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Adelaide Edgar & The Last Onion

Adelaide EDGAR, our great grandmother, was the tenth of twelve children, born 2 August 1888, to John Thomas ONIONS and Ann LUMSDON, in the family’s Price Street tenement, York. She was raised at No. 3 Rosary Terrace, off Holgate Road, where the family moved in the mid 1890s. The Two-up two-down terraced home overlooked the railway tracks and engine sheds...

Bainbridge/Edgar Comments: 7

John Thomas Onions & The Engine Wrights

John Thomas ONIONS, our great grandfather, was born in Gateshead to an unwed mother, Martha, 21 September 1842. He was 2 years old when his mother married but was still listed as John Thomas Onions in his grandfather’s last will and testament in 1845. Until the Legitimacy Act of 1926, illegitimate children had no legal kin except their mother, a...

Edgar/Lumsdon/Onions/Summers Comments: 5

James Hardacre & Walking Pictures

James HARDACRE (1861-1947), is our 2nd Great Grandfather, from Settle, North Yorkshire. He was the fourth of six children born to Cooper & Casker, Richard HARDACRE, & farmer’s daughter, Mary CLAPHAM. James appears to have excelled at school and chose a career in teaching. After taking teaching positions in Halifax, Skipton, and Redmire, James settled in Nether Poppleton as Headmaster...

Hardacre/Hudson Comments: 5

Jim Thompson’s South American Adventure

James “Jim” Thompson (1881-?), our Great Granduncle, took a leap of faith in September 1907. Married in York just four months earlier, Jim departed Liverpool bound for the southern tip of the South American continent, Patagonia. The isolated and remote location had developed a large and highly profitable sheep industry which recruited shepherds from British farms. Patagonia occupies nearly the...

Thompson Comments: 4

Wilfrid Hudson & Fortress Engineers

Wilfrid Hudson was a civil engineer and surveyor from Bridlington who served as a Second Lieutenant in the East Riding (Fortress) Royal Engineers during the First World War. Born in 1892, he initially joined the Territorial Force in September 1914 before receiving his officer’s commission in July 1915. He was deployed to the dangerous Ypres Salient on the Western Front, where he survived intensive winter operations and the...

Hudson Comment: 1

Elizabeth Ann Headley & Domestic Service

Our 3rd Great Grandmother, Elizabeth Ann HEADLEY, was born 1863 in Huby, Yorkshire, to parents Isabella MENNELL & John HEADLEY, an agricultural laborer. Elizabeth was the sixth of eight siblings, seven of whom survived to adulthood. All four brothers relocated to Shildon, County Durham, to work in the coal mines or railways and her two sisters moved out of the village...

Bainbridge/Headley Comments: 4

Charles Bainbridge & Railway Platelayers

Our Great Great Grandfather, Charles BAINBRIDGE, was born March 1861 at Sutton Grange, Sutton on the Forest, second child to parents Henry BAINBRIDGE of Tollerton and Jane SCOTT of Sutton on the Forest. There is no record of Charles’ baptism so if it occurred, it may have been in the newly built Methodist Chapel opened in 1861 or the later...

Bainbridge/Headley Comments: 5

Jane Scott & The Big C

Our 2nd Great Grandmother, Jane SCOTT, was born 1828 in Sutton on the Forest to parents Anne TAYLOR, originally from Oulston, and John SCOTT, an agricultural labourer, also from Sutton on the Forest, both in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Jane was the ninth of eleven children, all born in Sutton on the Forest, spanning the 17 years between 1813...

Bainbridge/Scott Comments: 3

Henry Bainbridge & Goodramgate Gentleman

Henry BAINBRIDGE, our 3rd Great Grandfather, was born 1831 in Tollerton, the sixth and youngest child of John BAINBRIDGE & Mary BAINBRIDGE. Raised in Tollerton, Henry followed in his father’s footsteps and aged 18, joined his elder brother Joseph as an agricultural labourer living with, and working for, the Sadler family, farmers in Tollerton.

Bainbridge/Scott Comments: 7

The Other Bainbridge Family

Complicating matters, there are at least two Bainbridge families in Oulston, North Yorkshire, in the 18th & 19th century. Our family and the family of William Bainbridge (1752-1816), gamekeeper for Newburgh Estate, and father of nine children Most of his children shared names with our ancestors, including John, William, Jane, Charles, Henry, etc. Furthermore many remained in Oulston, Easingwold, or...

Bainbridge/Wisker Comments: 2

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