1851 Elizabeth COOK - Anybody confirm if the Residence is Summercroft?

[BushInn1746]

Hello

Found the following on a Google capture, whilst searching for the QUAKER place called SUMMERCROFT (alias Summercroft Farm) at Drax, another source says Summercroft was at Long Drax, near Selby.

"Francis Cook was born in the pub in Asselby in 1801 He left Asselby to become a farmer at Drax The information I have is quite vague. I know that in the 1501 census he lived at Summercroft where he" ...

Looking at where the Grandson, aged 0 years was born "Long Drax".

However, is the Census residence SUMMERCROFT please?

Family Search only gave me the Registration District of Selby
1851 Census
Francis COOK, Head, Marr, 50, Agricultural Lab., born Asselby [abt 1801]
Elizabeth COOK, Wife, Marr, 48,                               born LONG DRAX, Yorkshire [abt 1803]
Ann EASTWOOD, Dau, Marr, 24, Visitor Waterman's Wife, born Asselby.
John COOK, Son, 23, Unmarr, Agricultural Labourer, born Asselby.
Mary COOK, Dau, 21, Daur, Daughter on a Visit, born Asselby.
James Eastwood, Grandson, 0 yrs, born LONG DRAX.

Keeping my fingers crossed that the residence will be SUMMERCROFT, or they will be living in a tied property on the Summercroft Farm?

SUMMERCROFT FARM about 123 acres (when offered for sale early 20th Century), also had a Quaker Burial Ground (according to newspapers) and in 1835 Thos Marshall lived there.

A Borthwick (York University) online pdf, says the burials at Summercroft have had to be made up from the Quaker Meeting Minutes (sounds like the original Registers of the Quaker Farm were lost?)

Mark

[ShaunJ]

The township is Long Drax.

There is no house name recorded for Francis Cook, but a few lines above his entry "Summercroft" is recorded as a name for the abode of William Hawden or Howden, an ag lab for John Hutchinson of Selby.

[suzard]

the 1851 gives address (looks like to me) as Summercroft (one of several residences in Summercroft)


Suz

[ShaunJ]

In the 1891 census, Summercroft Farm and Summercroft Cottage are listed between Abby Hill and Riverside.

[ShaunJ]

Here it is on a 1905 OS Map http://maps.nls.uk/view/125642977#zoom=4&lat=7851&lon=5693&layers=BT

[BushInn1746]

The township is Long Drax.

There is no house name recorded for Francis Cook, but a few lines above his entry "Summercroft" is recorded as a name for the abode of William Hawden or Howden, an ag lab for John Hutchinson of Selby.

the 1851 gives address (looks like to me) as Summercroft (one of several residences in Summercroft)


Suz

Thank you Suz and Shaun

I'm loving this! Don't know if you have been following my long threads, but a Jonathan Hutchinson of Selby was listed in the Will of George Hood of Selby, (my brickwall ancestor).

Also one of George Hood's Grandchildren was named ELIZABETH COOK HOOD.

Then my brickwall ancestor was buried by the Quakers at Selby in September 1845 (aged 60 years), as "Not in Membership".


1846
DDGU/1/51, 1846 - East Riding Archives
Copy Will of William Proctor of Selby, Esquire
Bequests: wife; nephew Jonathan Hutchinson and wife Elizabeth; sister Elizabeth Procter; etc Property: Selby, Great Ayton, Summercroft, parish Drax, Dacre cum Beverley, Brayton, Wistow, Riccall, Hillam, Haddlesey, Burn, Osgodby, Gunby, Bubwith, etc with codicils (1849-1854)


1884
There was a fire in the hay in August 1884 "on the Summercroft Farm, near Selby, the property of Wm Hutchinson, of Grimsby."


1909
In 1909, the Summercroft Farm, was described with 123 acres, so possibly a few tied properties / cottages. Looks like plenty of adjoining buildings too.

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Elizabeth Cook living on a Quakers Farm, at Long Drax, near Selby - 1851
I'll have to find out about this Francis Cook, Elizabeth Cook and family, living on the farm of a Quaker in 1851 and my George Hood was mixed up with all the same Quakers, before his 1845 death?

Regards Mark

[..claire..]

Hi

Francis Cook of Howden married Elizabeth Tomlinson 18 April 1825 Drax

He signed she left her mark

Witnesses: Mary Cook, Wm Turner, Wm Cook, John Thompson, John Perrott, Mary Jane Lenson and Joshua Nixon or possibly Dixon.

Claire

[..claire..]

Hi

The Thompson witness is likely a relation. Francis Cooks parents were Thomas Cook and Elizabeth Thompson who married c1784.

Thomas Cook in an early directory 1823 was a farmer and victualler

Claire

[ShaunJ]

Wow, looking at Google Earth, the farm has completely gone and the burial ground has been ploughed over. 

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.7643289,-0.995062,1386m/data=!3m1!1e3