Watkins of Aislaby Hall

[Girlfromthehall]

Hello All,
I realise this thread is quite old but my family the harrowing have owned the Hall for centres , we aren't quite sure when they brought it, I think ( 1870s) however we have been holiday letting it around about since 2000 the arch way and big door is unfortunately no longer there we used to have a really lovely old kitchen in there two, However it is all ripped out now and more Morden we still have the odd bell in place and the bell system.

I was wondering if anyone know how the hall got into my family it also was burned down in WWII as it was occupied by soliders.

[Spelk]

You could find out a bit more about your HARROWING family by acquiring a copy of the MIs (Gravestone inscriptions) from the Cleveland FHS

Quick look shows :
John Henry HARROWING of Low Stakesby died 1937 & family

There is also a widow - in memory of Capt John Stanley HARROWING of Aislaby Hall who died 1917

[AlanBoyd]

A quick scan of Aislaby Hall in the 1870s at British Newspaper Archive reveals that it was frequently for sale/to let and there seems to have been a succession of tenants.

The first appearance of Harrowing is in the York Herald of 12th September 1879, a report of the first show of the Aislaby Society ("which has been established this year"). "For fruits, first premiums were taken by Mr Harrowing, of Aislaby Hall, the president of the society..."

Sounds as if he had just arrived and was making his mark.

[Spelk]

YKS Evening Press of 23 July 1889 has an item about a meeting at Aislaby Hall by the invite of Mr Robert HARROWING so he had it then.

Whitby Times 16 Feb 1877
AISLABY HALL NEAR WHITBY
To be sold or let, and entered upon at May-day, together with gardens and eleven acres ~~

[AlanBoyd]

I also found an earlier reference:

Whitby Gazette 4th Jan 1878, in a review of the events of 1878:

August 31st Launch of s.s. Helena at S. shields for R. Harrowing, Esq., Aislaby Hall, Whitby

[AlanBoyd]

and this:–

Whitby Gazette June 1877

AISLABY HALL – This very desirable residential demesne has recently been purchased by Robert Harrowing Esq., shipowner, of this town.

[hanes teulu]

The Times, 22 Feb 1937
"Sir John Henry Harrowing, of Low Stakesby, who died there on Saturday, was born at Aislaby Hall, Yorkshire, 1859 ...".

However, the entry in the baptismal parish register for Whitby reads
"Born 11 Mar, bap 12 Apr 1859, John Henry, son of Robert and Jane Harrowing, abode Havelock Place, West Cliff, father's occpn. Draper."

Can't believe everything you read in the papers ...

[AlanBoyd]

A mistake in the paper of record!

Who’s Who has:

Sir John (H) Harrowing Kt 1921
Born 14 March 1859; o surv. s of Robert Harrowing of Aislaby Hall, near Whitby; m 1897, Jane Ann, d of William Tesseyman; one s three d; died 20 Feb. 1937. Fellow of King’s College, London.

(Which is a different dob.)

[hanes teulu]

However, the entry in the baptismal parish register for Whitby reads
"Born 11 Mar, bap 12 Apr 1859, John Henry, son of Robert and Jane Harrowing, abode Havelock Place, West Cliff, father's occpn. Draper."

Can't believe everything you read in the papers ...

Nor can you believe everything you read from a certain contributor to Rootschat - it is "14th Mar" not "11th Mar". I read the original but didn't check the transcript. Sp******rs here I come!.