Walker family of Gawthorpe Hall

[LizzieL]

Bottom of page in this article
https://www.jstor.org/stable/42661329
 
mentions Curver family, could be Currer - see OP

[LizzieL]

This article says it's now appartments - at least it wasn't demolished as I feared at first

https://mapcarta.com/W365905452

[ellerydesign]

Thanks all for identifying the Bingley Gawthorpe! I was getting quite confused as there is another Gawthorpe Hall associated with the Gascoigne family.

This one in the Bingley district is correct as the baptism and burial entries for Ellenor Currer (1647-50) state her father to be 'Henery Currer de Gathorppe, Gent'. who seems to have purchased the estate from the Walkers.

Online sources are a bit confusing and wrong I think. They state that Frances Lowther married Wm Newby and Henry Currer and her sister Eleanor marr. a Mr Walker of Gawthorpe. However the records definitely show Eleanor marr. Wm Newby and I think Henry Currer.
I'm trying to find out if Frances made a connection with the Walkers of Gawthorpe, which seems to have been passed around between the families.

Craig

[AlanBoyd]

Chronicles and Stories of Old Bingley: A Full Account of the History, Antiquities, Natural Productions, Scenery, Customs and Folk-lore, by Harry Speight, 1899

[page 113]
Bingley was held by the Harcourts only till the close of the 14th century, when Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Richard Harcourt, married Sir Thomas Astley, Kt. For more than two centuries the manor was held by this old Staffordshire family. In 39-40th Elizabeth (1696-7) the manor, with appurtenances, was sold by Thos. Astley, Esq., and Margery, his wife, to Anthony Walker for the sum of £400 sterling. This transfer I shall refer to again in the chapter on Chronicles of the Sixteenth Century.


[page 142]
I have said, on page 113, that the manor of Bingley belonged to the Walkers, of Gawthorpe Hall. The transfer in 1596-7 included 12 messuages, 12 tofts, 12 cottages, 12 barns, one water-mill for corn [the old mill mentioned in 1278], one fulling-mill [these mills were erected by statute in 1376, as no woollen cloth was to be exported before it was fulled], 12 gardens, — orchards, 140 acres of land, 50 acres of meadow, 100 acres of pasture, 20 acres of wood, 1,000 acres of furze and heath, t- acres of moor, 500 acres of turbary [peats for fuel], 500 acres of mossy ground, and 100 solidates of rent, with appurtenances in Bingley, Micklethwaite, Gilstead, &c. It was probably this Anthony Walker who rebuilt the old house at Gawthorpe, which continued for a century and half afterwards to be the residence of the lords of the manor.

The above description of the manorial property more than bears out the assertion that one-third of the whole of England was moor and waste in the time of Queen Elizabeth. At Bingley the proportion of moor and moss to the cultivated area looks excessive, but the population it is obvious was proportionately small, as appears by the number of messuages and cottages. There must then have been a fair reach of woodland on the Priesthorpe side of the town, and a small vestige of this old forest tract still remains. Fish in the river and game on the moors must have been plentiful at this time. Doubtless a good many sheep were maintained on the wastes, too, as wool was in great demand locally; many neighbouring towns, such as Leeds, Halifax, Bradford, and Wakefield, were at this time, Leland tells us, "standing by clothing." There were several thousand acres of moorland, and the heather probably at one time descended nearer the town than it does at present. A small patch still exists near the park gates. May this bright spot of golden furze and purple heather of Nature's planting long continue here as a reminder of Bingley in the olden days!

Before the Civil War the manor had been acquired by Hugh Currer, Esq., of Marley, a connection of the family of Currer who purchased the manor of Kildwick in 1558. His cousin, Henry Currer, of Holling Hall, co. York, left a family of two sons and two daughters; the younger of the latter was Elizabeth, who married Nicholas Walker, of Gawthorpe Hall. Anthony Walker died in 1629, and there was a Nicholas Walker, apparently his son, who died before him in 1617, and was buried at Bolton Abbey. During the Commonwealth Henry Currer, grandson of Hugh, was living at Gawthorpe Hall. He sold the manor of Bingley in 1668 to Robert Benson, father of the first Lord Bingley, who had purchased the manor of Elslack shortly before.

When the Treaty of Seville had been completed in 1729, the roads in England, we are told, were full of disbanded soldiers. John Walker was at this time Recorder of Leeds. Thoresby mentions that he was the son of John Walker, of Headingley, who was descended from "a very ancient family formerly residing at Gawthorpe Hall, Bingley." If the family was "very ancient" in Thoresby 's time, it must have been of some standing long before the Reformation and the date of parish registers.

[AlanBoyd]

Ancient Bingley by J Horsfall Turner, 1897

Walker, 1560. Arms, a chevron between three crescents azure. Crest, a moorcock treading a hen, proper, (Thoresby, p. 152.)
Walkers were an old family at Gawthorpe, near Bingley. John Walker, recorder of Leeds, 1710, was of this family. Thoresby writes from hearsay probably, when he states that the family at Gawthorpe Hall had held the manor for 250 or 300 years, unless they held a manor within a manor, of which there is no proof.

[AlanBoyd]

From the same source as my previous post:

[clayton bradley]

Michael Broadley of Bingley made a will 29 April 1613 in which he left Anthonie Walker of Gawthorp £5, George Walker of Bingley £3 6s 8d and £40 to the school at Bingley to be disposed of at the discretion of Nicholas Walker and Thomas Howgill schoolmaster. Nicholas Walker and Thomas Howgill were executors of the will. Probate by Nicholas Walker 14 May.
Some time after this there was a written complaint by Daniel Broadley (Michael's brother) and others that the school had not received any money. It states that Walker is now dead and he and Howgill have shared the money. (This appears in Halifax parish register)
There followed a codicil. The date in the text is 30 April 1618 but the margin clearly says 1613. It states that Michael Broadley, the day after making his will, said that the money for the school was really for Thomas Howgill and would leave with him. All the witnesses to this codicil are named Walker; George Walker, Robert Walker, Alice Walker and Mary Walker. Probate was granted for this codicil 20 April 1621. Nicholas Walker was said to be dead and a William Bradley of Silsden was the administrator. From other documents we have, this William Bradley was a liar and worse. There appears to be no relationship between this William Bradley, and Michael and Daniel Broadley.
Daniel Broadley was the father of William "Bradley", Daniel Broadley and younger children by his second wife, all of whom were early emigrants to America, although some of the family remained behind.
If you would like a transcription of the will, let me know.

[Viktoria]

This must be a different Gawthorpe Hall to the one at Padiham, which is associated with the Shuttleworth family – where exactly is it?

Added: just realised – West Riding, so obviously not Padiham. But still – where exactly?

My first thought too,Shuttleworth .
The Shuttleworth Collection  of needlework is at Gawthorpe, a lovely place to visit.
Viktoria.

[dobfarm]

Sounds like there are a few Gawthorpes

Lascelles family who owned Harewood house Leeds is associated to a Gawthorpe Hall (See Link)

https://harewood.org/explore/gardens-and-grounds/gawthorpe-hall/

Then Lascelles Hall Gawthorpe Huddersfield

https://www.google.com/maps/@53.644491,-1.7165998,15.75z?entry=ttu

Also found these

https://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/gawthrop/192/

Chronicles and stories of old Bingley - full text - BaildonWiki
baildonwiki.co.uk

https://www.baildonwiki.co.uk › wiki › index.php › C...
10 Nov 2021 — York, left a family of two sons and two daughters ; the younger of the latter was Elizabeth, who married Nicholas Walker, of Gawthorpe Hall.