6th Gen - Westoby / Quickfall

Sixth Generation (3rd Great Grandparents)

John Westoby and Frances Quickfall

Frances Westoby (1817 – 1883)

Sarah Ann Cherry (1851 – 1934)

Cyril Gleadow Hebblethwaite (1890 – 1975)

Betty Hebblethwaite (1931 – 2002)

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George III (1760 – 1820)

George IV (1820 – 1830)

William IV (1830 – 1837)

Victoria (1837 – 1901)

John Westoby

John is the son of Thomas Westoby and Ann Goldthorpe and he was born in 1769 in Barrow-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, and christened on the 23rd of May 1769 in Barrow-upon-Humber. John died in January 1837 in Barrow-upon-Humber, at the age of 68, and he was buried on the 31st of January 1837 in Holy Trinity, Barrow-upon-Humber.

In this year, 1769;

The ‘industrial revolution’ is sweeping the country with the use of James Watt’s harnessing of steam to drive engines in the condenser that he patented this year.
On the 7th of October Captain Cook and his crew discover the Islands of New Zealand believing he has found a new continent. They were the first Europeans there since Dutch explorer Abel Tasman and his crew landed in 1642.

At the time of John’s birth Barrow-upon-Humber was the home of John Harrison, the pioneer of a fail-safe way of establishing longitude at sea. A copy of Harrison's 1759 clock, H4, made by Larcum Kendall, and referred to as K1, travelled in 1772 with Captain Cook on his second Pacific voyage. Captain Cook grew to trust and rely on the timekeeper, which helped contribute to timekeepers being accepted as the way forward in the practical method of determining longitude at sea.

In 1996, the premise of the discovery of Harrison's ‘lesser watch’ was used in the plot of several episodes of the BBC situation-comedy Only Fools and Horses in which Del and Rodney became overnight millionaires following the auction of the watch.

John married Frances Quickfall on the 15th of December 1802 in Sutton In Holderness, Yorkshire.

The couple had ten children who they baptised in Barrow-upon-Humber shortly after they were born, probably in Holy Trinity.

Charles on the 7th of February 1804
Charlotte on the 11th of February 1806
Ann on the 10th of May 1807
Elizabeth who was born about 1807 but it has not been possible to find anything about her, other than on the 1851 census when she is ‘At Home’ with her mother, Frances, brother William, sister Mary and a servant.
John on the 1st of July 1810
William on the 1st of September 1812
Mary on the 16th of March 1814
Frances on the 5th of July 1817
George on the 26th of January 1819
Grantham on the 9th of May 1821

Noted events in his life were:

* He worked as a Farmer / Freeholder.

* He signed a will in 1837. LCC Will 1837/413

John married Frances Quickfall on the 15th of December 1802 in Sutton in Holderness, Yorkshire.

Children from this marriage were:

i. Charles Westoby – (1804 – 23/1/1880)

ii. Charlotte Westoby – (1806 – 20/12/1886)

iii. Ann Westoby – (6/5/1807 – Sept 1882)

iv. Elizabeth Westoby – (1807 - )

v. John Westoby – (1810 – 20/5/1891)

vi. William Westoby – (1812 – 14/10/1885)

vii. Mary Westoby – (1814 – 5/9/1892)

viii. Frances Westoby – (1817 – 16/6/1883)

ix. George Westoby – (Jan 1819 – 1840)

x. Grantham Westoby – (26/1/1819 – 10/9/1892)

Frances Quickfall

Frances is the daughter of Francis Wickford Quickfall and Ann Grantham, and she was born in 1777 in Nettleton, Lincolnshire. She was christened on the 22nd of February 1778 in Nettleton. Frances died on the 13th of December 1860 in Glandford Brigg, Lincolnshire, at the age of 83, and she was buried on the 17th of December 1860 in Holy Trinity, Barrow-upon-Humber.

In this year, 1777;

One year after the American Declaration of Independence the war is between Great Britain and America continues. On the 27th of July General Sir William Howe launches an offensive to capture Philadelphia, which he completes on the 26th of September by defeating General George Washington.

In 1851 Frances was a widow farmer of 60 acres employing one labourer. The family household included Elizabeth Westoby, William Westoby, who was working on the farm, Mary Westoby and Enoch Cutting aged 18 who was classed as an agricultural servant who was probably the labourer that Frances employed.

The family address is in Westoby Lane. It is not known if there is any connection between the name of the lane and the Westoby’s in our family tree, but it would be a surprise if the wasn’t a connection.

In December 1860 Frances passed away and probate was granted the following year.

Probate

WESTOBY Frances. Effects under £100. Resworn at the Stamp Office July 1861 Under £200. 21 March The Will with four codicils of Frances Westoby late of Barrow in the County of Lincoln Widow deceased who died 13 December 1860 at Barrow aforesaid was proved at Lincoln by the oaths of Charlotte Westoby of Barrow aforesaid Spinster Mary Westoby of the same place Spinster and Frances Cherry (Wife of George Harpur Cherry) of the same place the Daughters and Executrixes.

Noted events in her life were:

* She worked as a Widow Farmer in 1841.

* Living: 1851, Westoby Lane, Barrow-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire.

* She worked as a Widow Farmer in 1851. Farming 60 acres, employing 1 labourer

* She worked as an Annuitant in 1871.

Frances married John Westoby on the 15th of December 1802 in Sutton In Holderness, Yorkshire.

Barrow-upon-Humber ‘John Harrison’s village’.

John Harrison 1693 – 1776 is famous throughout the world for building clocks accurate enough to solve ‘the problem of longitude’. In doing so he enabled safer and swifter travel for thousands of ships.

Barrow-upon-Humber in the Nineteenth Century.

Population

Before 1801 figures are very unreliable, sometimes being based solely on the number of ‘communicants’ i.e. those taking communion, sometimes based on adult males only and sometimes on households.

1563 = 477

1641 = 768

1705/1723 = 640

Whether it was due to the increased production of food following Enclosure or other factors, Barrow’s population certainly grew during the 19th century. With the introduction of the census, figures are much more reliable:

1801 = 926

1811 = 1129

1821 = 1307

1831 = 1334

1841 = 1662

1851 = 2283

1861 = 2443

1871 = 2517

1881 = 2711

1891 = 2695

1901 = 2808

Holy Trinity Church

Religion

As the population grew, so did Nonconformity. Though Barrow was fortunate in having a resident vicar, unlike many of the surrounding parishes, by 1851 two-thirds of Barrow residents (which included New Holland) were ‘dissenters’. There were three non-conformist chapels serving the Primitive Methodists, the Wesleyan Methodists and the Independents. Wesley himself preached in Barrow on several occasions between 1761 and 1782. The Wesleyan chapel was built by 1782, the Independent chapel 1780-84 and the Primitive Methodist chapel in 1833. A Sunday School building was added to the Independent chapel in 1850 and Temperance Hall (North Street, now the site of ‘Ivydene’) opened in 1844, causing further splits in the community as not all Non-conformists were teetotallers!

Education

Educational provision also grew. In 1819 it’s recorded that half the brides and a third of the grooms could not sign their names. (Given the lack of schools, perhaps it’s surprising that so many could sign). Schooling was disorganized and sporadic. Different numbers of schools are recorded at different times, many of which would have only a handful of pupils and all would be supported by fees from parents. Church schools began to operate in the second half of the century (1851 in New Holland, 1868 in Barrow itself, classes being held in the Foresters Hall until 1895). In the meantime those who could afford it could take advantage of Barrow Infant School run according to the system of Samuel Wilderspin.

Meanwhile (in the 1840s) a Mr Sergeant was advertising his boarding school for young gentlemen and also espousing Mr Wilderspin’s approach to education. (‘Young gentlemen at this school have no opportunity of falling into bad company, or of carrying on improper correspondence.’) Universal free schooling gradually took effect following the Education Act of 1870 and ten years later elementary education became compulsory – up to the age of ten. Schools came under the aegis of the local School Boards and soon after, local Education Authorities, though the church still played a significant role.

Employment

The 1851 census provides detailed information about the way people earned their living. For women, opportunities were few. Of the 154 women in employment, 60% were in domestic service and 20% as dressmakers. Among men, 45% were employed in agriculture or related work, 22% in transport (docks, railway and river traffic) and 26% in ‘trades, manufacture and handicrafts’. The fact that Barrow was not dominated by agricultural trades is explained largely by the inclusion of New Holland in the census, where work on the railway and docks had undergone enormous expansion. Brick and tile making employed only a handful of people as did the other traditional local trade, basket-making. However, in spring hundreds of women and children would be employed ‘osier-peeling’ for several weeks. As late as 1907, schools closed to allow children to do this work. Farms were generally small: apart from Westcote with 400 acres, all other holdings were smaller than 200 acres.

The second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth saw Barrow expand into a large, almost self-sufficient, settlement with shops and businesses of all kinds. According to Kelly’s Hull Directory of 1900, Barrow was a ‘parish and large well-built village’ and a thriving community.

It lists 123 individuals and businesses in its commercial section. Of these, 38 are farmers (though many have a second occupation) and 25 shopkeepers (of whom 5 are butchers). There are 2 blacksmiths, 2 millers, 4 wheelwrights, 3 carpenters, 2 basket makers / willow merchants, 4 shoemakers and 6 tailors. There are 7 brick making businesses, a horticultural manufacturer (Joseph Bentley) and a cycle-maker/repairer. The other trades listed are gardener, corn-dealer, cowkeeper, coal-dealer/lime-burner, bricklayer, plumber, tin-worker and brazier, well-borer, rope manufacturer, saddler, hairdresser, innkeeper, clerk, stationmaster, carrier, bus proprietor, commercial traveller, architect and physician / surgeon. Those not named under ‘commercial’ include ministers of religion, the schoolmaster, the infants’ mistress and various ‘private residents’ including George Uppleby and John Beeton of Down Hall. This listing gives us a fascinating snapshot of the kind of community Barrow was at the turn of the previous century.

Barrow Fair is held on October 11th.
The village is lighted with gas by the Barrow-on-Humber Gas. Co. Ltd. Formed in 1877 who bought the works from the Provincial Gas Light and Coke Co.
The charities left in 1596 by Roger, Earl of Rutland, amount to £14. 2s. 6d yearly of which £7. 6s. 8d is distributed among the poor by the vicar and two members of the parish council.
Barrow Hall, a well-built mansion of brick … is now the residence of the Rev. George Crowle Uppleby, and stands within a park of 150 acres.
The manorial rights, which belonged to the crown, were sold in 1859. The lords of the manor are Henry Edwards Paine and Richard Brettell esqrs. Both of Chertsey, Surrey.

Holy Trinity

This is the parish church of Barrow upon Humber in the Diocese of Lincoln. It’s sister church is Christ Church New Holland. Since 1984 this parish has been a United Benefice with the neighbouring parish church of All Saints, Goxhill and is served by one Priest and a band of extremely hardworking, caring laity.

There was a church in Barrow, though not on this site, as far back as 677 in the time of St Chad. He had received the Bishopric of Mercia and Lindisfarne and the King, Wulfastan, gave him 50 hides of land to build a monastery. Some trace of this monastery was found some years ago in an excavation in St Chad north east of the church where a plaque outlining the site can be found on the south wall of Number 5 Martin’s Close, situated on the east side of St Chad.

Extracts from the excavation can be seen at “Baysgarth Museum” at Barton upon Humber which is three miles west of the village.

It seems likely that the church in existence at the time of St Chad was destroyed by invading Danes 871 and that the present building of Holy Trinity began around the year 1000.