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Yorkshire (West Riding) Lookup Requests / Re: Wiston, Selby, West Riding 1841 and 1851
« on: Saturday 20 December 08 20:00 GMT (UK) »
Hello Penelope
I'm grateful that you took the trouble to reply and I'm sorry to have taken so long to pick up your reply. The Rootschat emails come to an email address which isn't my usual one and I haven't looked at it for some while. It must have been a sixth sense that made me check it tonight.
The Thompson family at Wistow is, in fact, part of my wife's family and I'll quote what I have written about them. You are probably better qualified to say whether there is a relationship
"In 1841 Charles Thompson, born in 1794, was an agricultural labourer in Wistow, a village 2 miles from Cawood, 3 miles north of Selby, and 12 from York.
A Thompson family can be found in Wistow back to John Thompson born about 1710. At the time of the 1841 census there were two Charles Thompsons. One was a farmer but the one we are concerned with was an agricultural labourer.
He was married to Sarah (Marshall) and they lived in the area known as Wistow Common together with their children Deborah 8, Elizabeth,12, Hannah, 2, John, 10, Joseph, 6, and Mary, 4. They had at least two other sons, George, 15, and Thomas, 13. They were living with their grandmother, Margaret Marshall, 70, on the farm of James Backhouse, perhaps an uncle on their mother’s side. Also living there was Charles Thompson, 20. Clearly the Wistow Thompsons are many and complicated to unravel.
Sarah appears to have died in 1847 or 1848 and in 1851 George and Thomas had come home to live with Charles and his daughter Mary, now called Maria. She married Thomas Hembrough in 1860 and died in 1878.
By 1861 Charles was living alone at 65 Whisker Lane, Wistow declaring himself to be a farmer of one acre. George and Thomas had moved out and were boarding with Brian Raper and his wife, Ellen, who might have been their sister, at Wistow Lane, Cawood.
Ten years later Thomas was married to a 28 year old wife. Progressing from the 1851 census he should have been 46 years old but admits only to 41. In the next ten years he only ages another seven.
George, who was a wood-man, had also married by 1871. He and his wife, however, had no children. Both men were widowers but still alive in 1901.
Charles, their father, featured in no more censuses having died in the first months of 1871.
Our main concern, however, should be with Charles and Sarah’s daughter, Elizabeth. She too left home and by 1851, at age 21, she is forty miles away from her father and working as a house servant in Ornhams House, Aldborough, the home of George Crow, a “Landed Proprietor”, and his brother Edmund, who farmed 470 acres with 11 labourers. Both were unmarried and had their 30 year old niece as a housekeeper. Elizabeth did not stay with them much longer and in 1854 she married George Pick in Leeds on December 4th. "
Sorry it's so long but it's my full picture of the Wistow Thompsons. Any amplification that you can provide will be more than welcome.
Regards
Jack
I'm grateful that you took the trouble to reply and I'm sorry to have taken so long to pick up your reply. The Rootschat emails come to an email address which isn't my usual one and I haven't looked at it for some while. It must have been a sixth sense that made me check it tonight.
The Thompson family at Wistow is, in fact, part of my wife's family and I'll quote what I have written about them. You are probably better qualified to say whether there is a relationship
"In 1841 Charles Thompson, born in 1794, was an agricultural labourer in Wistow, a village 2 miles from Cawood, 3 miles north of Selby, and 12 from York.
A Thompson family can be found in Wistow back to John Thompson born about 1710. At the time of the 1841 census there were two Charles Thompsons. One was a farmer but the one we are concerned with was an agricultural labourer.
He was married to Sarah (Marshall) and they lived in the area known as Wistow Common together with their children Deborah 8, Elizabeth,12, Hannah, 2, John, 10, Joseph, 6, and Mary, 4. They had at least two other sons, George, 15, and Thomas, 13. They were living with their grandmother, Margaret Marshall, 70, on the farm of James Backhouse, perhaps an uncle on their mother’s side. Also living there was Charles Thompson, 20. Clearly the Wistow Thompsons are many and complicated to unravel.
Sarah appears to have died in 1847 or 1848 and in 1851 George and Thomas had come home to live with Charles and his daughter Mary, now called Maria. She married Thomas Hembrough in 1860 and died in 1878.
By 1861 Charles was living alone at 65 Whisker Lane, Wistow declaring himself to be a farmer of one acre. George and Thomas had moved out and were boarding with Brian Raper and his wife, Ellen, who might have been their sister, at Wistow Lane, Cawood.
Ten years later Thomas was married to a 28 year old wife. Progressing from the 1851 census he should have been 46 years old but admits only to 41. In the next ten years he only ages another seven.
George, who was a wood-man, had also married by 1871. He and his wife, however, had no children. Both men were widowers but still alive in 1901.
Charles, their father, featured in no more censuses having died in the first months of 1871.
Our main concern, however, should be with Charles and Sarah’s daughter, Elizabeth. She too left home and by 1851, at age 21, she is forty miles away from her father and working as a house servant in Ornhams House, Aldborough, the home of George Crow, a “Landed Proprietor”, and his brother Edmund, who farmed 470 acres with 11 labourers. Both were unmarried and had their 30 year old niece as a housekeeper. Elizabeth did not stay with them much longer and in 1854 she married George Pick in Leeds on December 4th. "
Sorry it's so long but it's my full picture of the Wistow Thompsons. Any amplification that you can provide will be more than welcome.
Regards
Jack