-846x1536.jpg 846w, http:\/\/upperwensleydalechurch.org\/st-oswalds\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2023\/03\/johnmetcalfe.jpg 944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><u><u>John &amp; Charlotte&#8217;s Children<\/u><\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Eldest child, <strong>Charlotte Mary A<\/strong><strong>nn<\/strong> was born in 1840 and died aged 4.\u00a0 <strong>Margaret Sarah<\/strong> was born at the end of 1842 and moved to London with her mother.\u00a0 Through her step-father, she met solicitor William Henry Roberts and the couple married in St Marylebone in the early 1870s.\u00a0 The couple had no children and moved in the 1880s to the Isle of Wight.\u00a0 Charlotte then had two sons \u2013 <strong>John Wells,<\/strong> born on 5<sup>th<\/sup> October 1844 and <strong>Thomas,<\/strong> born on 10<sup>th<\/sup> August 1846.\u00a0 Both these youngsters died of\u00a0 scarlet fever in the first week of February 1849 and were buried together in Beckett Street Cemetery (Burmantofts), on 11<sup>th<\/sup> February, where both their father and sister were buried.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none; text-align: left;\">Youngest child,\u00a0<strong>George,\u00a0<\/strong>born on 15th February 1848, however, thrived and was sent away to school.\u00a0 In 1873, he entered the London Stock Exchange as a stockbroker with Henry Pawle &amp; Co, based in the City of London.\u00a0 On 2nd January 1882, he married Army Captain&#8217;s daughter, Amy Adelaide Marion Grant at St Mark&#8217;s Church, St John&#8217;s Wood in London.\u00a0 The couple lived in Munster Lodge Teddington, where Amy died in 1926 and George in 1931.\u00a0 They had no children.\u00a0\u00a0In 1914, George had the memorial to his father erected in our church.\u00a0 After WWI, he received a KCB from the King, and became Sir George Metcalfe, for services to the Stock Market and for his service on the American Dollar Securities 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